Battlestar Galactica?

[tz101]

They released multiple Star Wars games for VCS, INTV, Colecovision, and 5200, but no Battlestar Galactica? This show was pretty big in the late 70's so why were no games of it ever released?

 

Hmmmmm...

[TrekMD]

There were even arcade games for Star Wars and Star Trek but I cannot recall ever seeing a Battlestar Galactica video game in the arcades either. Even though Galactica did have its following, it may not have been attractive enough for whatever reason for the game developers.

[tz101]

I may have read somewhere that one of Mattel's INTV releases was originally intended to be Battlestar Galactica, but they ended up releasing it under a different name. Can anyone verify or refute this?

[Gorfy]

I'm dismayed that a game based on the Lost in Space t.v. series was never made! As Dr. Smith would say, "the pain, the pain of it all!".

[chuckwalla]

Wasn't Space Battle for Intellivision roughly based on Battlestar Galactica?

 

Too bad there was never a game designed around the series - i.e. shoot through different screens of alien ships (Cylon fighters) and then have a "Mother Ship" screen where you battle a Base Star.

[user42]

Here it is (among other TV what-if's)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[tz101]

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OK, one of the biggest motion pictures of that era was Smokey and the Bandit. Why did no company license it for VCS or INTV?

[user42]

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OK, one of the biggest motion pictures of that era was Smokey and the Bandit. Why did no company license it for VCS or INTV?

 

First one....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Note: these are not my work, I found them)

 

 

[raskar42]

i think a fonz game would be pretty cool - try to jump a shark tank with a motorcycle.

[tz101]

Those are some cartridge images that make a person wonder: Why did none of the VG companies try to license more movie/TV rights back then? Moonraker, Blade Runner, Battlestar Galactica, and Smokey and the Bandit would be awesome on VCS or Intellivision. Even Six Million Dollar Man would have been sweet. Home brewers need to get at it.

[ckblackm]

From Wikipedia:

 

"Space Battle" & "Space Attack"

 

Mattel-developed Space Battle for Intellivision and its M-Network counterpart, Space Attack for the Atari VCS/2600 platform, were originally slated to be games based on the Battlestar Galactica series. One of Mattel's subsidiaries, Concepts 2000, had the license to produce Battlestar Galactica electronic toys, so it was figured to be a lock that Mattel would get the license to produce the official Battlestar Galactica video game. The game was well into development when they discovered Mattel didn't get the license.[1] The name was changed, but the graphics remained the same. The "flying saucers" in the game are actually Cylon Raiders; this is mostly imperceptible, due to the lack of detail that could be used in graphics of the platforms of that era.

[edit] Battlestar Galactica (2003)

 

The 1978 Battlestar Galactica series inspired a video game for Sony's PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox in which the player plays as Commander Adama as a younger man, and flies a number of missions in different craft against Cylon ships, following Adama's career during the First Cylon War. It retains many design elements from the 1978 series though it was set in the new series universe. The game was an attempt at a bridge between the new and old series and feature the voice talent of Dirk Benedict as LT Starbuck and Richard Hatch as Capt Apollo. It was developed by VU Games and Warthog Games.

[Gorfy]

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OK, one of the biggest motion pictures of that era was Smokey and the Bandit. Why did no company license it for VCS or INTV?

 

First one....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Note: these are not my work, I found them)

 

 

Ha! Deliverance!! That could be a Mystique game where the object is to sodomize a helpless Ned Beatty......"Squeal like a pig!"

[AtariLeaf]

I cringe to think what a "Deliverance" game would be about.

[ScumSoft]

Of course they did, they just called it Berzerk instead I swear those things are cylons.

[tz101]

With that TJ Hooker label, I wonder if backin89 or rmaerz had anything to do with these?

[nonner242]

They are pretty NEAT!

[BrianC]

That Atari Star Wars "what if?" art is an oddity considering all the PB games based on the movies (including a port of the arcade game). Some sweet art, though. Even ones based on Columbo and Rockford Files, two shows I have been watching recently.

 

While not related, that 1941 art made me imagine Capcom's 1941 arcade game in 2600 graphics.

Edited March 29, 2011 by BrianC

[+bcombee]

Don't forget Star Raiders... while not an official BSG game, the race of aliens you fight in the computer version are the Zylons, and the two harder enemies are modeled on the Cylon raiders and basestars.

[Schizophretard]

I would of liked to see them make They Live into a game.

[Nukey Shay]

The Poseidon Aventure?

[OldAtarian]

I do not even want to see the squeal like a pig scene from the Deliverance game.

[user42]

i think a fonz game would be pretty cool - try to jump a shark tank with a motorcycle.

Awesome! Add in a bonus round where you get to punch a Jukebox (a la Street Fighter)....

 

 

Come on homebrewers...get on it...

 

 

[bennybingo]

We were deprived of Battlestar Galactica and so many other licensed games so we could have the true gems like ET and Raiders!!!

[Gorfy]

We were deprived of Battlestar Galactica and so many other licensed games so we could have the true gems like ET and Raiders!!!

 

 

I haven't played Raiders of the Lost Ark since i was a kid, but i remember it as being quite good. I should revisit it soon to see what i think today...

[Pioneer4x4]

I do not even want to see the squeal like a pig scene from the Deliverance game.

Hack of Custer's Revenge!