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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vYBr_b-qAk

Who thought this was a good idea? The music is obnoxious, it's full of dead ends, tons of cheap hits, horrible attempts at humor, etc.

>> No.926880

Movie franchise games are one thing, but TV franchise games? DEAR GOD.

>> No.926894

What's more fun then punching wild animals in the face?

>> No.926906

To be fair, in the NES days they licensed just about everything they possibly could. Old TV shows included.

Fester's Quest, anyone?

>> No.926905

>>926894
Punching the natives in the face?

>> No.926912

>>926906
I don't think much has changed.

>> No.926945

>>926912
Especially with animated movies.

>> No.926991

Just as a curiosity, are there any good franchise games out there? I tend to avoid the stuff like the plague.

>> No.927036

>>926991
No.

>> No.927080
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927080

m80

>> No.927082

I don't know. I think I remembered playing the Harry Potter games on the PSX and thinking they were alright.

>> No.927091

>>926991
The TMNT and Asterix arcade games are pretty good. Goonies is okay. Konami has had a decent track record with licensed stuff.

>> No.927118

>>927091
Rugrats. I don't remember jack shit about the game, but I remember playing a ton of it when I was younger.

>> No.927120

>>927091
>TMNT
>Asterix
>Goonies
>X-Men
>The Simpsons
>Tiny Toon Adventures
>Batman

>> No.927134

>>927120
Oh yeah. For some reason I didn't even think of TMNT.

>> No.927160

>>927134
Derp. Ducktales.

>> No.927171

>>927160
Duck Tales for the NES? That was Capcom.

>> No.927214

>>927171
Not talking about companies, bro. Talking about TV show turned game.

>> No.927262

>>927214

Oh, yeah. I think Capcom had some other decent licensed games, but I can't remember them off the top of my head.

>> No.927270

>>927262
Now that you say that, didn't Capcom make like a whole bunch of good Disney games?

Darkwing Duck, Chip and Dale and the like?

>> No.927319

>>927270
Yup, that was them.

>> No.927483

Where's Ginger?

>> No.927731

>>927483
Good question.

>> No.927769

>>926912

True, but these days adaptations are (for the most part) limited to comic books, movies and cartoons. I mean, today you don't see anyone releasing a game based on a sitcom that came out 20 years ago.

>> No.927842

>>927769
I think a Firefly game is currently being made...

>> No.927853

>>927842

Meh, they've been talking about that for ages.

>> No.927878

>>927853
Must be back in circulation. Just heard about it recently on Polaris.

>> No.927885

>>927769
Seinfeld video game pls!

>> No.927910

>>927885
The hell would you do in it?

>> No.927915

>>927910
Probably do everything you could to avoid anything resembling gameplay.

Or it could be a really weird Super Mario Bros. 2 hack.

>> No.927926

>>927915
I'd like to see that. lol

>> No.927932

>>927910
point and click adventure game.

>> No.927969

>>927932
What would be the adventure?

>> No.927973
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>>927915
>>927926
it's been done

>> No.927978

>>927973
The fuck is that? lol

>> No.927981

I always thought GI would make an interesting game premise; escape the island by means of various schemes or inventions while an AI controlled Gilligan wanders around and attempts to inadvertently fuck up your progress. Then I found out someone else beat me to the punch by 20 years or so, even if it's in primitive fashion. Actually feels good man.

>> No.927989

>>927978
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOfQkOuAnWM

>> No.927990
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927990

>>927769
>I mean, today you don't see anyone releasing a game based on a sitcom that came out 20 years ago.

This is what the geniuses at Bandai seriously thought American gamers would want instead of a DragonBall or Gundam game.

>inb4 Dragon Power

>>927885
ShiggyDiggy Frogger? FUND IT

>The Adventures of Gilligan's Island

Just gonna leave this here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlHMe2tNdQg

>> No.927991
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927991

I rented this game once, beat it in a weekend. I've played much worse. It's way better than Back to the Future.

>> No.927992

>>927990
DBZ and Gundam weren't so popular in the US during the 80's. Anime was a pretty underground thing at the time, really.

>> No.928001
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>>926906

I'm the guy who rented Gilligan's Island. I had Fester's Quest. Actually, it's a weird story.

OK so in 6th grade I was like one of those kids who was bullied by everyone and there was another kid in my class like that too, his name was Eric. Well, we decide to borrow games, I let him borrow my Mega-Man 3 and I borrowed his Fester's Quest.

Well, like a week or so later he doesn't show up to school. And around that time my parents split up and my mom, my sister and I moved back to our homestate, so I didn't find any of this out until later. But it turned out he killed himself, and apparently I was mentioned in his suicide note and he apparently may have had a homosexual crush on me, I don't even fucking wanna know. But the thing that bothered me the most is that I never got my Mega Man 3 back and was stuck with Fester's Quest. I eventually traded that Fester's Quest for Little League World Series with some kid in my new class who didn't commit suicide. I didn't want to be stuck with the cursed Fester's Quest cartridge from the suicide kid.

So that's my Fester's Quest story, I tell it anytime Fester's Quest is mentioned and people don't know how to react. I also sometimes tell it when Mega Man 3 is mentioned, but usually I just talk about how Whistle Concert/Protoman's theme is my favorite song from the NES era of game music.

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>>927992
I know but it still would've been more interesting than Gilligan's Island game.

>> No.928016
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>>927978
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_no_Ch%C5%8Dsenj%C5%8D

>> No.928018

>>926991
Die Hard for the NES

>> No.928024

>>928016
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_no_Ch%C5%8Dsenj%C5%8D
Riiiiiggggghhhhttttt....

That's...interesting to say the least.

