Fictional Video Game / Live-Action TV

• In 2point4 Children, "Badger's Bend" has Ninja Badgers.
• An ABC News special report from 1982, "Video Fever: Games People Play," included plenty of actual video games, but also interviewed Taito America programmers supposedly working on an upcoming game titled Toasters and Chainsaws, which appears to have never existed except for the cabinet mockup shown in the broadcast.
• In All That, there is the Lame Boy handheld video game system.
• Ace Lightning and the Carnival of Doom from Ace Lightning.
• In Big Wolf on Campus, there is Dirk Strykem.
• In Black Mirror, "Playtest" features the game Skinned Alive by the company SaitoGamer. "USS Callister" features the immersive VR game Infinity by Callister Inc.
• Bones :
  • It had a game called Punky Pong in an episode where the killer and victim were both champions at the game and cheating was involved.
  • Season 11’s “The Head in the Abutment” had Hodgins and Aubrey and Oliver talking about a game called Aerial Attack. It’s presumably what Hodgins and Oliver were trash talking each other over while they played.
• In Brooklyn Nine-Nine, there is the Kwazy Cupcakes phone game.
• Caprica had a V-World game called "New Cap City", a reference to Grand Theft Auto and New Jack City.
• In Chuck, there is Apache Chopper Patrol, Guitar Shredder, Maverick Fighter Elite, and Stealth Underlords.
• The Colbert Report's Stephen Colbert's Escape From Skateboard Mountain, Stephen Colbert's Return to Skateboard Mountain, Stephen Colbert's World of Colbertcraft, and Awkward Showering With Your Peers Revolution.
• In Cold Case, Defector III is a two person fighting game, classified as an RPG.
• In Community, there is Battle Call, a game played by a boy in Tokyo, and Construction Snake, the precursor to Donkey Kong. The episode "Digital Estate Planning" featured Journey to the Center of Hawkthorne, an adventure game with relatively deep gameplay, 8-bit graphics, and blatant racist overtones; the winner inherits the fortune of the game's designer.
• In The Cosby Show, "For Men Only" focuses on Olivia playing video games.
• In Criminal Minds, S8 E8, "The Wheels on the Bus," there is Gods of Combat, a competitive multiplayer online FPS, circa year 2000, with over six million players. Two teenage ex-players decide to use it as the basis for a real life game where kidnapped students are forced to play by the rules. A Gods of Combat poster is seen on a wall in S9 E9, "Strange Fruit".
• In CSI, S11 E18, "Hitting for the Cycle", there is the "war-based game" Aeron's Legion on its videogame-centric episode.
• CSI: Miami
  • In S3 E18, "Game Over", there is Thrash Canyon, by Dave Strong Studios, winner of the "Best Overall Title" game award, featuring Tony Hawk expy Dave Strong, and Skate Park Extreme, a skate park sim developed with motion capture technology.
  • In S4 E9, "Urban Hellraisers", there is Urban Hellraisers, a console GTA clone whose game developer willfully distributes weapons to the game players to commit murder in real life.
• In The Daily Show, there is Homo-Bortion City: Sexy Edition.
• In Deadly Games, there are several video games designed by antimatter physicist and engineer Dr. Gus Lloyd, including a live action video game about The Cold-Steel Kid, a commando-type vigilante saving the world, rescuing The Girl, and fighting several bosses based on the designer's personal life acquaintances, including: The Quarterback, Evil Shirley, The Boss, The Perfect Woman, The Camp Counselor, The Practical Joker, The Car Mechanic, The Divorce Laywer, The Motivational Speaker, The Trash Man, The Orthodontist, The Oral Hygienist, The Ex-Girlfriend, and The Jackal.
• In Dexter season 6, one of Dexter's colleagues (an intern named Louis) was developing Homicidal Tendencies, a literal Murder Simulator in which the player could assume the identity of one of several serial killers. This included the Bay Harbor Butcher, who was actually Dexter. He asks Dexter for advice (not knowing his double life as a Serial-Killer Killer) because he was involved in the case, but the latter just feels insulted.
• One episode of Diff'rent Strokes showed Arnold playing a "Space Sucker" arcade video game.
• In Drake & Josh, there is Demolition Driver, Grand Theft Driveway, game companies Bitsumishi and Pentendo, and game consoles GamePod, GameSphere, and Pentendo GS.
• In Family Matters, there is a Mortal Kombat style video game in "Scammed".
• In Full House season 8, episode 9, "Stephanie's Wild Ride" has SNES game Montezuma's Quest, played with an NES Max gamepad. The objective of the game is to find three magic keys. The player can choose between taking the stairs or the hall, and can eat Power Biscuits to replenish power. Locations include The Magic Universe, and The Pasture of Lost Hope.
