what if I was trapped inside a game theme
Someone finds themself somehow literally stuck inside a game, like a video game.
11 total · 5 choice · 4 major · 1 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| blackmirror7x06 | choice | The story concerns a group of digital clones who found themselves trapped in a giant space MMORPG. |
| ds91x10 | choice | Sisko and company stuck in a maze in the Wadi game |
| movie: Arcade (1993) | choice | The story follows some teenagers who become trapped inside a virtual reality video game. |
| movie: Tron (1982) | choice | Kevin Flynn was digitized by the EMCOM mainframe computer master control program and he went on to exist inside the computer. |
| movie: Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005) | choice | A main novelty of the story concerns the two young brothers Walter and Danny finding themselves trapped inside the titular space adventure board game "Zathura". |
| blackmirror3x02 | major | Cooper got stuck inside a virtual reality game. |
| futurama3x18 | major | We saw what it was like if real life were more like a video game. |
| movie: eXistenZ (1999) | major | Allegra and Ted were plugging in and out from multiple nested virtual reality worlds within worlds, never quite knowing in the end whether they'd made it back to the real world. |
| movie: Nirvana (1997) | major | The virtual reality game character Solo realized he was a character in a game with no hope of escape soon after having achieved sentience. As a result, he asked his programmer to terminate his miserable existence. |
| movie: Avalon (2001) | minor | Ash discovered that the only way to exit the "Class Real" stage of the "Avalon" virtual reality game was to complete it. |