A successful businessman attempts to shut down a video arcade he believes is harmful to the mental health of children.
Costume
King Vidiot's leather-gloved arcade overlord aesthetic
Sound
Unlicensed video game bleeps and bargain-bin synth score
Director
Greydon Clark
Joe Don Baker
Joseph Rutter
Leif Green
Eugene Groebe
Jim Greenleaf
Jonathan Andrew McDorfus
Scott McGinnis
Jefferson Bailey
Jon Gries
King Vidiot
Corinne Bohrer
Patsy Rutter
John Diehl
Arnie
John Voldstad
Max
Reid Cruickshanks
Coach Straight
Kym Malin
Lola
Kim G. Michel
Alva
Jacqulin Cole
Alexis Wheeler
Logan Ramsey
Mayor Neville
Justine Lenore
Nurse Tubitt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The arcade scenes were filmed at an actual operational Family Fun Center, with real customers visible in background shots.
Released during the 1983 video game crash, the film's arcade-as-sacred-space messaging accidentally became archaeological documentation of a dying industry.
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