View Full Version : Popular or semi-popular toys/cartoons that never made it to video game systems
Let's start with Voltron. Very popular cartoon, but never made it to any systems.
Thundercats was another, but I think it came out for computers at least.
While there are many Transformers games now, the mid-to-late 80's severely lacked a TF game. One was released on the Famicom, but was so bad it didn't make it to the US.
Discuss this and/or add your own...
SegaAges
11-25-2008, 03:33 PM
Did that one show M.A.S.K. get a game?
Did that one show M.A.S.K. get a game?
Not that I remember, but wasn't one rumored on the 2600 or other classic system?
SegaAges
11-25-2008, 03:41 PM
i just remember that show because i had the retarded r2-d2 look alike toy where the kid would ride on the back of it.
i just remember that show because i had the retarded r2-d2 look alike toy where the kid would ride on the back of it.
That show is remembered for one of the best theme songs in cartoon history.
"Masked crusaiders, working overtime, fighting crime!"
ooXxXoo
11-25-2008, 03:58 PM
1.-SilverHawks
2.-Dinosaucers
3.-BraveStarr
4.-TigerSharks
5.-Centurions
6.-Adv of the Galaxy Rangers....
CosmicMonkey
11-25-2008, 04:17 PM
Pole Position. Not the Namco game.
I remember the Centurions cartoon. I still think it's a good concept. I remember having the toy of the green matey plus one of his extra weapons system kits.
Bravestarr and Galaxy Rangers were both cool futuristic Western style cartoons.
SegaAges
11-25-2008, 04:21 PM
What about that one cartoon with the sweet toys where donisaurs had laser beams attached to the heads?
Rob2600
11-25-2008, 05:25 PM
Rock Lords
The Shawn
11-25-2008, 05:27 PM
Star Blazers.
Also +1 for Voltron.
How about the Gobots?booo!
I've always felt that the Gummi Bears would have made an great video game. Bouncing here and there and everywhere...plus Gummi Beary juice?!?!! Pure awesome.
Just about every other show from the Disney Afternoon (Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, Talespin, Ducktales....) had a video game based off of it, why not this one. Most of those games, btw, were pretty good.
backguard
11-25-2008, 05:36 PM
Shirt Tales!
Tempest
11-25-2008, 05:40 PM
Battlestar Galactica - I know there were a few knock off games by some small companies for some computers, but there were no games for any of the major systems (I think Mattel had the rights for the Intellivision, but TI also announced a game for the TI-99/4a).
Was there ever a Thundercats game?
Tempest
CelticJobber
11-25-2008, 05:42 PM
Jem, she was "truly outrageous" but never had a videogame that I know of...
Matt-El
11-25-2008, 05:42 PM
Tattoed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills.
NO GAME?!!? WTF?
Draven
11-25-2008, 05:44 PM
ShirtTales...LMAO. I forgot about them. Mask would have been the best, but what about Knights of the Mystical Light (or something like that). They were knights who carried around big poles with hologram stickers on them and they changed into animals. I know He-Man finally made it in the current gen systems, but where was he back in the day?
jb143
11-25-2008, 05:46 PM
I know He-Man finally made it in the current gen systems, but where was he back in the day?
Atari 2600 and Intelivision both had one. But that's it that I know of. I don't think there were any durring the NES era.
Tempest
11-25-2008, 05:56 PM
what about Knights of the Mystical Light (or something like that). They were knights who carried around big poles with hologram stickers on them and they changed into animals.
Ahh the Visionaries! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merklynn
I had all those toys and even the comic books (they stopped 2 issues short of finishing the damn story!). There was never a game as far as I know.
how about Transformers? I know there was some sort of educational game for the C-64 and a crappy one for the Famicom, but there was no mainstream action game in the US as far as I know.
Tempest
http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-st/thundercats/screenshots/gameShotId,116812/
Mobygames has a brief write-up on the Thundercats game (http://www.mobygames.com/game/thundercats/screenshots)
Steve W
11-25-2008, 07:25 PM
1.-SilverHawks
I console myself with the fact that the voice acting on that show was so bad, it makes the voice work on nearly every FMV game look Oscar-worthy. :)
Tempest
11-25-2008, 07:29 PM
http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-st/thundercats/screenshots/gameShotId,116812/
Mobygames has a brief write-up on the Thundercats game (http://www.mobygames.com/game/thundercats/screenshots)
Well I'll be damned. I never knew this existed. It doesn't look very good though, sort of like a crappy Rastan clone.
Tempest
Freakazoid deserved it's own video game, but WB killed the show before there was even a chance for one.
