Video game references in popular culture

[charlesr]

LE legend of zelda NES cart instead of Vdub badge

There's a Streets song where he mumbles about 64s and playstations.

[Ouenben]

House is soemtimes seen playing a gameboy, DS or as seen in season 6 a PSP go silly house.

However he was playing metroid zero mission once, also I believe and Metroid pinball in another episiode.

[fuse]

I remember ages ago in the first season of ER, there was a scene where one of the characters (Mark Greene) was playing a Killer Instinct cab.

[endo]

The cafe in Eastenders had a Neo cab in it. Haven't watched it for a few years now though, so no idea if its still there.

Anyone remember Neighbours back in the early 90s had phases when games would be explicitly mentioned? Dr Kennedy had a PC and people were always playing Magic Carpet on it and mentioning it by name all the time. Presumably it was some kind of product placement? Not exactly subtle...

[Darwock]

Prince's 'Play in the Sunshine` (off SOTT) had a line about Donkey Kong. He's also sung about the cartridge you were playin' not fitting in yo videogame.

[egparadigm]

Anyone remember Neighbours back in the early 90s had phases when games would be explicitly mentioned? Dr Kennedy had a PC and people were always playing Magic Carpet on it and mentioning it by name all the time. Presumably it was some kind of product placement? Not exactly subtle...

I remember that no matter what they were playing the sound effects were always that of a GameBoy. When on the PC, they used to simply hit the keyboard, mouse and joystick at random – you'd watch them alternating, thinking "what the hell are they playing!?"

[Jay]

I had some hip hop videogame quotes up on my old site. Can only remember a few of them off the top of my head -

Whoop anybody's ass at NBA Live - Common Sense

I'm playing Super Nintendo! - Charlie Brown (Leaders of the New School)

I'm Nintendo 64 and you're Mattel Intellivision - Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest)

Chips that power nuclear bombs power my Sega - Jeru

EDIT: just remembered another:

The Rubic's Cuban's at your door, but I ain't singing no carols,
I'm like Donkey Kong, I got you n****s dodging my barrels - Celph Titled

He said I'm going upstairs, I'm gonna play Atari - Roxanne Shante

[Flabio]

My personal favourite is still the Resident Evil episode of Spaced.

[MrMarbles]

Some dude was playing Forza III (mentioning it by name) on Emmerdale Farm yesterday using a steering wheel on what seemed to be an Elite.

Note: I was visiting the old dears and my mum was watching it.

[wakka]

I had some hip hop videogame quotes up on my old site. Can only remember a few of them off the top of my head -

I love these, this is another one:

'Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis
When I was dead broke, man I couldn't picture this' - Notorious B.I.G.

My personal favourite is still the Resident Evil episode of Spaced.

Yeah, this is awesome. 'It's sort of a blend of cool headed puzzle solving and extreme violence'

Chuck makes references to videogames all the time, they were constantly banging on about COD 4 at one point. Mind you the whole show is stuffed with lurid product placement so it's hardly surprising. They also had a rad episode where the key to saving the world was getting to the kill screen on this 80s style (fictional) arcade game.

[saif]

Spaced had episodes around Tekken and Tomb Raider too.
I remember Tim drowning Lara Croft after he had been dumped!

[Tim is playing Tomb Raider 3]
Brian: What you playing?
Tim: Tomb Raider 3
Brian: She's downing.
Tim: Yeah.
Brain: Is that the point of the game?
Tim: Depends what mood you're in really.

[plopboy]

In '17 Again' (Zak Effron film) the nerdy dude name checks Halo. I was not watching this the wife was, I honestly was playing Bayonetta at the time HONEST!!!!

[toythatkills]

Namond plays a weird version of Halo in The Wire, which says "Halo 2" on the screen.

In Black Books, Fran mentions Pokémon to Bernard who replies "PAC-MAN. I think you'd find it's pronounced PAC-MAN," or something like that.

And that arcade cab is still in the cafe in Eastenders. I saw it in the background for the first time the other week, playing some mental looking shmup, and it was a bit of a wtf moment. Of all the things. I can't imagine Pat's got much use out of it.

I watched something recently which had kids playing on DS Lites in what felt like every other scene, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. I don't think it was a Nintendo Advert though, Ant and Dec weren't in it.

[Fuddle]

They also had a rad episode where the key to saving the world was getting to the kill screen on this 80s style (fictional) arcade game.

missile command was real,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Command

just dont think it had a kill screen like in the episode.

[^Katsu]

There's a Streets song where he mumbles about 64s and playstations.

<<<< 1st Track in this miix.

I have the track on Vinyl and got it purely for the Street Fighter samples