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King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie

Also known as: King Kong [UK]

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The Top 7... movie games that don't suck

Uncover your eyes and stop wincing - these actually got it right

Words: GamesRadar US

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Aladdin
Sega | Genesis

The release of Disney's adventure-packed Arabian tale in 1992 proved that animated musicals weren't just for wannabe princesses anymore. And the accompanying videogame proved that tie-ins weren't just for greedy marketing executives anymore.

Aladdin gave fans exactly what they wanted - a chance to play the movie. Seriously... with its catchy, bouncy music ported perfectly song-for-song and its clean, colorful graphics produced by the actual studio animators, the game looked and sounded like it had been ripped straight off the big screen. To those who were still kids at the time, it seemed like bottled magic.

The action of the film was captured as well. Although your attacks were limited to sword-swinging and apple-throwing (only appropriate for a simple street urchin), the creative level design had you climbing sentient ropes, leaping from giant Genie hands to giant Genie tongues and hitting palace guards square in the stomach to make their trousers drop. Yeah, even the humor's here.

Perhaps the only cinematic aspect missing from the game was the romance. After all, the inferior SNES version - which was a cute-sprited Capcom game first and an Aladdin game second - did manage to squeeze in a starry-skied, jewel-collecting carpet ride with Princess Jasmine that the Sega version lacked. But who wants to admit they liked Aladdin for the love story?

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GaMeZ4LiFe - 1 year 5 months ago

Wow haha..
What a shocker

First.

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Lrd_Chikn - 1 year 5 months ago

King Kong!
Maybe Im not old enough to appreciate its smartness and beauty, but c'mon I like Beyond Good & Evil and Rayman but King Kong was such a boring game I never even made it passed the first cave

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lucklesswonder - 1 year 5 months ago

Great games. Aladdin on the Genesis claimed a large chunk of my childhood, and GoldenEye was my most-played game on the N64. Butcher Bay is one of my all-time faves.

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Magnum_Apex - 1 year 5 months ago

King Kong and Spider-Man are most deserving to be on that list. They're games directly based on the movies, and they were released alongside the films. To meet such a deadline and still release a quality product is nothing short of impressive.

On a side note, I also have great memories of Batman, Aladdin and Goldeneye.

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Y2Ken - 1 year 5 months ago

The Riddick game is fantastic.

I really want a next-gen game with a similar theme - set in a Max-security prison and getting involved with all the inmates. I just loved how there was a really noticeable community in there. Outstanding game.

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nerovic - 1 year 5 months ago

Just want to make one thing clear, vin diesel's movies are terrible with one maybe two exceptions. Cronicles of Riddick was a damn good movie! (Perfect Dark wasn't too bad either)

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Superdude576 - 1 year 4 months ago

Aladdin and Spiderman 2, those were some good games.
I've seen most of these (or atleast some) of these movies, and I have got to say, they all deserved some list coverage. They were great games, it looks like, from great movies (apparently excluding Riddick. Personally never saw it except for about 10 minutes in the middle. It never made sense.XD).

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key0blade - 1 year 4 months ago

I effing loved The King Kong game. Amazing for a movie game. And Spidie 2 was really good too.

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MUSH-RUME - 1 year 3 months ago

The King Kong game for DS sucked big time cos it's stupidly hard to get out of the cave (there is an almost invinceble giant crab gaurding the exit)and almost straight after you get out a raptor appears which is also hard to kill. Spidey 2 tho is very gd especially compared to its sequel and the game before it.

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monroerobby - 1 year 3 months ago

i dont think king kong should be the movie-to-game adaption i think the game that deserves to go on number 1 is golden eye fo sho i remember playing that with my brothers and dad and i still play it today and king kong was way to short and it should have had jack black be a voice for it :0

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