The Electronic Playground bills itself as “the #1 source to electronic games related material featured in movies and television series,” a claim that not many video games web sites that exhaustively and exclusively cover video game cameos in popular media would dare to make. The Electronic Playground is not only the authority in video game hardware as set dressing, it’s a fabulous way to kill a weekend and shirk work obligations.

Want to know how many Death Wish movies included video game hardware cameos? The answer is three (Death Wish, Death Wish II and Death Wish IV: The Crackdown). Thanks, Electronic Playground!

This is the kind of game trivia minutiae I get off on, as an arcade dwelling troll of the 80s who mourns the current ready-for-hospice arcade situation. Say, remember that episode of Weird Science, the television series, where that one kid played a Sega Game Gear? No? The Electronic Playground does. It even knows what arcade cabinets guest appeared in the completely unnecessary Psycho II. And yes, there was a Frogger machine in Magnolia.

Even if you just need photos of Michael Knight manhandling an Atari 2600 joystick, The Electronic Playground has something you’re interested in.

In all seriousness, this site is satisfyingly completist for arcade junkies or TV and movie buffs who love wowing others with their knowledge of exactly which episode of Fresh Prince of Bel Air an Arkanoid cabinet appeared in.

- Ninja Magic