Movies About Playing Video Games Seem to be Working

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Movies about video games are… how shall we say...lackluster. Very few, if any, have managed to correctly capture the essence of the game itself. But movies about ‘playing video games’ is a different story. Hitpoints has some of the best examples.

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00:00 Movies about video games are, how shall we say, lackluster.

00:05 Very few, if any, have managed to correctly capture the essence of the game itself.

00:10 But movies about playing video games is a different story.

00:14 Here are some of the best examples.

00:16 Tron, from 1982.

00:18 This cult classic's influence can still be felt across many entertainment forms.

00:23 The story of a video game dev who gets trapped inside a virtual world and forced to compete

00:28 in some dangerous games to save his life and his work.

00:32 War Games, from 1983.

00:34 According to Yahoo, Matthew Broderick stars as a teenager who hacks into the US military

00:39 supercomputer to play what he thinks is a video game.

00:43 Unfortunately, he triggers an advanced AI war simulator and must fight to beat the game

00:48 before it kicks off World War III.

00:51 Wreck-It Ralph, from 2012.

00:53 In Disney and Pixar's love letter to arcades, the story follows Ralph, a video game villain

00:58 who dreams of being a hero and abandons his game for a heartwarming journey of self-discovery.

01:04 Voiced by a stellar cast including John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman, this movie is

01:09 an instant classic.

01:11 And of course, Ready Player One, from 2018.

01:15 Spielberg's adaptation of the incredible book by the same name surrounds a team of

01:19 gamers braving a dangerous virtual competition, all vying to take over the biggest gaming

01:25 company in the world.

01:26 A phenomenal film that hopefully inspires more like it.

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