Movie/TV Games

[Pioneer4x4]

I was wondering waht movies could you make a decent 2600 game from. Typically movie based games for any system suck, the main exception for me so far is the Lego games, they are great.

 

I recently picked up the complete Benny Hill DVD collection (18 DVDs of Benny Hill!) and was thinking of some of his skits could be funny as a video game. Grandma racing, catching the scantily clad girl while being chased by a female cop with a stick...

[Pioneer4x4]

Come to think of it, who else watches old shows and thinks about Atari games?

[kroogur]

The Shining - Escape the Overlook and the Hedgemaze before Jack gets ya.

 

Return of the Living Dead - Get through the Warehouse,Mortuary and Cemetery before the bomb drops. Enemies would be zombies,body parts and split dogs.

 

Wheel of Fortune

 

Tic Tac Dough

 

Predator - Study what Pack-in-Video did for the NES version and then do the exact opposite.

 

WKRP in Cincinnati - Dodge the turkeys being dropped by Les Nesman from the helicopter.

 

Courage the Cowardly Dog - Help Courage avoid Eustace and other monsters while trying to bring Muriel her scones.

[Jr. Pac]

I know! Let's make a game out of E.T.! Not that "Find peices of a phone and candy, fall in pits and go in spaceship" game disguised as E.T. Honestly, there SHOULD be more 2600 movie games. I wish that Pink Panther proto in the 2600 Archives section of AA had a ROM dump.

Edited July 17, 2011 by Jr. Pac

[Pioneer4x4]

WKRP in Cincinnati - Dodge the turkeys being dropped by Les Nesman from the helicopter.

"As god is my witness, I thought Turkeys could fly!"

[Deja-Q]

I like this Benny Hill idea!

I always loved to watch this guy slapping on grandpas baldy head

 

Should also be a part of the game... that could be real fun at all

[Pioneer4x4]

I like this Benny Hill idea!

I always loved to watch this guy slapping on grandpas baldy head

 

Should also be a part of the game... that could be real fun at all

Definitely, maybe in a wack a mole way.

[Stan]

Dead Alive/Braindead. Just the lawnmower scene would be enough.

[Deja-Q]

When talking about real classics we have to talk about Laurel & Hardy too!

What about the "piano transportation over the stairs" movie?

[+save2600]

I recently picked up the complete Benny Hill DVD collection (18 DVDs of Benny Hill!) and was thinking of some of his skits could be funny as a video game.

I did_not_know a complete collection existed of his. Thanks!

 

Which set are you talking about though? On Amazon, I see a set called 'The Thames Years' and 'Complete Unadulterated Set'. Both are from the same span of time.

 

I've got a couple individual DVD's of his that I wasn't too excited about: 'Best of' and 'Golden Greats'.

 

 

[Krytol]

I always thought the I Love Lucy chocolate factory scene would make a good 2600 game.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uztA6JCKB4s

[mtshark7]

I always thought the Disney movies to games were great! Like Disney's Aladdin for Sega Genesis and Lion King....maybe have a 2600 version of those games?

[BrianC]

I always thought the I Love Lucy chocolate factory scene would make a good 2600 game.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uztA6JCKB4s

 

Pressure Cooker uses a similar idea and rocks!!!

 

I was surprised that an episode of Columbo has something Atari related in it. The season 5 episode with Leslie Neilsen had a scene on a boardwalk with an arcade that has Pong in the background.

[Pioneer4x4]

I always thought the I Love Lucy chocolate factory scene would make a good 2600 game.

 

 

 

Pressure Cooker uses a similar idea and rocks!!!

 

I was surprised that an episode of Columbo has something Atari related in it. The season 5 episode with Leslie Neilsen had a scene on a boardwalk with an arcade that has Pong in the background.

Also Party Mix has a mini game that is kinda close. Actually a great 4 player team game.

[Pioneer4x4]

I recently picked up the complete Benny Hill DVD collection (18 DVDs of Benny Hill!) and was thinking of some of his skits could be funny as a video game.

I did_not_know a complete collection existed of his. Thanks!

 

Which set are you talking about though? On Amazon, I see a set called 'The Thames Years' and 'Complete Unadulterated Set'. Both are from the same span of time.

 

I've got a couple individual DVD's of his that I wasn't too excited about: 'Best of' and 'Golden Greats'.

I'll look at home tonight. I think it is the complete unadalterated "Megaset" the thames years. 1969-1989. 53 episodes3-4 per disc. The main bummer is no subtitles... It is the same as all six of the previous collections combined. I got it at "The Exchange" for $50.

[horseboy]

Dead Alive/Braindead. Just the lawnmower scene would be enough.

 

That would be something. Easily one of my favorite movies.

[retrorussell]

The Shining - Escape the Overlook and the Hedgemaze before Jack gets ya.

