January 9, 2000
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A "Virtual Doctor" program says it is from the maker of Dragon Quest, a 1986 video game made by Enix in Japan. |
January 12, 2000
| The United States Postal Service issues a 33-cent postage stamp depicting video games, part of its series of memories of the 1980s. |
February 8, 2000
| CBS Television airs the Judging Amy TV show in the USA. A Nintendo 64 is being played without a cartridge plugged in. |
February 13, 2000
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A home video game system is played, with game "Billy Graham's Bible Blaster". |  
(Copyright 2000 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
February 20, 2000
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs Malcolm in the Middle TV show in the USA. A scene briefly takes place in a video game arcade. | 
(Copyright 2000 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
March 19, 2000
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the USA. In a virtual Internet world, in the year 3000, a character jumps over barrels thrown by Donkey Kong, then zaps him with a laser gun. | 
(Copyright 2000 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
March 19, 2000
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. Two people in the future use a virtual reality machine with a headset covering eyes and ears, and a tube into the mouth. | 
(Copyright 2000 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
April 5, 2000
| Comedy Central airs the South Park TV show in the USA. The Sega Dreamcast video game system is mentioned. |
May 21, 2000
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the USA. A pizza restaurant has an arcade video game, called "Monkey Fracas Jr." This is a reference to the Donkey Kong Jr. video game. |  
(Copyright 2000 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
June 21, 2000
| Comedy Central airs the South Park TV show in the USA. A video game system looking the ColecoVision appears. | 
(Copyright 2000 Comedy Central) |
2000
| Coca-Cola airs a television commerical in Japan featuring characters from the video game Final Fantasy IX. |
August 7, 2000
| Lifetime Television airs the film The Truth About Jane on television in the USA. A Nintendo game system is heard being played, but a Sega controller is shown. |
August 17, 2000
| Warner Bros. Pictures releases the film My Blue Heaven to theaters in the USA. The game The Goonies II is played on a Nintendo Entertainment System, with the sound of Pac Man on the Atari 2600. | 
(Copyright 2000 Warner Bros. Pictures) |
August 25, 2000
| Universal Pictures releases the film Bring It On to theaters in the USA. The video game Twisted Metal is played on a PlayStation. |
October 21, 2000
| First Look Pictures shows the film Dead Babies at the Bergen International Film Festival in Norway. The game Perfect Dark is show on the Nintendo 64, but with a PlayStation 2 controller. |
November 19, 2000
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. An advertisement within the show is for a "GameStation 256", with a video game system resembling the Sony PlayStation, with a joystick that holds to a table by suction cups. A child then throws an "obsolete" GameStation 252 into the fireplace. |  
(Copyright 2000 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
January 14, 2001
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. The episode title, "Pokey Mom" is a reference to the Nintendo Pokémon video game characters. |
January 14, 2001
| Cinévia Films releases the film Garrison's Flowers to theaters in France. The film is set in 1991, but a Sony PlayStation (released in 1995) is shown in a home. |
March 4, 2001
The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the USA. - Two characters play a video game system attached to a television set.
- The sound effects sound like Asteriods.
- A third character asks "Why weren't you Kong Donkeys outside cleaning up?", a reference to the video game Donkey Kong.
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March 11, 2001
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the USA. A character with a wrist computer says "... I've got Tetris on this thing.". |
March 30, 2001
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the US. The entire episode is about playing in a virtual reality cartridge-based home video game. |  
(Copyright 2001 Nickelodeon) |
April 20, 2001
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the US. While travelling back in time, a traveler passes a Pac-Man arcade video game. | 
(Copyright 2001 Nickelodeon) |
May 13, 2001
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the USA. In an effort to keep people from entering a room, a character says "There's uh, a guy going for the Tetris world record in there!". |
August 8, 2001
Comedy Central airs the South Park TV show in the USA. - A home video game system with four controllers is played.
- A new video game system is purchased, the Okama Gamesphere, likely a reference to the upcoming Nintendo GameCube.
- The game "Thirst for Blood" is played on the system.
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(Copyright 2001 Comedy Central) |
October 9, 2001
| The Fox television network in the US airs the Undeclared program, showing someone using a PlayStation 2. |
December 2, 2001
| The Fox Television Network airs the Malcolm in the Middle TV show. A character mentions the Nintendo Entertainment System and Double Dragon 4 game. |
December 2, 2001
| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A bowling alley shows three video arcade machines, including Pong and Nuke Canada. |  
(Copyright 2001 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
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Polsson's Garage Sale - Video Games
Disney References in Pop Culture
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