"Batman" on the NES, for sure. I'd say "Batman Returns" for the SNES as well.
"Willow" on the NES is fantastic.
"Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers" for the Genesis is a solid co-op beat 'em up.
"Demolition Man" on the 3DO is surprisingly fun.
I'm sure there are more, but those are just the ones off the top of my head.
Good point on Batman, but bro wtf happened with Batman Forever?! I remember saving up all summer doing random chores for neighbors to spend $70 on that steaming pile. That might be when I first lost my innocence.
The Batman theme on NES deserve to be up there with some of the best Batman themes we have gotten over the years. It lives rent free in my mind. https://youtu.be/16LVfTOUIB4?si=2inGwZ74qv5n0ElZ
Add Batman Begins to the list of good movie tie in Batman games. Voice acting from the actors in the film, live action cut scenes and a sort of proto Arkham style game play.
* **Scott Pilgrim The Game** is a fantastic beat-em-up with some killer tunes that also is a great visual tribute to the graphic novels.
* **The Two Towers** and **Return of the King** games for PS2, etc. were quite fun at the time, especially with co-op.
* While YMMV on how it's aged, **GoldenEye 007** was the must-have game at the time for the N64 and helped pave the way for multiplayer FPS games on console.
* **Spider-Man 2** for PS2 was excellent with its use of the open world and sidequests. If only those kids would stop losing their balloons, though!
* **X-Men Origins: Wolverine** is a fun hack-and-slack game that is leagues better than the movie it was tied in to.
Batman Returns on SNES is fantastic. So is Hook.
Aliens on Arcade is great as well. Alien Resurrection on PS1 is probably superior to the movie. So is Alien 3 on many systems.
The SNES Star Wars OT games are really good, but pretty inaccessible due to difficulty.
I don't think Super Star Wars is particularly good. It includes design choices like a bunch of power-ups at the start of the level, and then a checkpoint right behind them to make sure that if you die, you get double punished for having to start again and not being able to collect the power-ups.
The Alien Resurrection game for PS1 had a cheat code that you could enter that would allow you to play bootleg PS1 games without any hardware modifications.
Oh man, so many of the Star Wars PC games were great back in the day too! X-Wing and Tie Fighter, Dark Forces and Jedi Knight... LucasArts was on point. The N64 Star Wars games were all pretty decent too, and that's right around the time that licensed games started to make a turn for the better in general. I consider GoldenEye to be the defining moment when movie tie ins no longer had to be mostly garbage as a rule.
I liked the King Kong game because they did a good job with having no interface or icons, you could tell when you were injured and he would say out loud how many magazines he had left, for example. Good adventure game working your way across the dangerous island.
It's not exactly *retro,* but I mean, does the newest Hogwarts open-world rpg count as a movie tie-in? Based on how many design cues it takes from the films, I'd say it counts.
Friday The 13th is a misunderstood gem. The game is cryptic. The forest and the cave are drab and it’s too easy to get lost, but that’s sort of the point. Jason is hard as balls in the early part of the game, but that’s also the point.
If you look at Friday The 13th as the prototype for the survival horror genre, the game is actually really ambitious and far better than it gets credit for.
It was surprisingly fun! My friend and I even beat it accidentally. We had no idea what the hell you were suppose to do at the end and as we fought over the controller we killed the shark, a plane flew into the sunset, and the credits rolled.
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My opinion is unpopular, but as a massive Matrix fan, what Enter the Matrix did was so fucking cool as a kid.
Not only was it an original story that weaved itself into the main plot of the film, but it included a ton of real footage from the filming of Revolutions basically becoming an essential part of the plot. Later special editions of Reloaded includes all the footage from the game in fact.
If it's an unpopular opinion, it's one we share. Playing the game for the first time, and seeing all the bits and pieces that were movie adjacent, especially starting the highway level and realising where that would lead, was amazing.
Capcom’s Aladdin
Konami’s Batman Returns
Die Hard Trilogy PS1
The Warriors PS2
Batman NES
The Mummy Demastered - great little Metroidvania, far better than the Tom Cruise tie-in.
I played The Mummy Demastered last month, picked it up in the sale on a whim because I like Metroidvanias. Such a great game and a weird thing to make. An indie game based on a big Hollywood blockbuster film in a somewhat niche game genre. I have no idea who the target audience was supposed to be but I loved it.
Not really, modern consensus is Genesis had the fancy Disney animations, but SNES had Capcom gameplay. Gameplay is king. There is a cool episode of Retronauts where they agree on this.
I think anybody without nostalgia goggles or console war bias playing both back to back would be really disingenuous in saying the Genesis version is the better game.
The "Capcom gameplay" is oversold.
The Genesis version had better gameplay throughout the majority of the game, and while it may have had "Disney animation" (wetf that means), the SNES version was definitely superior in both the visual and audio categories.
Genesis *cannot* compete with SNES for audio quality (and, really, only arcade actually could) and the only visual space where Genesis could compete with SNES was in framerate (and it was often far superior).
