game-identification
On this movie poster for Video Games The Movie, a documentary about the history of video games, I am able to recognize most of the iconic characters shown. Yet, there is that one character with a hat looking like an explorer that I am not able to recognize. Who is this character?
The ninjas are from a fake 80's videogame created for the movie, called Dojo Quest:
Here's an article about the licensed games in the movie:
The filmmakers licensed characters from real-world video games for the movie, but they opted to craft a fictional title starring a ninja-fighting heroine named Lady Lisa (played by Ashley Benson), who serves as an unconventional love interest for Gad's character. To promote "Pixels," Sony released a side-scrolling mobile game resembling "Dojo Quest."
"Lady Lisa was in the first draft of the script, and I thought it would be fun to create just one game that didn't exist back in the '80s," said Columbus. "It never occurred to me not to do it. I felt like we could get away with it. A character like Lara Croft could've worked, but I loved the fact that Josh Gad's character has been pining for this woman all his life."
It is Nikolai Orelov.
He appears in:
You can read more about him on the wiki page here.
Best Answer
That's Pitfall Harry from the Pitfall! games.
This one with the green shirt, hat, and no jacket is specifically from the mobile endless runner version.
He has gone through a lot of different versions...
