Why can't sci-fi and fantasy characters play something other than chess for a change?
Your Move
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
Spock plays Connect Four
Forget 3D Chess. This the is logical game to play
The Doctor & K9 play Mousetrap
If they have a rodent problem maybe they should call in the exterminators
Eldon Tyrell plays Guess Who?
Maybe this is how the big boss in Blade Runner decides what his replicants will look like.
WOPR plays Scrabble
Why play WarGames when you could be trying to make a word out of X, Z, Q, Y, B, V and O?
Xavier and Eric play Buckaroo
Professor X is First Class at this game. Magneto wishes it wasnt all made of plastic.
Xavier and Eric play KerPlunk
Professor X likes the way the straws form multiple X shapes. Magneto wishes it wasnt made of plastic
Frank Poole plays Pac-Man
Still popular in 2001 for when you get fed up with HAL beating you at Chess all the time.
Andy and Kenneth play Battleships
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.
Number Six plays Cluedo
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.
Death plays Jenga
After chess in The Seventh Seal and Twister, Cluedo and Battleship in Bill and Teds Bogus Journey, he needed to find a new challenge.
Dave is a TV and film journalist who specializes in the science fiction and fantasy genres. He's written books about film posters and post-apocalypses, alongside writing for SFX Magazine for many years.
