Když si mezigalaktičtí mimozemšťané chybně vyloží videozáznamy klasických videoher jako vyhlášení války, zaútočí na Zemi s armádou jednotek, která je inspirovaná objekty ze zmíněných videoher. Prezident Will Cooper je nucen vyzvat na pomoc svého nejlepšího kamaráda z dětství a nepřekonatelného hráče videoher Sama Brennera, jenž v současné době provádí instalace domácích kin, aby se ujal vedení týmu ostřílených pařanů s cílem vetřelce porazit a zachránit tak naši planetu. Připojuje se k nim také podplukovnice Violet Van Pattenová, specialistka, která hráčům dodává jedinečné zbraně, určené k boji s mimozemšťany.
Kevin Flynn je počítačový expert, který se živí tvorbou her. Soustavně se ale také nabourává do počítačové sítě firmy Encom a snaží se z ní získat důvěrnou informaci. To se ale nelíbí hlavnímu programu, který se rozhodne přenést Flynna do svého království, elektronické civilizace, plné nástrah. Flynn se teď musí probojovat přes počítačové hry a pokusit se zneškodnit neovladatelný a nebezpečný hlavní ovládací program. Jeho jedinou nadějí je odvážný a věrný program Tron, který jako jediný je schopen mocného nepřítele porazit.
Alex Rogan je teenager, který žije v osadě z karavanů uprostřed pouště plné tarantulí. Je přiměřeně inteligentní, má milou přítelkyni a je tak trochu stydlivý. Jednoho večera, na verandě nuzného obchodu v jejich osadě, se mu podaří překonat rekord ve hře Hvězdný bojovník. Alex brzy zjistí, že každé slovo, jež zaznělo ve videohře, je pravdivé. Během několika hodin ho přijíždí vyzvednout Centauri a bere ho na intergalaktickou návštěvu. Alex se dozvídá, že cílem hry bylo najít potenciálního Hvězdného bojovníka, který byl měl dostatečně rychlé reflexy a dovednosti, aby si poradil s flotilou Ko-dan. Hvězdní bojovníci jsou vlastně všichni, kteří stojí mezi hvězdnou ligou zajišťující galaktický mír a těmi, kteří jsou podle Ambassadora Endurana „černým terorem z Ko-danu“.
For her 9th birthday, peppy little Isha has only one wish – to get $12 dollars to play video games. Unable to convince her parents, she devises an ingenious plan with her brother to raise money. But when her plan fails, her reserved brother commits a well-intentioned mistake to fulfill her wish. The innocent act of love will change their lives forever.
Set in the not to distant apocalyptic future. Earth is under invasion from computer/arcade aliens, tensions run high and teenagers still want to 'go out'.
Anson Williams and Jayne Kennedy play host to celebrities who compete against one another at video games to win money for charity.
Four characters face off in different real life scenarios, with an unexpected twist.
A romantic story of young love is not what it seems. Rachel meets Matt on his way home from school. Matt falls for her, but Rachel has other ideas. Rachel and her boyfriend Nick use Matt to exact a revenge on his parents. What follows is an escalating story of revenge and payback: amoral teenager versus family.
What made more money than the entire American movie industry through the 50s and 60s? Pinball. Special When Lit rediscovers the lure of a lost pop icon. A product of the mechanical and electrical age, the American invention swept the world and defined cool. Now it is relegated to a nostalgic footnote deserving a better fate. Joining the fans, collectors, designers and champion players from across the globe who share a world many of us didn't know still existed.
The oral history of a team of geeks and misfits in the back of a Chicago factory creating the biggest video games of all time. Midway Games pioneered the concept of live-action gaming, kick-starting a new arcade boom and grossing billions of dollars with hits like Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam.
In 1999, Konami Corp. introduced a Japanese-influenced coin-operated arcade stand-up to the U.S. It's draw was unheard of for a video game: the combination of music, competition, and interactive video-gameplay along with actual physical activity. Four years later, Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) has become one of the most popular game crazes stateside and found easily in video game stores and in nationwide retail markets. This story explores the youth culture surrounding the game and follows a group of devoted players and documents their interactions at various arcades and tournaments.
A documentary on classic video arcade collectors across North America. Those who were the first to look into the neon haze of a vector/raster screen and fall in love. The first quarter poppers, the "vidiots" who never grew up.
THE SITUATION facing the pinball designers at Williams Electronic Games in 1998: come up with something new, or see the world's largest pinball manufacturer be shut down forever. And Williams' designers did come up with something amazing: a brand new kind of pinball machine—"Pinball 2000"—that fused video with classic pinball gameplay, preserving what was great about pinball yet opening up all-ne
Discover the untold story of Pinball and Arcade in Australia in this heart-warming, and at times heart-breaking, nostalgic journey through the golden era of gaming.
Chinatown Fair opened as a penny arcade on Mott Street in 1944. Over the decades, the dimly lit gathering place, known for its tic-tac-toe playing chicken, became an institution, surviving turf wars between rival gangs, changing tastes and the explosive growth of home gaming systems like Xbox and Playstation that shuttered most other arcades in the city. But as the neighborhood gentrified, this haven for a diverse, unlikely community faced its strongest challenge, inspiring its biggest devotees to next-level greatness.
A caricaturist, a clinical psychologist, a Buddhist wanderer, and an importer of wind-up musical jewelry boxes battle each other for air hockey world domination--and battle the world to save their beloved sport from extinction.
Classic arcade champion Dwayne Richard pulls back the curtain on the King of Kong film, including how the filmmakers changed the facts of the story, how Billy Mitchell received payoffs from them and how the man who really defeated Mitchell's 1982 Donkey Kong record was left out of the film. You'll never look at the King of Kong the same way after you've learned the truth.
A group of four friends have been trapped in an arcade game for 15 years. Just when they think they have the game figured out, one of the friends gets killed. In order to bring back their friend and get out of the game’s world, the group has to go on an epic quest to collect the remaining five “Stones of the Lion’s Blaze.”
1999, a kid from the outskirts of Sofia, Bulgaria, mad about clocking his favorite arcade game, faces a serious decision - to remain just a kid living in the world of arcade game heroes, or make the first step towards growing up.
Although technology continues to evolve, a group of die-hard gamers refuses to abandon the classic arcade games of yesteryear. The 80's live on for these enthusiasts, who compete against each other and history to record the world's highest scores. Portland gamer Bill Carlton is one of the most brazen, fearlessly taking on some of the toughest records on the books. HIGH SCORE follows Bill as he attempts to take down the Atari classic Missile Command and its twenty year-old record. To get the 80 million points he'll have to play the game on one quarter for over two days straight. There is no pause button. There will be no sleep. There can only be one victor in this classic story of Man versus Missile Command.