View Full Version : Which franchise surprised you that never saw a game release?
vintagegamecrazy
03-02-2005, 07:19 PM
I wanted to start this for a while now, but which TV show, movie, toy line, comic etc. did you think a game would have been made after? We've seen releases of Beethoven, Wizard of Oz, to Beavis and Butthead and the retarded Mary Kate and Ashley series. The ones that surprised were Gumbi, Nickelodeon's Doug, Futurama, and heck King of the Hill (made a bazillion simpsons games for crying out loud). I'm not saying that they need to pain us with such useless ideas as the above mentioned, but if they released every other useless and retarded idea, why not these?
What are the ones that you expected to see, would they be good or bad?
Let the Conversing begin. :D
Crush Crawfish
03-02-2005, 07:27 PM
There's a doug game for game boy color, and a futurama Game for PS2 & xbox. Also, I beleive namco recently acquired the rights to make a gumby game.
Anyways, I'm still surprised that they haven't made a Teen titans game yet.
vintagegamecrazy
03-02-2005, 07:29 PM
There's a doug game for game boy color, and a futurama Game for PS2 & xbox.
I stand corrected, shoulda checked the database.
Also, I beleive namco recently acquired the rights to make a gumby game.
No Way, I am a mild Gumby fan, but I don't see the game doing any good.
Any others.
Kid Ice
03-02-2005, 07:33 PM
Daredevil?
The Fantastic Four got a game, X-Men got a bunch, Spiderman got a couple dozen, The Punisher got a few.
vintagegamecrazy
03-02-2005, 07:34 PM
Daredevil? Doesn't Activision have the rights to make a game for him.
Queen Of The Felines
03-02-2005, 07:49 PM
Hellraiser or Nightbreed, Color Dreams be damned. Hell, ANYTHING by Clive Barker. (No, Undying doesn't count because it was an original work.)
Kristine
drwily008
03-02-2005, 07:58 PM
Daredevil?
The Fantastic Four got a game, X-Men got a bunch, Spiderman got a couple dozen, The Punisher got a few.
Yeah, Daredevil came out on GBA the week the movie hit theaters...but the planned console releases (GC, PS2, AND XB) have been indefinitly postponed). Note: GBA one sold very badly below expected sales.
Kid Ice
03-02-2005, 07:58 PM
Daredevil? Doesn't Activision have the rights to make a game for him.
Dunno...but shouldn't a Daredevil game have come out years ago? All the lame superheroes had their day on the NES. They could've made some lame martial arts scroller and called it Daredevil. They could've called Ninja Gaiden "Daredevil". Sure, he's blind, but that hardly matters from a 3rd person perspective.
I remember seeing the trailer for the Daredevil movie, and as lame as it was calling out "God, finally!"
Kid Ice
03-02-2005, 07:59 PM
Daredevil?
The Fantastic Four got a game, X-Men got a bunch, Spiderman got a couple dozen, The Punisher got a few.
Yeah, Daredevil came out on GBA the week the movie hit theaters...but the planned console releases (GC, PS2, AND XB) have been indefinitly postponed). Note: GBA one sold very badly below expected sales.
I only have this to say about the GBA release:
"God, finally!"
:)
:monkey:
whoisKeel
03-03-2005, 12:11 AM
Joe Camel.
Anexanhume
03-03-2005, 12:47 AM
Big Trouble in Little China.
TheRedEye
03-03-2005, 01:12 AM
Hogan's Heroes.
WiseSalesman
03-03-2005, 01:13 AM
Big Trouble in Little China.
I will pay one million dollars and my soul for a good game based on this movie with kurt russel doing voice work.
SirDrexl
03-03-2005, 02:20 AM
My answer is the same as it was for the other thread about the license you are waiting for: Kill Bill (although it still could get made eventually as not every game based on a movie comes out when the movie does). I want two games: the action/adventure game with the bride, and the fighting game with the characters from the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad.
shoes23
03-03-2005, 02:43 AM
There is a futurama game for the PS2. Never played it but it exists!
