When intergalactic aliens misinterpret video-feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war against them, they respond with brutal force.
Giant versions of the colourful characters we all know from our pre-adolescent days, descend down to earth and ensue mayhem. Donkey Kong and PAC-MAN are among those brought to life for this vigilant attack, challenging the citizens of earth to a winner takes all, video game style tournament and the safety of the world as we know it, is the grand prize.
Still recovering from his glory days, defeated arcade champion, Sam Brenner (Sandler) exists in a slump that’s perpetuated well into his adult years. A chance to renew his passion and purpose arises with this interplanetary conflict but does he still have the skills to battle the iconic arcade characters in real life form?
The cast is brilliant too – featuring Adam Sandler (Grown Ups 2, Hotel Transylvania), Kevin James (Grown Ups 2, Hotel Transylvania), Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones, X- Men: Days of Future Past), Sean Bean (Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones), Josh Gad (Love & Other Drugs, The Wedding Ringer) and Michelle Monaghan (Due Date, Gone Baby Gone).
I took my kids to the movies to see it and they loved it. It took me back to my childhood days of Donkey Kong, Pac Man, Galaga and more. Definitely a recommended watch!
Bel xx
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I loved Galaga. We use to play it at the fish’n’chip shop at lunchtimes.
“Ghosts n Goblins” or “Bombjack”… I used to hound my parents all the time for coins to play at the corner store until I got my own versions on Commodore 64.
Cruisin’ USA on Nintendo 64. I was obsessed with it when I was younger and still kinda am it’s just theirs one problem, I don’t own a Nintendo 64 any more and wish I did. I used to play this particular game all the time and wouldn’t want to get over it.
My brother and i used to save our pocket money up so we could spend it at the corner shop playing street fighter.
I always loved playing Duke Nukem !!
Mine was a game called Frogger, there is a similar game out now called Crossy Road and my kids love it!
My neighbour had Space Invaders and I was soooo envious but it was hard to get a game because everybody was obsessed with it!
We loved Double Dragon. My friend could get all the way to the end on a single 20c piece
My sisters and I would fight over who got the next turn on space invaders lots of fun
Space Invaders – boy I spent many a fun hour battling those pesky aliens
Pac Man it was the one I excelled at and actually went through all the levels to finish the game!
Ghost and goblins because my cousin owned a shop and I got to play free games so I got really really good at it
Space invaders was always my favourite arcade game.
Pac Man was the best game ever made!
Donkey Kong was and is still my favourite! I loved that they brought it to the consoles later on. It never gets old!
Mine was pacman I thought it was so cool loved collecting fruit
Donkey Kong! To this day i still play it 😀
Mine was Donkey Kong! Best game EVER!! I am currently playing Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze on my kids WII U 🙂
pacman. I was an 80’s child. That decade had the best video games
Hmmm toss up between Pacman and Donkey Kong!!! But if I had to choose one then it would be Donkey Kong
I was obsessed with Pinball! Was I good at it? No… But I’ve always been a trier and I sure had fun!
Pacman is the best game for my childhood. 🙂
Space Invaders!
There is no way I could choose just one favourite from a lifetime of games! I mean there’s Space Invaders, Tetris, Pacman, all of the Mario games and all of the Donkey Kong games. Oh and there is also the Zelda games, and the list goes on. They’re all my favourites for one reason or another!
Tetris
Donkey Kong
My sister & I loved playing Street Fighter in the video store!
Many happy memories, even if we were the only girls who played it!
My favourite was Space Invaders on the Atari. Apparently I used to play with my tongue sticking out. 😛
Loved playing Tetris ,Q*Bert , and Donkey Kong but the yellow power pellet munching Pacman was my favourite!
My older brother and I always played the Pinball machines, I was the best 😉
It would have to be Galaga, I loved and felt pretty proud of myself after conquering each level. 🙂
Those tables at the caravan parks! Pong?? Plus space invaders verging my brother across the table!
Definitely WonderBoy!
Always loved pacman & Tetris. They were the most fun to play!
