Games based on TV shows

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **Moggy** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 3:43 pm

KK wrote:I still remember my birthday in 2000. I got given all 3 South Park games on PSone. They can't possibly be as bad as OPM said they were, I thought. Well they strawberry floating were...

I never played those, but you reminded me that I enjoyed South Park: The Stick of Truth.

I need to pick up The Fractured But Whole at some point.

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **Moggy** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 3:44 pm

IAmTheSaladMan wrote:I was wondering that, what are we counting as a TV license?

The definition is pretty loose in my opinion. A cartoon counts as a TV show just as much as game show or a serious drama.

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **Trelliz** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 3:46 pm

Cheeky Devlin wrote:Star Trek TNG: A Final Unity was pretty good for the time.

Actually there have been a few good Trek games. Elite Force and Bridge Crew being examples.

I've been playing Star Trek Online for years, but recently have acquired numerous other ST games on different formats. There have been some stinkers, Star Trek Invasion on PS1 and Star Trek Legacy on the 360 were distinctly un-fun.

Also speaking of Robot Wars, the games may have been a bit naff but there is a semi-official mod for Robot Arena 2 which is quite good apparently.

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by KK » Wed Aug 22, 2018 3:46 pm

I've just remembered the best TV licensed game OF ALL TIME.

Honest to God, this was better than Driver 2. In hindsight that isn't saying much, but this was properly brilliant.

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **Rex Kramer** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 3:49 pm

There were some very good TV adaptations back in the 80s. I remember the Speccy getting stuff like Trap Door, The Young Ones, Kickstart 2.

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by KK » Wed Aug 22, 2018 3:53 pm

The Wallace and Gromit games weren't bad, were they? I have a vague recollection of one of them being set in a zoo.

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **Cumberdanes** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 3:56 pm

It reviewed quite poorly if memory serves but I rather enjoyed the Family Guy game on original XBOX.

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **Nibble** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 4:08 pm

There's been a fair few games based on The X-files. None of which, I believe, are particularly great.

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **Preezy** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 4:12 pm

Lotus wrote:I thought The Simpsons Hit & Run was pretty good.

First thing that came to mind :wub:

IAmTheSaladMan wrote:Star Trek Voyager Elite Force was great too on PC.

Second thing that came to mind :wub:

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **Zartan** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 4:55 pm

Ducktales reminded me of Chip and Dale rescue rangers on the NES, that was fantastic

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **Pedz** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 5:16 pm

Don't forget Darkwing Duck on the NES.

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **Dowbocop** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 5:23 pm

Rex Kramer wrote:There were some very good TV adaptations back in the 80s. I remember the Speccy getting stuff like Trap Door, The Young Ones, Kickstart 2.

We had the Eastenders game on the Spectrum. I remember a minigame based in the launderette and one based in the Queen Vic. It was weird.

Does anyone remember the games for the RM Nimbus based around the Look and Read series they used to slow in school?

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **Cumberdanes** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 5:27 pm

There are at least 4 good Tiny Toon Adventures games, 2 on NES, 1 on Mega Drive and 1 on SNES.

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **Ironhide** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 6:21 pm

IAmTheSaladMan wrote:There are at least 4 good Tiny Toon Adventures games, 2 on NES, 1 on Mega Drive and 1 on SNES.

The MD one was developed by Treasure so I'm assuming that on was fairly decent.

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **Cumberdanes** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 6:31 pm

Ironhide wrote:
IAmTheSaladMan wrote:There are at least 4 good Tiny Toon Adventures games, 2 on NES, 1 on Mega Drive and 1 on SNES.

The MD one was developed by Treasure so I'm assuming that on was fairly decent.

Is it? I thought it was both developed and published by Konami.

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **Frank** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 8:58 pm

Can't believe I posted in a thread about games based on TV shows and forgot to mention Crash Time :fp:

(based on Alarm fur Cobra 11, a German show that's famous for it's ridiculous stunts)

It's got some incredibly dodgy voice-acting, and the cinematics could do with some better direction, but it's genuinely one of the most enjoyable series' of this generation. The single player gives you an entire town to muck about in, loads of missions and collectibles if you're that way inclined, and the multiplayer offers so much more than the standard dull races. The sumo mode lets you pit a bunch of forklift trucks against each other in a competition to see who can push the others off the roof of a skyscraper, or you can run endurance races around the autobahn in enormous JCBs.

They might never win any awards, but it's easily one of my favourite franchises of the past few years just for the hours of sheer fun it provided.

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **BID0** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:39 pm

Pokemon Yellow

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **Wedgie** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:58 pm

24 on the PS2. God that was bloody terrible.

I've played Bart Simpson vs Alien Mutants and that Konami Simpsons arcade game plus Bucky Rodgers arcade game which was actually enjoyable. Plus various Simpsons and South Park games on the N64/PS2 and they all are terrible.

I haven't played many TV series based video games. The last one was Game of Thrones by Telltales, but not sure if that counts tbh.

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **Trelliz** » Thu Aug 23, 2018 7:45 am

Frank wrote:Can't believe I posted in a thread about games based on TV shows and forgot to mention Crash Time

Good call, i'd forgotten about those too.

Also not technically of the series, but Deadly Premonition is a massive homage to Twin Peaks, does that count?

Similarly does anime count? If so i'd like to add the Initial D and Wangan Midnight games.

PostRe: Games based on TV shows by **chanticleer** » Thu Aug 23, 2018 9:35 am

TV licences always tended to make pretty serviceable if not great platformers. DuckTales was the best by a long shot, but the various Tiny Toons games were great as well. I remember playing others and enjoying them too - Doctor Who on the Amiga (I think), Bart Simpson's Escape From Camp Deadly, TailSpin, Taz-Mania etc etc.

Tie-ins that tried to do something different generally were... bad. Krusty's Super Fun House is the one that springs to mind.

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