GobopopRevisited
03-03-2005, 02:55 AM
Those Power Ranger rip-off shows- VR Troppers and Beetleborgs (I think thats what its called)
Captain N
Cryomancer
03-03-2005, 03:15 AM
They aren't really ranger rip offs so much as...let me explain real quick
PR is made from the super sentai series, been going on since the 70s, features teams of 3-6 people in colored uniforms, ect.
Beetleborgs i believe is made from a show in the Metal Hero line of shows, which is of the same genre as sentai but discernably different.
VR troopers was...either another metal hero show or some other single run mechanical hero show.
The genre is basically anything that's live-action, japanese, and full of special effects, and is called Tokusatsu. Kamen Rider, Sentai, metal heroes, and even stuff like godzilla can fall into the genre.
WOW I'M OFF TOPIC
so to stay on topic: http://www.digitpress.com/DP/cmf/listing.cmf?title=VR+Troopers some do exist
GobopopRevisited
03-03-2005, 03:23 AM
Oh WOW!... and WOW to you for knowing all that @_@
thegreatescape
03-03-2005, 03:29 AM
Anyways, I'm still surprised that they haven't made a Teen titans game yet.
Damn straight! A Titans game would surely be humanity's second finest achievement.
spoon
03-03-2005, 04:36 AM
My answer is the same as it was for the other thread about the license you are waiting for: Kill Bill (although it still could get made eventually as not every game based on a movie comes out when the movie does). I want two games: the action/adventure game with the bride, and the fighting game with the characters from the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad.
There was a game planned adn then canned. I believe it may have even had some work done to it. I vaguely remeber seeing a screen shot of this game in a game mag. I could be wrong, may have just been an article.
My vote goes to a Beer Tycoon game.
chrisbid
03-03-2005, 10:49 AM
im surprised there hasnt been more rock inspired games... with all the crap marketing record labels do these days. There are a few out there
Journey
Moonwalker
Crue Ball
Revolution X
Sega CD "Make Your Own Music Video" Series
im not saying i would like the games, but in the fleeting chance say a Ramones or Sonic Youth inspired game comes down the pike, id be all over it :)
jslithy
03-03-2005, 10:55 AM
I think there's a Gunbuster game coming out for the PS2 soon. I'm surprised it took this long for a game to be made...
Big Trouble in Little China.
It's been done, (http://kim.c64.org/adverts/full/big_trouble_in_little_china_01.jpg) released for home computers in Europe and it was really bad.
lurpak
03-03-2005, 11:10 AM
you know.. they never made a game based on that "tomb raider" film..
Hep038
03-03-2005, 11:18 AM
Has there ever been a Voltron game? I have never seen or read of one. If there is not they should make one NOW! Lions, Cars I dont care, just something.
Sniderman
03-03-2005, 11:31 AM
C'mon, Evil Dead games, but no Romero-endorsed zombie games based on his Night/Dawn/Day of the Dead films? A first person shooter in a Romero-esque zombie landscape would riock. I know there is something being planned (probably to coincide with Land of the Dead this year), but nothing yet.
I was about to say "Gilligan's Island," but there was an NES game, wasn't there?
How about a Captain N game? Venture through the various classic Nintendo-themed lands? That'd be cool.
vintagegamecrazy
03-03-2005, 03:23 PM
I would cry if they made any more games off the power rangers ripoff shows
studvicious
03-03-2005, 04:02 PM
Ernest
(RIP) :(
Jive3D
03-03-2005, 05:12 PM
Even though one game came out (only in Japan, and I have it, and it SUCKS) I'm waiting for the PS2 Game based on Cowboy Bebop. NEED THIS!!!
Apparently it tells a new tale that (obviously) fits between the already existed anime episodes (just like KOHD fit in between the episodes on the 20s...)
Kroogah
03-03-2005, 05:17 PM
I'm suprised there hasn't been at least a really bad Kill Bill game released yet.
