Worst possible video game licenses

[ManekiNeko]

We've seen some pretty stupid games in the past with inappropriate licenses hastily tacked onto them. I challenge you to top these blunders by picking a television show, movie, or other property that would never, ever work as a video game.
My choice is the short-lived animated sitcom The Critic. I thought this was a clever series and one of the better Simpsons clones from the early to mid 1990s. However, I can't possibly see how it could translate to the video game medium. The Critic appeals to an older audience with its sophisticated humor and film references... a video game based on the show would have little of the television show's sense of humor and almost no mass market appeal.

JR

[FABombjoy]

So, we're suppsed to figure out what would have been the worst license?

In that event, I choose the movie On Golden Pond. I couldn't imagine a more miserable gaming experience, unless somebody created "Beaches: the Game, now for your NES!"

[omnedon]

Hmmmm.

Well, I thought of a really bad license. I won't post it though, because it would be in such bad taste, and so offensive, as people would somehow think I was bad just for having thought of it.

:P

[Alex Kidd]

I think a video game based on Frasier would suck

Guaranteed you'd be Frasier and everyone else in the cast will have gone "mad" for some reaosn and kidnapped his father, and you have to beat each person in some crazy (read inexplicably inappropriate) area.

Alex Kidd

[hezeuschrist]

Hmmmm.

Well, I thought of a really bad license. I won't post it though, because it would be in such bad taste, and so offensive, as people would somehow think I was bad just for having thought of it.

:P

I know you were thinking of Goatse: The VideoGame!

[TVs Hasselhoff]

Why is everyone trying to make one up?

The two worst licenses I've seen have been Largo Winch (french detective, anyone?) and City of Lost Children.

Why would you make a game based on a French independent film?

Notice how these are both French. (scratching head)

[BenT]

Webster: The Fighters

Ted Koppel's Nightline: Second Strike

Wesley Willis: Make Your Own Music Video

Wait, that last one would be cool.

[Captain Wrong]

Wesley Willis: Make Your Own Music Video

I will buy whatever console that comes out for.


How about a Manimal fighting game based on the Bloody Roar engine?

[ManekiNeko]

"Webster: The Fighters."

(giggles a bit, then breaks out laughing)
On a semi-serious note, I'd like to play that Space Suckers game Gary Coleman was addicted to in an episode of Diff'rent Strokes.

JR

[Mayhem]

Shaq Fu or Home Alone I guess...

[Queen Of The Felines]

Cabella's American Care Bear Hunter
You Don't Know Jack Black
Bloody Beanie Babies: The Director's Cut
Golden Girls Xtreme Beach Volleyball

Kristine

[portnoyd]

Mr Belvedere's Rampage: The FPS to end all FPSes - a hot tea was never so deadly. The game would be overrun with Ueckerdemons.

dave

[Atar1G1rl]

Wesley Crusher vs. Luke Skywalker Whining Game

[Arqueologia_Digital]

Street fighter: The movie is very poor for me...

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Wesley Crusher vs. Luke Skywalker Whining Game

I was about to suggest Masters Of Teras Kasi, but naaaaaahhh.

Worst real license use I've seen: P.T. Barnum's Acrobats for the Odyssey 2. Now, let me get one thing straight - I love the game itself. But Phillips went and spent money to use that name? Arrrgh. Granted, the Power Lords license wasn't that great an affiliation either, but the game's awesome.

I regret that better use was never made of the Ren & Stimpy license. Buckaroo$ for the NES is a good attempt, but there are so many unique situations from R&S that are eminently game-worthy.

Considering the weather we're getting at this very moment, I'd suggest "Twister: The Game," but (a) I think it's already been turned into a pinball table, and (b) try the "cyclone" stage of the otherwise crappy coin-op Pioneer Balloon. :P

[ehall]

Finding Forrester: the game.

Something along the lines of where's Waldo with literary clues. "I think that I shall never see..."

Quick look behind the tree!

[ehall]

Golden Girls Xtreme Beach Volleyball

You should be beaten for this.

[stonecutter]

Any game that would be based on todays " reality" tv shows would suck seriously.... just like the shows!

[Raedon]

Wesley Willis: Make Your Own Music Video

Wait, that last one would be cool.

Westley Willis is the funniest.. Pepsi, the taste of a new generation..

[Anonymous]

How about a Hooters game? Or a McDonalds game? No wait, I've got it, we'll take Michael Jordan and put him in a platformer about some parrallel world that's linked with chicago!

No, nevermind, those are just too godawful. No one would ever make those games.


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