Always loved donkey kong! Had it in a palm held gameboy – carried it everywhere!
Tetris was my favourite childhood game
Original Mario Brothers on Nintendo….with Duck Hunt on the same cartridge…loved it!!
I loved river raid on the Atari!
I loved Donkey Kong and Sonic The Hedgehog. So many awesome memories!
Pacman – loved it !!!
Awesome
OMG Donkey kong….childhood memories!!!
Unfortunately there was no arcade game places near where I was brought up.
I loved Wonderboy and Gianna Sisters!
I loved tetris!!
Space invaders
I LOVE Tetris and Super Mario Brothers, totally addicted!
Galaga all the way
As a child I loved Tetris and as an adult I continue to use it as an effective stress release.
Super mario brothers brings back memories
Donkey kong & sonic bring back plenty of memories.. Games just aren’t the same these days
I loved the handheld games like Oil Panic and Donkey Kong
Pacman and sonic the hedgehog. Wish they made games like they used to!!!
Original Mario was my all time favorite. Mastered all the levels and high scores. It’s ok if i don’t win the dvd but just writing this comment took me back to all the fun times we had while playing Mario 🙂
Donkey Kong on the hand held Nintendo was my favourite!
Pacman Tetris and donkey kong were my favourites was always playing one of these 3 games
It would have to be pac man…
Dig Dug back in the old days on Atari! Loved that game as simple as it was but still gave me a thrill as a kid!
It was called Frantic Freddie, and I still remember how fast my heart used to beat when I was close to being caught, but I still loved the thrill.
I come from a tropical island where ot is only now that they are ip with tge rest of the world on tech, and being the yougest girl my older cousins often assumed i wasn’t interested so the only 2 i know are Super Mario and Pacman.
Pac man is a huge favourite for us kids
definitely PacMan although there was that other game where you had to get the frog safely across the road without it being squashed but can’t remember the name?! Any other 80’s/90’s kids remember it?
space invaders but wasn’t good at playing!
Frogga
Definitely Super Mario and Abes Odyssey. My husband and I would stay up all till all ours on a small screen TV in the spare room trying to get through and finish them. And its good but also so sad when you finish, a sense of loss prevails!! I still love Mario and so do my children!! That’s one that I don’t mind them playing!
i loved playing pacman. Had to fight my older brother to play it though.
Pacman at the arcade. But my real joy was Hungry Horace on the Commodore 64.
Space Invaders for sure!!! And super mario
I really liked playing pacman. It was fun game to play.
frogger, I loved the music and jumping on the logs, great fun and addictive
Space Invaders
Donkey kong, without fail!
Pac Man
frogger 😛
Space invaders
I loved tekken
Don’t know if it qualifies but I loved pinball machines any sort didn’t matter
Space invaders was jy all time favourite!
Deffo FROGGER 🙂
I can still remember to this day, all the noises!
A very old Atari game called Gas Hog.
It’s the only game my mum played and my brother and I would Vs her at it all the time.
Pacman was a winner for me
Frogger I still own a mini arcade version that my kids enjoy too.
It was a shooter game called “Th’ Devil T’ Play” ….I learnt to shoot with that game….I was a bit of a gun….no pun intended 🙂
I loved pac man was so much fun
PACMAN WAS ALL THE GO LOVE THAT GAME KEPT US BUSY FOR HOURS
I loved Pac Man..eating all the yellow dots and running away from monsters…heaps of fun.
I’m a little old for arcade games but my son absolutely loved Donkey Kong.
Donkey Kong…and I was a bit older than a kid!!
My favourite arcade game as a kid was the classic Space Invaders.
I lovvvved pacman!!
Asteroids for sure! I even manage to build one in a programming class!
OMG Space Invaders for sure!
Ghosts and Goblins
Space Invaders
I loved pac man so much fun
Donkey Kong that dude is crazy always wanted to beat the high score
Gauntlet was awesome.
It had to be Sonic the hedgehog!