 

Return of the Living Dead - Get through the Warehouse,Mortuary and Cemetery before the bomb drops. Enemies would be zombies,body parts and split dogs.

 

Wheel of Fortune

 

Tic Tac Dough

 

Predator - Study what Pack-in-Video did for the NES version and then do the exact opposite.

 

WKRP in Cincinnati - Dodge the turkeys being dropped by Les Nesman from the helicopter.

 

Courage the Cowardly Dog - Help Courage avoid Eustace and other monsters while trying to bring Muriel her scones.

Actually a Tic Tac Dough game was in the works but never materialized. I would like to see a number of game shows on the 2600 (Bullseye, Joker's Wild, Whew!, etc.)

[Zwackery]

This topic (at least film-to-game adaptations) is of significant interest for me, as it is the topic of my dissertation. From a period of 1982-2005 (actually I kept a log through 2011, although the main focus of my analysis ended in 2005) about 600 games were released based on films, and most of them are not very good from a variety of perspectives, from gameplay/mechanics to aesthetics to narrative; however, when one is done well, it is usually quite a good title. Given the technical limitations of the time, titles like Raiders of the Lost Ark and even the wrongfully (and often) maligned E.T. have something to offer.

 

For the 2600, an adaptation of a space title would give the designers something to work with. Given that Battle Beyond the Stars just got a 30th anniversary release on DVD, I'd vote for that one.

[AtariLeaf]

I always thought the I Love Lucy chocolate factory scene would make a good 2600 game.

 

Pressure Cooker is like this and a certain Tandy Coco game as well

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5YrjZVh_AQ

Edited July 18, 2011 by AtariLeaf

[BigErn]

I read that the movie "The Last Starfighter" was supposed to get a video game tie-in for the Atari 5200, and a coin-op arcade machine, but it never happened.

 

According to Wikipedia, "Solaris was at one point going to be based on The Last Starfighter." So that's the closest thing to a movie tie-in, and it's supposed to be pretty good.

[SoulBlazer]

It seems to be next to impossible to have a Movie/TV show and a game BASED on said Movie/TV show BOTH be good. It's either one or the other. (Yes, there are many games that are FAR better then the Movie or TV show that they are based on.)

 

The one exception that comes to mind was Spiderman 2. Great movie, awsome game. In fact, at the time it came out I had a friend joke "Wow, both the movie and the game are very good -- I think that's one of the signs of the apocoplyse!"

[Brian O]

<sarcasm> Has anyone said Knight Rider? </sarcasm>

[BrianC]

I read that the movie "The Last Starfighter" was supposed to get a video game tie-in for the Atari 5200, and a coin-op arcade machine, but it never happened.

 

According to Wikipedia, "Solaris was at one point going to be based on The Last Starfighter." So that's the closest thing to a movie tie-in, and it's supposed to be pretty good.

 

The Last Starfighter was planned for Atari 800 as well and got released as Star Raiders II for the Atari 800. The Last Starfighter proto for 5200 and 800 has been dumped and has some differences from the final release (seems to be complete, as well). It takes much more from the movie than the 2600 proto. Despite the changes to make it less like the movie, Star Raiders II still has some similarities to The Last Starfighter. There's also a NES The Last Starfighter game from Mindscape, but that was a bit after the movie and a port of the C64 Uridium.

 

AtariProtos.com page for The Last Starfighter 5200

Edited July 25, 2011 by BrianC

[Zwackery]

It seems to be next to impossible to have a Movie/TV show and a game BASED on said Movie/TV show BOTH be good. It's either one or the other. (Yes, there are many games that are FAR better then the Movie or TV show that they are based on.)

 

The one exception that comes to mind was Spiderman 2. Great movie, awsome game. In fact, at the time it came out I had a friend joke "Wow, both the movie and the game are very good -- I think that's one of the signs of the apocoplyse!"

 

I'm no fan of Spider-Man, although I really, really enjoyed the first movie. The second one, not so much, but I found the movie game to be an amazingly fun experience. It is what I consider to be a great example of an adaptation done well.

[Nukey Shay]

A2600:

 

Alien was a good game. So was Towering Inferno. Tho neither of them had much in common with the films. Raiders Of The Lost Ark was an excellent title...so are Empire Strikes Back and SW:Arcade. I found ET to be more boring than difficult...six screens is not a large map for an adventure (although the 8-bit version was much better by comparison). I suppose that could be forgiven, considering the target audience (same story for Smurfs). Fantastic Voyage, Star Trek, and M.A.S.H. are not terrible games either...so long as you can deal with their difficulty curve. I never got into Tron, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Krull, Pokey's, Ghostbusters, or the muppet games...but I never played those titles until the days of emulation. I had James Bond for the 8-bit back then though...and it's crap on both.

 

Dunno if you could include Superman, Flash Gordon, or Spiderman...since those were based off the comics.

 

 

So the console's adaptations good/bad ratio is not bad at all. Probably the best of the bunch.