Classic Video Arcades seen in your favorite movies

Do you remember some of the greatest Video Arcade Cabinets that were played by your favorite movie star in your favorite movie?

Mame cabinets like DreamAuthentics which are Interactive Arcades that play tens of thousands of your favorite games can help you re-live your favorite old-school games like Galaga and Tron as seen in movies such as War Games, Tron and others. Here is a quick list of some of our favorite movies that feature video games or video arcades.

We wanted to highlight our “Top 2” favorite games with video games featured in them. In the case of the legendary TRON movie it actually spawned many great real-world video games…even though the movie was based on the characters inside a video game.

We hope you enjoy this list and sentimental memories they may bring back. WarGames (1983)Video Arcade Clip - galaga and others

(from right to left, following first pan across arcade): Donkey Kong, Centipede, Frenzy, Centipede, Asteroids, Robotron 2084, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Jr., Jungle Hunt (foreground), Blue Print, Ms. Pac-Man, Tron, Satan’s Hollow, Space Duel, Tutankham, Tron, Gravitar, Sub-Roc 3-D, Zaxxon, Galaga, Dig Dug Tron (1982)VIDEO: Famous lightcycle racing theme that inspired a video game - TRON

Games seen in the “Flynn’s” Arcade in the movie

Space Wars, Battlezone, Atari Football (2 and 4 player), Rally X, Asteroids Deluxe, Tailgunner, Sprint 2, Berzerk, Atari Basketball, Omega Race cockpit

Movies with Video Arcade Games (in alphabetical order)

Accused, The - 1988 Video games in bar scene.

Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The - 1984 Star Trek?

Airheads - 1995 Captain America

Airport ‘77 - 1977 Pong Doubles cocktail

America 3000 - 1986 Space Duel, Centipede, some other

Arthur - 1981 Lunar Lander?

Arthur 2: On the Rocks - 1988 Millipede

Back to the Future - 1985 Wild Gunman

Back to the Future Part II - 1989 Wild Gunman, Pacman

Bad News Bears, The - 1976 Older yellow cabinet - Sprint?

Bean - 1997 Ms. Pac-Man in the background in the bar scene. Possibly a Galaga next to it. Shot is too blurry to tell.

Behind Enemy Lines - 2001 There is a mounted gun game behind a Terminator 2 pinball in the scene where troops are searching for him through the mall area. Can’t tell what it is, but maybe someone out there can identify it.

Benchwarmers, The - 2006 Ms. Pac-Man, Gorf, Asteroids. Ms Pac-Man has additional marquee artwork on the sides so the audience can understand that it is Ms. Pac-Man

Beneath the Valley of Ultravixens - 1979 Pong

Better Off Dead - 1985 Punch Out! and what looks like a caberet Gorf. Sound of Ms. Pac-Man in the background . In the restaurant you can see the side of a Robotron and the back of a Pac-Man.

Big - 1988 Defender, Out Run, Spy Hunter, Track & Field table, some Nintendo games, Centipede, others. Arcade scene.

Blood Sport - 1987 Karate Champ

Blue Velvet - 1986 Either a golf or driving game. Shot is too far away to tell.

Body Double - 1984 Centipede, a Nintendo game, and some other.

Boomerang - 1992 Some games in the background when they are playing pool. Shot is too blurry to see what they are.

Brother From Another Planet, The - 1984 Pole Position, some others

Bully - 2001 Mortal Kombat (not sure what version)

Bustin’ Loose - 1981 Sprint 2?

Can’t Buy Me Love - 1987 Afterburner II, Hang On, Rygar, Donkey Kong, Mario Bros, Asteroids Deluxe, Konami Basketball, 1942, some others.

China O’Brien - 1990 Asteroids, maybe more

City Hunter - 1992 Street Fighter 2 (not sure what version)

Click - 2006 Donkey Kong, Outrun (in bar scene)

Cloak & Dagger - 1984 Cloak & Dagger

Clockers - 1995 Virtua Fighter

Color of Money, The - 1986 Tron, Stocker

Comic Book Villains - 2002 Killer Instinct

Crow, The - 1994 Kangaroo and some other game (Taito game, I think).

