Italian film scholars Simone Bedetti and Lorenzo De Luca identified "Game of Death" as an early example of what they call the "arcade movie" genre of action films. These "arcade movies" have three characteristic elements: the achievement of a "goal", passing a series of "levels", and ascending through a "path" (whether physical or symbolic). This is presented in "Game of Death" as Lee going up higher floors while facing increasingly dangerous opponents as he ascends the tower. Later examples of action films which Bedetti and De Luca identify as "arcade movies" include Bruce Lee's own "Enter the Dragon", the Bruce Willis movie "Die Hard" (1988), Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989), Paul W. S. Anderson's "Mortal Kombat" (1995), and the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie "Sudden Death" (1995).