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Examples of Fictional Video Game in Western Animation.
  • In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, there is the game Startoad.
  • Adventure Time features a number of these courtesy of BMO, including "Conversation Parade" and "Guardians of Sunshine".
  • In ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks, video games appear in "Kickin' It Old School" and "Turf War". "Mystic Mountain" features the computer game Mystic Mountain Adventure.
  • The Amazing World of Gumball
    • The Z Station console supports games like Kebab Fighter and Suburban Karate Master, which was defictionalized on the Cartoon Network site to star Gumball and Darwin.
    • In "The Console", Gumball gets a Game Child handheld console as a late birthday present. When he tries to play a role-playing game called Inverted Paradox: The Enemy Within, the console turns all of Elmore into a pastiche of JRPGs.
  • In American Dad!, there is Dragon Scuffle, and Beetman, a video game where the player is a beetroot, featuring levels such as avoiding a chef trying to cut you up, and freezing nuclear rabbits. In "May The Best Stan Win", there is a platformer featuring a pink rabbit collecting carrots and sushi, played on a "65" console with up to four wireless gamepads.
  • Immortal Wombat, and the Slamboy handheld video game system in Angela Anaconda.
  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force:
    • In "Super Computer", the Gamebox game console is mentioned. The Legend of Zoltare is a Solitaire clone on the OoGhiJ MIQtxxXA "super galactic intelligence" super computer.
    • In "Video Ouija", a Atari 2600-style console plays Video Ouija, an electronic Ouija Board game, and Insult Master.
    • In "Moon Master", Moon Master is a game by Stay'n Side Games, with Atari 2600-style graphics. The game Ant Madness is just food left on the game console and jammed into the game console cartridge slot. Master Shake claims Meatwad plays a game called Anal Blazer, but this may simply be hyperbole.
    • In "Balloonenstein" and "Super Computer", Clam Digger is a Commodore 64 game.
    • In "Eggball", Master Shake builds a pinball machine with eighteen flippers, a fountain in the middle, and eggs as pinballs.
    • In "Kangarilla and the Magic Tarantula", Kangarilla and the Magic Tarantula is a Mobile Phone Game.
  • In Arthur, there is Virtual Goose, a computerised version of a Hungry Hippos type game played by DW called Confuse the Goose (defictionalised as a pattern matching game); Virtual Goose 5.0, a sort-of MMORPG; and a couple of games based on Dark Bunny.
  • In Back to the Future, there is BraveLord and Monstrux, an arcade game found at Super Mega Arcade World from the episode "Bravelord and the Demon Monstrux". Jules invents a device that transmits the game to his bedroom TV before the game comes to life and Doc is trapped inside the game.
  • In Batman: The Animated Series, Edward Nygma (prior to becoming the Riddler) designed a video game called Riddle of the Minotaur which became a smash hit, making the company he worked for millions in profits. Unfortunately, his greedy boss cheated him out of the royalties and took all the credit for himself, thus beginning Nygma's Start of Darkness. (Oddly enough, despite the game's popularity, nobody had managed to finish it at the present time, according to Robin.)
  • Sentries of the Last Cosmos from the Batman Beyond episode of the same name, a popular interactive VR game.
  • A fifth season episode of The Batman has Dick Grayson playing a game similar to Mortal Kombat.
  • In the Battletoads pilot, there is a Ninja Attack arcade game.
  • In Bojack Horseman, there is Decapathon and Decapathon VII in "Zoës and Zeldas".
  • An episode of The Brak Show featured Headkicker, a fighting game with Atari-level graphics, adapted into Flash by [adult swim]. The sequel is Headkicker II: The Final Kick.
  • In Camp Lazlo, there is the GamePrism game console.
  • City Island (2022): Watt and Windy like playing a video game called Mega Muffin.
  • In Clerks: The Animated Series, there is the Pharaoh arcade game.
  • In Code Monkeys, there is Alien vs Knights, Cracker Barrel, Nazi Sniper, Pogo Killer, Space Blaster, Space Blaster 2, Stonervision, and US Fest, and companies Bellecovision, Game-A-Vision, and Protendo.
  • In Cow and Chicken, "Squirt the Daisies" has the arcade game Immoral Wombat, and VR games Kick the Can and Squirt the Daisies.
  • In The Crumpets, there are the 8-bit computer games in Granny's laptop.