I swear, it was the first video game I had ever played, and I became addicted within minutes! I just had to grab all the coins, but didn’t understand the whole concept of the game.
Just that the sound that the coins made, made me excited so I wanted more. There’s so much more to gaming than we realise- it’s addictive for a reason!!! Well played Sega Master System……well played!
Space invaders and Pac Man I was addicted to them when growing up….I would play them for hrs.
Space Invaders or the good old fashioned pinball machine.
Pac Man, the coolest game ever. Loved it.
Ok, showing my age now, but it was the pinball machine!
I was a tetris girl does that count? 🙂
Pac Man
I loved Donkey Kong!
Street fighter
My son would love it
Donkey Kong
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade game
Kirby!!!
Pac Man
Mortal kombat, as Sonya
Tekken or something similar, equal with Maria karts. Which is still my fave to play with our own kids.
pacman
Mortal Kombat. Loved that! Still do!
Gyrus!
Grandad had a few pinball machines we loved but we did have Donkey Kong.
Pinball games especially Terminator
Pac Man and Vetrex…so cool and amazing at the time 😀
loved space invaders on those sit down/table machines
Frogger!
Loved playing space invaders in the local milk bar!
I loved playing most sit down/ 2 player arcade games!! Pacman, space invaders and frogged were my favourite!!
I adored Tetris. I still use my Tetris skills when packing the freezer.
I loved Space Invaders shooting the aliens before they touch the ground
I loved “Ladybug” as it was so cute and I was a real Champion at this game.
I loved Pacman, but now I’m slightly addicted to Galaga….
Pacman or Space Invaders, I can’t choose.
Pacman!
Galaga
Tekken 3
Space invaders ..I was addicted to this in the 80’s
Pac Man
tetris
Mario is the man!
My favourite game was pacman!
Alex the Kidd, my first ever game on the Sega Master System
pacman
The first game I ever played on the sega master system pacman and it’s still my favorite
Space Invaders!!!
Pacman!
Tetris!
Space invaders!
PACMAN! “Of Course”
So glad pacman has resurfaced. I was a teenager in the 80’s and my kids love all the retro stuff like Pacman, Back to the Future and Ghostbusters! Long life the 80s!!
The Pinball Machine
Pacman of course
I love Pixels, and when I was a kid there were no Arcade game available it was so long ago.
Minesweeper
Love Pacman and my son now plays it on my Phone
My favourite arcade game was Galaga …I spent hours playing that as my bestie Mum’s owned the local arcade and some weekends would take a few games home…and we’d play for free…
My 8yr old son LOVES Minecraft and is in fact playing it right now!
Galaga was my go-to arcade game at the local roller skate rink back in ‘my day’. I was never any good at it though the free-standing console and the dual player sit-down coffee table-style players quickly swallowed up my pocket money. Roller skating came a poor second to my beloved Galaga!
I loved Space Invaders so many Aliens and Spaceships to shoot!
Minesweeper swept the field for me.
Frogger
Space invaders
Tetris is my jam
Has to be frogger !!! Got me every time
my favourite arcade game was bubble trouble
Pac man
Double Dragon! Mate and I skipped physics and drove to local deli who had it just to play in high school. Kids – do not try that at home, but yeah, we poured some coins into that one. Took a while to complete too even with two players!
A little sad or maybe not, didn’t have any games. Entering as this would put a huge smile on our special little mans face. Hope I am not disqualified for my lack of gaming experience as a child.
Not sure what is happening, but can not get first part of my entry go through, please help.
I loved Donkey Kong & still do! I even still got the original game 😀
mine was pac man absolutely loved it
My favourite arcade game as a little girl was Tetris! 🙂
Pacman 🙂
My all time favourite game was River Raid. Didn’t want to crash that plane.
Donkey Kong for sure, it was a fantastic game for all ages!
Have to say the classic pac-man
Frogger!