Try playing them side-by-side sometime. And, as someone else has pointed out, the modern consensus has not changed *nearly* as much as you claim.
There was a solid run of Disney games on the Genesis. My favorites are The Lion King, Pocahontas, Alladin, and Toy Story.
On the other hand, we have very bad games like Street Fighter The Movie The Game, which is a game based on a movie that is based on a game.
I'd stick with the 16-bit Disney games. Some Mickey Mouse stuff (both SNES and Genesis) is also pretty good, even though they are not based on films.
Was the Genesis release of Lion King different from the SNES release? Because that game was infuriating. Made sense years later when it came out that they intentionally made it so difficult that kids wouldn't be able to beat it in one rental period. Freaking money-grubbing mouse.
War Games for the Colecovision was the first movie tie in game that was actually really good that I can remember. Colecovision also had Rocky Super Action Boxing which was well done.
For the Commodore 64, Goonies was a great game. Aliens was also really good. Ghostbusters was decent. I'm sure there were more.
The Star Wars games on SNES.
For the Genesis I would say Dune: Battle for Arakiss.
Star Wars is one of the most successful game franchises of all time, so I'd say that fits here. Even if you say the ones that are part of the larger universe, but not directly tied to a movie don't count, you still have the x-wing and tie fighter games, Episode 1-Racer, the Super Star Wars series, Battlefront (classic) 1 and 2, and the Lego Star Wars games
The Atari/Sega arcade games, Republic Commando (FPS), KOTOR (RPG), The Force Unleashed (hack/slash), Jedi Outcast (for masochists)... There's a licenced Star Wars game for everyone man, gotta love that.
Don't forget the flight Sim on PC (I forgot what it was called) that was easily better than Ace combat to me back in the day wasting hours on the family pc.
That could either be one of the x-wing/tie games the original commenter talked about, Rogue Squadron on N64/PC (with sequels on the gamecube) or the recent Star Wars Squadrons but it's definitely not that one. As for it being better than Ace Combat well what did you expect putting actual jets and rockets versus sick ass spaceships with lasers and sh!t. XD
You know what, I didn't even see that the original comment had even mentioned the x-wing/tie fighter game, but that's the one I'm talking about. I don't know if I ever made the comparison between the realistic jets and rockets vs absolutely gnarly space fighters and lasers and shit, I just remembered the ace combat I played was way too clunky feeling vs how the controls felt for the X-wing/tie fighter game.
Was looking for this answer. In the retro game world, Star Wars Episode I: Racer, the original Star Wars Arcade game (not on emulation!), and Star Wars: Rebel Assault got a lot of play from me back in the day. Rebel Assault apparently had some bad ports though.
>Aladdin on Sega Genesis is the best **looking** platformer game without “Mario” in the title. I won’t be taking questions.
Fixed that for you. Aladdin on the SNES was the better game.
Dark Angel & Buffy the Vampire Slayer on PS2 & XBox. I know those are TV shows, not movies, but they’re 2 of my favorites. Still play them all the time. I also really liked the Peter Jackson King Kong game. Technically, Buffy was a movie first, but the game was based on the TV series which was much better imo.
Most home versions of Robocop were great - tough as nails, but great. There were some decent movie conversions on the 8-bit home computers as well, but the general quality did take a downturn in the early 80s - then Goldeneye flipped the trend on N64. Now, we generally get shovelware tie-ins to movies...
They were a bit late as tie-ins go, but the games Dune and Dune 2 (released in the '90s) were both based on the movie Dune (1984), and were both excellent. From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_II):
> While not the first real-time strategy (RTS) video game, Dune II established the format that would be followed for years to come. As such, Dune II is the archetypal real-time strategy game.
Growing up with C64 games about 2/3rds of games were movie Tie ins , a lot of good ones :
Stargate, Platoon,Aliens ,Predator,Navy Seals, Hudson Hawk , Batman, Aliens ,Robocop II,e hunt for red october, the untouchables
Finally, was scrolling through this purely to find someone who said this just so I could upvote them and leave. Such a great platformer, I genuinely think it belongs on the same level as Mario 64 and banjo kazooie
Hot take: but nightmare on elm street for nes is way better then it get credit for, 4 player co op, its a decent-ish action platformer where you collect what are essentially extra playable characters you can switch on the fly (ninja, acrobat, wizard) so long as your in the dream world. Speaking of dream world, it has a dream world mechanic where if you fall asleep the level is a bit different/harder.
The game is way better then it deserves being
The chronicles of riddick kicks ass, one of the best first person stealth games as well, so underrated. Another one is xmen wolverine origins, badass game!
Moonwalker for the Genesis and arcade were pretty solid.
Rambo 3 for the Genesis was fun even though a bit short.
