January 27, 2008
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. Sonic the Hedgehog appears on a billboard promoting marriage. | 
(Copyright 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
June 24, 2008
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment releases the film Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs on DVD in the USA and Canada. - A wrist-watch version of Pong is played.
- A video game arcade includes games: Honkey Kong, Coin Vacuum, Exlaxian, Normal Kombat, Ms. Marple Madness, Shovel Command, Extreme Flosser.
- A Pac-Man board game is played.
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(Copyright 2008 20th Century Fox Television) |
October 19, 2008
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. Two generic arcade video game units appear. | 
(Copyright 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
November 9, 2008
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A handheld video game appears, one that looks like the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. | 
(Copyright 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
March 22, 2009
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A character says "You said we were going to a video game expo". Three characters jump around a rock formation like in the video gamne Q*Bert. | 
(Copyright 2009 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
May 3, 2009
The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. - A man plays a video game, mimicing Microsoft's Halo.
- A man says "Where's my video games? My Xbox, my Wii?"
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(Copyright 2009 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
October 4, 2009
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. Twins play handheld video games (like Nintendo Game Boy Advance) in opening credits. | 
(Copyright 2009 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
October 18, 2009
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A child is dressed at Halloween as a character from the video game Halo. | 
(Copyright 2009 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
November 29, 2009
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. Someone asks "so, you guys have any video games?". |
December 13, 2009
The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. - A child plays what appears to be an Xbox 360 with wireless remote.
- The characters Mario and Luigi, part of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. franchise appear.
- Someone says "I've got video games".
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(Copyright 2009 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
January 10, 2010
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A "Funtendo Zii" is a parody of the Nintendo Wii video game system with wireless remote, showing a golf game, a tennis game, and a World War II fighting game. |    
(Copyright 2010 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
March 14, 2010
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. The "Funtendo Zii" appears as an ad on the back page of a magazine, a parody of the Nintendo Wii. | 
(Copyright 2010 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
April 25, 2010
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A "Funtendo Zii" appears, a parody of the Nintendo Zii. When the power goes out, the two kids use the remotes to fight each other. |  
(Copyright 2010 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
May 9, 2010
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A parody of the Nintendo Wii Dance Dance Revolution game appears, as the Zii Dance Dance Evolution. | 
(Copyright 2010 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
2010
| The British Columbia Lottery Corporation releases two instant-win lottery scratch tickets with Atari video game themes: Asteroids and Centipede. |    
(Copyright 2010 BCLC) |
June 24, 2010
| Comedy Central airs the Futurama TV show in the USA. A character says "We've lost power to the forward Game Boy, Mario not responding!" and uses a Nintendo NES controller. | 
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July 1, 2010
| Comedy Central airs the Futurama TV show in the USA. The Space Invaders video game is played on an "eye phone". | 
(Copyright 2010 Comedy Central) |
August 12, 2010
| Comedy Central airs the Futurama TV show in the USA. A boy plays with a white handheld videogame system looking like a Nintendo DS. | 
(Copyright 2010 Comedy Central) |
August 26, 2010
| Comedy Central airs the Futurama TV show in the USA. At a convention there are booths for "Videogame the Movie", and for "Movie the Videogame", and a character is dressed like Nintendo's Mario character. |   
(Copyright 2010 Comedy Central) |
September 26, 2010
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A bus driver plays a handheld video game while driving, looking like the Nintendo Gameboy Advance. | 
(Copyright 2010 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
November 7, 2010
The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. - Two kids play a video game using motion-sensing controllers that look like the Nintendo Wii controllers. One child is struck by the other by the controller.
- While playing a board game, a kid says "What was that lesson I learned from video games? Oh yeah, kill! Kill! Kill!"
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(Copyright 2010 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
February 20, 2011
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. An arcade machine resembling Ms. Pac-Man appears. |  
(Copyright 2011 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
May 1, 2011
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. The Noiseland Arcade appears, with various made-up arcade games: CaterKiller 2, Click Clack, Triangle Wars, Time Waister. |    
(Copyright 2011 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
Other web pages of interest:
Chronology of Video Game Systems
Top Selling Video Games by Month
Polsson's Garage Sale - Video Games
Disney References in Pop Culture
Personal Computer References in Pop Culture
Corvette References in Pop Culture
This Day in History
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