  • 'Teen Crumpets: The computer game Maxi Monsters Wars'' featured in "Insectator", and the MMORPG Cordless and his mysterious female friend play in "Game lover".
  • In Da Boom Crew, Justin, Nate, Jubei and Ricki design a video game where they play heroes battling outer space villains. All of their adventures are on these "boom cards."
  • In Danny Phantom, there is the game Doomed, in the episodes "Teacher of the Year" and "Identity Crisis".
  • Whiffle Boy is a platformer video game featured in the Darkwing Duck episode "Whiffle While You Work" and occasionally referenced in later episodes. "The Frequency Fiends" has a sequel called Son of Whiffle World, and the comics have an MMO called World of Whifflecraft.
  • Danger Mouse relaunch:
    • Penfold's favourite game is Giraffe Warriors. It's first mentioned in "Danger at C-Level", with the title being a pun on the oceanic Monster of the Week and Penfold trying to complete Bonus Level C.
    • In "Megahurtz Attacks", Penfold hides in a bin of discount video games, between Ant Farm Challenge, Let's Play Grammar 4, and Fancy Boy Slap-Fight 3. The same episode also presents his Virtual Training Simulation as a video game, with inventory puzzles and enemies turning into giant coins when defeated.
  • One episode of Dexter's Laboratory featured Dexter trying to win a video game, which Dee Dee was a lot better at. Of course, he uses pretty much his entire laboratory for the task.
  • Doug:
    • In "Doug's Got No Gift", Doug accidentally blows the money he meant to buy Patti a birthday present trying to get a high score on the arcade game Bag the Neematoad.
    • In "Doug's Lost Weekend", Doug gets distracted from writing a report on silt by playing the Wing Commander-esque Space Munks on the Super Pretendo he won for being the Umpteenth Customer.
    • In "Doug and the Weird Kids", Al and Moo Sleech are addicted to a game call Glorak on their computer, "Brian". What little is shown of it is Ancient Egyptian-themed with various icons arranged on the screen that explode during play.
  • In Drawn Together, Xandir is a video game warrior from a video game fantasy world similar to The Legend of Zelda, where the evil Lord Slashstab frequently captures the princess, and there are monsters to fight, like the Magic Cobras. The game's title is shown in "A Tale of Two Cows", when Toot learns to input cheat codes from The Legend of Xandir hint book with a PlayStation controller.
  • In Duckman, there is the Game Guy.
  • DuckTales (1987):
    • Ducks of the Galaxy, a space-themed console game in the episode "Nothing to Fear".
    • Scrooge McDuck's Money Mania, an arcade game where you play as the Beagle Boys and try to steal money from Scrooge McDuck's money bin, in the episode "Dough Ray Me".
  • In the DuckTales (2017) episode "Happy birthday, Doofus Drake!" Della and Huey play a MMO called Legends of Legend Quest.
  • The Fairly OddParents!:
    • In "Power Mad!", there is a VR game system with several VR games. One game features ninja bunnies. Another has a Classroom of Doom level. The final boss is Robot Vicky. Some levels have been defictionalized in the Nick.com game Power Surge.
    • In "That Old Black Magic", there is a game featuring Robot Vicky, on a handheld game system.
    • In "Talkin' Trash", there is the V-Cube game Battle for Uranus.
    • The V-Cube game console appears in "Odd Ball" and "Nega-Timmy", and includes the games Digi Dunk 3000.
    • There is an arcade with a Virtua-Stud VR game in "Fairy Fairy Quite Contrary".
    • There is an arcade in "The Boy Who Would Be Queen".
    • There are several arcade games, including Cat Fighter, in "Go Young, West Man!"
    • There is a Personal Arcade in "Hassle in the Castle".
    • There is an arcade, a Game arcade cabinet, and "Fun Boy" handheld game system in "School's Out!: The Musical".
    • There is a Crash Nebula console game in "Smarty Pants".
    • There is a Crash Nebula in Power Plant! console game in "Deja Vu".
    • There is a Death Combat arcade game in "Totally Spaced Out".
    • There is a Godzilla-like video game played on a game console in "Power Pals!"
    • There is the game Socko, and other cartridge based games, in "Scary Godparents".
  • In Family Guy, there is Menstrual Ms. Pac-Man, Outlaw, Ultimate Oblivion, Virtual Indy 500, and Virtual Stuck Behind a Bus.