Dawn of the Dead - 1978 Night Driver, Star Trek, F-1, Sprint 2, Duck Shoot, Gun Fight

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown - 1987 Gravitar, Thayer’s Quest, Tempest, Tron, Centipede

Donnie Darko - 2001 Outrun, Mach 3 (check deleted scenes in the DVD)

Don’t Tell Her It’s Me - 1990 Narc

Doom Generation, The - 1995 Mortal Kombat

Double Dragon - 1993 Arcade scene. Double Dragon, some others

Dude, where’s my car? - 2000 Tekken 3, Time Crisis II, House of the Dead, San Francisco Rush, Daytona USA 2, a few other modern games

Eddie Macon’s Run - 1983 Defender, some others

Encino Man - 1992 Rad Mobile

End of the Line - 1987 Pac-Man

Fast Times at Ridgemont High - 1982 (in order of appearance) Pac-Man, Gorf, Pleiads, Deluxe Space Invaders, Tempest, Kick, Star Castle, Lunar Rescue, Missile Command, Super Cobra, Centipede, Video Pinball, Asteroids, Space Invaders. Defender appears in the TV editted version.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - 1986 Karate Champ, Mario Bros? Sound effect of Pac-Man dying, but no Pac-Man around

Footloose - 1984 Zaxxon, Tac-Scan, Congo Bongo, Astro Fighter. When the preacher shuts off the radio, you can hear the sound of Pac-Man dying, but no Pac-Man around . In another scene, and Asteroids is being moved on a truck.

Ghostbusters - 1984 Star Castle, Missile Command? Q*bert?

Goonies, The - 1985 Cliffhanger, Track ‘n Field

Great Outdoors, The - 1988 Joust, Qix in pool room scene.

Gremlins - 1984 Star Wars, Atari Force Liberator? Centipede?

Grifters, The - 1990 Ms. Pac-Man

Guy Thing, A - 2003 Donkey Kong, others in laundry mat scene.

Heavenly Kid, The - 1985 Pac-Man, Donkey Kong

High School High - 1996 Rolling Thunder cabinet (“Homeroom Homicide”), Star Castle cabinet (“Classroom Carnage”)

Hollywood Zap - 1995 Arcade scene. Zaxxon, Joust

Honeymoon in Vegas - 1992 Arcade scene. Race Drivin’, others.

Hot Dog…The Movie - 1984 Pac-Man in bar-scene

House Arrest - 1996 Centipede

Hunter Will Get You, The - 1976 Tank, Wheels?

Jaws - 1975 Killer Shark, Computer Space

Jaws 2 - 1978 Death Race, Dominoes

Jekyll & Hyde… Together Again- - 1982 Pac-Man, Vanguard, Kick, “Grand Racer” (sitdown Grand Champion), Space Invaders, Tank Battalion

JoySticks - 1983 Pole Position, Moon Patrol, Galaxian, Millipede, Pooyan, Solar Fox, Front Line, BattleZone, Space Dungeon, Ms. Pac Man, Gorf, Super Speed Race GP V, Super Pac-Man, Qix, Satan’s Hollow, Tempest, Berzerk, Carnival, Star Castle, Hustle, Centipede, Pac-Man, Scramble, Asteroids, Naughty Boy, BurgerTime, Galaga, Lemans, Zarzon, Missile Command, Americana (strip machine, credits says Computer Kinetics Corp. designed it; emulated in MAME as Streaking by Shoei) Space Invaders Deluxe, Jungle Hunt, Defender, Stargate,

Juggernaut - 1974 “Ping Pong” (some variant of Pong)

Juice - 1992 Street Fighter, some others

Karate Kid, The - 1984 Galaga, Qix, Centipede,Moon Patrol, Champion Baseball, Pole Position, Super Pac-Man, Pac-Man, Joust, Ms Pac-Man

Last Starfighter, The - 1984 Last Starfighter machine

Magnolia - 1999 Frogger

Man of The House - 1995 Virtua Fighter, arcade scene (maybe more)

Man on the Moon - 1999 Ms. Pac-Man. Player start music is played twice in a row when he is not even near the machine

Maximum Overdrive - 1986 Star Castle, Time Pilot ‘84, Tempest cocktail

Midnight Madness - 1980 Star Fire (actually a mock-up created for the movie), Tank 8, Indy 800, Fonz, Death Race, F-1 (Atari/Namco projection game), Tank, Atari Football, Speed King (electro-mechanical?), Jet Rocket (electro-mechanical?), Space Invaders, Speed Freak, Steeplechase, 280-Zzzap

Midnight Run - 1988 Joust

Mystic Pizza - 1988 Galaxian

Net, The - 1995 Darkstalkers

Never Say Never Again - 1983 Gravitar, Centipede

Next of Kin - 1989 Donkey Kong, PacMan, Front Line, Merit Trivia, BurgerTime?

Nightmares - 1983 Pleiades, Asteroids, King And Balloon, Missile Command, Rip-Off, Scramble, Star Hawk, Defender, Pac-man, Vanguard, Galaxian, Asteroids Deluxe, Venture, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Tempest.

