Joysticks (film)

Jefferson Bailey (Scott McGinnis) runs the most popular video arcade in town, much to the chagrin of local businessman Joseph Rutter (Joe Don Baker).

Bailey, however, is wise to Rutter's plan and teams with best friends Eugene Groebe (Leif Green) and McDorfus (Jim Greenleaf) to stop this scheme, which also involves a video game duel with punker King Vidiot (Jon Gries).

Director Graydon Clark decided his next film would be an R-rated teen sex comedy based around video games when he saw a group of teenagers playing arcade games in the lobby during a test screening of his previous film, Wacko.

These included Satan's Hollow and the then-unreleased Super Pac-Man used during the film's climactic video game showdown.

[5] The film was theatrically released on March 4, 1983, in the United States by Jensen Farley Pictures and was the fifth highest grossing in its first week.