Invader Zim...I was hoping for a GBA game or something. I'd love to have my own version of Vampire Piggy Hunter.
Venture Bros. would be delicious. And why has there not been a Trigun game that actually uses characters from the series?
SuperNES
03-03-2005, 05:20 PM
there's already a futurama game... i want a xXx game. (based on the movie called xXx, not X-rated.)
i would love a 'monty python and the holy grail' game.
"one.... two.... Five!"
"three, sir!"
"three!"
*BOOM*
Richter
03-03-2005, 06:00 PM
xXx got a GBA release
towerofsong
03-03-2005, 06:08 PM
Hellraiser or Nightbreed, Color Dreams be damned. Hell, ANYTHING by Clive Barker. (No, Undying doesn't count because it was an original work.)
Kristine
There are two nightbreed games for the Amiga, I only have one of em unfortunately. But they both suck.
http://hol.abime.net/search.php?find=nightbreed&x=0&y=0
ubersaurus
03-03-2005, 06:25 PM
Hogan's Heroes.
Seconded.
And where's my Sanford & Son game? It could be GTA style, with Lamont having to go around collecting junk while foiling his dad's harebrained ideas!
Cryomancer
03-03-2005, 06:26 PM
And there is a Monty Python PC game if memory serves.
Crush Crawfish
03-03-2005, 07:07 PM
I'm suprised there hasn't been at least a really bad Kill Bill game released yet.
Invader Zim...I was hoping for a GBA game or something. I'd love to have my own version of Vampire Piggy Hunter.
Venture Bros. would be delicious. And why has there not been a Trigun game that actually uses characters from the series?
I'll second Zim & Venture Bros. I heard sega was going to make a trigun game, but it never happend. I think the main problem is the fact that Vash doesn't ever kill someone, and It's kinda tough to make a game without killing! LOL
Lord Contaminous
03-03-2005, 08:55 PM
Hogan's Heroes.
Seconded.
And where's my Sanford & Son game? It could be GTA style, with Lamont having to go around collecting junk while foiling his dad's harebrained ideas!
Now that you say collecting junk, you could add katamari damacy to the formula.
Daria
03-03-2005, 10:06 PM
There is one. It's a PC adventure game. It also has one of the greatest tetris minigames built in. You stack up dead bodies and they make squishy noises and quote things like "I'm not quite dead".
i would love a 'monty python and the holy grail' game.
"one.... two.... Five!"
"three, sir!"
"three!"
*BOOM*
Iron Draggon
03-04-2005, 07:46 AM
Where the hell is Freddy VS Jason already? C'mon! It's begging to be made!
I still think that there should be an I Love Lucy game too. It would be funny!
Berty
03-04-2005, 08:02 AM
Was there ever a Thunder Cats game? or how about a RPG based around Monkey?
What about Samurai Pizza Cats? (I think there might have been an edutainment title for the pippin but i can't be sure.)
Howie6925
03-04-2005, 08:02 AM
He-man would be cool.(but i think they have a He man atari game)
Mayhem
03-04-2005, 10:12 AM
Was there ever a Thunder Cats game?
Yep, a scrolling fighting game for the European 8-bit computers by Elite.
He-man would be cool.(but i think they have a He man atari game)
There have been several He-man games, in fact a new one was released in Europe (http://www.midasinteractive.com/product_info.php?products_id=163&osCsid=9ea946e8d6b48bb17c492a1b0ddd787b) just a coupple of days ago.
lurpak
03-04-2005, 10:30 AM
There was a Monty Python and the holty grail adventure for the C64
I also remeber a monty pythons flying circus entertainment thing for the PC back in the launch of FMV and multi-media gaming, kind of point somewhere on the screen and it took you to another crazy pythonesq scene...not realy a game.
and then there is the tribute in the jet set willy games with the squishing foot.
TheRedEye
03-04-2005, 12:06 PM
What about Samurai Pizza Cats? (I think there might have been an edutainment title for the pippin but i can't be sure.)