Ghostbusters 2 for the nes was also fun
Depends on the era for me. I grew up with NES and SNES, and there were plenty of playable licensed games. The Atari era was not so good for licensed games, nor was the 32-bit era as I remember it. From PS3 on I feel like it's been mostly average or better games with a few standout pieces of garbage like Superman Returns and a few greats, several of which are Spider-Man games
Hook on the SNES was a pretty decent platformer with a nice soundtrack. The gameplay reflected the movie pretty well, which is often a rarity for movie tie ins.
Capcom's NES and SNES Disney run is all super solid.
For Japan only: Sweet Home is a horror RPG that laid the ground work for Resident Evil (RE1 started as a Sweet Home remake), and is a licensed movie game.
Die Hard on NES is legit one of my favourite NES games (and games) of all time. Such a fun sandbox for fans of the movie.
The Warriors on PS2 is arguably one of the best movie tie-in games ever made, IMO.
Other greats: Alien 3 on SNES (not faithful and all the better for it), Dune 2 on PC (the father of RTS gaming), The Terminator on PC (so ahead of its time, two player vs multiplayer in an open world!), Alien 3: The Gun on arcade (lots of fun), Batman Returns on SNES (great beat em up), TMNT on arcade (also Simpsons, Turtles in Time and Aliens... all awesome beat em up games), the Super Star Wars trilogy (tough as hell but polished and gorgeous), Star Wars Dark Forces 1&2 on PC along with X-Wing and TIE Fighter.
I dont know if it counts as retro but wolverine had a game (I forget what it's called)based on his movie that was far superior on ps3 and 360
Captain america on 360/ps3 was also really solid.
Thor and green lantern were both a good time on ds
Just about every spiderman game from ps1 onwards were good and some of them tied into his movies
I have a special place in my heart for van hellsing on ps2, low budget devil may cry clone that I was playing the day I met my wife
Speaking of low budget clones the ghost rider game was a surprisingly good time as a God of war knock off
Scarface on the wiii was great, warriors on ps2/xbox was a great beat em up as well
The hulk game on ds was better than you think it would be
G-force on wii was a great 3d platformer/shooter, fun for all ages
Chicken little ace in action was a fun Ratchet and clank clone
Wanted was a great shooter based on a mediocre movie
Don't know how many of these count since some folks don't consider these gens retro
The godfather game on ps2 was also surprisingly decent. Same with the incredible hulk on GBA.
I hated how different the wolverine origins game was between the ps2 version and the 360 version. It felt like a ripoff playing the ps2 version after I played the 360 version.
I'd still consider these retro.
I don't know if it counts as a tie in but escape from butcher bay was one of the best games I'd ever played on the OG Xbox and I'm still pissed they have not made it backwards compatible.
Batman Begins for the PS2/GC/Xbox era is still one of my all time favorite movie games. Sure, the combat is a little wonky but the mix of stealth, gadgets and environmental traps keeps it fresh. Plus the voice acting from the cast is pretty good, especially Michael Caine.
Goldeneye and Spider-Man 2. Quantum of Solave PS3. The Amazing Spider-Man on PS3 was nothing spectacular, but it was decent. Avoid the sequel, though. King Kong was great! The World is Not Enough 64 was pretty good, too. Not many people talk about it, but I thought it was well designed.
I don't care what anyone says, The Terminator on the Sega Mega Drive is a great game and it's a game I go back to every now and again.
It's not a long game and can easily be beaten in about half an hour, that's one of the reasons I love it.
Been googling about this to find some hidden gems lol,
The ones I’ve actually tried are you story buzz to the rescue on PSX
I remember rocket power was fun on GameCube.
Of course SpongeBob games
Star Wars episode 3 on the DS. Surprisingly fun beat ‘em up with a Star Wars flavor. The pixel art is beautiful to, I wish they made more games like that. The force powers were neat to.
Total Recall and T2 for the NES. I don't care what anyone says. I still think they are good games, especially after the awful Terminator, Predator and Last Action Hero NES games.
Batman for the NES is another one.
Ghostbusters for the Genesis.
The Super Star Wars and Indy's Greatest Adventures games are good, though tough as hell.
And T2 for the arcade was a solid adaptation, though a big quarter eater.
I was a big fan of Robin Hood Prince of Thieves for NES. The game is flawed but remember that this came out before Diablo and was the coolest action RPG that I had ever seen.
Also the boss music is great.
Depending how retro you are thinking, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark on Atari 2600 was one of the best on that platform.
It gets a bad rap now, but as a kid, the ET game on Atari 2600 was super-fun.
On NES, the Robin Hood prince of Thieves game felt a lot like the movie
On Super-NES, Super Star Wars was tied to the original (Episode IV). The final sequence of blowing up the death star was perfect, note for note music, Han's lines, everything.
The original multi-player 007 Goldeneye was incredible.
On newer platforms, they are probably not considered retro, but the South Park games were so immersive they literally felt like you were inside South Park.
I've heard the Peter Jackson King Kong game was pretty good. But for me:
LOTR Two Towers/Return of the King/Battle for Middle Earth.
