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Most of us are familiar with movies being based on video games.

What about video games that are based solely on movies?

"Krull" comes to mind as a game that would not have existed were it not for the film.

Any other games you can think of that were based on movies?

I had the "Megaforce" cartridge for the Atari 2600


 (plus a few Star Wars games for it and the Atari 800)

Wasn't Ghost in the Shell made into a game on the Playstation?

Nick

The list is endless.

The Atari had "Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" (sans Ewoks).  "Raiders of the Lost Ark" existed at one point and I think that "Temple of Doom" appeared in game form, too.  No discussion of this sort can be complete until one person mentions "E.T.", one of the worst games ever made.

Then there was "Jaws" for the Nintendo (based on the glorious, the classic, the some other misused adjective, Jaws: the Revenge), as well as "Total Recall", "Friday the 13th", and "Nightmare on Elm Street."  The "Batman" movies had games made for them.  

Even the movie Street Fighter had a game made for it.  Which would be a game based on a movie based on a game... ouchie.  Hurts the head.

The "Alien v. Predator" series, while not based on one movie (yet) should also be mentioned.  It's one of the better of its ilk, by my poor judgement.

There are more out there (there's always more...) but that's all my puny brain can come up with now.
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Yeah, I remember "Raiders..." for the Atari as well..  Between that and the whole sword series (four games with clues to a comic book) it's pretty clear that Atari's imagination and outstripped their architecture

I had one of those comic/video games once.  Once.

Never did like it.
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Hell, I grew up with Super Nintendo-- I think EVERY action movie between 1991 and 1995 had a Super Nintendo game. The weirdest ones were the ones based on direct-to-video movies that I wouldn't even know existed until well after I played the games (the instance I can remember was a kids' movie/game called Dinosaur City).

Actually I should've been more specific.

I was actually thinking of stand up arcade games that were made from movies.

"Tron" would be one.

There were TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and HALLOWEEN games made for the 2600...never actually played them, but I heard about them.  Also ALIEN.

Let's see... for the Atari
Porky's
Halloween
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Evil Dead (commodore 64)
I heard there was a game based on Death Race 2000, but I'm not sure

I'd like to see a video game made from the movie TWO IF BY SEA, starring Sandra Bullock.

The again, maybe that's a bad idea.

It would have to be Survival Horror, wouldn't it?

there was Tron and Tron Deadly Discs, both never woulda existed without the movies.
There's also Demolition Man on the short-lived 3do system ( I STILL laugh to this day when you choose the "easy" style of play, you get to see Sylvester Stallone look at the screen and say "You Suck."

Enter the Matrix, the Terminator, Aladdin, there are so many out there......but Demolition Man takes the cake.

So bloody obvious.  I'm ashamed I didn't think of it

I can't believe you guys didn't mention the Robocop, and The Rocketeer games for the Nintendo. I mean they were the greatest games ever! Almost as good as the movies! ;  )

>Yeah, I remember "Raiders..." for the Atari as well.. Between that and the whole
>sword series (four games with clues to a comic book) it's pretty clear that Atari's
>imagination and outstripped their architecture

Actually, they only made three of the games before deciding that thewhole thing was a bad idea. I had one of those 'games', all you did was mve from room to room, trying different combinations of objects in the hopes that something would happen.I think I read that someone was trying to create the fourth game just to finish off the series.

>I was actually thinking of stand up arcade games that were made from movies.

There was a Robocop game, Terminator II, Aliens, I think Predator II was an arcade game as well. I'm sure there have been other licensed games that I just can't think of right now.

There was a "Porky's" game? what did you have to do? Try to stop the gym teacher from making too much noise or something?

Actually, they only made three of the games before deciding that thewhole thing was a bad idea.

Makes sense, I think I only ever had the first one.  The premise was cool, I thought.  Read a comic book and play a game and the game gives you clues to secrets in the comic book and play the concept out over several games/comics.   Really cool and clever premise, actually.  But they just didn't have the technology on that platform, or didn't really have good game ideas, to make it payoff

As soon as someone said "stand up arcade" I immediately thought of "Tron" as well...  I still think a 3-d first person perspective "light cycles" game would be cool.  I liked the "Dexter's Lab" homage to Tron

Wasn't there a friday the 13th game for the nintendo? I don't recall if it was even possible to win the game

ad wrote:

> There was a "Porky's" game? what did you have to do? Try to
> stop the gym teacher from making too much noise or something?
You played as Pee-Wee. The point of the game was to search through the town (mostly the gym, Porkey's and the swamp) to find parts of the bomb. It was pretty hard, from what I recall.

