JC Barnett of the weblog Japanmanship has a nice list-post of the many ways television shows and movies mangle video gaming. Usually it’s seems as if the most experience any given TV show has with video games is Merlin.

Among Barnett’s points:

Though graphics have progressed, video game sound has hit its peak in the mid-80s. Even today sophisticated FPS games use bleeps and bloops for audio, incessantly.

The boss’s star employee in every [game development] company is the programming genius, with an I.Q. in the high 300s with matching sociopath tendencies. Or indeed homicidal tendencies.

Nobody in game development is older than 23.

All games can be played while mashing buttons and simultaneously holding conversations with the person standing behind you.

Check out the rest of the list here.