Donkey Kong!
pacman all the way
Snoopy Tennis! I used to play it for hours on end, it was so addictive 🙂
LIKE TO SEE this movie
Duke Nukem. My sister and I would play this on our computer sneakily in the night. It was a thrill also to be rebelling 🙂
I loved the original version of Donkey Kong, I was addicted to it, I remember getting really angry if I walked into the arcade and someone was playing it, it was like I thought I owned the game. With the amount I spent on playing it, I could’ve probably bought my own game.
I was obsessed with Wonder Boy…id gather up all my 20c pieces and head to the local arcade and play it until my money ran out!
Pacman
My Favorite game was Space Invaders ,i could play for hours .
Frogger….just needed to time my jumps on the logs and I was home!!
I loved Space Invaders, I only got to play it every now and then at a bowling alley 30 minutes from home
1942, plane flying around shooting other planes. Challenged and thrilled me as a kid, as well as taking all my hard earned pocket money!
As a teenager I loved playing GALAGA… and I still love the game as it was lots of fun.
As much as Donkey Kong enthralled me, I preferred the pinball machines. Was my Friday night thrill when I’d get to go and pick up the fish and chips with Dad, armed with our 20 cent pieces.
I loved Pong Tennis. Can’t believe how simple it was but amused me for hours!
Wonderboy. I used to play it on the Commodore64 it was my favourite adventure game.
Loved space invaders
space invaders
Pac Man
Pacman but i was better at space invaders
Space Invaders but always wished I could be as good as my cousin at Pacman…he had a mini Pacman arcade machine too!
I spent so much time on the atari – loved asteroids. Those were the days when you could “clock” the games, reach the end & go no further!
I must be really old, because I never played an arcade game. I remember playing a pinball machine for the first (and last) time on my honeymoon, and thought that was fun. Does that count?
Donkey Kong. I sucked at it but I kept on playing, it was such an addiction
I loved Pac Man!
Frogger
Frogger, simple but challenging. Loved it. Hooked!
Space invaders on my old Commodore 64
On the rare occasion I could play pin ball machines I loved it. But it was a very rare experience as I lived in a remote rural town.
Commando – didn’t look like much, but I was incredibly good at it LOL!!
Would have to be Frogger, I remember playing it all day and night!
Tetris
Galaga!!
Atari Ping Pong was the highlight of an 80 childhood
Pac-man was my absolute favourite at the local fish shop with all my buddies:)
Donkey Kong, but I could never get past 98% aaaaargh!
Pac-man was the ultimate game growing up in the 80’s!
pac-man, I had a hand held one too, used to drive my brother crazy with the noise!!
Pac-Man. Solid color mazes and multiple warp paths, creating a little yellow ball love story that no-one could resist to be romanced by.
I love love loved Tetris!
Tetris, i still play it to this day, only this is a real life version – trying to get everything to fit into the freezer!
I loved Pac-man and Crash Bandicoot. I couldn’t get enough of either of them. #90skid 🙂
I loved Pac- man ,
such fun!!
Frogger, the music still gets me excited! If you’ve never experienced the joy of nearly getting squished, you don’t know what you’re missing!
I loved playing Space Invaders, so much fun shooting things that were falling from the sky
I was pretty obsessed with Donkey Kong
Tetris – because it tested your brain as well as your reflexes! Posted as AX
Alex the Kidd in Miracle World on a Sega! Could never get past the first level lol!
Bubble Bobble!
The Simpsons Arcade Game!!!!
Sonic with his slick blue head,
Those spines punching what’s ahead.
Spinning evil out the away;
He’s easiest character to play!
the skiing game with the rabbit…I forget what it was called
Frogger! Hours of fun I could have trying not to get my pixelated little frog squished.
Pin ball was my favourite and I was good at it, a fast game and a lot of fun
I loved Street Fighter! My friend’s dad next door had a whole heap of arcade machines in his shed including that one and he let us play them for free all the time!
PACMAN!
California Games on Atari 2600
Donkey Kong and Pacman
Pacman! The only game I was good at as a kid!
Pacman!
