I work at a game store, and I always see the Evil Dead games for x-box on the shelf and The Thing for PS2. So I thought, "Wouldn't it be cool if they made a game out of Bad Taste or even Plan 9 from Outer Space?" And now I wonder, what other video games there are out there that are made from b-movies. Can anyone think of any, or at least think of one they SHOULD make?
I used to own the PC game based on Nightbreed, the 1990 Clive Barker movie. I liked the movie; the game stunk.
I also have a reasonably cool PC game called I Was an Atomic Mutant. It's based more on the b-movie genre than any specific movie. You are the monster, wreaking havoc on various locales. It's repetitive, but it is fun for a while.
Along the same lines was the Godzilla game (don't recall the exact title). In it, you could play Godzilla or one of the Big G's adversary monsters and battle over Tokyo. Again, a bit basic and repetitive, but fun at the time (late '80s).
The Destroy All Humans games pay lots homages to 50's-60's Sci-Fi movies...
I'd buy a Phantasm game, but it'd have to be a basic SNES type platformer or even an overhead adventure title ala Fester's Quest or the first TMNT game.
I've always wanted a GTA type of game based in the world of the Romero Dead movies. I know we've got Dead Rising, but I'm talking about a game that lets you run all over an entire city, ride around in boats and planes and all that groovy stuff. And if you beat the entire game, you unlock the far more difficult version of the game, where you'd be fighting the much faster, stronger and nigh-unkillable Return of the Living Dead style ghouls. Along the way you could also unlock skins for characters from both games.
The absolute must-have though would be a horror icons fighting game designed by Capcom ala the Marvel vs. Capcom games. The characters would be a bit comic book looking in style and their special attacks would be crazy over-the-top s**t like Freddy Krueger turning into the giant Freddy snake and eating your opponent or Pinhead ripping off their flesh with a bombardment of hooks and chains. Actually, I think I'll start up a thread for this possible game is anyone else wants to chime in...
I'm still waiting for a fantastic Megaforce game. Play as Barry Bostwick! Unlock additional jump suits! Fire rockets from your motor cycles! Unlock Henry Silva as a playable character.
I think that they made an Atari 2600 game for it but I'm not completely sure.
How about an Atari 2600 game based on 1959's The Alligator People?
(http://www.bmoviegraveyard.com/reviews/A/AlligatorPeople/TheAlligatorPeopleAtari.jpg)
Yeah Anubis, I've always wanted a Grand Theft Zombie. The GTA formula with Rockstar's style and humor would be so perfect for a game like that.
Dead Rising is so so good. IMO the best zombie game to date and with the mall setting very Romero esque(?).
And then there's Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66vM_W8bM8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66vM_W8bM8)
Heard it wasn't that good of a game but still wanna get it because, well, its a Romero game. :twirl:
The Warriors is an excellent brawler that's a prequel to the movie. The ambient music in that game I love. Captures the feel of the movie perfectly I think.
And your thoughts on a fighter like that are remarkably similar to Darkstalkers and its sequels...
(http://games.multimedia.cx/wp-content/uploads/darkstalkers-demitri-victor.jpg)
Google it. There's a lot of info out there about those great games.
Yeah Joe, I realized after I'd typed it that I should've just made the Darkstalkers reference instead of the Marvel vs. Capcom reference, but by that point I was too lazy to go back and change it. I have played a few installments of the series though and they were, dare I say it, awesomelicious. Lord Raptor was my go-to guy. He was a British punk rock zombie with an exposed rip-cage, a giant fanged mouth like Venom, he wore the Union Jack as part of his outfit and he could transform his legs into a big chainsaw... f*cking awesomelicious. :teddyr:
Just had another idea for a game: a Re-Animator version of the classic game Tapper. Instead of playing a bartender trying to grab and refill beer mugs as they're slid down a set of five or six bars, you play Herbert West running up and down a set of five or six conveyor belts that are taking body parts into funeral pyres. You have to grab the body parts, inject them with re-animating fluid and send them on their way so they aren't burned up and wasted. Whereas the original game featured thirsty customers, this version would feature morgue workers, cops and whatever other generic character types you could think of to fill in. Also, whereas the original would have said thirsty patrons capturing the refilled glasses that were sent back their way, drinking the glasses, then sending them back down to you once they've been emptied (unless they were pushed off screen when they received their filled mugs), the Re-Animator game's characters would be attacked by the re-animated body parts and either pushed off screen with one of several scream sound bytes or they would fight the body parts and send them back down the conveyor belt a second time. Anybody here know how to program simple games? :question:
Quote from: AnubisVonMojo on November 06, 2007, 06:58:05 AMAnybody here know how to program simple games? :question:
I've got Gamemaker, don't know much about how to use it though. Do you have sprites?
You shot who in the what now? Sorry Mr. B, I'm an idea guy, which means I'm too lazy to actually create anything... But I'd be willing to learn! So, what's are sprites and where do I get them?
Sprites are the frames that make up character and set animation in video games (Well 2-D video games anyway), there are many sites to find sprites. I don't know specifically where to find Topper stuff, but I'll look.
I've always liked games that aren't adapted from any b-movies in particular, but have loads of references from them:
Silent Hill series
Ghoul School
Monster Party
Escape from Bug Island
Illbleed
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Ghoul Patrol
Frankenstein: The Monster Returns
Castlevania series (in some ways)
Silverload (even though the actual game blew)
Then again, there's also the Godzilla games. The only ones I really liked from those though were the 2D fighting game on SNES that never hit the states and Destroy All Monsters Melee
Godzilla: Monster of Monsters for NES. Great game. Repetitive as hell, but I love it.
Ya know, I think there was a Rocky horror picture show game for the PC abouta decade ago. You have to go around the mansion looking for pieces of the medusa machine to save Janet.
There is a game that's been stuck in development hell for a few years now called "They came from Hollywood." It's a SimCity-esque game were you control a giant monster destroying the city. You can look up there website, to get a better idea.
Nobody mentioned the Rampage series. The ones were you become a giant monster and destroy cities across the world. If you have 18 hours to kill, you can get through it.
What I'd like to see is a ba movie game similar to Shadow of the Colossus. You know how in some giant monster movies, the monster has one small vulnaralbe spot on its body-The Rhedasuarus'neck wound, the throught of the Black Scorpion for example-you would play a soilder trying to kill the monster but instead of simply shooting it into the beast, you would actually have to climb up it to get to its weak point.