Best and worst video games based on TV/Movies

[UberHere]

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What's the worst movie based on video games?

Was wasting my time on Youtube last night and came across the Double Dragons movie... Jeezus christ, gave up 20mins in. Think The Mario Bros movie might have been better due to being so bad it was actually entertaining. I will always enjoy Street Fighter because of Raul Julia alone. Even if the...

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Best: TMNT the arcade game

Honorable mention: Willow for NES. At first thought it was just a poor man’s Zelda, but over time I really came to enjoy it.

Worst: The original NES TMNT game. Completely broken

Honorable mention for worst: the original Sega Genesis X-men game. Also completely broken while the arcade X-Men game was fire

 

[Zer]

I remember the first video games I ever played were on Amiga and one of them was Red Heat, based on the Ahnold movie, and holy shit it was bad. You basically just scrolled along the screen throwing punches at random naked dudes, but the controls and hit detection were so poor it was basically unplayable (Graphics were good for the time though (no romo))




Best ever would probably have to be Goldeneye

One that I loved back in the day was Die Hard Trilogy on the Playstation

The Batman Arkham games are also GOAT tier

 

[Pliny Pete]

 

[GearSolidMetal]

This is the standard that has never been surpassed in 27 years.

Most licensed games from movies/TV have been low-budget trash that are thrown together within 6-12 months from from 3rd-rate developers... that needed many more months of development to be even considered 'good' but they had set release dates to coincide with the release date of a movie.

Goldeneye is surprisingly the only exception of a game that came out a year after the movie... and it was awesome.

I'd say the two great games, for the time, based on movies that released on the same date of the movie were...

Dishonorable mention goes to - Dark Angel.
Production was stopped and quickly released in an unfinished state after the TV show was cancelled.

 

[SirRealKiller]

Goldeneye.

 

[Sonny Qc]

This is the standard that has never been surpassed in 27 years.

Most licensed games from movies/TV have been low-budget trash that are thrown together within 6-12 months from from 3rd-rate developers... that needed many more months of development to be even considered 'good' but they had set release dates to coincide with the release date of a movie.

Goldeneye is surprisingly the only exception of a game that came out a year after the movie... and it was awesome.

I'd say the two great games, for the time, based on movies that released on the same date of the movie were...

Dishonorable mention goes to - Dark Angel.
Production was stopped and quickly released in an unfinished state after the TV show was cancelled.

Escape from butcher bay was actually a great fckng game.

underrated as fuck
well played sir

 

[sleepwalk]

Simpsons arcade game

Alien vs Predator arcade game (Capcom)

Pretty sure Cadillacs and Dinosaurs game cane out after the comic was converted to a cartoon

The Warriors (Rockstar 2005)

 

[UberHere]

I remember the first video games I ever played were on Amiga and one of them was Red Heat, based on the Ahnold movie, and holy shit it was bad. You basically just scrolled along the screen throwing punches at random naked dudes, but the controls and hit detection were so poor it was basically unplayable (Graphics were good for the time though (no romo))




Best ever would probably have to be Goldeneye

One that I loved back in the day was Die Hard Trilogy on the Playstation

The Batman Arkham games are also GOAT tier

Oh shit. Goldeneye might be the GOAT. How did I overlook that

 

[gondo]

Oh shit. Goldeneye might be the GOAT. How did I overlook that

There’s no maybe. It is the GOAT.
There’s some other greats mentioned here but Goldeneye nailed everything. The maps couldn’t be anymore accurate and the gameplay was top tier back then.

 

[Lycandroid]

lord of the rings two towers ps2
transformers war for cybertron ps3?

 

[UberHere]

There’s no maybe. It is the GOAT.
There’s some other greats mentioned here but Goldeneye nailed everything. The maps couldn’t be anymore accurate and the gameplay was top tier back then.

I was in high school then. My friends and I would spend hours just playing 4 player and rotating the loser out

 

[deadshot138]

Goldeneye and it's not close

 

[Sycho Sid]

Really surprised no one mentioned E.T yet. It was a pretty big killer of Atari

 

[rocketskates]

The Street Fighter movie is nostalgic for me as it came out when I was hitting puberty. I loved it for Chun Li and Cami…but it’s really awful lol.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Simpsons arcade game

Alien vs Predator arcade game (Capcom)

Unfortunately arcade beat-em-ups of the 90s were mostly cut & pastes with different aesthetics.

But thank you for mentioning AvP, because it reminded ne of another AvP that deserves a mention.

I'd say its better than Goldeneye, and still the game released of either franchise.

 

[Thrawn33]

Unfortunately arcade beat-em-ups of the 90s were mostly cut & pastes with different aesthetics.

But thank you for mentioning AvP, because it reminded ne of another AvP that deserves a mention.

I'd say its better than Goldeneye, and still the game released of either franchise.

The great AvP games came out before the movies though, so while awesome don't qualify IMO.

Golden Eye is GOAT no question.

 

[Thrawn33]

Really surprised no one mentioned E.T yet. It was a pretty big killer of Atari

Haha, yeah that's a throw back.

The old Atari Star Wars and ESB...

 

[shunyata]

The great AvP games came out before the movies though, so while awesome don't qualify IMO.

Golden Eye is GOAT no question.

Honorable mention for Jurassic Park on Sega Genesis where you could play the entire game as a raptor.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

The great AvP games came out before the movies though, so while awesome don't qualify IMO.

The game wasn't based on the AvP movies, but it was based on the Alien movies (namely Aliens because you play as Colonial Marines) and of course the Predator movies.

 

[Thrawn33]

The game wasn't based on the AvP movies, but it was based on the Alien movies (namely Aliens because you play as Colonial Marines) and of course the Predator movies.

Well played....

I'll allowed it