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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 11, 2020 15:28:46 GMT -5
I was watching a few speedruns and found one for Warlock on Genesis, to which I'm actually surprised that even got a video game on both SNES and Genesis. Another one is the Ray Liotta movie No Escape which got a Genesis game as well.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2020 15:39:08 GMT -5
Platoon.
How did that movie get an NES adaptation?
Like, I get Terminator and Robocop and Rambo, but the Vietnam war movie directed by Oliver Stone?
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Oct 11, 2020 15:42:02 GMT -5
Street Fighter The Movie: The Game. It kind of makes sense but why play that when the source material is also there? Just seems so unnecessary.
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Post by Fade on Oct 11, 2020 15:42:17 GMT -5
Back back in the day, Jurassic Park, Jaws and f***ing Pagemaster surprised me.
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Post by camphor #BLM on Oct 11, 2020 15:44:25 GMT -5
Platoon. How did that movie get an NES adaptation? Like, I get Terminator and Robocop and Rambo, but the Vietnam war movie directed by Oliver Stone? I knew about all those -- but then I saw "Dirty Harry" for the NES in a used-game store a few years ago. What the Actual ****? What, does the Scorpio Killer show up and go, "I have my UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHTs!" or something?
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Oct 11, 2020 15:57:45 GMT -5
The City Of Lost Children.
European film that was catering to an art house crowd. I've seen it and thought it was ok, but there is absolutely nothing about it that suggests to me "this could make a good video game", and it's astonishing that producers who had to put up their own money thought otherwise in the PS1 era.
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Post by XIII on Oct 11, 2020 16:04:28 GMT -5
Bill and Ted’s excellent video game adventure has to be up there.
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Post by XIII on Oct 11, 2020 16:07:51 GMT -5
Platoon. How did that movie get an NES adaptation? Like, I get Terminator and Robocop and Rambo, but the Vietnam war movie directed by Oliver Stone? I knew about all those -- but then I saw "Dirty Harry" for the NES in a used-game store a few years ago. What the Actual ****? What, does the Scorpio Killer show up and go, "I have my UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHTs!" or something? I forgot about that one! Had it as a kid and the main thing I remember was Harry going into an ultra run down hotel and having to kill some drug dealers and pimps. lol
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Post by Paul on Oct 11, 2020 16:21:05 GMT -5
"Virus" (the 1999 movie about an evil space entity who brings machines to life on a boat) got a Playstation game in Europe.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 11, 2020 16:55:07 GMT -5
Back back in the day, Jurassic Park, Jaws and f***ing Pagemaster surprised me. Jurassic Park makes sense though since it was the biggest thing in 1993
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2020 16:55:48 GMT -5
Bill and Ted’s excellent video game adventure has to be up there. And it was hard as hell, too.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 11, 2020 17:11:56 GMT -5
Some more from Sega:
Surf Ninjas (Game Gear, hence the tie-in in the movie) 3 Ninjas Kick Back Cutthroat Island Pinocchio Fantasia The Lawnmower Man Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Bram Stoker's Dracula Moonwalker Universal Soldier (actually a reskinned Turrican II) Wayne's World
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Oct 11, 2020 17:27:38 GMT -5
Back back in the day, Jurassic Park, Jaws and f***ing Pagemaster surprised me. Jurassic Park makes sense though since it was the biggest thing in 1993 Most of the Jurassic Park games were largely straightforward actiony games, but the one for 3DO being a series of weird minigames that barely have to do with the movie other than the name and dinosaurs is a headscratcher.
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Post by wildojinx on Oct 11, 2020 17:41:06 GMT -5
That Dirty Dancing game that Spoony reviewed which ended up just being a bunch of minigames, which barely had anything to do with the movie.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Oct 11, 2020 17:49:47 GMT -5
Platoon. How did that movie get an NES adaptation? Like, I get Terminator and Robocop and Rambo, but the Vietnam war movie directed by Oliver Stone? i have that on the sinclair spectrum used to play the extra music tape of tracks of my tears a LOT more than the game itself! BATTLESHIP PANDORUM SEVEN SAMURAI 20XX there's not many i would be surprised, there was many movie tie-ins to choose from in the eighties ...
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Oct 11, 2020 17:52:22 GMT -5
Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is another film from my childhood that I remember being pushed as a serious film, but when I saw it years later I thought it was garbage.
I do think its bizarre than video game developers looked at a serious drama with serious actors being developed by Royal Shakespeare member Kenneth Branaugh and thought "yeah, probably a video game there.".
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Post by Fade on Oct 11, 2020 18:06:22 GMT -5
Back back in the day, Jurassic Park, Jaws and f***ing Pagemaster surprised me. Jurassic Park makes sense though since it was the biggest thing in 1993 That’s true. As a kid I just saw JP and Jaws as more adult things, probably wasn’t able to sense how big they were.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 11, 2020 18:17:51 GMT -5
Porkys on the Atari 2600.
As a kid we just thought one of the kids at school was lying about having a porkys video game. Then in 91 or 92 I found a copy at the flea market.
The NES Platoon game wasn't bad.
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Post by nickcave on Oct 11, 2020 18:35:41 GMT -5
Not a movie but a tv series, the Home Improvement video game will never not perplex me. Also the Scarface game on the PS2 that is somehow a sequel to the movie
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2020 18:46:13 GMT -5
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