included · Mechanical
Top Kids
A fun journey through the history of the automobile, this film is about a group of future computer hackers that wire an arcade game to work as a time machine. Among appearances in the movie are Henry Ford, Mercedes Benz, and modern race car driver Niki Lauda, as one of the boys becomes trapped within the newly created game.
TV Movie, Science Fiction
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What kind of time-travel story is this?
Time travel is an important premise, with limited sustained exploration. This assessment is provisional.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
Retain provisional 5/10. Future hackers wire an arcade game to work as a time machine and one boy is trapped inside it, meeting Henry Ford, Mercedes-Benz and Niki Lauda on a journey through motoring history; TheTVDB instead says the simulator sends Lauda to a 1904 race. Whether the travel is literal or inside a game remains unresolved.
A hacked arcade game functions as a time machine, trapping a boy in its historical adventure.
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The scores
Provisional weighting
medium confidence
Aggregate source ratings
How Titan works
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]
This film: 23.10 base × 40.0% weighting.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
The evidence
Research & sources
Research notes may reveal plot details.
These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.
Cast: Anthony Ko, Scott Nemes, Jared Rushton, Niki Lauda, Rossie Harris
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Releases & formats
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