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Arcade: Ralphie from Christmas Story Enters the Matrix


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Mike, Adam, Vin, and Ivy review a Full Moon studio movie about getting trapped in a video game.


A troubled teenage girl, Alex, discovers that the VR game Arcade is trapping the souls of the players who lose. When her boyfriend and several friends disappear after playing it, she realizes the game is sentient and evil, having been created using the brain cells of a dead boy. Teaming up with the game's worried programmer, Alex decides she has to enter the virtual world herself and win her way through the levels to rescue her friends before they are permanently imprisoned. However, even after she manages to free them, the digital villain finds a way to escape into the real world.


​​Megan Ward played the lead role of Alex Manning.

​Peter Billingsley played Alex's friend, Nick (he is best known as Ralphie from A Christmas Story).

​John de Lancie played Difford, the arcade's shady owner (he is famous for playing "Q" on Star Trek: The Next Generation).

​Seth Green played Stilts, one of the friends (an early role before his later fame in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Austin Powers).

​A. J. Langer played Laurie.

​Sharon Farrell played Alex's Mom

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