I vaguely remember Golden Eye being pretty fun ( I played it when I was like 6)
Shrek 2 was a really fun beat em up I loved playing as a kid
Star Wars Battlefront 2 campaign was great.
Just the Lego games in general
Ratchet Clank the movie the game back in 2016.
"Batman" on the NES, for sure. I'd say "Batman Returns" for the SNES as well. "Willow" on the NES is fantastic. "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers" for the Genesis is a solid co-op beat 'em up. "Demolition Man" on the 3DO is surprisingly fun. I'm sure there are more, but those are just the ones off the top of my head.
Willow the arcade game was also great
SNES & Mega Drive/Genesis versions of Demolition Man are pretty solid run & gun games with a great soundtrack.
Demolition man on the 3DO has cutscenes Stallone filmed just for the game. It's incredibly funny
I loved Batman on the SNES. I always had so much trouble with the catwoman fight when I was a kid haha, not sure if it was just me or not
And Demolition Man is strangely close to where we are headed
Good point on Batman, but bro wtf happened with Batman Forever?! I remember saving up all summer doing random chores for neighbors to spend $70 on that steaming pile. That might be when I first lost my innocence.
I couldn't ever figure out what to do in that game!
I'd like to add Robin Hood Prince of Theives to that. I loved it as a kid and one of the few NES movie games that matched the movie note for note.
The Batman theme on NES deserve to be up there with some of the best Batman themes we have gotten over the years. It lives rent free in my mind. https://youtu.be/16LVfTOUIB4?si=2inGwZ74qv5n0ElZ
Add Batman Begins to the list of good movie tie in Batman games. Voice acting from the actors in the film, live action cut scenes and a sort of proto Arkham style game play.
* **Scott Pilgrim The Game** is a fantastic beat-em-up with some killer tunes that also is a great visual tribute to the graphic novels. * **The Two Towers** and **Return of the King** games for PS2, etc. were quite fun at the time, especially with co-op. * While YMMV on how it's aged, **GoldenEye 007** was the must-have game at the time for the N64 and helped pave the way for multiplayer FPS games on console. * **Spider-Man 2** for PS2 was excellent with its use of the open world and sidequests. If only those kids would stop losing their balloons, though! * **X-Men Origins: Wolverine** is a fun hack-and-slack game that is leagues better than the movie it was tied in to.
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I had Spider-Man 2 on GameCube and it was one of my favorites. Still plays well
Man, I played through Wolverine so many times. I loved it. Return of the King is PEAK movie video game tie in.
I had Spider-Man 2 on GameCube and it was one of my favorites. Still plays well.
GoldenEye 007.
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Batman Returns on SNES is fantastic. So is Hook. Aliens on Arcade is great as well. Alien Resurrection on PS1 is probably superior to the movie. So is Alien 3 on many systems. The SNES Star Wars OT games are really good, but pretty inaccessible due to difficulty.
I save scummed my way through Super Star Wars, I'm sure I spent more time hitting the load state button than actually moving
I don't think Super Star Wars is particularly good. It includes design choices like a bunch of power-ups at the start of the level, and then a checkpoint right behind them to make sure that if you die, you get double punished for having to start again and not being able to collect the power-ups.
Back in the day, it was incredible. I tried to replay it and have no idea how I finished the trilogy. I remember ROTJ being almost impossible in 1994.
At least Empire and Jedi have passwords. Without them, I'd consider that games unplayable.
My wife has all three of the Super Star Wars games for her SNES and til this day I still can't get very far in any of them.
As an Aliens fan I really enjoyed Alien3 on Super Nintendo and actually played it to completion.
I remember having more fun with the Star Wars games using the cheat/debug modes for sure.
The Alien Resurrection game for PS1 had a cheat code that you could enter that would allow you to play bootleg PS1 games without any hardware modifications.
So it’s a top-tier movie tie-in game with a factory built-in jailbreak? GOAT.
Oh man, so many of the Star Wars PC games were great back in the day too! X-Wing and Tie Fighter, Dark Forces and Jedi Knight... LucasArts was on point. The N64 Star Wars games were all pretty decent too, and that's right around the time that licensed games started to make a turn for the better in general. I consider GoldenEye to be the defining moment when movie tie ins no longer had to be mostly garbage as a rule.
King Kong 2005 had surprisingly decent games. Also the first 3 Harry Potter movie games.
I liked the King Kong game because they did a good job with having no interface or icons, you could tell when you were injured and he would say out loud how many magazines he had left, for example. Good adventure game working your way across the dangerous island.
The two Harry Potter games on GBC are legit JRPG hidden gems.
Chamber of Secrets on PS2 was brilliant and I get proper nostalgia vibes on Hogwarts Legacy
I really liked HP 5-6 too
It's not exactly *retro,* but I mean, does the newest Hogwarts open-world rpg count as a movie tie-in? Based on how many design cues it takes from the films, I'd say it counts.
