Post any type of game played in a Movie. It can be card games, board games, video games, sport-type games, etc.

In Star Wars R2D2 loses to Chewbacca in a chess-like game.

First thing that came to mind was Jumanji franchise.

Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)

Quidditch in the Harry Potter movies

Strip poker in " A summer without boys " ( a made for TV movie from the early 70's with a very young, adorable Michael Lembeck, unfortunately he didn't lose, he didn't have to take all his clothes off ) !:mad::lol:

In Star Wars R2D2 loses to Chewbacca in a chess-like game.

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Friday The 13th (original) - Strip monopoly

Friday The 13th Part 2 - they play the handheld video game Microvision (I had this as a kid, some of the games I had for it were bowling and Star Trek 2)

Friday The 13th Part IV - Tommy (Corey Feldman) is seen playing Zaxxon on his home computer

E.T. - The older brother and his friends play Dungeons & Dragons

Beyond The Gate (2016) - A VCR board game causes really bad things to happen

Quidditch in the Harry Potter movies

And Wizard's Chess

Friday The 13th VI Jason Lives - one of the counselors tries to start up a card game called Camp Blood

Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey - Bill and Ted challenge the grim reaper to various games including Battleship and Twister

Go is a board game invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day.

It has been featured in many movies such as π (1998), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Hero (2002), The Go Master (2006), and Tron: Legacy (2010).

Shakma (1990) Killer baboon flick - Medical students decide to use their research building to play a live-action role playing game.

Tag: The Assassination Game (1982) - College students play an assassination game with dart guns, then someone decides to use a real gun.

The movie stinks, but just for this topic... Knight Chills (2001).

A group of role-playing buddies meet at their former high school teacher's house for their weekly play gatherings.

One of them takes his own life after he is rejected by one of his role-playing partners and then comes back to life to get revenge in the form of some knight spirit.

Marco Polo (2008) - College kids playing Marco Polo are soon killed off one by one by the real Marco Polo.

Knights Of Badassdom (2013) - A succubus goes on a killing spree at a live action role playing tournament.

Pixels (2015) - Video game characters sent by aliens invade earth.

Friday The 13th (original) - Strip monopoly



Non-strip version of Monopoly seen being played in horror films:

The Mutilator (1986), besides Monopoly, characters also play Blind Man's Bluff

Cannibal Girls (1973)

Children Of The Corn (1984) 2 little kids playing in one of the houses.

There's the "Deadly Games" topic where people have to play games that may result in death... like the SAW franchise lol.

There also the film 13 (2010) that involves Russian Roulette.

The Wanderers (1979)

In the movie Drowning Mona Mona's family can be seen playing a board game of Wheel Of Fortune and when I saw it I had to smile especially when Mona shouted "you've been playing Wheel Of Fortune with someone else"
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Unhinged (1982) - Two ladies playing dominoes. The reason they are sitting on the floor is because in real life the actors weren't allowed to sit on any of the furniture - this was filmed at the Pittock Mansion in Portland, OR

The Legend Of Bagger Vance (2000)

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More Dungeons & Dragons and other games of its ilk:

Mazes & Monsters (1982) - Tom Hanks and friends play a D&D type game

Wendy Crewson who co-starred in Mazes & Monsters, a year later starred in the 1983 horror film Skullduggery, which has characters playing a D&D type game. Also, in Mazes & Monsters Hank's character starts believing the game is real and that he is really the cleric he plays in the game, in Skullduggery, a character starts believing that the game is real and that he is the warlock he plays in the game.

The Gamers (2002) and The Gamers: Dorkness Rising (2008) - Dungeons & Dragons

The Gamers: Hands of Fate (2013) - A Magic: The Gathering type card game is played at a tournament.

Zero Charisma (2013) - another D&D type game is played

The Gambler where Kenny Roger's character is playing poker.

The Game Plan, where Dwayne Johnson's character is playing football.

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Heathers (1989)

Croquet, in more ways than one (including strip croquet, off camera, with postgame on the outcome).

A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors - some of the teens play Dungeons And Dragons

In the 1986 movie Witchboard a Ouija board is used.

The Ten Commandments (1956) features Seti and Nefretiri playing an ancient Egyptian game called Hounds and Jackals.

The exact origins of the game and its original name are unknown. Various archaeologists discovered remains of the game on different tomb discoveries. Howard Carter, who famously discovered King Tut's tomb, is credited as giving it the "Hounds and Jackals" name.

In Overboard Kurt Russell's character builds a Putt-Putt mini golf called Seven Wonders of the World which they play.

A home made Ouija board is used in the 1981 Australian horror film Alison's Birthday.

