Arcade (film)

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Arcade is the title of a B- science fiction/horror film released in 1993. A young female protagnoist has to battle inside the world of a deadly virtual reality video game, in order to save her fellow teenage suburanites who have become trapped inside the gaming world. It has a running time of roughly 85 min and received an "R" rating by the Motion Picture Association of America. It is often seen as lower budget version of the film titled Brainscan that was released a year later.

1 Cast & Crew
2 Storyline
3 References
4 Similar Films

[edit] Cast & Crew

Megan Ward ... Alex Manning
Peter Billingsley ... Nick
John de Lancie ... Difford
Sharon Farrell ... Alex's mom
Seth Green ... Stilts
A.J. Langer ... Laurie
Bryan Dattilo ... Greg
Brandon Rane ... Benz
B.J. Barie ... DeLoache
Humberto Ortiz ... Boy
Norbert Weisser ... Albert
Don Stark ... Finster
Dorothy Dells ... Mrs. Weaver
Todd Starks ... Burt Manning
Alexandria Byrne ... Kid at Arcade Parlour

Albert Pyun ... Director
Charles Band & David S. Goyer ... (Writers)

[edit] Storyline

Alex Manning (Megan Ward) is a troubled suburban teenager. Her mother committed suicide and the school counselor feels that she has not dealt with her feelings properly. Manning and her friends decide to visit the local video arcade known as "Dante's Inferno" where a new virtual reality arcade game called "Arcade" is being test marketed by a computer company CEO who is more then willing to hand out fee samples of the home console version and hype up the game as if his job depending on it, and it does.

However, it soon becomes clear that the teenagers who play the game and lose, are being imprisoned inside the virtual reality world by the central villian; "Arcade". It would seem that "Arcade" was once a little boy, who was beaten to death by his mother, and the computer company felt it would be a good idea to use some of the boy's brain cells in order to make the game's villian more realistic, instead it made the game deadly.

Nick and Alex enlist the help of the game's programmer and head to the video arcade for a final showdown with "Arcade" and his deadly virtual world. While Alex is able to release her friends from a virtual prison, she also ended up freeing the evil little boy who taunts Alex in the final moments of the film.