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Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest [Plays April 29 through May 9 in virtual cinema as part of the 2021 Hot Docs Festival in Canada; for information, log on to https://www.hotdocs.ca/p/hot-docs-festival.] Mads Hedegaard's narrates his colorful, fascinating, informative, insightful, 97-minute documentary that gives a history of arcade machines such as Space Invaders [1978], Donkey Kong [1981], Gyruss [1983], Tetris [1984], and Puzzle Bobble [1994] that became widely popular during the 1980s and follows the valiant, mentally and physically challenging attempt of talented, highly coordinated, well-known, 55-year-old, mullet-wearing, arcade-game-playing, Danish, Kim ‘Kanonarm' Købke, who is a laboratory technician working on detailed analysis of aviation oil in Copenhagen and has four children, to beat the world record of spending 100 consecutive hours playing his favorite arcade game Gyruss without triggering "Game Over" with the help of his devoted friends from the Bip Bip Bar, including Carsten Tommy Lauridsen, Michael Dyst, Svavar Gunnar Gunnarson, Michael Trier, Emil Gotfredsen, Chrisstoffer Daniel Morten, Riis Svendsen, and Rasmus Roien Madsen.   Redhead: Year: 2021 Rating:  NR View Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest on the Internet Movie Database