Would You Rather (2012) features an eccentric billionaire (Jeffrey Combs) who invites random financially strapped people to his mansion in order to participate in "a game". The winner will leave w/ enough money that will solve whatever problems they have.

The game turns out to be a twisted version of "Would You Rather" that involves things like having to choose between mutilating yourself or another player.

Stand By Me (1986) - In the tree house scene, the characters Chris, Gordon, and Teddy are seen playing the card game Thirty-one (In the novella The Body from which Stand By Me is based on, the kids play Blackjack)

In An American Werewolf in London a game of darts is being played and Jack causes one of the players to miss the entire board.

The Game (1997)


A very successful investment banker is given a gift from his screwed up younger brother who says that this company "would change his life."

He's skeptical, but he goes to their office and learns that they basically create "a game" tailored for each client.

His business, reputation, finances, and safety are suddenly at a risk and everyone involved in his life, even the office doorman, could be a part of "the game".

The Cold (1984) aka The Game. Three millionaires gather a group of people in a mansion to face their greatest fears, whoever in the group that survives will receive a million dollars.

The opening credits feature different board games including Monopoly and Clue. (Probably the best part of the movie)

Truth or Dare (2018)

A group of college kids on spring break in Mexico unwittingly release a demon who forces them to play a deadly game of Truth or Dare.


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A Hard Day's Night (1964)

In An American Werewolf in London a game of darts is being played and Jack causes one of the players to miss the entire board.

Even without guys like Jack, it don't come easy for some people...

Summer Rental (1985)

"Arrr!"

A Hard Day's Night (1964)



Even without guys like Jack, it don't come easy for some people...

:lol: I'd have to watch Ringo play darts from outside on the sidewalk.

Robert Redford's character played a game of football in The Way We Were.

Open Graves (2009)

A witch named Mamba is flayed and burned alive during the Spanish Inquisition. Her skin and organs are then used to make a cursed board game.

The player who wins the game is granted a wish; however, a player losing the game is killed in a fashion predicted by the game.

Death Race 2000 (1975) - Cross country road race, people are run over for points.

Charles Xavier (Professor X) and Erik Lehnsherr (Magneto) frequently play chess throughout the various X-Men films.

Gin Rummy, The Apartment (1960), final scene-wise

Die (2010)

Various down-on-their-luck strangers are captured and forced to play games of chance involving each other's lives.

They play checkers in the movie Shawshank Redemption.

What's Your Number? (2011)

Strip H-O-R-S-E

Stay Alive (2006)

People die under mysterious circumstances after getting killed in an online video game based on blood countess Elizabeth Bathory.

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) has a scene where the entomologists are playing checkers using live insects.

Clarice asks them, "If the beetle moves one of your men, does it count?" and one of them answers, "Of course it counts. How do you play?"

WarGames (1983)

Probably no bugs in type shown here.

They play craps in Rush Hour 2.

Game Night (2018)

A group of friends who do a weekly game night decide to hire a murder-mystery company and things go way wrong when they get caught up in real crimes.

Games in the film include charades, trivia, telestrations, jenga, board games...

They play croquet in the movie Margot at the Wedding.

Moneyball (2011)

Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), general manager of the Oakland A's, one day has an epiphany: Baseball's conventional wisdom is all wrong. Faced with a tight budget, Beane must reinvent his team by outsmarting the richer ball clubs. Joining forces with Ivy League graduate Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), Beane prepares to challenge old-school traditions. He recruits bargain-bin players whom the scouts have labeled as flawed, but have game-winning potential.

In the 1979 horror film Effects, a character plays the electronic game Simon

Zathura (2005)

The story revolves around brothers Walter and Danny Budwing (portrayed by Hutcherson and Bobo respectively), who play a mysterious board game they find in the basement of their house. The game teleports Walter, Danny, and their older sister Lisa (Stewart) into outer space where they encounter an astronaut (Shepard), who mentors the siblings on survival and finishing the game so they can return home.

Poker was played in the movie Tombstone.

In Harriet the Spy (1996), Harriet and her therapist play Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots during a therapy session.

In Pixels, there are old school arcade games.

In the 1979 movie Players, they played tennis.

In the 2012 movie Wreck It Ralph, there are also arcade games.

Groundhog Day (1993)

Playing Chicken with a choo-choo.

Phil: I'm betting he's going to swerve first.

Kingpin (1996)

Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson) is a young bowler with a promising career ahead of him until a disreputable colleague, Ernie McCracken (Bill Murray), tricks him into participating in a con game that ends with Roy's bowling hand crippled for life. Years later, Roy ekes out a hardscrabble existence until he discovers Amish bowling phenom Ishmael (Randy Quaid). With the help of a gangser's girlfriend (Vanessa Angel), he plots to take Ishmael to the top of the bowling world.

