A film about a boy who played a game where you could use real photos, and in which he made his father the villain

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Help me remember a movie from the 80s or 90s about a boy with a virtual reality game console?

The plot of the film: a boy was bought a Japanese virtual reality game console, where it was possible to create a game reality and characters based on real photographs. The boy used photographs of the yard near his house for the game. In the game there was a main villain named Zolton. The boy, who was not on very good terms with his father (or was it his stepfather), took a photo of him as this villain and gradually began to go crazy himself. His mother tried to understand what was happening to him by trying on a virtual reality helmet, telling his father that he was the main villain in the game. After that, the boy wounded his father with a sword in reality.

The boy played on the console at home.
In the game, which uses a photo of his yard with a white car, the boy checked the mail in the mailbox, where the mailbox is real, from reality, and the letter is already from the game with a Gothic font.

The game is in the first person, where he sees “his” hands, which belong to a virtual character. Who was Zolton in the game - I don’t really remember, maybe in some kind of long black robe.

After he wounded his father (his hand near the shoulder), he said something like “Look! He’s going to disappear now!”.

In terms of style, the film resembles Spielberg’s “E.T.”

I can only find stuff that's vaguely similar, like Arcade (1993). Also, there is a hacker (Nolan Ross) in the Revenge tv-series whose alias is "Lord Zolton", which might be a reference to the movie you are looking for but I couldn't find anything in that direction either.

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was it an english film?

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English or American film. But now I can't remember. The actors looked like English-speaking ones.

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French 1996 film “GĂ©nĂ©ration vidĂ©o”

"At 12, Martin is, like most of his classmates, a prankster, a soccer fan, and a video game enthusiast. François, his architect father, brings him a revolutionary game console from Japan. The system of this new game allows him to scan familiar settings and real characters.. Patricia, a schoolmate with whom he is in love, becomes Princess Miridianna, whom he must save from the hands of the evil Zoltan and his henchmen. Without his parents noticing, Martin gets lost between reality and the virtual world."

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https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/124909/film-featuring-a-game-console-with-a-vr-headset-that-has-a-special-feature-you

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Cloak And Dagger (1984)?

The style is similar, but the boy was a little older. But not much. Maybe 14-15 years old.

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Just a guess, maybe?:

Definitely not: there was no story about scanning photographs and an enemy named "Zolton".

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