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QOTW: What was the first movie game that made you hate movie games?

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carmel1 - 4 months 12 days ago

It's got to be the atari vcs...so what if it had primitive gfx (the nes would have had the same if it was relesed in the 70's) the vcs (or 2600) is and was the only games system to be officially sold over 3 decades, the nes lasted less then 2....the VCS created so many elements of the gaming industry, like the technology, 3rd party hardware development, 3rd party games development and became the first gaming system to be legally and offically cloned (i.e the coleo expansion module 1/gemini and the columbia home arcade)...nes bought nothing to the gaming industry

The vcs also had lineage as it spawned the atari computers, the amiga and the atari lynx (created by ex amiga designers), nes had no lineage....now whilst people say the nes 'rejunvinated' the games market after the VG crash happened in 1983, that was down to the fact that atari's new owners (the tramiels) weren't interested in atari's existing products and only wanted atari as a vehicle for the ST...had tramiel had faith in atari's existing products like he'd with the ST, i don't think the nes test marketing in new york would have been as successful as it was, as the nes would have to compete with both the 2600 and also atari's new entrant the 7800 (which is comparable to the nes's technology) and therefore the nes probably wouldn't have ventured any further then japan or asian markets

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m1bayluv41510 - 4 months 11 days ago

i first had an inkling that movie games sucked is when i rented total recall for NES, and over the years its proven to be more true than false. i blame the fact that most movie games are geared towards more "for the moment" consumers that don't neccessarily play games all the time and are consequently unaware that their new $60 game is garbage. They shoehorn the basic movie story into contrived or retread game mechanics and never try to innovate past the latest graphics gimmick..

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Danomeon - 4 months 11 days ago

I actually bought Mickey's Magic Mirror when I was young. It was a point-and-click adventure title devoid of humor and intrigue. The commercials featured mickey running away from giants swords with hearts in the top left corner of the screen.

The hearts were a dead ringer for better games, like Zelda, and I was convinced the game was going to be a stellar platformer.

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Hobojedi - 4 months 11 days ago

Some lame Shrek game, it was just really repetitive.. and also a free spiderman game that came from a box of cereal, I couldn't get out of tutorial. And then what finally ticked me off was the Incredibles game for the Gamecube, it just gave me a headache to try and figure my way around each level.

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gangbangtista - 4 months 11 days ago

One of the woooorst games i've ever played : Back to the Future (snes). It had nothing to do with the movie. It had you running through the street collecting clocks (???) , while avoiding killer bees and girls hoolahooping. What The [CENSORED]!!

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cubsfan101 - 4 months 11 days ago

the first movie game that made me hate movie games is X2:Wolverine's Revenge. i don't no what the hell i was thinking.After playing that game i would never play another movie game again. Except for Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

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protospasm - 4 months 11 days ago

China Syndrome of the Atari 2600.

What? Yeah, I'm old. Also, the game sucks.

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Ibonedyourdog - 4 months 11 days ago

Back To The Future was 1 of my favorite movies as a kid but the game were you move to fast and everything FUCKING kills you. I remember shouting swear words at my tv and I had to buy the game 3 times because I broke it out of anger.

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super0sonic - 4 months 11 days ago

Thing is I never play movie games because they tend to get poor reviews. That said I am a little obsessed with Wall-e so I had to buy the game. Over all the game is rather suck but I still played it from start to finish.

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thomashalpenny - 4 months 10 days ago

go on the lego batman!!!:)

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DontEatRawHagis - 4 months 10 days ago

I hated Home Alone.

Then I tried Superman Returns and hate it.

Now I have Ghostbusters and hate Alyssa Milano but like the game.

First time in a long time that I actually like a game based on a game since Golden Eye.

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DontEatRawHagis - 4 months 10 days ago

...game based on a movie...

LoL

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BadMrFrosty - 4 months 10 days ago

the Ghostbusters game for the original NES. you flew a little Ghostbusters logo around a grid of "buildings" and then randomly you'd be in some knock off version of spy hunter and I couldn't really figure the rest out.

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ChisAntistaSmellsLikePizza - 4 months 10 days ago

Top Gun.
I was sooo excited to get that game, because Top Gun was the greatest thing since movies of sliced bread.

I have never even beaten the damn tutorial mission, much less gotten to the blastedly hard (I'm told) carrier landings.

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oreomonkey - 4 months 10 days ago

Transformers. Drive. Run. Shoot. Repeat.

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adrenaguy - 4 months 10 days ago

i guess because i never bought them before this should count, i mean i always avoided them, but the simpson's game looked like it could be fun. yeah, big ass mistake, it was a novelty AT BEST which lasted for all of 30 seconds, them talking about playing a few times then sent to oblivion was right, i barely had the patience to finish it, and the last boss? a game of dance dance revolution for you pad? just wow, fellas. i detested that game and i refuse to acknowledge it's existence unless to say that it sucked monkey balls. that was what ruined them for me, i've never had the guts to buy another movie/tv series based game, i am too afraid of the failure, i'll stick with beyond good and evil, a game i KNOW is mazing, thank you and g'night.

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Hydrohs - 4 months 10 days ago

There wasn't a first one because I was smart enough to realize they all suck.

reCaptcha: lockup Amsterdam. Sounds good.

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jaffa_5 - 4 months 10 days ago

terminator 2 for the commador 64 i have never got past the motor bike truck chase level to this day (i think its only the second level lol) i load it up every now and again to have a crack at it but i always fail. god i loved my c64 and its tape deck and the dizzy games lol any way T2 really put me off movie games way back then. man theyr was some great games on the 64 like cosmic causeway, stunt man, commando, ugh ugh, the crok twins, shell shocked, most of them would make great flash games just up date the sprites a little and ur good to go

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11englj - 4 months 9 days ago

well myfirst movie game was spiderman 2, but i liked it. but then i learned my lesson when i played Enter the Matrix, and found that a good movie game is hard to find.

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