On a Brooklyn sidewalk, a man walks over to a trash can, leaves a
1980s-era television by it and walks away. After a few seconds, the television suddenly reactivates and an
8-bit picture of a bomb appears. When its fuse runs out, the television's screen shatters and releases a cloud of
pixels (illustrated as
voxels because of the three-dimensionality of the scene). They fly over to
Manhattan and form into various characters from
arcade video games throughout the 1980s.
Space Invaders start to shoot downwards; on contact, the projectiles cause a delivery truck and a pair of
taxis to degenerate into pixels. A cloud of pixels then flies down a
subway station, eventually forming into
Pac-Man, which devours trains and other stations as it travels through the tunnels. Its progress is shown on the subway status display, similar to the cleared-away dots on the original game screen. Giant recreations of
tetrominoes from
Tetris then fall from the sky and match up with floors of skyscrapers. One building gets a "Tetris", eliminating several mid-level floors as its top crashes onto the remainder of the building. Recreations of the Vaus from
Arkanoid appear and destroy one of the piers of the
Brooklyn Bridge, resulting in the structure collapsing.
Donkey Kong then throws a barrel from the
Empire State Building which knocks down a traffic light and damaging a
fire hydrant, the latter of which suddenly sprays out pixelated water, while
Frogger is seen trying to cross traffic in the form of pixelated cars. Finally, a giant pixelated bomb is shown. When it explodes, everything around it becomes pixelated. The effect envelops the entire cityscape and eventually the whole of the
Earth, transfiguring it into a single giant pixel, which continues rotating as it drifts away. The end credits are shown as a
high score list. == Feature film adaptation ==