There is a scene in Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001) where the evil children play the original The House of the Dead arcade game inside a grocery store.

Brought back memories of when I used to play these games around the local movie theaters and bowling alleys.

Scrabble is key to the plot of the movie Sneakers.

Scared Stiff (1945) Jack Haley plays a chess editor for a newspaper who finds himself involved in a murder mystery involving chess pieces tied to Marco Polo.
The film starts with Jack covering a chess tournament, then later we see Jack on a bus playing chess with himself (he's playing chess by mail with an Eskimo)

In the movie Bang the Drum Slowly, baseball players con rookie players -- and other innocent victims -- by playing a card game called TEG WAR (The Exciting Game Without Any Rules).

James Bond played casino games in Diamonds are Forever.

A rare Japanese version of Othello named Super Othello is featured in the movie Nobody Knows (2004).

They play a horror filled game of truth or dare in the movie Truth or Dare.

They play a horror filled game of truth or dare in the movie Truth or Dare.

There was also the 1986 horror film titled Truth Or Dare: A Critical Madness, which features the the lead playing the game, he thinks he's playing with other people, but they're in his head, and he ends up mutilating himself.

In the 1973 horror comedy Cannibal Girls, characters play a game of Monopoly.

(The film was directed by Ivan Reitman, and featured Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin)

There was also the 1986 horror film titled Truth Or Dare: A Critical Madness, which features the the lead playing the game, he thinks he's playing with other people, but they're in his head, and he ends up mutilating himself.

Sounds pretty cool, maybe I'll run across it and get to watch.

In the 2018 movie Tag a group of grown men play tag one month out of the year.

Sounds pretty cool, maybe I'll run across it and get to watch.

Just be aware it's super super low budget. Interestingly I've seen Elijah Wood talk about the film in more than one interview, one of the first horror films he ever watched.

Eliot and the gang played Dungeons and Dragons in ET.

Eliot and the gang played Dungeons and Dragons in ET.

I posted that on the first page.:wave:

I posted that on the first page.:wave:

Sorry about that. :wave:

In the movie One on One they play basketball.

Tic Tac Toe was played in WarGames.

They played football on Grown Ups 2

Quarto was on the teachers desk in Mean Girls.

They play poker in 7 Days to Vegas.

and Metropolitan (1990)

More poker played on Maverick (1994)

A rare Japanese version of Othello named Super Othello is featured in the movie Nobody Knows.

Bowling was played in the movie Alley Cats Strike.

Lifeboat has a chess board floating in the ship debris. Later, they play some Poker with some home (boat) made cards.

Can't believe I didn't think of this earlier...

The Hellraiser franchise features The Lament Configuration Box, a puzzle box where those who solve it are introduced to eternal torment (or pleasures).

Wrestling is seen in Going To The Mat.

Slap Shot (1977)

Strip Hockey

Wrestling is seen in Going To The Mat.There is also a wrestling scene (Or boxing I cant remember which right now) in EASY MONEY (1983)

Quite a good movie!

I want to try to keep this going in honor of AB.

They played poker in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap where the loser had to jump in the lake naked.

What happend to AB buddy??


What game is that in Real Genius (1985) when mitch gets to the college and goes in??


There is a white game there....

What happend to AB buddy??

Passed away. :(

Ahh im sorry to hear that Jimmy :(

In the 1981 slasher Final Exam, Courtney (Cecile Bagdadi) plays solitaire on her bed.

Final exam??

Might have to see if I can find that on VHS :)

Final exam??

Might have to see if I can find that on VHS :)

If you like slashers it's definitely worth seeking out. Always been one of my favorites. Few months back tracked down the novelization for it at a reasonable price.

I like the kitty cat in your pic there Torgo :)

Meow!!

A kid is seen playing the KISS pinball machine in Detroit Rock City (1999).

Wow very nice.....

Does anyone know what that game is I mentioned above in REAL GENIUS?? (1985)

Roger (Jeff Daniels) is a video game designer in the 1996 live version of 101 Dalmatians. His demos are seen being tested at various points.

The actual game used was the PC game Escape from DeVil Manor.

Dawn Of The Dead (1978), there's a scene where the main characters are playing games at the shopping mall arcade.

Wow very nice.....

Does anyone know what that game is I mentioned above in REAL GENIUS?? (1985)

It's Food Fight.

Wow thank you buddy!!!!!!!!!

Why dont they say what the game is @ the end of that movie??

1 of my favourite movies!!!!!!!


THANK YOU!!

The 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead features the survivors passing the time by playing various "rooftop games".

There's a horde of zombies in-between the shopping mall and the gun store owner, Andy, and they communicate with handwritten signs.

