Live-action kids' movie where teen boy gets absorbed into a game
I am trying to find a live-action movie (been looking for ages so it may be a TV show, but I don't think so) I saw as a kid in the early 2000s or early 2010s, definitely prior to 2015. It was potentially broadcast on the Disney Channel or a similar kids' network. The target audience felt like it was for ages 8–14. It was definitely low budget.
I have a very vague memory of it, I could only see a scene or two before my parents turned the TV off, but it has lived in my head rent free for years. I have outlined what I remember below, which I know isn't much, but thought I'd give Reddit a go.
Plot
A singular main character (a teenage boy) gets physically absorbed into a futuristic video game world. I think he ends up there completely unintentionally because he does not understand the rules or what is happening around him. He does not use a controller, he is literally running around a world (just not the real world). I am pretty sure his main motivation for being in the game is that he is searching for his older brother.
Scenes/Visuals
Early in the film, because the main character is totally clueless, he gets pushed/shoved by another player (a different character inside the game). He falls onto a red-and-white bullseye platform on the floor. This specific fall is where he loses his very first life (or at least figures out he can take harm?) in the game.
The film has a futuristic vibe but is clearly lower-budget. In the game, the players wear helmets and what I believe were white, skin-tight suits. There are no glowing neon lines on the suits.
Thematically, there was a lot of red and white imagery used throughout the film. The suits may have had red lines on them, the bullseye platform was red and white...
Already Ruled Out (some of these are quite out there but people have brought them up in the past and they are not it)
- Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
- Level Up (2011)
- Stay Alive (2006)
- Choose or Die (2022)
- Arcade (1993)
- Gamer (2009)
- Tron: Legacy (2010)
- Grid Runner / Virtual Combat (1995)
- The Fairly OddParents: "Power Mad!" (2001)
- Aaron Stone (2009)
- Zixx (2004)
- Virtual High (2016)
- Virtuosity (1995)
- The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
- eXistenZ (1999)
- Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)
- Gaming the System (Phineas and Ferb 2009)
- The Last Starfighter (1984)
- Kids World (2001)
- Avalon High (2010)
- Jumanji (any version)
Any ideas would be appreciated. I may be misremembering some of the details as it was a long time ago, so if you have an idea that firs some of the description I will be happy to have a look just in case 😄
Thanks!
Edit: for some reason it posted with no text under scenes/visuals. Have now added