Jack Flack

Okay, good.

And he actually has the little Jack Flack figure that.

You can be Dabney Coleman.

You can be Henry Thomas.

And it was pretty near completion.

and they said, hey, that's perfect, you know, we'll change the name of the character in the movie to Jack Flack, because that was the name of the character in the game, and shoehorn it in somehow, so Yeah, it was basically shoehorned in to sell 5200 games, which is really funny because like you said, the game itself never existed at the time the movie was made, especially this would have been, you know, being filmed and probably what, like late 83.

Yeah, the game, the arcade game existed, but the home game that he was playing 5200 didn't exist.

That didn't even start development until early 84.

So the kid has an imaginary friend who kind of looks like it.

This is the Abby Coleman character.

And it is Jack Flack himself, who looks nothing like his video game counterpart.

But, you know, he's always telling him all these cool spy stories and like how to do cool spy things, which sounds really weird once the movie starts getting into the more like, you know, thriller action parts because the kid seems to know all these like spy related techniques that like, you know, have real consequences when the spies have to run up against him.