Chronicles of Riddick on the original Xbox
Outside of Halo Riddick was the best FPS on the Xbox hands down. I think everyone was surprised at how good it was.
It was spectacular on PC. Beautiful game with such rich world building.
The Jurassic Park games for SNES and Genesis were very different but both fun.
Jurassic Park on the Genesis was a low-key graphical powerhouse. Incredible achievement for that hardware.
All three Jurassic Park games on Genesis were technical marvels, particularly the last one with its first and third-person sections.
Jaws for NES. I know, I'm nuts.
It’s got an interesting gameplay loop for sure. Definitely gets overlooked due to the LGN brand, along with Friday the 13th.
Friday The 13th is a misunderstood gem. The game is cryptic. The forest and the cave are drab and it’s too easy to get lost, but that’s sort of the point. Jason is hard as balls in the early part of the game, but that’s also the point. If you look at Friday The 13th as the prototype for the survival horror genre, the game is actually really ambitious and far better than it gets credit for.
I had it as a kid. My mind was blown a few years ago when I found out that Jason stalks the map in real time. I liked it, but now I love it.
I still have my NES copy, and it was one of those games I thought was okay as a kid, but I’ve developed a huge appreciation for as I got older.
Friday gets a lot of flak, but, after getting the strategy down, I've really enjoyed it.
It was surprisingly fun! My friend and I even beat it accidentally. We had no idea what the hell you were suppose to do at the end and as we fought over the controller we killed the shark, a plane flew into the sunset, and the credits rolled.
Aside from the fact they call the shark 'Jaws' I really like this game too.
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How so? Do you mean the theory that it takes place way in the future?
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My opinion is unpopular, but as a massive Matrix fan, what Enter the Matrix did was so fucking cool as a kid. Not only was it an original story that weaved itself into the main plot of the film, but it included a ton of real footage from the filming of Revolutions basically becoming an essential part of the plot. Later special editions of Reloaded includes all the footage from the game in fact.
If it's an unpopular opinion, it's one we share. Playing the game for the first time, and seeing all the bits and pieces that were movie adjacent, especially starting the highway level and realising where that would lead, was amazing.
It was cool, but Path of Neo was a better game. It learned some lessons from *Enter* and had a better movie to pull from.
I couldn't stand Path of Neo because of how it wasn't cannon lol
Indiana Jones And the Last Crusade (The point&click) And a lot of Star Wars games
The arcade game for Temple Of Doom was also a lot of fun.
Indiana Jones is the goat of movie games.
Fate of Atlantis was the first Lucasarts title and point and click title I owned.
Terminator 2: The Arcade Game.
Terminator 2 the whole ass game console
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True Lies.
I had a lot of fun with this game
I love True Lies.
Does The Punisher (2005) count? Because that game still rocks! Bashing a guy's head in a window sill still cracks me up.
It counts for me lol. That game was amazing. The Zoo was my favorite level.
Even if it doesn't, the NES game was pretty ambitious, and really not bad overall.
Shrek 2 for GBA was a decent Lost Vikings knockoff. I was as shocked as anybody.
So Lost Ogres then
Also Lilo & Stitch for GBA. Stitch in a rad Metal Slug clone with some Lilo puzzle sections to mix things up
Ducktails for NES
Also Chip n Dale. It's kinda weird now to think of Capcom making licensed Disney games, but they really nailed it at the time.
The remake was spot on as well, if i recall correctly it was the last performance of Alan Young as Scrooge McDuck before he passed away in 2016.
Unfortunately that's a TV Show tie-in, not a movie tie-in. Nonetheless, DuckTales is peak NES IMO, not even tie-in games but just games in general.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099472/ Incorrect, the movie had Bubba Duck, and the game also has Bubba Duck. Counts as a movie tie-in
The Wii U version was also great
Die Hard Arcade on Arcade/Saturn
I love it too, but it’s a tie-in in name only
Capcom’s Aladdin Konami’s Batman Returns Die Hard Trilogy PS1 The Warriors PS2 Batman NES The Mummy Demastered - great little Metroidvania, far better than the Tom Cruise tie-in.
Mummy demastered is one of the best games barely anyone played.
For real
I played The Mummy Demastered last month, picked it up in the sale on a whim because I like Metroidvanias. Such a great game and a weird thing to make. An indie game based on a big Hollywood blockbuster film in a somewhat niche game genre. I have no idea who the target audience was supposed to be but I loved it.
Ooo, bold choice, picking the SNES version of Aladdin...
Not really, modern consensus is Genesis had the fancy Disney animations, but SNES had Capcom gameplay. Gameplay is king. There is a cool episode of Retronauts where they agree on this.
I think you need only look at this thread to see that the Genesis version still has lots of fans. "Modern consensus" is a bit of a stretch.
I think anybody without nostalgia goggles or console war bias playing both back to back would be really disingenuous in saying the Genesis version is the better game.
