| Electric Dreams Factory | |
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| Years active | 1982-? |
| Number of games | Dozens |
| Located | U. S. A. |
| Status | Unknown |
Background/story[]
Pixels was an American fantasy/comedy movie that was released in 2015. It was about teen arcade wiz Sam Brenner (played by Adam Sandler) who could figure out the patterns to Q*Bert, Donkey Kong, Pac-Man and the safe area in Centipede and make insane scores on games upon only playing them for the first time. This led to him entering a gaming contest, where he met Ludlow Lamonsoff (Josh Gad) and the results of the contest were recorded on video tape and sent out to a satellite to broadcast to possible extraterrestrial life forms.
Unfortunately decades later aliens that received the signal figured Earth was hostile and attacked using video game characters. This reunited Brenner with Ludlow, along with Brenner's high score contest nemesis Eddie (Peter Dinklage) in order to try to stop the aliens from destroying Earth while using specialized weapons and video game strategies.
Brenner's childhood arcade, the Electric Dreams Factory, is shown during the movie.
The arcade/known games, video[]
This seemed to be a mid-sized arcade with a few dozen games that ran on quarters. A bike rack was stationed outside for customers’ convenience. The likeness of Pac-Man and the four ghosts in the game made up an animated neon sign above the arcade. It employs at least one repairman although it is unknown if there are several other techs, employees and/or who the owner is. It is stated that the arcade had just opened during "summer, 1982".
- Asteroids
- Battlezone
- Breakout
- Burger Time
- Centipede
- Defender
- Donkey Kong
- Donkey Kong Jr.
- Galaga
- Joust
- Missile Command?
- Pac-Man
- Pengo
- Q*Bert
- Space Invaders
(miscellaneous)[]
- Flash (pinball)
- The Claw
- Other pinballs
Trivia[]
Although not an arcade in itself, during one of the final battle scenes near the end of the movie where aliens are attacking Washington, D. C., as video game-like characters pour out of the alien mother ship, many video game sounds can be heard during the siege (Frogger, Robotron: 2084, Galaga, etc.), sounding like a busy arcade from back in the day.
This arcade was featured in September, 2021.