There was a pretty decent action game released for the Famicom, actually. It's entirely playable without knowing Japanese, you just can't read the cutscenes.
Iron Draggon
03-05-2005, 03:37 AM
Was there ever a Thunder Cats game?
Yep, a scrolling fighting game for the European 8-bit computers by Elite.
OMG! They totally should've done a 16BIT version of that game! Why oh why did the Thundercats have to "die" in popularity before 16BIT arrived?
I'd give almost anything for a really good 16BIT Thundercats fighting game!
drwily008
03-05-2005, 11:43 PM
I'm suprised they never made a game (or series of games and spinoffs) based on that awesome dinosaur movie with Dennis Hopper and Jon Leguizamo. It was really good and the jumping boots in it were SO futuristic! What was it called.....super mario cousins or something. LOL
Iron Draggon
03-09-2005, 10:21 AM
I just thought of one that would've been an awesome game if Bill Waterson wasn't such an ass about licensing his characters for stuff: Calvin & Hobbes!
Matt-El
03-09-2005, 03:37 PM
Danger Mouse :) or Count Duckula.
If there were games, please tell me!
Danger Mouse :) or Count Duckula.
If there were games, please tell me!
http://kim.c64.org/covers/full/danger_mouse_in_double_trouble.jpg
http://kim.c64.org/covers/full/count_duckula.jpghttp://kim.c64.org/covers/full/count_duckula_2.jpg
ktulu
03-14-2005, 11:13 AM
yeah, Danger Mouse is a text adventure for C64 and count duckula is somewhat of a platformer. Ahh those days, duckula was a nice cartoon. Anyway, It's too bad there's only one Granzort based game, for the PC-Engine :(. Anyway, I've never seen a She-Ra game LOL , I mean there are He-Man games, but no She-Ra LOL. And yeah, Saber Rider, DAMN I would like to see the riders in action. By the way, I found a Captain Power game for the PC, damn that's rare...
Avatard
03-14-2005, 11:28 AM
I've got the find that Danger Mouse game....
Oh, and there was a King of the Hill game. It was an online flash paintball shooter. Just about every toon TV show will have some quickly milled out flash game.
-hellvin-
03-14-2005, 05:26 PM
Indiana Jones & The Fate Of Atlantis for the Sega CD. There was a review for it in one of my sega visions and it looked like it would have been a pretty damn sweet port, but alas it apparently never made it to the finish line.
cowmando6
03-14-2005, 05:38 PM
Those Power Ranger rip-off shows- VR Troppers and Beetleborgs (I think thats what its called)
Captain N
There is a VR Troopers game for Game Gear. Just thought I'd let ya know ;)
o2william
03-14-2005, 06:12 PM
How about Police Academy? I know the NES game was canned, but did an Academy game ever come out for any platform? How I longed for a game where I could be Steve Gutenberg...
Speaking of the 'Gute, were there ever any games based on the Short Circuit movies?
How about Disney's Gummi Bears? Drink a Gummi Berry Juice power-up and kill your enemies by bouncing 'em to death -- seems like a platformer just waiting to happen. And it had the best theme song ever.
Speaking of the 'Gute, were there ever any games based on the Short Circuit movies?
http://kim.c64.org/games/screenshots/full/short_circuit_01.gifhttp://kim.c64.org/games/screenshots/full/short_circuit_03.gif
Leave it to Ocean. It has a great Martin Galway sound track (http://www.c64.org/HVSC/Galway_Martin/Short_Circuit.sid) to.
tony_good
03-21-2005, 07:13 AM
It would have been swell to see a game based on James Coburn's Derek Flint from the old 60's spy films.
robotriot
03-21-2005, 08:20 AM
OMG! They totally should've done a 16BIT version of that game! Why oh why did the Thundercats have to "die" in popularity before 16BIT arrived?
I'd give almost anything for a really good 16BIT Thundercats fighting game!
Here's one: http://hol.abime.net/1393 - not good though imo ;)