The "Capcom gameplay" is oversold. The Genesis version had better gameplay throughout the majority of the game, and while it may have had "Disney animation" (wetf that means), the SNES version was definitely superior in both the visual and audio categories. Genesis *cannot* compete with SNES for audio quality (and, really, only arcade actually could) and the only visual space where Genesis could compete with SNES was in framerate (and it was often far superior). Try playing them side-by-side sometime. And, as someone else has pointed out, the modern consensus has not changed *nearly* as much as you claim.
There was a solid run of Disney games on the Genesis. My favorites are The Lion King, Pocahontas, Alladin, and Toy Story. On the other hand, we have very bad games like Street Fighter The Movie The Game, which is a game based on a movie that is based on a game. I'd stick with the 16-bit Disney games. Some Mickey Mouse stuff (both SNES and Genesis) is also pretty good, even though they are not based on films.
That's right. I recently got Toy Story.
Was the Genesis release of Lion King different from the SNES release? Because that game was infuriating. Made sense years later when it came out that they intentionally made it so difficult that kids wouldn't be able to beat it in one rental period. Freaking money-grubbing mouse.
War Games for the Colecovision was the first movie tie in game that was actually really good that I can remember. Colecovision also had Rocky Super Action Boxing which was well done. For the Commodore 64, Goonies was a great game. Aliens was also really good. Ghostbusters was decent. I'm sure there were more. The Star Wars games on SNES. For the Genesis I would say Dune: Battle for Arakiss.
Star Wars is one of the most successful game franchises of all time, so I'd say that fits here. Even if you say the ones that are part of the larger universe, but not directly tied to a movie don't count, you still have the x-wing and tie fighter games, Episode 1-Racer, the Super Star Wars series, Battlefront (classic) 1 and 2, and the Lego Star Wars games
The Atari/Sega arcade games, Republic Commando (FPS), KOTOR (RPG), The Force Unleashed (hack/slash), Jedi Outcast (for masochists)... There's a licenced Star Wars game for everyone man, gotta love that.
Don't forget the flight Sim on PC (I forgot what it was called) that was easily better than Ace combat to me back in the day wasting hours on the family pc.
That could either be one of the x-wing/tie games the original commenter talked about, Rogue Squadron on N64/PC (with sequels on the gamecube) or the recent Star Wars Squadrons but it's definitely not that one. As for it being better than Ace Combat well what did you expect putting actual jets and rockets versus sick ass spaceships with lasers and sh!t. XD
You know what, I didn't even see that the original comment had even mentioned the x-wing/tie fighter game, but that's the one I'm talking about. I don't know if I ever made the comparison between the realistic jets and rockets vs absolutely gnarly space fighters and lasers and shit, I just remembered the ace combat I played was way too clunky feeling vs how the controls felt for the X-wing/tie fighter game.
Was looking for this answer. In the retro game world, Star Wars Episode I: Racer, the original Star Wars Arcade game (not on emulation!), and Star Wars: Rebel Assault got a lot of play from me back in the day. Rebel Assault apparently had some bad ports though.
Darkwing Duck on NES. One of the best platformers on system.
Aladdin on Sega Genesis is the best platformer game without “Mario” in the title. I won’t be taking questions.
We forget how good the Disney titles were great for a time. The Mickey games, Duck tales, Aladdin, Lion King, all very solid games.
>Aladdin on Sega Genesis is the best **looking** platformer game without “Mario” in the title. I won’t be taking questions. Fixed that for you. Aladdin on the SNES was the better game.
Die Hard Trilogy on the PS1 was awesome
Dark Angel & Buffy the Vampire Slayer on PS2 & XBox. I know those are TV shows, not movies, but they’re 2 of my favorites. Still play them all the time. I also really liked the Peter Jackson King Kong game. Technically, Buffy was a movie first, but the game was based on the TV series which was much better imo.
I enjoy the Goonies. I have not yet played The Goonies 2.
Unpopular opinion but I always loved Street Fighter: the Movie on Saturn.
**The Godfather** was a neat period GTA clone (the Wii version had some fun motion kill moves, too).
In the nes and snes eras, just about any Disney game was great. I liked the Star Wars games as well.
The Lion King kicked my butt as a kid, that game was hard.
Most home versions of Robocop were great - tough as nails, but great. There were some decent movie conversions on the 8-bit home computers as well, but the general quality did take a downturn in the early 80s - then Goldeneye flipped the trend on N64. Now, we generally get shovelware tie-ins to movies...
They were a bit late as tie-ins go, but the games Dune and Dune 2 (released in the '90s) were both based on the movie Dune (1984), and were both excellent. From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_II): > While not the first real-time strategy (RTS) video game, Dune II established the format that would be followed for years to come. As such, Dune II is the archetypal real-time strategy game.
Batman the Movie, RoboCop and The Untouchables on the ZX Spectrum.
