Worst Movie-Based Games Ever
Recapping some of the worst moments in interactive entertainment, Wired has rounded together a feature on the worst movie-licensed games in the medium's history.
The lowest of many lowlights include Namco's 1987 version of Star Wars ("a mundane side-scrolling game in which Luke hacks away at enemies with his lightsaber and dies a lot"), to the epically named and shoddily designed Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game (based on the movie starring Raul Julia). Other past and present non-classics include such gems as Total Recall, and Shiny's Enter the Matrix (an example of "the backlash that results when these massively hyped projects turn out to be just as crappy as their predecessors," i.e. other licensed games).
And the biggest loser of all? No surprise there: E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. Says Wired's Chris Kohler:
There are many urban legends about E.T., and all of them are true. Atari manufactured 4 million copies of the game and found itself stuck with 2.5 million leftovers, which it buried in a New Mexico landfill. But E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial remains one of the best-selling Atari 2600 games of all time, proving the old adage that people will, in fact, buy any videogame with a movie license on the cover, no matter how terrible. [Source: Wired.com]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Steve @ Jul 4th 2008 1:43AM
Evan, thanks so much for bringing this subject up. The games mentioned here bring back a lot of memories. I own "Total Recall" for the NES and, believe it or not, I own "E.T." for the 2600! I actually like the latter.
Galley @ Jul 7th 2008 1:45PM
What, no Superman 64?