Games in TV Shows are Always Played WRONG 

If you guys know any I missed, post them in this here comment apparatus! I feel there are probably so many examples in TV shows, but even hunting these down took more effort than I thought. Anyways I'll see you later, say hi to your mom for me!

Jesse Pinkman is canonically a Sonic fan.

It's crazy how show makers just literally pay zero attention to how games work and think nobody will notice.

I think House said 'level four' sarcastically, like he's a real gamer who knows that a normie like the other guy wouldn't understand

Welcome to Fortnite Walter.

The random clicking of controllers always kills me

in episode 3 of house, they reuse the same clip of samus getting into the chozo statue, but this time its a patient playing, and she acts like she lost when objectively shes just progresing further or "winning". someone on that production team really likes metroid

I remember back in elementary school there was some PSA video they showed us. There was a part where the kid character is playing a GBC that just... didn't have a cartridge in it. We all started making fun of it, and it basically became a meme within our classroom.

I loved it when Walter White and Jesse Pinkman turned Super and stopped the Biolizard!!!

I think the only show I've seen that perfectly understands videogames is South Park. You can feel they know what they're talking about when it comes to videogames. The best example I can think of is RDR2, they spend a whole episode referencing it here and there, talking about specific characters and specific locations. You cab definitely tell the creators were obsessed with it.

I’ve been watching Breaking Bad, and seeing Jessie play Sonic is honestly so perfect.

16:46 oh he’s playing as Rainbow Mika of course he’s playing with one hand

Honestly, that Amazing Race challenge is really funny. It’s not like the others where it’s a script that’s been poorly thought out, it’s live people who don’t play video games trying to beat a professional at Street Fighter.

Watching clips of sonic heroes being used in breaking bad literally made me do that one Leonardo DiCaprio meme where he snaps and points at the tv

15:27 Unexpectedly good Frieza impression

One part that wasn’t in this video that I wanted to honorably mention was a different scene in Breaking Bad where Badger and Skinny Pete rant about different types of zombie games and there was a surprising amount of info about it. It may not have been 100% accurate but I could picture it being a real conversation. They even included multiple games that were big at the time (Left 4 Dead, CoD Zombies). Them bringing up COD zombies when the mode was still young makes this feel like such a deep cut

The gamesphere will always be iconic

Alternate title: RelaxAlex roleplays as an English teacher for 20 minutes.

Gamings’s worst enemy…. BAD ADAPTATIONS!

My idea is that Dr House was just messing with his patients and was genuinely a fan of Metroid I love that show and it fits his character

If Jesse and Brock liked Sonic 06, I’m sure they’ll have a blast with Project-06

One of the best actual implementations of video games in a movie or tv show is Time Splitters 2 in Shaun of the Dead. They actually played the game and the characters were doing actual game call outs of enemies.

I remember there was an episode of I think NCIS where someone had to beat level 10 of a game to get a clue to the whatever and nobody could do it until they spotted the Gamer(TM) miming using the controller while watching, and they got to level 10. on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Which has chapters but isn't separated into levels like that. Always made me laugh.

This reminds me of when kingdom hearts 3 was on the news here in italy. When they were introducing it they didn't even say it was a videogame, no, they were talking about what's new in animation cinema, and immediately after that they pronounced as "kingdon art terzo" (terzo means third italian) and called it the end of the "XZettanort" saga, after that they named our heroes:"Sora, Mickey, Goofy and Pluto", finally, the cherry on top, they just compared it to God Of War ps4 because that's a cinematic game I guess.

There are actually also many anime shows that show irl video games like "Uncle from another world" having both Sonic and Golden Axe or "Tonikawa: Over the moon for you" focussing on Street Fighter 5 for an entire episode. And then there is also "High Score Girl" which is entirely themed around old irl arcade games.

House loves being snarky to people that know less than him both in medicine and in gaming. It's not that he actually thought he was on Level 4 in Metroid- he just doesn't have time to explain the game to a non-alpha-male-gamer-supreme.

Shoutout to whoever was putting metroid in all of those House episodes trying to get more people into the series

I love how you at the end used a nondescript fireball, what I can assume is an explosion from Mario, the Undertale game over text and who knows where that song came from.

Schaffrillas was right! Tony Soprano WAS in Mario Kart Super Circuit!

My favorite is when a company tries to appeal to gamers by having them consume the product as beeps and boops come from the tv, because apparently we are all stuck in 1998

Now, it's not a TV show, but I think one of the best implementations of people playing a video game in a movie, would be from Reign Over Me. It's an Adam Sandler movie where his character's family passed away in the 9/11 attacks, and an old friend played by Don Cheadle tries to help him get through it. It has a scene where Sandler's character teaches Cheadle's how to play Shadow of the Colossus, and it actually had no script for some parts of it, where he was just legitimately teaching him how to play the game. Even with the plot of the game, a tale of loss, and seeing giants fall, it was chosen as the game they play for how it would serve as a reminder to the character. Legitimately one of the most insightfully done video game oriented segments of a movie.