I would have love to have the 60s Batman on a classic system. Hell they released Gilligan's Island, Thunderbirds, Three Stooges, and several others.
Here's a video of the Thundercats game for the Amiga.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH4TPFlMJJw
ooXxXoo
11-25-2008, 08:05 PM
I console myself with the fact that the voice acting on that show was so bad, it makes the voice work on nearly every FMV game look Oscar-worthy. :)
Thinking about cheesy stuff....How the hell the "Mighty Mice" scored a game deal?....I still have my SNES copy....
..... :)
Tupin
11-25-2008, 08:09 PM
Freakazoid deserved it's own video game, but WB killed the show before there was even a chance for one.
That show was weird, as well as funny.
Most shows I can think of that never got a game were ones that really had no feasible system they could be on, or any concept to be created from it. Like CatDog, Invader Zim, Doug, and pretty much anything else to come out of Nickelodeon in the mid to late 1990's.
Except for The Rugrats. That show had more games than I care to count. Even though the show started in 1991, I can't recall a game made before the PS1/N64 era.
MASTERWEEDO
11-25-2008, 08:12 PM
Duckman
SpaceHarrier
11-25-2008, 08:17 PM
Sectaurs. Loved the cartoon and toys as a kid. Might even have some of the action figures still floating around somewhere...
Mayhem
11-25-2008, 08:21 PM
Was gonna answer the Thundercats one, but I see it already got done. Masters of the Universe got two games on the C64 as well, an arcade type game and an adventure.
Did that one show M.A.S.K. get a game?
A few actually...
http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=4607
http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=4608
http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=4609
Never underestimate the possibility that a license product came out for the 8-bit computers in Europe ;)
Tempest
11-25-2008, 08:37 PM
Three games based on MASK?!?! My god, it wasn't THAT good of a cartoon...
Tempest
Tupin
11-25-2008, 08:48 PM
Three games based on MASK?!?! My god, it wasn't THAT good of a cartoon...
Tempest
Hey, Family Dog got a game, and it only lasted 5 episodes.
Jared_Vibelicious
11-25-2008, 08:53 PM
I give a +1 vote for Jem and the Holograms
also what about count duckula or the snorks?
Flack
11-25-2008, 09:15 PM
Battlestar Galactica - I know there were a few knock off games by some small companies for some computers, but there were no games for any of the major systems (I think Mattel had the rights for the Intellivision, but TI also announced a game for the TI-99/4a).
It took about 25 years for it to finally make it.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517VDNSWQDL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
Tempest
11-25-2008, 09:39 PM
I give a +1 vote for Jem and the Holograms
also what about count duckula or the snorks?
I'm almost positive Count Duckula had a game out in the UK. They also made one for Danger Mouse.
Tempest
Kiddo
11-25-2008, 09:55 PM
On the note of Voltron:
While not necessarily his own game, Golion (Lion Voltron) has appeared in Super Robot Wars W for the DS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfrgoenvQJ4
He looks pretty sweet too.
jupitersj
11-26-2008, 01:51 AM
Teddy Rucksben and Glow-Worms?
Steven
11-26-2008, 01:57 AM
-Dino Riders
-He-Man??? (unless a game flew over my head that I don't know of)
-She-Ra
-Bionic Six
-C.O.P.S
-Street Sharks (early-mid '90s TMNT clone)
Sure there's more, but that's off the top of my head.
emceelokey
11-26-2008, 02:03 AM
Jem, she was "truly outrageous" but never had a videogame that I know of...
That's the first thing I thought of.
Did Sailor Moon come out wiht a game in the U.S.? It was fairly popular in the U.S. syndication market in it's day. I did play Japanese PSX game for it and they were horrible so I guess it was for the better.
WildCats... Actually I think they was a SNES game for that comic.
j_factor
11-26-2008, 03:16 AM
I always wondered why there wasn't a game to go along with The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.
thundarr
11-26-2008, 04:29 AM
lords of light! was thundarr the barbarian ever a video game? post- apocalyptic bliss
Draven
11-26-2008, 10:30 AM
The A-Team, although it isn't a cartoon. How cool would it be to fight as B.A. Baracus, picking up milk for energy? "I don't ride on no planes!" Or drive Face's vette or the van? Ah, I love it when a game comes together.
emceelokey
11-26-2008, 07:25 PM
Gen 13. That's one that was super huge at the time and never really went further than comic books.
DDCecil
11-26-2008, 07:48 PM
Duckman did get a PC game, which has awesome dialogue. Doug also got a game, but for Gameboy Color and based on the Disney version.