  • In Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Bloo has been shown playing Super Mega Blasteroids 9, a scrolling shooter on the Gamecube in the episode "Bye Bye Nerdy." Super Smash Factory 6 and Galaxy Academy from the episode "Emancipation Complication." There is also Immortal Wombat in "Affair Weather Friends".
  • Dam Builders is a computer game featured in Franklin.
  • Futurama:
  • In Game Over, there is the video game world inhabited by the Smashenburn family. The world includes monsters (some from Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee), Grand Prix racing, beach volleyball, and Shaolin monks.
  • The Gravity Falls episode "Fight Fighters" features Dipper finding a cheat code that can bring a character out of the eponymous game's arcade cabinet. As the title suggests, it's a fighting game. The arcade also includes a (broken) dancing game and a game that declares you a winner just for inserting a token.
    • "The Inconveniencing" takes place at an abandoned grocery store, where Dipper points out "that game that tricks you into exercising," based off Dance Dance Revolution.
    • Soos' story in "Bottomless Pit!" features a pinball table called Tumbleweed Terror, made by Ballway Games. Dipper, Mabel and Soos get trapped in the machine after aggressively tilting the table to earn Soos a spot on the high scores list.
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy:
    • The episode "Night of the Living Grim" has the video game Attack of the Non-Toxic® Edible Green Slime.
    • The movie "Wrath of the Spider Queen" has the Astro Spacetron X arcade game.
    • The episode "Brown Evil" has Hoss Delgado: President Evil, a zombie fighting game for the Lamecube video game system and Mandy's favorite game, and Pat the Baker for the Lamecube, favorite game of Billy and Hoss Delgado. "Waking Nightmare." mentions a computer game called Ultimate Thumb Wrestling starring Ambassador Crazy Fart, AKA Ultimate Thumb Wrestling Challenge.
  • In Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, there is a Moby-Dick game by Classic Novel Games.
  • In Invader Zim, Vampire Piggy Hunter is on both the Game Slave and Game Slave 2 portable game systems.
  • In The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour, The Decimator is a 3D Game Buddy game on CD.
  • Johnny Test features a parody of Pokémon called Tinymon, which even features a Tinymon that looks like Lugia!
  • The Kids' WB! programming block known as The Cat & Birdy Warnernoonie Pinky Brainy Big Cartoonie Show features an intro with a pinball machine also called The Cat & Birdy Warnernoonie Pinky Brainy Big Cartoonie Show.
  • Stumpy the squirrel from Kaeloo is always playing "Mr. Coolskin" video games.
  • In Kim Possible, games include the MMORPG Everlot, in the episode "Virtu-Ron", Zombie Mayhem, in the episode "Steal Wheels", and Zombie Mayhem 2 and Zombie Mayhem 3 in the episode "Motor Ed".
  • Blvd Brawlers 2 in Justice League Action, a "popular Fighting Game where fighters battle for street dominance", as Batman describes it. (He quickly adds that he knows this because Robin is fond of it.) Toyman rigs up a facsimile of it that uses the heroes as the fighters.
  • In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "Slice of Life", Button Mash plays an arcade game with a cube peripheral, possibly for voice commands, and there is a green arcade cabinet, with the decal of an apple surrounded by lightning.
  • Pro-Pain! from King of the Hill is a student-developed sandbox game inspired by Grand Theft Auto. Hank was made by his boss to investigate the game to verify any copyright infringement on Strickland Propane. It is eventually discovered that the game is public domain, but by then Hank had become addicted to the game, so the developers of the game made Peggy an uber-player and pitted her against Hank. Hank defeats her, but the developers rigged it so that Peggy's defeat causes the gaming network to crash, breaking Hank's addiction.
  • In Maya & Miguel, there is a video game console resembling a PSone/Dreamcast in "The Bet".
  • In Metalocalypse, there are the games Donkey Punch and Wheelchair Bound.
  • Ultimate Mecha Strike III from Miraculous Ladybug, which looks like a typical Fighting Game with mechas. Marinette managed to surprise her friends by showing her skills at this game, even if that was only for spend time with Adrien, who is also a good player.
  • Molly of Denali: Boltronoman vs. the Ice Freak is an in-series video game, which Tooey brings up in "The Worm Turns".
