Arcade Movie Review

Kids flock to the amusement hall to play the new virtual-reality video game Arcade, only to disappear if they lose. Seems it can transport you into cyberspace where you really play for your life. Disappointing sci-fi pic from genre producer Charles Band, late with the revelation that murdered human brain cells are secretly wetwired, Robocop-style, into Arcade (until that point the Hound thought it was a high-tech demon story). Diehard chipheads may want to fast-forward through the dull stuff to enjoy some so-so computer graphics.

1993 (R) 85m/C Megan Ward, Peter Billingsley, John de Lancie, Sharon Farrell, Seth Green, Humberto Ortiz, Jonathan Fuller, Norbert Weisser; D: Albert Pyun; W: David S. Goyer; C: George Mooradian; M: Alan Howarth. VHS, Beta PAR