Fictional Video Games We Wish Were Real
Are video games not enough of an escape? We need to go deeper! Drool over the best games you'll wish you could play as UGO lists The Best Fictional Video Games
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By Kevin Fitzpatrick August 8, 2011 |
| 6 | Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge |
The Simpsons offers a great many fictional video games from which to choose, including such classics as Bonestorm or Grand Theft Walrus, but at the end of the day, is there any real substitute for the epic storytelling, graphics, and wild thrill ride of athlete-sponsored, semi-automated professional golf?
You have selected no.
| 5 | The Lawnmower Man |
Don't let the name-dropped association with Stephen King fool you, the film's terror in cyberspace shares virtually nothing in common with King's short story on which the film claims to be based. Still, the idea of a virtual reality experience that makes one smarter, creates telekenetic abilities, and manages to pit James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) against LOST's Frank Lapidus (Jeff Fahey) is too good to pass up. We'd mow a thousand lawns for a crack at that console competing against the big three of Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft.
| 4 | eXistenZ |
Well, let's face it. Video games will inevitably evolve into bizarre techno-organic reality-warping experiences that have gamers completely uncertain of any and all reality, and in some cases just what makes Jude Law so devastatingly handsome.
And if you can follow along with the twisty plot of eXistenZ, you'll want to plug your bioport into a gross fleshy console right away, provided its free of disease, of course. I honestly wish there were a better way of wording that.
| 3 | Starfighter |
Oh, how we all silently long for our favorite video games to secretly maintain recruiting programs to save the day in real life. That's the plot of The Last Starfighter, an 80s classic for geek-folk, that puts an arcade player in the role of galactic savior, all by pumping quarters into a machine.
Just imagine the chance to wield the Master Sword against Ganondorf (with an eighteen-hour fishing break, of course), fight alongside Master Chief, or rock out with real guitar heroes on stage, all by playing a video game.
It doesn't always work so well, unfortunately. Our many hours of Tetris have left us woefully unprepared for careers in the construction industry.
| 2 | Tron |
While we're not sure we could pull off a form-fitting bodysuit without looking a little too much like the Tron Guy, we can't help geeking out at the prospect of racing light-cycles or de-rezzing opponents with a discus in the world of Tron.
And no, we're not satisfied with the myriad of arcade games and Tron tie-ins that've been released over the years. We won't settle until we've legitimately reached the digital frontier, or at least legitimately reached Olivia Wilde's frontier.