There was a Bill & Ted  game for Atari, but I never had it.

I am quite a lot into emulation, and I can't think of any system that is not plagued with film adaptations.

8 bit computers: Friday the 13th, Robocop, Batman, etc

16 bit computers: Plan 9 from outer space (this actually exists for Amiga, and looks like a hell of a game, but can't make it work), Cool World, Robocop III, etc.

Almost every console also gets games from the last Disney films, such as Pocahontas, Mulan, Alladin, Lion King or Hercules. The first Star Wars trilogy was also converted into three awesome games for the SNES, and Dick Tracy or Predator II make pretty decent Genesis games. Jackie Chan has a cute Turbographx 16 game, andMichael Jackson's  Moonwalker was remade as a great arcade game.

I guess if you are going to mention Michael Jackson then a nod should go to Journey's "Escape"

i think carmeggeddon was meant to be based on death race 2000, or so i heard.  so there you go.

oh yeah and you can't go past double dragon: a game they made into a movie [like street fighter and super mario brothers]

but if you're talking about console games then pretty much every blockbuster action movies had one.  snes even had cliffhanger and...

 robocop vs terminator

just imagine that one! :D

There's also an arcade of "Alien vs Predator" that kicks ass.

Check it out: http://www.mame.dk/gameinfo/avsp/

I think it is loosely based on that comic book series.

Yeah Neon, I remember Friday the 13th being impossible.  Everytime Jason popped up on screen and was unstoppable scarred me for life.  Damn that game.

And yes, Aliens vs. Predator is one of, if not THE best beat-'em-up games ever.  One of my favorite games ever.

Nick

>There was a Bill & Ted game for Atari, but I never had it.

There was a Bill & Ted game for computers as well. You visited about 10 locations, completed little arcade sequences that were incredibly easy and then brought the historical figures to the future. It was the kind of game that would have been at home on the C64.

>Robocop, Batman

I didn't think these were too bad on the Amiga. Robocop was an ok side-scroller and you could beat it with practice. Batman the Movie also was fairly decent. The first and last stages reminded me of Bionic Commando, while the driving and flying stages were like Outrun.

>Plan 9 from outer space (this actually exists for Amiga, and looks like a hell of a
>game, but can't make it work), Cool World, Robocop III, etc.

I had a copy of Plan 9 and I thought it sucked. Unlike most adventure games, each location in the game (at least what I could get to) only had a single room and there was barely anything you could do in them. You move the mouse all over the screen and nothing you see in the picture seems to exist. After you visit like 5 different locations with nothing to do in any of them, you basically come to a dead end and resort to visiting the same locations over and over hoping that you'll find one little thing that you never noticed before. About 10 minutes after I loaded it up, I'd seen all the locations it lets you go to and I couldn't figure out how to do anything else.

Cool World was a horrible action game. Robocop 3 was an interesting attempt at doing the game all in 3D. A driving stage, 2 doom type stages, a flying stage and a one on one fight with Otomo which I was only able to beat by shooting him for around 60% damage before Robo-idiot decides he's not a valid target and puts his gun away. Robocop was far too fragile though, a few shots from the enemy and you're toast.

JohnL wrote: "I didn't think these (Robocop and Batman) were too bad on the Amiga. Robocop was an ok side-scroller and you could beat it with practice. Batman the Movie also was fairly decent. The first and last stages reminded me of Bionic Commando, while the driving and flying stages were like Outrun.

Oh, never said there were bad. I didn't play the Amiga versions since a year or two ago, when I started to play Amiga games through emulation. I played this two on an my ancient Amstrad CPC 464 when they were first released (1987 and 1989), and I still think they are two of the best games ever released for that system. Actually, the Amstrad version of Robocop is far better than the Amiga one. Can't say the same of Batman - The Movie, because the flying / driving stages were turned into side scroll ones, because of machine limitations. I'd like to point out that the CPC 464 machines only had 64k of RAM.

By the way, these two games were made by Ocean Software, a company that more or less specialised on movie conversions. Apart from the Batman / Robocop series, they also released Darkman, Hudson Hawk, Totall Recall, etc., all for 8 /16 bits computers. Some of these games made it to the consoles, specially Nintendo ones.

If you open up a comic from 10 or 20 years ago, you could see a lot of advertisment for movie video games. Most of them were awful.

I love the Batman Returns for SNES though.

>Can't say the same of Batman - The Movie, because the flying / driving stages
>were turned into side scroll ones, because of machine limitations.

They did the same thing with the C64 version.