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GamerBlips6. Joysticks (1983)
The film: A cookie-cutter '80s sex comedy about attractive, popular high-school kids and how they love to hang out in smelly arcades playing Super Pac-Man. But then career-slob character actor Joe Don Baker decides he hates fun and tries to shut the arcade down, forcing the kids to work together to save their hangout.
The game: Forgotten 1982 arcade shooter Satan's Hollow.
The scene: Wannabe punker King Vidiot (Jon Gries) wants to hang out at the arcade during an after-hours party, but its manager won't let him. To settle the dispute, he challenges the arcade's champion, a fat slob named Dorfus (Jim Greenleaf), to a game of Satan's Hollow.
Why it's stupid: The Satan's Hollow duel is fought using giant joysticks with bowling ball-sized knobs, which the movie's producers probably thought looked wicked cool, and not awkward and silly at all. Also, Dorfus gobbles roughly half the contents of the snack bar and then works the buttons with his tongue in a disgusting close-up, which should be enough to make you swear off arcades for the rest of your life right there.