  • In a classic episode of Muppet Babies (1984), the babies play several video games, all of which are quite detailed. Kermit plays a game similar to Frogger, Rowlf plays an Adventure Game, and the main focus of the episode is on Gonzo and Miss Piggy's trek through "The Tale of Imelda." The final level of that game even references Metroid, as the writers have Shown Their Work. In fact, the sheer number of game references in the episode (to everything from good-old Pac-Man to Fantasy Zone to that exercise mat for the NES) suggests that somebody on the staff was a gamer of some sort. The episode also had a few seconds of Donkey Kong Jr. shown onscreen.
  • "Crunch Pod" from Pepper Ann. Take your three Pac-Man-looking creatures and bump the other player's from behind while avoiding attacks from the Star Castle-esque spinning saucer in the middle.
  • In the The Powerpuff Girls (2016) episode "Bye Bye Bellum", Dragon Wizard Skateboard Fighters is a game that involves blowing stuff up, flipping 1080° off a dragon spike, secret codes, and Character Customization, including a bunny hat.
  • In The Raccoons, the intro shows Cyril playing an Atari 2600-style game, where a Cyril sprite destroys trees and collects bags of money.
  • In Ready Jet Go!, there's a video game that Sean and Sydney like to play called Astro-Tracker, where to win, you have to identify and name certain asteroids.
  • The Games from ReBoot, in addition to functioning as disaster-level threats for the heroes to overcome, were also examples, frequently pastiches of real video game tropes and genres. Word of God says the writers modeled the games after genres they happened to be interested in at the time. In "Game Over", Gods, Mortals, and Demons is modeled after Mortal Kombat.
  • Strong Johns is an arcade and console game featured in Regular Show.
  • In Rick and Morty, in "Mortynight Run", the intergalactic arcade Blips and Chitz includes a number of futuristic games. The most notable is Roy: A Life Well Lived, a VR game in which the player lives an entire life as Roy, a completely average suburban man on Earth, all condensed into a few moments of real time.
  • The latest Wii Fit game as seen on Robot Chicken.
  • Rugrats:
  • The Scooby-Doo video game that's the main subject of Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase. It's pretty much a Crash Bandicoot/Croc style linear 3D platformer with a whole laundry list of Stock Video Game Settings, which ends with the gang meeting their earlier incarnations and fighting many of the monsters they'd encountered in the past (in video game form). As you may have guessed, defictionalization was involved, with the fictional game basically ending up as the official licensed game of the movie.
  • The Simpsons:
  • Sonic Boom has the Tomatopotamus game series, which serve as a Take That! to the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise's decline in quality.
    Sonic: Look what I found at the flea market!
    Knuckles: Dude, is that Tomatopotamus 2?
    Tails: That's the best one in the entire series! Tomatopotamus never worked in 3D.
    Knuckles: Game companies always ruin their beloved franchises.
    Sonic: And they never should have changed the color of Tomatopotamus' legs.
  • South Park:
    • In "Chinpokomon", the Chinpokomon multimedia franchise has TV ads, an animated series, toys and a camp for teaching children to learn Japanese. The video game is played on a console and controller similar to the Nintendo 64. Chinpokomon dolls are seen in several episodes, and in South Park: The Stick of Truth, three achievements are earned from collecting thirty Chinpokomon.
    • In "Best Friends Forever", the PSP game Heaven vs. Hell is a game with at least sixty levels.
    • In "Guitar Queer-O", Heroin Hero is a game about chasing a pink dragon through an enchanted forest while using up needles and smack, Rehab Hero, a game about running away from a pink dragon to escape the addiction of Heroin Hero (featuring Paris Hilton on the cover), and a racing game. Since its broadcast, Heroin Hero has been made into several different versions via Flash. (Just search Newgrounds.)
    • The episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft" featured a fictionalized version of World of Warcraft with significant differences from the real version, and mentioned a Hello Kitty Island Adventure MMO, though there is a real Hello Kitty Online. The actual games had easter eggs referencing the episode. In 2023, Hello Kitty Island Adventure was defictionalized for Apple Arcade.
    • In "Freemium isn't Free", there is the Terrance and Phillip Give Us Your Money Mobile Game for the iPhone.
    • The 2001 Okama GameSphere in the episode "Towelie". The GameSphere has 128 GHz D-RAM and several games, and also appears in "It's Christmas in Canada", "Goobacks", "You Got F'd in the A", "Make Love, Not Warcraft", and "1%". The game South Park: Big Wheel Death Rally features the Okama Gamesphere 2.
