Arcade monitors

Arcade cabinet monitor

The CRT built into a coin-op cabinet. Split out a specific monitor (Electrohome, Wells-Gardner, Hantarex and so on) when the footage shows one.

Seen in 6 titles

The cabinet's Karate Champ side art beside the booths.
The marquee and side art behind a customer.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

0:48:40

A Karate Champ cabinet stands by the booths of the pizza joint where Rooney looks for Ferris.

Hardware
Arcade cabinet
Unverified

Found by the frame scanner and matched to the owner's frame grabs.

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Friends (1994–2004)

S08E12 · The One Where Joey Dates Rachel

Phoebe gives Monica and Chandler a Ms. Pac-Man arcade game as a late wedding present. Chandler gets hooked, becomes a pro, and enters swear words as his initials.

Hardware
Arcade cabinet
Unverified
NO SIGNAL

Seinfeld (1989–1998)

S09E18 · The Frogger

At Mario's Pizza Parlor, which is closing down, George finds his 860,630 high score still on the old Sega/Gremlin Frogger cabinet. He buys the machine, which has to stay powered or the score is lost, and pushes it across a busy street on battery power. A truck smashes it.

Game
Frogger
Hardware
Arcade cabinet
Unverified

The episode uses the game's real sound effects, including the frog's squash when the truck hits. Pat Laffaye beat George's fictional score for real in 2009, with 896,980.

The PlayChoice-10 in the middle, with the boxing game on the right.
Another PlayChoice-10, with an out-of-order sign.

The Wizard (1989)

At a roadside stop, a PlayChoice-10 stands between a boxing game and another cabinet, with Mega Man 2 on one of the screens.

Game
Mega Man 2
Unverified

Mega Man 2 is identified from the frame. The boxing game and the third cabinet aren't identified yet.

NO SIGNAL

WarGames (1983)

Early in the film, David Lightman plays Galaga in an arcade.

Game
Galaga
Hardware
Arcade cabinet
Unverified

To prepare, the studio had Galaga and Galaxian machines delivered to Matthew Broderick's home so he could practice.