• In Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything, there are the video games Arctic Warfare, Big Rampaging Ape, Call of Honor 2: Honor the Call, Dance Dance Riot, Monster Truck Bloodbath, Phantom Ops III, Pony Kong, Prison Escape 6, Psycho Zombie Bloodbath, Stealth Ops III, Super Kart Man, Turtle Taxi, Ultimate Hero, Volleyball Hero, the fighting game Superhero Apocalypse, a Whoopsie! Wii-mote game based on the Whoopsie! board game, the arcade games City Grind, Donkey Bonanza, Dragon Hero, and Moon Blaster, the racing arcade game Speedy Demon, the handheld game Zoo Party and the online handheld game World of Warlocks, and the apps Balloon Animal Picnic and Puddin' Party.
• In Ghost Whisperer, the season 4 episode "Ghost in the Machine" has Alt World-2, a Second Life expy.
• The first story arc of Ghostwriter features the Double Defenders, a fictional video game about a group of two-headed superheroes.
• In The Greatest American Hero, there is the game Wizards And Warlocks.
• In Heroes Reborn, EverNow: The Katana Girl Saga is produced by the company Reisen and created by Hachiro Otomo, who worked on the games Cuban and Barrel Bo.
• In Home Improvement, there is the game Monkey Town.
• In House, there is some sort of recurring alien FPS that first showed up being developed in season six. The enemies in the game were bird-monsters, and this was the clue that led to curing the game designer. Birds had been the cause of his illness, which the patient somehow psychically understood, and subconsciously incorporated into his game. Foreman and Taub are later seen playing it.
• In iCarly, in "iStage an Intervention", there is the arcade game Pak-Rat, defictionalized on Nick.com.
• In It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, in "Charlie Kelly: King of the Rats", there is an unidentified FPS on the Xbox 360. In "Charlie Rules the World", there is the post-apocalyptic game TechPocalypse, for PC and smartphones.
• In jPod, there is a skateboarding game by the game developer Neotronic Arts.
• Kamen Rider Ex-Aid has its characters draw their powers from various video games across a bunch of different genres. The original set of games was programmed in a way so that they had computer viruses that somehow started manifesting as biological viruses. The games include Mighty Action X, Mighty Brothers XX, Maximum Mighty X (a platformer series), Taddle Quest, Taddle Fantasy, Taddle Legacy, (RPGs), Bang Bang Shooting (FPS), Bang Bang Simulation (military sim), Bakusou Bike (combat racer), Gekitotsu Robots (mecha game), DoReMiFa Beat (rhythm game), Jet Combat (shoot-em-up), Giri Giri Chambara (something involving samurai; likely hack-n-slash), Shakariki Sports (stunt biking), Drago Knight Hunter Z (Monster Hunter clone), Dangerous Zombie (survival horror), Knockout Fighter (fighter), Perfect Puzzle (Match-Three Game), Tokimeki Crisis (Dating Sim), Kamen Rider Chronicle (Survival Sandbox/Mascot Fighter), and Hyper Muteki (based on an Invincibility Powerup and/or cheat device rather than a game genre). (And those are just the ones with some plot importance; a handful of others show up in tie-in projects.)
• In Killer Instinct, in the episode "Game Over", there is a GTA clone called Murder One, played with a steering wheel controller.
• In Killer Net, there is the Killer Net online computer game.
• In Law & Order: Criminal Intent, S3 E10, "F.P.S.", there is the third-person melee fighting competitive online deathmatch game Blood Match, where the winner of the arena is the one with the most opponent's heads on a stick. There's some mention of a Clan of the Assassins level. The game servers save replays of each match. Blood Match 2 is still in development. An ex-programmer's bot for Blood Match was linked to a children's sidescroller he had been working on, and somehow a Player Tic noticed between the two entirely different games was enough to implicate the programmer for murder.
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
  • The episode "Identity" featured a pinball machine called "Murder & Destruction".
  • The episode "Care" featured a fantasy adventure game favored by a developmentally challenged foster child. The similarity between the game's artwork and the condition of the victim lead the detectives to consider the child a suspect until they play the game and discover the child was trying to save the victim from their abusive foster mother.
  • S12 E2, "Bullseye", has the Everearth console MMORPG series, which have servers in Korea, and an in-game location called The Kingdom of Galagor.
  • S6 E14, "Game", has Tektop Games' NtenCity, a GTA clone, and the to be released NtenCity2. A hooker killing easter egg for the first game can be found on Internet fansites, and a mod by programmer and former employee Stuart Davis allows the hooker's blouse to be torn off in the game; these elements are enough to inspire video game addict Garrett Perle to murder a prostitute for real.
  • S9 E2, "Avatar" has Another Youniverse, a Second Life expy.