    • In "Towelie", the kids are playing the GameSphere version of Thirst for Blood, a shooting game that can be played with four players or as a two player fighting game, involving gold, parachutes, saved games and at least fifty levels, with areas including The Caverns of Madness, a secret underground base, and an underwater level. The Thirst for Blood arcade version appears in "You "Got F'd in the A", "You're Getting Old", and "Super Fun Time", and appears in "Guitar Queer-O" along with arcade games Farmer's Market, Fist Fighter, Gang Wars, and Smack Man.
  • In Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Flash Thompson's favorite arcade game was something called Video Man. In the episode where it premiered, however, Electro was somehow able to bring the Antagonist Title Character in the game to life, thereby creating the most memorable villain in the whole series.
  • Steven Universe is shown to be a fan of video games:
    • In "Rose's Room" Steven tries to get the secret ending to "Golf Quest Mini", a weird minigolf-themed JRPG.
    • In "Arcade Mania" Steven takes the Crystal Gems to the local video arcade to play games like "Road Killer", "Teens of Rage", and "Meat Beat Mania".
    • "Steven vs. Amethyst" features a fighting game based on The Lonely Blade, a fictional martial arts movie franchise Steven enjoys.
  • In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward, there are the games Blow It Up, Helix, Helix 2, Rat Man, Robot Tortoise 4, Shell Invaders, Super Fabio Brothers, and Super Virtual Smash-Up Trivia.
  • Teen Titans (2003):
    • The series features the GameStation, GameStation 2 (GS2), and GameStation XL game consoles, and the prototype game console GameStation Turbo Extreme.
    • In the episode "Crash", Beast Boy is able to hack into a system to download an early copy of a game called Mega Monkeys 4. However, because it's a pirated copy, his regular console lacks the necessary hardware to play it, so he tries to play it on Cyborg's computer, but accidentally uses Cyborg's recharging generator instead. When Cyborg tries to use it, well, the results aren't pretty. (And the resulting crisis sets up the plot.)
  • The episode "The World's Deadliest Game" of Challenge of the Superfriends had Toyman build a giant pinball machine on an ice planet, which he used to torment Black Lighting and Wonder Woman.
    Toyman: "Wonder Woman in the hole! I get a thousand points and a free ball!"
  • Tiny Toon Adventures:
    • The episode "K-Acme TV" features Super Plucky-o Bros., a parody of Super Mario Bros., with sound effects from the actual game. Plucky plays at the arcade until the announcer mentions the home console version available on the Numbmindo system, which costs only $879.99, game not included.
    • In the episode "Toon TV", the segment "Video Game Blues" shows an arcade with games including a 2D space shooter resembling Galaga, a game called Space Jock, and a game with a dual joystick setup Plucky is playing, about flying a spaceship through space at speeds of light before encountering formations of Martian spaceships and blasting them with green electrobeams, chasing escaping ships by flying around asteroids, firing a destruct-o-ray, and being chased by ships and being destroyed by their pink electrobeams. Plucky inserts a coin to continue, showing his character outside of his ship, in space, wearing a jet pack and firing a space gun at a Martian ship, before a backup fleet appears and causes another Game Over to occur. Plucky vows to create a series of Earthbound Exterminator arcade games, starring his own character as the enemy to fire at, and place the arcade games in Martian arcades where the Martians will become addicted to playing and give Plucky an unlimited supply of quarters to continue playing arcade games.
  • Robot Resource is an arcade game appearing in The Transformers episode "The Immobilizer".
  • Ninja Gladiator is a fighting game appearing in the Transformers: Animated episode "Where Is Thy Sting?"
  • Griffin Rock Element Quest is a virtual reality video game in the Transformers: Rescue Bots episodes "A Virtual Disaster" and "Back to Virtual Reality".
  • The Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) episode "Game Over" mentions Shield of Honor, which seems to be Call of Duty with superheroes. Captain America was an advisor during development.
  • In an early episode of Xiaolin Showdown, Kimiko tries to cheer Raimundo up by offering him her handheld system with Goo Zombies II, which is supposedly a hot new title.
  • An episode of X-Men: The Animated Series had a kid running in the street, super excited to play his new video game: "Assassin". Which had a picture of the Punisher on the cartridge. Hearing the name of the game helped remind Bishop what he had been sent to the past to prevent.

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