--- description: Sony just dropped the first trailer for its upcoming movie 'Pixels' and Pac-Man is sent on a rampage through New York City title: Watch Classic Video Games Attack Earth in New Movie 'Pixels' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3885dc1e5861bb60/698784160b72e318866de381/screen-shot-2015-03-18-at-12-45-17-pm.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Classic Video Games Attack Earth in the New _Pixels_ Trailer by [Helen Regan](/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 18, 2015 5:00 AM CUT  Screen shot—Sony by [Helen Regan](/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 18, 2015 5:00 AM CUT A giant glowing Pac-Man goes on a rampage through New York City in Sony’s first trailer for its upcoming action-comedy _Pixels._ Adam Sandler, Josh Gad and Peter Dinklage are called into action when enormous pixelated characters from old-school video games try to destroy the earth. This is because aliens misinterpret the feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, and so send all the old 8-bit favorites, including Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Frogger, Centipede and Pac-Man, to wreak havoc on our world. Also starring is Kevin James as the U.S. President, Jane Krakowski as the First Lady, plus Michelle Monaghan, Brian Cox, Ashley Benson and Sean Bean. Directed by Chris Columbus, _Pixels_ is based on a short 2010 film by Patrick Jean. Watch it in theaters July 24. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3748557/pixels-trailer-sony-movie-classic-arcade-games-destroy-planet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3748557/pixels-trailer-sony-movie-classic-arcade-games-destroy-planet/"},"headline":"Watch Classic Video Games Attack Earth in the New Pixels Trailer","datePublished":"2015-03-18T05:00:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:14:18.036Z","description":"\"Pac-Man is a bad guy?\"","url":"https://time.com/3748557/pixels-trailer-sony-movie-classic-arcade-games-destroy-planet/","keywords":["movies","Sony","Trailer","Adam Sandler","invasion","aliens"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3885dc1e5861bb60/698784160b72e318866de381/screen-shot-2015-03-18-at-12-45-17-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3885dc1e5861bb60/698784160b72e318866de381/screen-shot-2015-03-18-at-12-45-17-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-03-18 at 12.45.17 PM","caption":"","creditText":"Screen shot—Sony","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3748557/pixels-trailer-sony-movie-classic-arcade-games-destroy-planet/","name":"Watch Classic Video Games Attack Earth in the New Pixels Trailer"}}]}] ```