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In the movie Big (starring Tom Hanks), he plays a video game involving a wizard on a couple of occasions:

Picture of scene from movie

What game is it? Is it just a fake game made up for the movie?

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    Always wondered this. Thought it must have been an early Kings Quest or something. Commented Aug 11, 2010 at 3:36

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According to Destructoid, it is not a real game.

At the time, the game looked awesome and I really wanted to play it but, sadly, the game never actually existed.

However, there is a Flash game linked in that article that resembles the game from Big.

Twenty years later, BoMToons has sought to remedy this situation by creating a little Flash game which very closely resembles the one seen in the film. There isn't a whole lot to it, as there was very little to work with from the source material (which consists of one room in a cave and one text command entered). The game, called The Cavern of the Evil Wizard, takes place entirely in that one room and is solved in exactly the same manner as in the film, but there are a few other commands in the text parser that you can play around with.

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I know that the question was made a very long time ago. I have an answer for anyone wondering the same thing.

Yeah the game was made for just the movie Big. But, There is a version that someone made of the game.

It is like an old DOS Game that can be played with an emulator like DOSBOX or Windows and can be played in your browser at one of the links below.

The title of the game is: Cavern of the Evil Wizard.

Here is a couple of links currently where a version of game created can be found:

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    "The Cavern of the Evil Wizard" was already mentioned in the answer from 2010. The updated links are useful, but could maybe just be a comment or suggested edit on the other answer. Commented Oct 10, 2024 at 21:30

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