Opinion: Worst vdeo game based on a movie?

[TheDarkOne]

The list of Star Wars games that aren't any good would be much shorter. Off the top of my head, I can think of only a few, all of which have been mentioned. But this thread of is for movie-based games is general, not just Star Wars, so let's talk about another one--namely, Jurassic Park on the Sega Genesis. I think the only thing that saved that game from being a total crap-fest was the ability to play as a velociraptor--and even that lost it's charm pretty fast. I understand the SNES version of the game was very different, but I know very little about it, so I can't judge that one.

[rock_nog]

Jurassic Park for the SNES was... Alright, from what I remember. The first-person sections were a pain, but I honestly don't remember it being either particularly good or bad. I had the NES version, though, and that was definitely bad. It kinda suffers the Super Star Wars problem of just being plain too difficult. All the enemies took tons of ammo to kill, and there was never enough ammo to kill them with.

[TheDarkOne]

Almost any movie-based game made for the NES was pretty bad. I can't think of any good ones off the top of my head, and there was a number of them. Back To The Future (both versions) sticks in my mind as being one of the worst. There was also a SNES game called "Super Back To The Future" that was only released in Japan, so I know little about that one.

[King Aquamentus]

The SNES game was actually pretty good, albeit very generic.

Here's some good or at least decent NES games based on films!

Top Gun (seriously)
Little Nemo: The Dream Master
Batman
The Goonies (Famicom. For the rest of the world, Goonies II)
Gremlins II
Robocop
The Little Mermaid
New Ghostbusters II

[TheDarkOne]

Okay, I have looked into most of the games on the above list and yes, they are decent ones. Even Little Mermaid was fun to play, in a "be a kid again for a little while" sort of way. Top Gun was...well, I guess if you like that sort of game, it was good, but not really my thing. I was unable to find anything about the Little Nemo game. It surprises me that there would have been a NES games based on that move--when it came out, even the SNES was obsolete.

[rock_nog]

I was unable to find anything about the Little Nemo game. It surprises me that there would have been a NES games based on that move--when it came out, even the SNES was obsolete.

Technically, the movie came out in 1989 in Japan, and the video game was released in the US a year later. I mean, in that regard, it's a little strange because the game came out before the movie it was based on was released in the States. But still, the game did come out before the release of the SNES, it was just a couple of years before the movie saw a US distribution. Actually, I remember that being very confusing to me as a kid. I knew the game existed, though I had never played it, and then the movie came out, and I had no idea that the game had been based on the movie. It was always, "Huh, the game and the movie have similar titles, I wonder if they're related," but I never thought the game was based on the movie because the movie had come out after the game, and of course this was before Wikipedia, and I had no idea the movie was made in Japan and had already been released there.

[Tamamo]

Home Alone Lost In Newyork

[TheDarkOne]

Technically, the movie came out in 1989 in Japan, and the video game was released in the US a year later. I mean, in that regard, it's a little strange because the game came out before the movie it was based on was released in the States. But still, the game did come out before the release of the SNES, it was just a couple of years before the movie saw a US distribution. Actually, I remember that being very confusing to me as a kid. I knew the game existed, though I had never played it, and then the movie came out, and I had no idea that the game had been based on the movie. It was always, "Huh, the game and the movie have similar titles, I wonder if they're related," but I never thought the game was based on the movie because the movie had come out after the game, and of course this was before Wikipedia, and I had no idea the movie was made in Japan and had already been released there.

That was my mistake, I was confusing the movie Little Nemo with the movie FINDING Nemo. Oops. The titles of the two movies got a little jumbled in my head. If you think about when Finding Nemo came out my post makes a little more sense.

As for Home Alone LINY, don't even get me started! The movie was already bad (just a re-hash of the first one), and the game even worse.

[rock_nog]

Oh oh OH, okay... yeah, it makes a LOT more sense now. Your post seemed a little odd, but I thought that was just because of confusion owing to the fact that the game came out before the movie it was based on, which yeah, that confused me, too. I mean, I didn't get why you were saying the SNES was obsolete, but again, I was kinda just thinking that you were thinking the game was released after the movie, and had also somehow mixed up the NES and SNES. Which yeah, if you substitute NES for SNES, and assume the Little Nemo game came out after the movie, the system would've been obsolete by the time the game came out. Too many Nemos, man.

[Tamamo]

For me I've always been a been a huge fantasy fan. So when they made an incredible film adaption of Lion Witch and Wardrobe I was hyped for a video game released. Such video game did not meet my expectations at all.