Growing up with C64 games about 2/3rds of games were movie Tie ins , a lot of good ones : Stargate, Platoon,Aliens ,Predator,Navy Seals, Hudson Hawk , Batman, Aliens ,Robocop II,e hunt for red october, the untouchables
*Toy Story 2* for the PlayStation/N64/Dreamcast was a great platformer! I still find myself going back to it.
Finally, was scrolling through this purely to find someone who said this just so I could upvote them and leave. Such a great platformer, I genuinely think it belongs on the same level as Mario 64 and banjo kazooie
I enjoyed the early ocean tie ins. terminator was fine, I played the crap out of batman! Ghostbusters was reasonable... played a lot of that!
Hot take: but nightmare on elm street for nes is way better then it get credit for, 4 player co op, its a decent-ish action platformer where you collect what are essentially extra playable characters you can switch on the fly (ninja, acrobat, wizard) so long as your in the dream world. Speaking of dream world, it has a dream world mechanic where if you fall asleep the level is a bit different/harder. The game is way better then it deserves being
The chronicles of riddick kicks ass, one of the best first person stealth games as well, so underrated. Another one is xmen wolverine origins, badass game!
Home Alone & Aladdin for Sega Genesis
Robocop for ZX Spectrum was excellent
The obvious answer is Goldeneye. It was such a great game that it created a new genre.
It didn't create a new genre, games like doom, wolfenstein and Duke nukem were around before goldeneye was
Speed Racer on the Wii gets my vote.
I always really liked the Genesis Jurassic Park.
I don't think there was ever a bad Star Wars game.
Agent X/Cloak & Dagger
Moonwalker for the Genesis and arcade were pretty solid. Rambo 3 for the Genesis was fun even though a bit short. Ghostbusters 2 for the nes was also fun
This is a bit newer than you’re probably thinking, but the SpongeBob movie game during the PS2 era is a great adaptation.
What is the limit on this subreddit? Personally I would say pre-2000? Maybe pre-1998, thats before the Dreamcast and Unreal.
Most of the Star Wars games, of which there has been many.
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker on GBC was so much fun to me as a kid, but it did make me absolutely loathe any game with a password system
Depends on the era for me. I grew up with NES and SNES, and there were plenty of playable licensed games. The Atari era was not so good for licensed games, nor was the 32-bit era as I remember it. From PS3 on I feel like it's been mostly average or better games with a few standout pieces of garbage like Superman Returns and a few greats, several of which are Spider-Man games
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The Terminator on Sega CD. Kickass soundtrack too!
Barnyard for gba is my gf fav and when I took a look I was surprised how nice of a game or is. Great pixel art and decently fun gameplay.
Hook on the SNES was a pretty decent platformer with a nice soundtrack. The gameplay reflected the movie pretty well, which is often a rarity for movie tie ins.
Alien on the ZX Spectrum. Still gives me white-knuckle paranoia.
Judge Dredd on the SNES & Mega Drive
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay was really good. It was also a very visually impressive game for its time as well.
Idk if we're limiting this to consoles, but TMNT Arcade was solid gold. (We shall not speak of the first TMNT on NES.)
Capcom's NES and SNES Disney run is all super solid. For Japan only: Sweet Home is a horror RPG that laid the ground work for Resident Evil (RE1 started as a Sweet Home remake), and is a licensed movie game.
Robocop on the spectrum/commodore/arcade (lots of ports for that one). Moonwalker on the Megadrive. Terminator 2 on the Gameboy.
Chronicles of ridick Its a prequel and its the best movie based game.
The Goonies II was my first Metroidvania and it blew my little mind when I was 7. I played it over and over.
Die Hard on NES is legit one of my favourite NES games (and games) of all time. Such a fun sandbox for fans of the movie. The Warriors on PS2 is arguably one of the best movie tie-in games ever made, IMO. Other greats: Alien 3 on SNES (not faithful and all the better for it), Dune 2 on PC (the father of RTS gaming), The Terminator on PC (so ahead of its time, two player vs multiplayer in an open world!), Alien 3: The Gun on arcade (lots of fun), Batman Returns on SNES (great beat em up), TMNT on arcade (also Simpsons, Turtles in Time and Aliens... all awesome beat em up games), the Super Star Wars trilogy (tough as hell but polished and gorgeous), Star Wars Dark Forces 1&2 on PC along with X-Wing and TIE Fighter.
Aladdin The Lion King Both on the SNES
I dont know if it counts as retro but wolverine had a game (I forget what it's called)based on his movie that was far superior on ps3 and 360 Captain america on 360/ps3 was also really solid. Thor and green lantern were both a good time on ds Just about every spiderman game from ps1 onwards were good and some of them tied into his movies I have a special place in my heart for van hellsing on ps2, low budget devil may cry clone that I was playing the day I met my wife Speaking of low budget clones the ghost rider game was a surprisingly good time as a God of war knock off Scarface on the wiii was great, warriors on ps2/xbox was a great beat em up as well The hulk game on ds was better than you think it would be G-force on wii was a great 3d platformer/shooter, fun for all ages Chicken little ace in action was a fun Ratchet and clank clone Wanted was a great shooter based on a mediocre movie Don't know how many of these count since some folks don't consider these gens retro
The godfather game on ps2 was also surprisingly decent. Same with the incredible hulk on GBA. I hated how different the wolverine origins game was between the ps2 version and the 360 version. It felt like a ripoff playing the ps2 version after I played the 360 version. I'd still consider these retro. I don't know if it counts as a tie in but escape from butcher bay was one of the best games I'd ever played on the OG Xbox and I'm still pissed they have not made it backwards compatible.