>> No.928080

>>928018
Didn't they re-release that game for the PSX?

>> No.928242

Sun Soft has had a alright run with a couple movie based games.

>> No.928263

>>928001
Did you like the game?

>> No.928267
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928267

someone ask about good tv franchise games?

>> No.929504

>>928267
I played it way back in the day, but don't remember if I liked it or not.

>> No.929608

>>928267
The Chip 'n Dale and Ducktales games that Capcom whipped up were pretty solid. I remember their Tale Spin being decent as well, though I only played it briefly as a rental.

>> No.929834

>>929608
Tale Spin is not a bad game but it's nothing extraordinary. It's short and very easy shmup that adds nothing to the formula, but for was it is, there is nothing wrong about it. It's decent yeah. Worth a playthrough if you're interested in the show, or in what Capcom and the NES did in general.

>> No.929893

>>928263

Fester's Quest? It was ok, but not as good as Mega Man 3.

>> No.929921

>>929608

Pretty much all of Capcom's Disney-licensed games were fun. Except Mickey Mousecapade (although that one has a weird charm to it).

Little Mermaid, Ducktales, Little Nemo, etc. are all solid.

>> No.929931

>>929893

The biggest issue with Fester's Quest is the same issue Roger Rabbit had: your objective is unclear. You just kind of start off without any indication of where you're supposed to go.

That, and Fester's Quest is brutally difficult.

>> No.930002

>>929931
The only thing I remember about Roger Rabbit was the fucking trivia questions.

>> No.930004

>>929921
Well Hudson did it, Capcom just published it.

>> No.930086

>>929931
The problem with Fester's Quest is that when they imported the gun mechanics from Blaster Master, they failed to design the levels to not interfere with these mechanics. So while in Blaster Master, the middle power-ups are annoying, in Fester's Quest you quite often run into situations where they are literally impossible to use. And while in Blaster Master you have the grenade to fall back on in situations that hinder the use of certain bullet patterns, you don't have this in Fester's Quest.

This is the sort of thing that people with limited vocabularies call "artificial difficulty", but which is probably better called "unintentional difficulty". The difficulty stems not from an intentional design decision, but comes from a flaw in the game.

>> No.930105

>>930086

Oh shit, I didn't realize it til you mentioned it, but now I see it so clear, that they did use the Blaster Master gun mechanics for Fester's Quest.

>> No.930119

>>930086
>This is the sort of thing that people with limited vocabularies call "artificial difficulty", but which is probably better called "unintentional difficulty".

"Hard but for the wrong reasons". Yes.

>fucked up gun "upgrades" in festers quest
>poorly implemented wall jumping
>jumping off ladders in spelunker
>poor collision detection
>edges of platforms are not where they are drawn onscreen (the bane of every running jump)
>bad camera angles in early 3D games causing death
>poor enemy placement (in doorways, automatically hit when entering).
>control lag
>etc

I would consider "artificial difficulty" be intentional game designs meant to fuck the player over in a "tomb of horrors run by a masochistic DM" kind of way. Like wizardry 4.

>> No.930712

After seeing a SNES game about Arrested Development and a MSX game about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I say I'm not really surprised they went to make a Gilligan's Island game

>> No.930738

>>927118
It's not very good.

>> No.930751

>>930119

In the case where it's hard because the designers are idiots, I don't feel compelled to keep playing.

But in the cases where it's hard because the designers are bastards, I say fucking BRING IT.

>> No.930758

>>927842
>>927853
>>927878

IF YOU NEED ME, I'LL BE IN MY BUNK

>> No.930770

>>930712
None of those are real.

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>>930770

Your post made me realize I typed "Arrested Development" instead "Home Improvement", what the bloody hell.

>> No.930798

>>930787
Oh, then in that case yeah. But there was no TCM game for the MSX, don't you mean the Atari 2600? Or maybe you meant Atari VCS?

>> No.930809

>>930787
>"Home Improvement"

>The game had no instruction manual explaining each of the buttons. In its place, the splash screen explained: “Real men don't need instructions.”

>> No.930820

>>930809
What? How did this game even go over Nintendo's policies? That would be completely against their policies, wouldn't it?

>> No.930837
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930837

>>930809
Then explain this.

>> No.930873

>>930798

Yeah, I meant the Atari 2600. Sometimes I tend to mix the games of those systems.

>> No.930881

>>930837

those "instructions" are like like 3 pages. one page for the game instructions which are covered by a big sign that says Real Men Don't Need Instructions, and two pages for notes.

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930893

How come they never made a game about this TV show?

I can picture a Goemon-esque action game with some more adventure elements made by Konami, shit would've been awesome.

>> No.930924

>>930820
>How did this game even go over Nintendo's policies?
>>930881
that's how

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>>930881
>>930924

>> No.930937

>>930873
why?
except for the fact that the MSX computers didn't do scrolling very well, MSX games were more like NES games than Atari 2600 games. Also an arrested development SNES game sounds like it would be awesome

>> No.930941

>>930893
I could have sworn there was one announced back in the day

>> No.930949

>>930934
well, it fits the spirit of the show (even though the game doesn't), and the game it's self is a shitty generic platformer... so if you know how to play a platformer you don't need directions anyhow

>> No.930948

>>930937
I want a Mega Man X hack where you play as Michael and you go through stages and defeat your family members and gain their powers and then you fight Annyong and his giant mechanical body.

>> No.930969

>>926798
Me and my sister actually spent hours and hours playing this, I remember liking it as a 6 year old

>> No.930972

>>930948
for some reason, even though there was none of this type of music in the show... I'm imagining the game music being like chillwave, only slightly more fast paced