Andy plays chess with Sergeant Hall (Ving Rhames) by writing down his moves on a sign. They also have a game where Andy has to shoot celebrity look-alike zombies, such as Jay Leno and Burt Reynolds.

The Oompa Loompa segment for Mike Teevee in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) featured a random shot of the Oompas playing Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots.

Chess in Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies (1999)

Blackjack in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

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Hehe I love that movie Jimmy!!!


I have an early release on vHS and its goregous.. (Not flattend out like a pancake or anything)

Checkers in Bone Tomahawk (2015)

Candy Land in The Way Way Back (2013)

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In the 1987 shot on video slasher flick Blood Lake, a group of the characters play the drinking game Quarters.

Meanwhile, two of the younger characters play the 'board' game version of Hangman. I used to think they were playing Battleship, you only saw quick shots of the game, one is as the killer is watching them through a window.

Darts in Daredevil (2003)

Drew Barrymore and Sam Rockwell play Scrabble in Charlie's Angels (2000) and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002).

In Beethoven (1992), the kids are shown playing Super Mario Bros 3 on the NES.

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Does anyone know what game they are playing in REAL GENIUS? (1985)

When Mitch first gets to the college he goes into the dorm and they are playing an arcade game....

Does anyone know what game they are playing in REAL GENIUS? (1985)

When Mitch first gets to the college he goes into the dorm and they are playing an arcade game....

Torgo already answered that for you.. Food Fight.

In the 1988 Bigfoot zombie alien movie Demonwarp, Trivial Pursuit is played in the house where Jason stalked Corey Feldman and his sister.

A Pendulum Board is used in the 2024 'remake' of the 1986 horror movie Witchboard:

In Shaun of the Dead (2004), Ed is shown playing TimeSplitters 2 on the PlayStation 2:

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Torgo already answered that for you.. Food Fight.
Thank you Jimmy,I didnt see it buddy..

Im gonna see if I can find that game.. (I have a MAME emulator)



EDIT:


I found it buddy!

http://dn721804.ca.archive.org/0/items/mame-0.221-roms-merged/foodf.zip


Thank you Torgo :)

Also from Charlie's Angels (2000), Drew Barrymore's character stumbles upon 2 boys playing Final Fantasy VIII on the PS1. What's inaccurate is that it's a one player game and they're playing it with 2 people.

Also to note the ET poster on the wall, which Drew Barrymore appeared in as a child.

In Back to the Future Part II (1989), Marty McFly plays the Nintendo Zapper game Wild Gunman.

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Oh yeah how could I 4get that Ma?

I love all 3 of those movies...

Thank you Torgo and Jimmy!!!!!!!

I just played FOOD FIGHT and got to level 3!!

I reckon this game plays better with a joystick but it does OK with the keys....

How did you know what game it was??


Just info for those wanting this game...... When you run it,it will say NVRAM FAILED. When this happens just press CTRL and it will start.......

Hey Jimmy and Torgo,

Are you sure its FOOD FIGHT??

I just watched REAL GENIUS again and in the end credits it doesnt say anything about food fight!!

It says

"Thanks to SIR TECH for 'Wizardry" -- So its some game called Wizardry they are playing I think...

Ok I found the game and it IS indeed Food fight!

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But I dont understand why it isnt given credit at the end of the movie!!

And this came out in 1983,why isnt it available for Atari 2600??

And what is WIZARDRY..... I tried to find an arcade rom fior that and I cant.. I didnt see anyone playing whatever this is in real genius!!

This whole thing confuses me dues!

Ok I found the game and it IS indeed Food fight!

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But I dont understand why it isnt given credit at the end of the movie!!

And this came out in 1983,why isnt it available for Atari 2600??

And what is WIZARDRY..... I tried to find an arcade rom fior that and I cant.. I didnt see anyone playing whatever this is in real genius!!

This whole thing confuses me dues!




Wizardry is a series of computer role playing games from the 80s through 90s (eight all together), Robert J. Woodhead was the computer hacking consultant for Real Genius, Robert also co-created the first 4 Wizardry games.


I've only played 5-7 of the Wizardry games, personally I prefer the other computer RPG franchises from that era 'Ultima' and 'Might & Magic'.



My guess for why Food Fight isn't credited is because they don't show actual footage from the game.

Ya that could be Torgo...

I dont think I ever played Wizardry.. Where did they play it in the movie do you know? -- I love that movie and I cant tell where its being played by anyone...

Joysticks (1983) - Arcade games can be seen being played throughout the movie. Footage from several arcade games are shown during the open credits. When characters play against each other in the Arena at the arcade, one game played is the not yet released Satan's Hollow, the second game played is Pacman. Pacman is featured throughout the movie, even some of the scene transitions feature Pacman going across the screen.

Those pictures make me terribly sad :(

I mi$$ the good days!!