Happily, Sam and Ludlow wind up proving themselves early on (and shaming the overgrown military jocks played by Brian Cox and Sean Bean) by clobbering the aliens in a few rounds of “Centipede.” Next, they manage to track down their old nemesis Eddie (now Peter Dinklage) for a rowdy game of “Pac-Man,” a car-chase sequence in which the beloved yellow dot-gobbler has been reborn as a villainous giant sphere munching his way through the streets of New York.
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Now they’ve returned the challenge by scheduling a series of skirmishes with Earth, each one taking on the interface of a different videogame if we lose, it’s game over for the whole planet. Evil extraterrestrials intercepted an ’80s-era NASA time capsule containing footage of those old single-player classics, and mistook them for a declaration of war. The explanation is clear - dumb, but clear. Conveniently, POTUS winds up turning to Sam and their other pal, Ludlow Lamonsoff ( Josh Gad), after a series of mysterious attacks by what appear to be characters from ancient videogame templates. Faring somewhat better is his childhood best friend, Will Cooper ( Kevin James), who is now president of the United States - a development that is wisely left unexplained. It begins with a formative moment at the 1982 arcade-game world championships, where 13-year-old gaming enthusiast Sam Brenner (Anthony Ippolito) narrowly loses first place to a mullet-wearing smartass named Eddie “the Fire Blaster” Plant (Andrew Bambridge) after an ill-fated game of “Donkey Kong.” Some 30 years later, Sam (now played by Sandler) works a dead-end job installing home-entertainment systems in Washington, D.C.
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