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Deadly Games

Deadly Games was an American sci fi show that appeared on UPN. The basic plot of the show is about video game characters that come to life re-enacting their deadly plans in real life. The first episode introduces the protagonist Gus, an engineer, who has created a video game in his spare time to exert his indignant feelings about people in his life who have treated him unfairly (his father, his ex-wife's mother, a high school football playing bully, etc.). In an accident involving his experimental laboratory project, Gus's video game comes to life. The video game characters are based on people from the programmer's, Gus, real life. The final boss of the game is Jackal, which is a combination of both the devil and Gus' father.

Reruns can be seen on the SciFi network.

Deadly Games - Story

Each week, the hero of the video game, "The Kid," has to stop one of the villains from doing something heinously outrageous, ranging from electrocuting Supreme Court justices to dropping a nuclear warhead on a football field. Gus must play the role of "The Kid" because the video game characters came to life after Gus's avatar had died to Killshot in the game.

Deadly Games - Cast

Deadly Games - Main Characters

• Gus Lloyd/"The Cold-Steel Kid" (James Calvert)
• Lauren Ashborne/"The Girl" (Cynthia Gibb)
• The Jackal, Jordan Kenneth Lloyd (Christopher Lloyd)
• Peter Rucker (Stephen T. Kay)

Deadly Games - Jackal's Villains

• Killshot
• Evil Shirley, Shirley Ashborne (Shirley Jones)
• The Garbage Man, Roy Hopkins (Mike Starr)
• The Practical Joker, Danny Schlecht (Brent Spiner)

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