Donkey Kong
Space Invaders, spent hours at it as a kid
Love Pacman 🙂
Froggit yeah that buggar croc used to get me
… was Pinball Machine (“the Pinnies”) mad, if that counts for anything!
I loved playing tennis with the line stick and the ball lol
Couldnt get away from Tetris, it practically took over my life!
Street Fighter, I was ace at playing Chun Li
Street Fighter I was ace at playing Chun Li
Tetris was my favourite by far, I could spend hours playing
Street Fighter 2. “HARUKEN!”
Space Invaders!
I loved Galaga and still play it on the PlayStation today!
Pacman, much more fun than that silly galactica but then Donkey Kong was fun too
Asteroids – it ‘Rock’ed!
Totally had to be Sonic the Hedgehog on a Sega!
Pacman, provided hours of fun for the whole family, playing Pacman was a family moment we treasured.
Pitfall on the Atari 2600, i use to play for hours
would have to be tetris – it was one of the few games i could play and win at lol
Definitely a pinball machine – they were a hit among my whole group of friends
astroids or space invaders…blow em all up!
Donkey Kong, I would spend hours on the old hand held game just trying to beat my foster brothers score.
pinball
The inspirationally intriguing visuals of Pac Man and Tetris captivated our hearts growing up by enlightening a masterfully adventurous revolution of interactively engaging ingenuity; visionary pioneering to always treasure!.
Pong – loved it
Pac Man! and I still love playing it!
donkey kong, get those barrels running
I loved Pac Man as a kid… Now my kids love playing it on the iPad!!!
Space Invaders…. the iconic “DA DA DA DA… DA DA DA DA” that gets faster and faster…. as your heart gets faster and faster….. and your safety net evaporates above your head.
nothing beats pacman he was the ultimate growing up.
DonkeyKong! I loved how you had an exciting adventure within each level!
Pac Man was my first love but then I enjoyed Tetris just as much.
Tetris was and still is my all-time favourite arcade game!
Oh gosh! Space invaders for sure!, an oldie but a goodie! 🙂
Space invaders or frogger – we only had an atari!
Space Invaders
PacMan 🙂
Space Invaders
Paxman ☺
-Jessica Blundell
Pac-Man
Space Invaders 🙂
Pac Man
Frogger
Frogger!
I loved Galaga. More action than Space Invaders.
Tetris!
Pac Man, Space invaders, how can one choose?
Tetris, hours of fun!
Pac man was my favorite as a kid!
Space invaders
Space Invader
As a child of the mid 80s – Mortal Kombat was my game of choice in the 90s!
I absolutely loved Tetris and was quite a whiz at it….maybe that’s why I’m so good at Candy Crush as an adult haha!
I loved Galaga, especially playing it in our local fish n chip shop as a kid whilst I waited for tea to be cooked! Only cost 20cents back then!
Pinball I loved it.
Pinball is my favourite game
Pacman ruled in our house
Space invaders and I was pretty good at it too
Pinball
The classic Donkey Kong throwing barrels at you – super hard but I kept trying over and over!
Pinball all time favourite
Frogger
pacman for sure
Donkey kong
would have to be pacman
So many to choose form, but I loved Pacman, especially Ms Pacman
Space invaders, 20c coin in the slot at the local fish & chip shop
It would definitely have to be space invaders. So many ours of fun trying to beat each others scores
Loved Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong – I loved watching the older kids play and then trying to be just as good!
I spent SOOO much money playing Space Invaders at the local deli!
Pac-man 🙂
has to be pacman!!!
Pinball games at the beach parlor in Newcastle, so many to choose from and only 5c
Pacman! Such a classic.
I always liked Ms Pacman more than regular Pacman. A lot of people said
the only difference was that she had a bow, but that isn’t true. She
also had lips and an eye.
Space Invaders was my favorite, when I wasn’t beating the guys at pool 😀
so cool
Not quite an arcade game, but loved playing Lemmings as a kid
1942. You were a plane and had to shoot and not get shot. So hard!!! I feel like playing it now 😉
I loved Pacman as a kid growing up in the early 80’s. It was awesome.