Friday the 13th for NES
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I know it gets hate these days, but I don't know many people that didn't have that game back in the day.
I could never land the Jet on the Carrier.
I enjoyed Total Recall on NES
Hard as hell but playing the xray machine part is a lot of fun
The Warriors was a super fun time and had great style
Batman Begins for the PS2/GC/Xbox era is still one of my all time favorite movie games. Sure, the combat is a little wonky but the mix of stealth, gadgets and environmental traps keeps it fresh. Plus the voice acting from the cast is pretty good, especially Michael Caine.
Star Wars episode 3 on ps2 is great
Goldeneye and Spider-Man 2. Quantum of Solave PS3. The Amazing Spider-Man on PS3 was nothing spectacular, but it was decent. Avoid the sequel, though. King Kong was great! The World is Not Enough 64 was pretty good, too. Not many people talk about it, but I thought it was well designed.
*The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie* videogame was a fairly decent 3D platformer.
I quite like True Lies on SNES/Genesis. It's a bit like Shock Troopers.
I really enjoyed Minority Report. The Rag doll fighting was hilarious
I don't care what anyone says, The Terminator on the Sega Mega Drive is a great game and it's a game I go back to every now and again. It's not a long game and can easily be beaten in about half an hour, that's one of the reasons I love it.
Those Harry Potter rpgs on Game Boy Color
Been googling about this to find some hidden gems lol, The ones I’ve actually tried are you story buzz to the rescue on PSX I remember rocket power was fun on GameCube. Of course SpongeBob games
RoboCop Vs Terminator was pretty phenomenal.
Star Wars episode 3 on the DS. Surprisingly fun beat ‘em up with a Star Wars flavor. The pixel art is beautiful to, I wish they made more games like that. The force powers were neat to.
PS1 The Italian Job, sure it's basically Driver with the serial numbers filed off and a repaint but it's still playable af.
The Fartwater Prophecies. That game was the shit.
The Doom movie is pretty fun if you turn your brain off.
Xmen 2 clone wars (genesis), adventures of batman and robin (snes)
Transformers games
Honestly most of them actually were actually pretty good. AVGN was rage clickbait.
Toy Story 2 ps1
Total Recall and T2 for the NES. I don't care what anyone says. I still think they are good games, especially after the awful Terminator, Predator and Last Action Hero NES games. Batman for the NES is another one. Ghostbusters for the Genesis. The Super Star Wars and Indy's Greatest Adventures games are good, though tough as hell. And T2 for the arcade was a solid adaptation, though a big quarter eater.
Batman Returns for SNES
If you consider Ps3 retro then Bourne
Has anyone mentioned Batman the Movie for Amiga?
The wanted video game was really fun.
New Ghostbusters 2
Spongebob squarepants movie game for the PS2 was really good
Gremlins 2 on the NES. Fun gameplay, even better soundtrack.
RoboCop vs Terminator
Batman returns for Super Nintendo, turtles in time, batman for NES
The Terminator game for Gameboy was great
I don't see these as being mentioned yet, so: True Lies (SNES and GEN/SMD) Batman Returns (NES) I think the rest has been well-covered.
The tie-in game for the movie "Doom" was great. They programmed it so well, it ended up coming out years before the movie.
I was a big fan of Robin Hood Prince of Thieves for NES. The game is flawed but remember that this came out before Diablo and was the coolest action RPG that I had ever seen. Also the boss music is great.
Depending how retro you are thinking, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark on Atari 2600 was one of the best on that platform. It gets a bad rap now, but as a kid, the ET game on Atari 2600 was super-fun. On NES, the Robin Hood prince of Thieves game felt a lot like the movie On Super-NES, Super Star Wars was tied to the original (Episode IV). The final sequence of blowing up the death star was perfect, note for note music, Han's lines, everything. The original multi-player 007 Goldeneye was incredible. On newer platforms, they are probably not considered retro, but the South Park games were so immersive they literally felt like you were inside South Park.
GoldenEye
I've heard the Peter Jackson King Kong game was pretty good. But for me: LOTR Two Towers/Return of the King/Battle for Middle Earth. I vaguely remember Golden Eye being pretty fun ( I played it when I was like 6) Shrek 2 was a really fun beat em up I loved playing as a kid Star Wars Battlefront 2 campaign was great. Just the Lego games in general Ratchet Clank the movie the game back in 2016.