Oh my god, FINALLY! I've been waiting for someone to call out House on its "level 4" nonsense for so long! Of all the games they could have depicted, they chose a Metroid title when specifying a level. It's something that's annoyed me to this day haha

And for the next episode of The Amazing Race, Hot Dog Eating contest vs the professionals. Good luck never getting past them because it's literally impossible! _"It's just eating. How hard could it be?"_

Hearing Jason Griffith's Sonic on TV after Sonic X ended is the greatest blessing

15:50 You know what sucks about the The Amazing Race example? It's a reality TV competition. Meaning everyone who looks like they suck at Street Fighter... actually sucks at Street Fighter. Like, you could have at least coached them for 5 minutes, tops. It's humiliating.

…Waltuh…stop playing Sonic Waltuh…I’m not playing Sonic with ya right now Waltuh…

I will be forever grateful to X-Men 3: The Last Stand for giving Pitfall: The Lost Expedition two seconds of fame. Some kids are playing it in the back of their parents car right before Magneto lifts the entire bridge into the air.

My favorite scene of gaming in media also happens to be from a movie from my favorite director, Shaun of the Dead directed by Edgar Wright. Not only is there a scene with Shaun backseat gaming, but you literally hear Nick Frost’s character Ed pause twice in preparation for his dialogue!

The one time I was extremely bothered by a video game being played in a movie was in The Smurfs. They were playing Guitar Hero Aerosmith. Niel Patrick Harris was on the guitar, and the Smurfs were playing on the drums. The screen was in single-player mode, and that game doesn't support the drum accessory. O think it was legitimately the last Guitar Hero game that didn't support it.

John Goodman playing the Sega Hedgehog game on a Super Nintendo with Mario music and Gallica graphics and heart-stabbing gameplay was not something I was ready to see

That street fighter challenge has got to be one of the worst ideas to put in one of those shows ever. It’s like asking random guy you find on the street to beat Usain Bolt in a race lmao.

2:07That Sega game Hedgehog You Gotta power up or ur dead

House has a whole moment about Arceus, not kidding AND ITS ACCURATE

15:30 I love a good DBZ reference specifically having Frieza apply the strangest and most specific of tallents.

"How do you die on the Super Mario World Title Screen?" ...Actually, if you're using GameShark codes or the like it can mess with the gameplay on the Title Screen and cause Mario to die in it, which freezes the game and you have to restart it.

People in TV Shows playing video games: “ITS SO HARD IM LITERALLY BUTTON MASHING!!!” The Game: Pong

The sopranos had more simple symbolism. You saw Tony covering AJs eyes in order to win. He’s willing to do anything to get to the top Just like how the producers used any sound they could from Mario kart 64

12:39 the ironic thing is there is a metroid game that has levels and is on gba... And they chose zero mission which is the most open one in the franchise. All they had to do was use fusion and have samus in the 4th area adam sends you to. Oh and that's the first room of zero mission, it's the very start of the game. Whyyyyyyy

There's a scene in one of the Spy Kids movies that's reminiscent of that House + ZM clip. In order to showcase how good the character is at video games, one of them mentions how they got to "Level 9 in Metroid" or something like that. No footage is shown though, unfortunately.

16:47 you know i feel like as a fighting game player her INCESSANT mashing is equally funny and truly one of the most obnoxious things i’ve ever seen in my life💀

Imagine having such severe skill issue that when you start playing a game, it quickly changes to another one and you die in it, all while you haven't pressed a single button. Or that you die in the title screen of a game in which you can't die in the title screen

I like how the first example makes it sound like Mario just gets shot and dies instantly

I know it wasn't covered, but there have been several times video games have been involved in The Big Bang Theory show. I remember there being a Wii Sports boxing match and of course Sheldon debating on whether or not to get the Xbox One or PS4.

I've been watching the Sopranos lately too (great show btw, the brainrot makes me say "marone" a lot), and I loved the scene where Tony plays Mario Kart with AJ. How he holds the controller incorrectly but in a way that would probably make sense to him, a confused parent, felt intentional by the director.

My favorite one, even though it’s a cartoon, is the regular show episode where the character “the hammer” comes to life and they have to kill him

Remember when Dark Souls was featured in Dragon Maid? I remember.

How do you hold back in single player Guitar Hero? Miss notes on purpose? Play songs that get you less score? Play a difficulty setting your bad at? Would you brag about that last one? Who competes in single player Guitar Hero, especially at a party? Who's hyped to watch people compete in single player Guitar Hero?

this video singlehandedly gave me so much psychic damage that I have to retire to the Himalayas and rethink my life choices.

Love the easy to miss detail of the Game Over song at the end being a rendition of the og RelaxAlax intro song (unless my ears are wrong)

I legitimately want to play some of these very wrong games. I always liked the videogame mockup animation from an old Consumers Power commercial. "You can fight dragons, evil wizards, and alien invaders but touch a downed electrical line and *_you lose_* "

Fun Fact: Metroid Prime Hunters sold well.

I remember in an episode of Wolverine & The X-Men Iceman plays one of the Iron Man Movie tie-in games. A 3D game. In a 2D animated show.

