Joysticks/Fun Facts
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
< Joysticks
- The house used as Joseph Rutter's home had once belonged to 'Nat King Cole', at a time when Cole was the only African-American in the neighborhood.
- Director Greydon Clark has stated that he developed the idea for the film after seeing teenagers waiting in line to enter an arcade. He decided that an arcade-themed film could tap into that market.
- Was the #1 movie in the country the week it was released.
- Shot in three weeks.
- Exterior of the arcade is the actual exterior of the warehouse in which the arcade set was built.
- When Greydon Clark approached game company Midway about using the image of Pac-Man in the film, he also requested that they allow him to feature a yet-to-be-released game in order to increase the film's appeal. The game Midway chose to feature was Satan's Hollow, which is played in the face-off between King Vidiot and McDorfus.
