RYAN GOSLING, EMMA STONE AND OTHER CELEBS NAME THEIR FAVOURITE VIDEO GAMES
Chris Pratt, Guillermo del Toro, Elle Fanning and other Hollywood heavyweights have named their favourite games, and some of them are surprisingly deep cuts.
Video games and Hollywood are closer than ever before in 2026, thanks to the huge number of gaming adaptations at the moment, from Super Mario Galaxy to Elden Ring.
A new compilation video from Josh Horowitz, host of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, has put the spotlight on all the different answers he’s received from guests when asked to name their favourite video game.
As you might expect, there are signs some of them haven’t played a game for decades, with panicked namedrops of Super Mario Bros. and Pac-Man, but others mentioned more unexpected titles that show they know what they’re talking about.
Ryan Gosling, current star of Project Hail Mary, kicks things off with 1982’s Pitfall for the Atari 2600 (he’s 45, so he would’ve been two when it came out). ‘I like to jump on the alligators,’ he remarked, before breaking into chuckles.
His La La Land co-star, Emma Stone, highlighted Donkey Kong Country, while Mario’s big screen voice actor, Chris Pratt, chose Street Fighter 2 along with the expected Nintendo nods of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend Of Zelda on the NES.
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The true star of the video is Outer Banks and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery actress Madelyn Cline, who picked Returnal as her favourite. That’s still our favourite PlayStation 5 exclusive and an impressive choice for a celeb.
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