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  2. List of films based on video games - Wikipedia

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    A 35-year-old game tester develops a game in secret only to have someone at work try to steal it. Stay Alive (2006) – Directed by William Brent Bell. Friends start dying just like they did in a video game they all played. Ben X (2007) – Directed by Nic Balthazar. The main character Ben is an autistic boy obsessed with an MMORPG called ...

  3. Video game adaptations in film and television - Wikipedia

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    The Super Mario Bros. Movie, based on the Mario game franchise, holds the highest take of any video game adaptation with US$1.36 billion, and was considered the most profitable film of 2023 by Deadline Hollywood, while the six Resident Evil films hold the highest take for a live-action series of US$1.2 billion on an average production budget ...

  4. List of video games based on films - Wikipedia

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    List of The Land Before Time video games: 1997: The Land Before Time film franchise: Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green: 2005: Brainbox Games Groove Games: Land of the Dead: Last Action Hero: 1993: NES: Teeny Weeny Games SNES/Genesis/Game Boy/Game Gear: Bits Studios Commodore Amiga: Psygnosis Amiga: The Dome Software Developments Sony ...

  5. Super Mario Bros. (film) - Wikipedia

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    Super Mario Bros. (also known as Super Mario Bros.:The Movie) is a 1993 fantasy adventure [7] comedy film based on Nintendo's Super Mario video game series. The first American feature-length live-action film based on a video game, [8] it was directed by the husband-and-wife team of Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, written by Parker Bennett, Terry Runté, and Ed Solomon, and distributed by ...

  6. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    Pong was the first arcade video game to ever receive universal acclaim. Concurrently, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney had the idea of making a coin-operated system to run Spacewar! By 1971, the two had developed Computer Space with Nutting Associates, the first arcade video game. [7] Bushnell and Dabney struck out on their own and formed Atari.

  7. List of highest-grossing films based on video games - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the highest-grossing films based on video games, primarily both live-action and animated films.. As of August 2024, Nintendo's The Super Mario Bros. Movie held the distinction as the highest-grossing video game film, while Pokémon is the highest-grossing video game film franchise and Resident Evil is the highest-grossing video game live-action film franchise.

  8. List of years in video games - Wikipedia

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    The highest selling arcade game of the year is F-1. 1977 – The Atari Video Computer System (later the Atari 2600) is released as the first widely popular home video game console. [5] 1978 – Space Invaders is released, popularizing the medium and beginning the golden age of arcade video games. [6] 1979 – The first handheld console, the ...

  9. Tennis for Two - Wikipedia

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    It received further attention as the subject of articles in Creative Computing and Video Replay in 1982 and 1983 highlighting its possible status as the first video game; the editor of Creative Computing, David H. Ahl, had played Tennis for Two at Brookhaven in 1958, and dubbed Higinbotham the "Grandfather of Video Games".