10 sci-fi game changers

Ever noticed that an awful lot of people in sci-fi and fantasy films play chess? Why cant they battle wits over something else for a change? We give them something else to play with

Forget 3D Chess. This the is logical game to play

If they have a rodent problem maybe they should call in the exterminators

Maybe this is how the big boss in Blade Runner decides what his replicants will look like.

Why play WarGames when you could be trying to make a word out of X, Z, Q, Y, B, V and O?

Professor X is First Class at this game. Magneto wishes it wasnt all made of plastic.

Professor X likes the way the straws form multiple X shapes. Magneto wishes it wasnt made of plastic

Still popular in 2001 for when you get fed up with HAL beating you at Chess all the time.

If you were separated by streets heaving with zombies during the Dawn Of The Dead, a bit a binocular-aided Battleships will help pass the time.

Imagine if this formed the Village green in The Prisoner rather than a giant chess set? Seems more like one of Number Twos interrogation schemes to us.

After chess in The Seventh Seal and Twister, Cluedo and Battleship in Bill and Teds Bogus Journey, he needed to find a new challenge.