Never forget. In Breaking Bad, Badger mentions he played Resident Evil 4. In Resident Evil Vendetta, they mention watching Breaking Bad

Would love to see a follow-up more focused on fictional video games in movies and TV shows. In particular, the Netflix series Glitch Techs has some very detailed homages to Castlevania and beat-em-ups, among other things.

One instance that really made me mad was in The Big Bang Theory. They have an episode where they're playing Halo 3 and they talk on and on about all of the mutilation and large amounts of blood. If you've even played a little bit of Halo 3, you would know that the game has only a little bit of blood, which can easily be missed, and there's no mutilation to speak of. I didn't mind it at first, but what was really annoying was that they make like 6-7 jokes about it, but again, not a big deal. I think what annoyed me the most though, was that someone at Fox must have really have loved that episode, because they played it like ten times more than any other episode I've seen. I haven't watched a lot of Big Bang Theory, but a big reason I haven't was due to them incessantly playing that episode.

5:17 I love me a good ol' fashioned Mario Mental Breakdown 16:58 I couldn't agree more

That Metroid stuff legitimately hurt

To this day I cannot get over jesse pinkman playing sonic 06 with his kid

What's really interesting to me is when shows and films feature more niche games in the background, usually by complete accident. It's not something most people would notice, but it definitely makes a scene more memorable from a modern perspective compared to the usual "rebellious teen plays loud and violent Xbox 360 FPS in his room with a "Do Not Enter" sign on the door."

title was originally "When Games Appear On TV"

2:42 Hold on can we pause a moment... I'm still processing those last few sentences...

I love the fact that every video of yours now have that clip of DK falling with the mine cart and screaming... LOOOOOOOOL

My GOAT Malcom in the Middle missing. Sonic R! They choosed Sonic R out of all the games that exist, and of course their controllers were off

I find it very interesting that in House M.D. they decided to show multiple consoles and multiple games from the same series, but that's literally it.

"Hey Tone, ya see what he did there ? he removed ya from the thumbnail"

the weirdest thing is when characters in TV Shows / Cartoons play an original game that only exists in the universe of show and the game just looks nonsensical or doesn't seem to follow real world game design logic

waltuh, put away the chaos emeralds waltuh

Nothing hits more than Seeing Jessie Pinkman playing Sonic 06.

I remember Malcom in the middle they were playing Sonic R at Stevie’s house

So that's how Tony Soprano got into Super Circuit.

Bro has the Corrado Soprano look

i'm glad we got the "mash every button because it is a tense game even though the sounds from the tv are just the loading screen" cliche out of the way within 2 minutes

I can't get enough of this stuff. If I ever somehow end up making a show or movie with a game in it, I'm throwing in as many inaccuracies as I can. Right down to a kid having a virtual boy taped to his face when he's not even the one playing.

The Nintendo ninjas need to be going after the actors in TV media playing video games horribly instead of video game emulators 😂

I know Despicable Me is a MOVIE, but people seem to forget that one scene where Vector is sitting on his couch playing the Wii nowadays, and that is actually wrong.

Here’s one I remember: In the movie Grosse Pointe Blank, there’s a scene where a guy is playing Doom on an arcade machine at a gas station and he doesn’t even notice the massive gunfight going on behind him. I don’t remember much else about it. But if you do a “video games in Movies” video, you should go over it

Haven't watched the vid yet but here is my favorite example: In the Netflix show Atypical, one of the characters plays Horizon Zero Dawn with voice chat and tells everyone they shouldn't have gone to Tilted Towers.

1:11 SPHERICAL!!!

If you ever upload a video that doesn’t have the sound of Donkey Kong going off the rails in a minecart, I’ll know to send for help immediately.

Honorable mention to people faking typing on a keyboard in crime movies when they zoom and enhance and zoom and enhance and zoom and enhance and... Same for people pretending to play Piano, Guitar or any other instruments.

13:27 cool dk sound effect

“I’ll make you eat those words!”

I didn’t get this video in my feed when it was posted, but it was great! So glad you’re still making stuff Alax !

I’m so glad someone finally brought this topic up

There used to be a german tv show that's basicly a regular RU-vid show, but on a TV-budget (so yeah basicly overfunded). And I swear to god, every time I watched this show it was always the same freaking episode 😂. In said episode they celebrated Silvester 2013 and talked about upcoming games. They still showed this episode in 2016 😂

this effect is like the incorrectly-modeled pianos in games where there's a creation tool of sorts (roblox, rec room, minecraft even), even *THE* QUEST 3 FACEBOOK TEAM made a screwed up pug equivalent of a piano in a virtual environment/home menu. i genuinely die a little bit when i think about that

“How did Pacha die on the title screen?” 😂

This was painful to watch, but thank you for clearing out the frauds LOL

I'm surprised not to see the scene from a movie (I think Charlie's Angels) where two kids are both playing FF8 like it's a two player game

Fun fact, in the french version of breaking bad, Alexandre Gillet play Jesse and he’s also the french actor of Sonic in the games and tv series !