Night of the Comet - 1984 Tempest, Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe

Ninja III: The Domination - 1984 Bouncer

No Small Affair - 1984 Star Wars, Ms. PacMan, Q*bert, a few others.

Over The Top - 1987 Mario Bros, Nintendo vs. System cabinet, Punch Out!

Parallax View, The - 1974 Pong

Parenthood - 1989 Bad Dudes, some others.

Philadelphia Experiment, The - 1984 Lunar Lander, BattleZone

Piranha - 1978 Shark Jaws (Atari/Horror Games)

Plains, Trains, and Automobiles - 1987 Centipede, Galaga?

Poetic Justics - 1993 Street Fighter II Champion Edition

Private School - 1983 Asteroids

Psycho II - 1983 Battlezone, Ms. Pac-Man

Puberty Blues - 1981 Space Invaders cocktail, Speed Race (GP-5?)

Pushing Tin - 1999 Centipede

Rancho Deluxe - 1975 Pong

Real Genius - 1985 Food Fight - college dorm approx 10 minutes into movie.

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins… - 1985 Asteroids - Remo and Chuin Walk by it after departing the Wonder Wheel in Coney Island.

Replacement Killers, The - 1998 Arcade scene. X-Men, Smash TV, Fighter’s History, Pac-Man, Virtua Racing Sitdown Deluxe, Soul Edge, Mario Bros., Mortal Kombat, Bloxeed, Beast Busters, Centipede, Altered Beast, Air Inferno Sitdown, others

Robocop 2 - 1990 Bad Dudes, Midnight Resistance, Sly Spy, Dragon’s Lair, some other Data East games.

Rocky III - 1982 Star Castle, Crazy Climber, Asteroids, Astro Fighter, Space Encounters, Magical Spot, Space Invaders, and an old driving game.

Running Scared - 1986 Battlezone - in Billy Crystal’s apartment, Tempest, Centipede - in Tattoo parlor.

Russkies - 1987 Rush’n Attack

Scanners II: The New Order - 1991 Arcade scene. Operation: Wolf, others.

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - 1978 Bandito, Shark Jaws, Sprint?

Slacker - 1991 Vigilante?

Something Wild - 1986 Galaga, Defender, Yie-Ar Kung Fu, Ms Pac-Man

Soulman - 1986 Food Fight, Track & Field, more?

Soylent Green - 1973 Computer Space

Species - 1995 Centipede, Missile Command

Spring Break - 1983 Galaga. “You need more thrust.”

Strange Brew - 1983 Two unknown arcade cabinets. When Bob powers up the games, you can hear the death sound from Donkey Kong, and Centipede sounds are in the background

Suburban Commando - 1991 Joust, Centipede, Afterburner, some others?

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace - 1987 Unknown mini

Table for Five - 1983 Centipede, Asteroids?, Tempest?, Super Bug?

Tank Girl - 1995 Super Pac-Man, some other one.

Teen Wolf - 1985 Centipede

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 1990 Arcade scene. Bad Dudes, Narc, Double Dribble, others.

Terminal Velocity - 1995 Turbo

Terminator, The - 1984 Asteroids

Terminator 2 - 1992 Afterburner, Missle Command, Trog, Space Invaders, Hit the Ice, NBA Jams, Narc. Sound of Atari 2600 Donkey Kong in the background

Terms of Endearment - 1983 Asteroids, Defender

Thing, The - 1982 Asteroids Deluxe

Things to do in Denver when You’re Dead - 1995 Virtua Fighter

Tightrope - 1984 Ms Pac-Man in background of bar scene

Toy, The - 1982 Centipede, Ms. Pac-Man?, Space Duel - in kid’s bedroom

Tron - 1982 Space Wars, Battlezone, Atari Football (2 and 4 player), Rally X, Asteroids Deluxe, Tailgunner, Sprint 2, Berzerk, Atari Basketball, Omega Race cockpit

Twilight Zone The Movie - 1983 Tempest

Used Cars - 1980 Space Invaders

Van Wilder - 2002 Cruis’n USA, Ms Pac-Man. “I know Ms. Pac-Man is special. She’s fun. She’s cute. She swallows.”

War Games - 1983 (from right to left, following first pan across arcade): Donkey Kong, Centipede, Frenzy, Centipede, Asteroids, Robotron 2084, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Jr., Jungle Hunt (foreground), Blue Print, Ms. Pac-Man, Tron, Satan’s Hollow, Space Duel, Tutankham, Tron, Gravitar, Sub-Roc 3-D, Zaxxon, Galaga, Dig Dug

Welcome to the Dollhouse - 1995 Buster Bros.

Wizard, The - 1989 Playchoice 10, Double Dragon, Baby Pac-Man, Super Off Road, some others