  • S16 E14, "Intimidation Game", has the non-violent Amazonian Warriors contrasted with the more violent FPS Kill or Be Slaughtered (KOBS), and there is a Glasgowman game based on "Glasgowman's Wrath".
• In Life with Derek, there is the Tomb Raider parody Babe Raider.
• The second series of Look Around You had a whole segment on fictional 1980s games... some of which, such as Diarrhea Dan, actually did end up getting implemented in Flash.
• In MADtv (1995) episode 243, the game Rugrats Spelling Bee is mentioned.
• In Malcolm in the Middle, there are the games Fishing for Fishies, Jump Jump Dance Party, and The Virts.
• In one episode of Mr. Belvedere, the Owens family gets a "Firebomb" pinball table,^note actually a repainted Fireball but gets rid of it once Belvedere becomes addicted to the game.
• In Mr. Robot, the Fsociety arcade headquarters includes the arcade games Alien Terrain, Intergalactic Planetary, Mallard Murder, and Thunder Ball.
• In My Bedbugs, there is a 2D sidescroller in an ocean setting, and a Game Boy style handheld with Select and Start buttons below the D-pad.
• NCIS:
  • S1 E4, "The Immortals," features the fantasy MMORPG The Immortals.
  • S1 E13, "One Shot, One Kill" has an unnamed light gun arcade game.
  • S6 E6, "Dead Reckoning" featured "Captains of Industry 3" a terrible MMO that barely anybody played.
  Abby: Captains of Industry 3. The completely unnecessary third installment of the not-so-popular sequel.
  McGee: (sarcastically) Capturing all the fun of being a corporate CEO and building your own business empire.
  Abby: Not playtime, Elf Lord.
  McGee: You got that right. COI3 was universally panned as '08's worst MMORPG.
  • S8 E16, "Kill Screen", has L9 Games' Fear Tower 3 and Fear Tower 3: Enhanced Edition, an online PC MMORPG by Lead Programmer and hacker Reed Snyder, with 15 (or 50) million players. Scoring more points than the game can handle will reveal the game's Kill Screen and the developer's code for hacking The Pentagon, as discovered by Maxine, champion of Blood Fun 6 and high score holder of virtually every MMORPG.
• Nick Arcade was a game show where contestants played games made for the show such as Meteoroids, Laser Surgeon, Brainstorm, Battle of the Bands, Star Defenders, Post-Haste, Jet Jocks and Crater Rangers, and participated in the virtual game settings in Mikey's World and The Video Zone.
• In NUMB3RS, there is the online RPG Primacy.
• Pixelface is set inside a game console known as The Console, with video game characters from the dancing game Groove Academy 2, the action-adventure game Legend Hunter, the zombie battling game Return to Zombie City, the animal-themed apple collecting game Rex Dynamo, the alien shooting game Sentient Force, and the questing game Sword of the Ancients.
• In Polizeiruf 110, Killman 4 is a PC game about Child Soldiers.
• Red Dwarf has VR-immersion games such as "Better Than Life" and "Streets of Loredo", while an unnamed text-adventure game features a character named Gandalf the Master Wizard.
• The Rules of Engagement episode "Old School Jeff" featured a "Poker Pinball" game.
• Vikings of the Realm in the Rizzoli & Isles ep "Virtual Love".
• In Seven Days, arcade games include a Dark Night FPS, and a wrestling game.
• Square One TV's Mathman resembled the Apple ][ game Number Munchers.
• In The Stand (1994), there is the Black Rose pinball game.
• The Stargate SG-1 season 8 episode "Avatar" has a virtual reality combat training simulator.
• In Stargate Universe, Prometheus is an MMORPG, in the episode "Air, Part 1", with footage from the canceled Stargate Worlds.
• The Ktarian game on the pleasure planet Risa, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Game" - head-mounted virtual reality game. Holodeck programs are a kind of video game, especially ones like Picard's Dixon Hill setting, which involve roleplaying.
• In The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, there is the game Super Martin Bros. and Medieval Magic Quest, though the later is defictionalized under Medieval Quest.
• In Touched by an Angel season 9, episode 18, "Virtual Reality", Carjack 2000: Millennium Mayhem is a game where players gain points for stealing cars, killing drivers, breaking roadblocks and running over prostitutes, inspiring a kid to murder a woman he imagined was a prostitute for real.
• In Tremors, Chang's Market features the arcade games Graboids and Shriekers.
• In True Jackson, VP, there is Wombat Kombat.
• In Warehouse 13, the episode "Don't Hate The Player" has the BRAID (Bioelectric Reality Augmentation Interactive Device) virtual reality headset.
• In Welcome Freshmen, there is the game Kick Dad's Butt.
• In Workaholics, in the episode "In Line", there is the game Code Of Ronin: Undead Apocalypse.
• The First Person Shooter virtual reality game in The X-Files episode "First Person Shooter".

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