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March 11, 2004
- Lions Gate Films releases the film Phil the Alien to theaters in Canada. A Nintendo Zapper light-gun controller is worn like a real gun.
April 26, 2004
- The April 26 issue of Business Week magazine includes an article on the number of video game players who see television advertisements. An Xbox controller graphically represents video games.
May 2, 2004
| Fox Television airs the Malcolm in the Middle TV show in the USA. Part of the show takes place in a restaurant with video games, focusing on a dance game called "Jump Jump Dance Party!" |  
(Copyright 2004 Fox Television Network) |
May 18, 2004
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the USA. A character plays with a home video game system. | 
(Copyright 2004 Nickelodeon) |
September 10, 2004
- Screen Gems releases the film Resident Evil: Apocalypse in the USA. The film is based on the Resident Evil video game series, and contains references to several of the Resident Evil (Biohazard) games.
September 24, 2004
- The Cartoon Network airs the TV show Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends in the USA. A Nintendo GameCube appears.
November 21, 2004
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A bowling alley has two arcade video games: Time Waster and Pong 85. |  
(Copyright 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
November 27, 2004
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the USA. A building with a sign "VIDEO GAMES / ARCADE" is destroyed by spaceship blasts. | 
(Copyright 2004 Nickelodeon) |
January 21, 2005
- Columbia Pictures releases the film Are We There Yet? to theaters in the USA and Canada. The video game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is played.
February 6, 2005
The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA.
- The Super Mario character appears, performing his role in a live parody of the Donkey Kong video game, comlpete with authentic sound.
- A Super Bowl football half-time show includes the wedding of Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man, dancing with the four ghosts.
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(Copyright 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
February 14, 2005
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the USA. A character plays the home video game version of a TV show on a "V-CUBE" video game system, a reference to the Nintendo GameCube. | 
(Copyright 2005 Nickelodeon) |
February 15, 2005
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the US. A video game system appears, playing "CRASH NEBULA IN POWERPLANT". | 
(Copyright 2005 Nickelodeon) |
March 20, 2005
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. The father tries to entice the children into staying with him by saying "I've got Game Boys and caramel apples!" | 
(Copyright 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
March 21, 2005
| CBS Television airs the CSI: Miami TV show in the USA. The episode involves a video game studio developing a skate board game called Skate Park Extreme. A controller appears to be for a PlayStation 2 or Xbox. |   
(Copyright 2005 CBS Television) |
April 3, 2005
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A prison inmate has a video game system. | 
(Copyright 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
May 4, 2005
| The Public Broadcasting Service airs the Maya & Miguel TV show in the USA. A bet is made to see if a child can stop playing video games for a week. |  
(Copyright 2005 Scholastic Entertainment) |
May 8, 2005
- The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A mom asks her son "Do you want to go to the video arcade?".
May 8, 2005
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A child plays a Game Boy while getting his hair cut. | 
(Copyright 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
May 9, 2005
The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the US.
- The characters go to a videogame arcade and play "CATFIGHTER".
- One scene takes place in a party restaurant, with several arcade video games.
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(Copyright 2005 Nickelodeon) |
May 12, 2005
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the US. A video arcade is shown in a castle. | 
(Copyright 2005 Nickelodeon) |
May 13, 2005
The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the US.
- A character tells another to clean up the garbage, and "... if you need me, I'll be in my room playing video games.".
- Three children play a video game called "Battle for Uranus" on a "V CUBE" video game system.
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(Copyright 2005 Nickelodeon) |
May 15, 2005
- The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. In the lobby of a movie theater, a boy says "Instead of video games, they have weird free newspapers".
May 15, 2005
The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA.
- A teacher says "... since the middle ages had no compact discs or Super Mario men...".
- A child plays a Game Boy in private school, and the teacher smashes it on the desk.
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(Copyright 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
June 10, 2005
The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the USA.
- A handheld video game system appears, like the Nintendo Game Boy, but called "FUN BOY".
- An arcade video game machine appears, as an example of "fun".
- A video game arcade building appears.
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(Copyright 2005 Nickelodeon) |
June 22, 2005
| Buena Vista Pictures releases the film Herbie Fully Loaded to theaters in the USA. A newspaper shows a car playing a video game in an arcade. |  
(Copyright 2005 Buena Vista Pictures) |
July 15, 2005
- The Disney Channel airs the film Life is Ruff on television in the USA. A Nintendo 64 is played without a game plugged in.
September 11, 2005
- The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A child complains that Santa Claus gave him a PlayStation box with nothing inside but a coloring book.
October 4, 2005
- The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the USA. One character asks another what to do the rest of the day. The other replies "...play video games?".
October 7, 2005
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the US. A child tries to get his grandfather to play video games with him. | 
(Copyright 2005 Nickelodeon) |
November 11, 2005
- Columbia Pictures releases the film Zathura: A Space Adventure to theaters in the USA. A character holds up PlayStation 2 controllers and asks to play "Smash Brothers".
November 11, 2005
- France issues twenty postage stamps depicting "heroes of video games".
November 13, 2005
- The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A character plays a handheld video game system.
December 11, 2005
- The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. Someone says "... played a lot of Tetris".
Other web pages of interest:
Chronology of Video Game Systems
Top Selling Video Games by Month
Polsson's Garage Sale - Video Games
Amazon.com - Ken P's Video Game Picks
Disney References in Pop Culture
Personal Computer References in Pop Culture
Corvette References in Pop Culture
Ken P's Today in History
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