L.B. Jeffries said:
I thought '40 Year Old Virgin' pretty much nailed what it's like to play Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. Mash buttons, pray something violent happens, drink beer.
Funny thing about that, actually. When I saw that movie with my friends and they showed the guys playing Halo 2, I was like "wait, that's taken from the 2003 E3 single player footage. That didn't actually make it into the game". I also spotted several Godzilla figures and other things around the apartment that I recognized. My friends all found it to be madly humorous that I'm geek enough to spot all these things.
On topic of the article, I must say that I CANNOT stand the very concept of Big Bang Theory. Maybe it is because I go to RIT and know plenty of other geeks and nerds that aren't the pocket-protector-buck-toothed-snorting-awkward-virgin stereotype, which is what the main characters of the show all are. I much prefer Spaced because Simon Pegg himself is an avid geek and gamer, and the shows and films he works on with Edgar Wright and co. shows it. I also enjoyed Chuck, because, even though they'll get some details wrong, for the most part you can tell geeks are behind it. More to the point, while the main characters are all clearly geeks, they aren't an outdated stereotype that plays us all out as being pathetic losers who can't interact with "normal people".
I also think Reign Over Me [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490204/] should have a special note here, as one of the film's writers or producers (can't recall which) wanted to make sure that the scenes where Adam Sandler's character was gaming were accurate. They used Shadow of the Colossus to create a metaphor for Sandler's character and what he was going through, so in one way it was being used artistically. Also, in the scene where Sandler is showing Don Cheadle's character how to play, they didn't have a script. Sandler had played the game a bit, so they basically just recorded the two playing and talking about the game as themselves. They even show a trailer where Sandler is like "now you wanna stab it in the wing", and they show that exact boss from the game.
This is what needs to be done, instead of, say, Free Willy 3, where the kid is playing Star Fox on the SNES, fighting the boss at the end of the first level, and when he is told to shut off the game he says "but I'm almost at ten thousand points, mom!". Anyone that grew up in the 90's knows that isn't how games worked anymore.
....as for what I was doing watching Free Willy 3, well, sometimes you get bored and put the TV on anything.