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Post by Welfare Willis on Oct 11, 2020 18:48:38 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. This. If we can expand the list to tv, Gilligan's Island for the NES. Man, f*** LJN and that quicksand.
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Post by schma on Oct 11, 2020 18:57:46 GMT -5
Back in the day movie tie-ins were seen as a license to print money. Really any movie games from the 8 and 16 bit eras don't surprise me.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 11, 2020 19:06:12 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. This. If we can expand the list to tv, Gilligan's Island for the NES. Man, f*** LJN and that quicksand. Bandai released the NES GI game. I enjoyed it but see why it is hated.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Oct 11, 2020 19:41:31 GMT -5
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. In hindsight it's easy to see why it turned out that way. The development studio hadn't a clue as to how to adapt the movie into a game, and half of the developers had never worked on a game before.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Oct 11, 2020 19:43:42 GMT -5
This. If we can expand the list to tv, Gilligan's Island for the NES. Man, f*** LJN and that quicksand. Bandai released the NES GI game. I enjoyed it but see why it is hated. My mistake then, f*** Bandai. Another one I thought of... The Three Stooges. But I have to admit for an early NES game? They did capture the Stooges essence with several games taken from the shorts.
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Post by agent817 on Oct 11, 2020 20:18:18 GMT -5
Back in the day movie tie-ins were seen as a license to print money. Really any movie games from the 8 and 16 bit eras don't surprise me. Which explains why there was even a Beethoven game. Yeah, based on those movies about the St. Bernard. How that movie even got a game is a great mystery.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Oct 11, 2020 20:29:57 GMT -5
Bill and Ted’s excellent video game adventure has to be up there. THAT f***ING GAME!!!!!!
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Post by LastCall on Oct 11, 2020 20:30:46 GMT -5
Does anyone remember the Stallone movie, Cliffhanger?
Well, that got a video game.
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Post by camphor #BLM on Oct 11, 2020 21:51:29 GMT -5
Does anyone remember the Stallone movie, Cliffhanger? Well, that got a video game. it was a BEAT-EM-UP instead of a platformer, too if only more crappy fast-buck-movie-tie-in SNES games were beat-em-ups, we'd at least have more beat-em-ups (of course, they blew it on level 2, Battletoads-style: with a really hard run-away-minigame, interrupting the primary gameplay and pretty much derailing the game). "Virus" (the 1999 movie about an evil space entity who brings machines to life on a boat) got a Playstation game in Europe. holy shit, did the movie ITSELF even get released in Europe? Was Europe chock-a-block with Blockbuster Rental Stores that needed crap like "Virus" for people to have this conversation: "huh, there's nothing really to rent...let's watch this boat/electricity/alien thing to keep Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland in pocket money", in each language spoken on the European continent?
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Oct 11, 2020 22:23:58 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. holy shit, did the movie ITSELF even get released in Europe? Was Europe chock-a-block with Blockbuster Rental Stores that needed crap like "Virus" for people to have this conversation: "huh, there's nothing really to rent...let's watch this boat/electricity/alien thing to keep Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland in pocket money", in each language spoken on the European continent? It did, though it didn't arrive in European theatres until 6-7 months after the U.S. release, so it seems even the distributors asked that very same question.
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Post by agent817 on Oct 12, 2020 0:53:42 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 The difference between these two - Scarface: The World is Yours is actually a good game. While on the subject, who thought it was a good idea to make a game out of Wayne's World?
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Oct 12, 2020 6:21:50 GMT -5
Little Nicky on game boy color is a really strange game that somehow exists
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 12, 2020 6:41:15 GMT -5
Bill and Ted’s excellent video game adventure has to be up there. Bill and Ted actually got a couple games aside from the NES. There's the Game Boy one that's a generic puzzle platformer (reminds me of the awful stages in Back to the Future II and III) and a just okay Atari Lynx game.
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Post by wildojinx on Oct 12, 2020 7:56:47 GMT -5
Wasnt there a Mean Girls game?
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Post by camphor #BLM on Oct 12, 2020 8:51:58 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 The difference between these two - Scarface: The World is Yours is actually a good game. While on the subject, who thought it was a good idea to make a game out of Wayne's World?
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Oct 12, 2020 9:02:10 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. My favorite part of this... well second favorite after making :The Movie :The Game jokes >_> Is that the actor that played T. Hawk (I think), just flat out left after filming was done. Instead of spending another day of doing the shoot for the video game. Which is why he doesn't appear in the game.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Oct 12, 2020 9:02:53 GMT -5
Wayne World game has to be up there but I thought of another that kind of fits.
Not a movie but how about the TV show Home Improvement game?
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Post by BorneAgain on Oct 12, 2020 9:12:36 GMT -5
Here's a truly bizarre one.
There was a 1995 film called Soldier Boyz, about a group of convicts recruited and sent to Vietnam to rescue the daughter of some rich guy. Its standard mid-90s low budget action schlock with some silly attempts at drama. Two years later, the film got a video game adaptation on PC, basically the same kind of rail shooter with FMV elements that were all the rage at the time:
An R Rated action film getting a mediocre video game is hardly notable and its likely it would have been wholly forgotten about if not for the fact that the non-film video segments for the game were directed a young budding filmmaker who at the time was working on his first notable movie, a young fellow by the name of... Darren Aronofsky. Yup a year before Pi launched his career, he was working on FMV games.
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Oct 12, 2020 9:23:17 GMT -5
That 1993 Dennis The Menace movie getting a SNES game really seemed odd.
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Post by CMWaters on Oct 12, 2020 9:25:42 GMT -5
That 1993 Dennis The Menace movie getting a SNES game really seemed odd. And then there were the ports of it to home computers...one of which has an impossible jump so you can't complete it due to them running out of time. TV series and not movie, but for the time period (before the movies came out) Addams Family getting a game via Fester's quest was an odd one, considering the live action show was done about 20 years before the game came out.
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