1982년, 나사(NASA)는 외계와의 접촉을 희망하며 지구의 문화를 담은 타임 캡슐을 우주로 쏘아 올렸다. 하지만 여기에 담긴 아케이드 게임을 자신들에 대한 선전포고로 오해한 외계인들은 팩맨, 갤러그, 동키콩, 센티피드, 스페이스 인베이더의 모습으로 나타나 지구를 침공하기 시작하는데… 30년 전 동전 몇 개로 수천 번이나 세상을 구했던 클래식 아케이드 게임의 고수 3인방은 위기에 빠진 지구를 구하기 위해 다시 한 번 뭉치게 된다. 유일하게 게임의 룰을 지배할 수 있는 이들, 과연 현실에서도 세상을 구해낼 수 있을까?

거대한 컴퓨터 게임회사 부사장 딜리건은 천재 프로그래머 플린의 아이디어를 훔쳐 오늘날의 지위를 얻어낸 음흉한 자이나 그를 돕는 메인 컴퓨터의 고성능 기능으로 전체 군주로 군림한다. 그러나 이에 의혹을 품은 젊은 프로그래머 알렌은 정보를 얻어내기 위해 제작한 프로그램 트론을 메인 컴퓨터가 삼켜버리자 플린에게 도움을 요청한다. 그러나 정보에 접근하려던 플린마저 컴퓨터에 먹혀버리고 컴퓨터 세계로. 플린은 프로그래머들이 만든 프로그램들이 사람처럼 간주되어 죽음의 경기를 펼치고 있음을 보게된다. 플린은 이 컴퓨터 세계에서 최고의 전사로 되어있는 트론과 힘을 합쳐 딜리건의 메인 통제 컴퓨터와 전쟁을 벌인다. 치열한 컴퓨터 전쟁끝에 메인통계 컴퓨터를 부수고 딜기건의 흉악한 음모를 밝혀낸다.

아이들이 뛰어 놀고 마을 사람들이 서로를 이해하면서 평화롭게 살고 있는 조그마한 농촌 도시. 이 도시에서 메기의 남동생은 장난감총을 가지고 STAR FIGHTER 머신 게임을 즐기고 있는동네 형 옆에서 게임을 즐긴다. 메기와 동네형과는 사랑하는 연인 사이이다. 형이 메기를 기다리면서 머신 게임을 즐길때 그는 그 머쉰 게임에 경이적인 기록을 세운다. 그날밤 근 외계에서 그의 기록을보고 그를 데리러 온 우주선을 타고 외계로가서 STAR FIGHTER의 용사가 된다.

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.

차이나타운 페어는 1944년 모트 스트리트에서 개장한 오락실이다. 수십 년의 세월이 지나는 동안, 틱택토를 하는 수탉으로 유명했던 이곳은 주변 업체들과의 경쟁, 게이머들의 취향 변화, X박스나 플레이스테이션 등 대부분의 경쟁 업체들을 문 닫게 한 가정용 게임기의 보급에서도 살아남으며 지역의 명소가 되었다. 주변 지역이 재개발에 들어가며 주변 공동체는 또 다시 크나큰 도전에 직면했지만, 다양성을 존중하는 이 공간은 새로운 시대의 영광을 위해 또 다시 변화를 시작한다.

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.