Greydon Clark

It's from 1988.

This movie's directed by Graydon Clark, and, uh, for the most part, the two main actors that...

Major, major actors, not main actors, the major actors that you're going to recognize are George Kennedy and Clu, uh, Gallagher or Gulger.

I, I...

Though it shouldn't be overlooked that video arcades, when they did have their time in the sun, it was all too brief.

Uh, one of the [laughs] reasons why they were often shut down wasn't necessarily for lack of business, but because they were seen as being dens of inequity, as they were portrayed in Graydon Clark's seminal film Joysticks from 1983.

Poor Alex is a teenager with adult responsibilities.

His game playing could be seen as one of the last vestiges of childhood, onto which he's able to hang on tight with both hands.

It wasn't even the first movie where an alien did that.

The first movie where an alien did that is Graydon Clark's 1980s opus, Without Warning, which also was ripped off by Predator.

And I know that because Kevin Peter Hall played the alien in that.

And he used to shoot people with weird disc monsters.