Why didn't anyone ever make a game out of the movie Ghost?

[backguard]

It would have been great!

[Gapporin]

Why thank you, Mr. Ambiguity!

I think it's partly because Ghost isn't really a movie that would've geared itself to the videogame playing demographic at that game. But I think it's mostly because Ghost would've sucked as a videogame.

Great. Now all I can think about is an 8-bit "Unchained Melody".

[scooterb23]

Cooperative pottery making...I could see it working

Or not

:hmm:

[miaandjohnrule]

Great like ET for the 2600 :roll:

[bangtango]

It would have been great!

Patrick Swayze didn't feel like having a digitized image of himself being "punched in the nuts by a midget in a pink jumpsuit" ala Arnold in Total Recall for NES.

The quote was taken from Seanbaby's commentary on Total Recall on his site and for one of the EGM countdowns.

[Gamereviewgod]

Because Hot Coffee wasn't enough, now we get to try and correctly grab the chick as the pottery wheel spins!

[Lemmy Kilmister]

It would have been great!

Patrick Swayze didn't feel like having a digitized image of himself.

I wonder why they never made a Road House game?

[bangtango]

It would have been great!

Patrick Swayze didn't feel like having a digitized image of himself.

I wonder why they never made a Road House game?

This is strictly speculation!!!!!!

Companies like Ocean or LJN, who did most of the NES and Super NES games based on movies, may not have had the bloated budget required to license music from The Jeff Healey Band who did most of the soundtrack :evil:

I don't know about Ghost or Road House but I am fairly surprised that a video game was never made for the kids movie, Fern Gully seeing that it was in the theaters and on video during the 8-bit and 16-bit era. It was fairly popular, spawned a sequel and the theme was protecting the environment. It seemed natural, even though I would have never played it. Virtually every other kids show or movie from that era was made into a video game.

I'm assuming there has long been a decent thread archived which asks what movies or tv shows never were made into video games but should have been. I am sure it is there, so I won't bother creating one but I am too lazy (and tired) -_- to search for it.

[Sothy]

they did but they lost the license and just renamed it polterguy for genesis.

[odyeiop]

they need to make Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter into a game.

Musical sequence and all.

[Cambot]

It would have been great!

Patrick Swayze didn't feel like having a digitized image of himself.

I wonder why they never made a Road House game?

This is strictly speculation!!!!!!

Companies like Ocean or LJN, who did most of the NES and Super NES games based on movies, may not have had the bloated budget required to license music from The Jeff Healey Band who did most of the soundtrack

His songs wouldn't have gone for that much. They could have robbed him "blind."

[Guru of Time and Space]

I used to be in a band named "Patrick Swayze's Ghost"...

8-)

-GoTaS

[Flack]

There actually was a prototype USB pottery wheel that surfaced a while back that supposedly was part of a PC pottery game. There were also foot pedals that controlled the speed of the wheel, etc. Rumor had it that Ghost would have been a mini game hidden within the game. Or not.

[Aussie2B]

I so want a pottery simulation game now. Somebody call up Natsume.

And I still want my damn Bean Farmer Xtreme! >(

[lordnikon]

I don't think Ghost has enough substance for a game on it's own. They should team it up with another franchise.

For instance they could merge it with Mortal Kombat, and call it 'Ghost Mythologies'.

One of the mini-games would be like "Test your might!" The chick is alone at the pottery wheel, and you are a ghost, but... you are Sub Zero. You are sitting opposite her, and have to try and reach in and cop a feel while making her mess up the pot she is making. The catch is you can't touch her arms and you can't get up.

You will get x2 bonus if you can use Sub Zero's chill to perk up her nipples.

[dreamcaster]

Why wasn't a game made out of Ghost?

Because even shallow, heartless, greedy capitalist game company moguls sometimes say to themselves:

"No, that game would just be too shit."

[MichaeltheGreat]

It would have been great!

Oh man, you're right! My mom loved that movie! That means it would have made an amazing video game!

Oh. Wait a minute... This creepily feels like how uwe boll must make decisions!

[50TBRD]

Ghost would have stank.

I can see your point though, bangtango. Fern Gully was a perfectly marketable game, especially when We're Back, An American Tail, and numberous Disney movies were made into games. But I heard that they delayed the movie for a year so as not to compete which Beauty and the Beast. Smart move but obviously they were worried about the movie making money. It may have been a good movie but I don't think it made but 10-30 million in the box office.

[Push Upstairs]

Cooperative pottery making...I could see it working

I'm suddenly reminded of the scene in "Naked Gun 2 1/2".

LOL


As a serious game:

I have no idea how it would have translated into a game, much less one on a 8/16-bit platform.

"Total Recall" was a movie that seemed ideal for a game and look how that turned out. x_x

[Pantechnicon]

IIRC when Howard Scott Warshaw tried to explain his concept for the ET game to Steven Spielberg, Spielberg paused and asked why he couldn't "make something more like Pac-Man".

The moral of the story is that moviemakers want their games to look like their movies but play like games: all well and good in a 3D environment, but potentially disastrous in the pre 32-bit era when technology could come nowhere near approximating this goal.

Ghost, then, what would have been a scrolling platformer probably involving an early level where you, as Swayze, have to follow Whoopi Goldberg down the street trying to get her to pay attention to you all the while avoiding things like identical thugs coming up to punch you in the face, children throwing garbage cans and cats leaping off of windowsills O_O :roll: :shameful: