# Movies, TV shows AND SPORTS that would make great videogames!(POSSIBLE SPOILERS?)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 31, 2002, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919 "2002-12-31T19:12:40Z")
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### Author:  [@Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vinnie_Virginslayer)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2002, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/1 "2002-12-31T19:12:40Z")
This was inspired by BioHazard’s thread:
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=152949](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=152949)
Here’s some of mine:
\*\*ROLLERBALL
THE A\*TEAM
HAWAII FIVE-O
DEATH RACE 2000
FIREFOX\*\*
Some sports:
\*\*YACHT RACING
AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL
INDOOR SOCCER
ARM WRESTLING (don’t laugh- I actually did play an arcade arm wrestling game that almost broke my wrist!)
BULLFIGHTING
FENCING
POLO\*\*
and the ultimate:
**EA SPORTS CHAMPIONSHIP JAI-ALAI** 😃
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### Author:  [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2002, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/2 "2002-12-31T19:24:00Z")
Not one of the above, but I think the board game “Robo-Rally” would make an excellent computer game. I’m surprised it hasn’t been done yet, frankly.
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### Author:  [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2003, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/3 "2003-01-01T07:42:31Z")
The _Carmegeddon_ series of games for the PC are very similar in theme to _Death Race 2000_. Guilty fun.
There was a _Firefox_ arcade game in the mid 80s, during the brief popularity of laserdisc based games like _Dragon’s Lair_. I used to play it, but it was kind of frustrating and limited. The concept of the game was better than the execution because of the limits of game technology at the time. Is there enough nostalgia for the film (or even the books) to warrent another attempt at a video game?
Not quite what you were looking for, but I’ve always though a RTS game based upon the Hammer’s Slammers series of books by David Drake would be interesting. Hovertanks, cyan blasts, mobile infantry in ceramic armor, futuristic mercenaries with coporate contracts, etc. It would a natural fit.
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2003, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/4 "2003-01-01T08:33:39Z")
I’m not hip to what all videogames are available right now so this one may already exist, but I would think a Harry Potter: Quidditch video game would be pretty cool.
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### Author:  [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2003, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/5 "2003-01-01T08:49:30Z")
Speaking of David Drake, I think the Fleet series, or even the followup series (Battlestation, I think?) would make for an entertaining (if bloody as all hell) first person shooter.
\*\* Indeed, spoilers ahead for both series \*\*
I’m thinking something along the lines of the Aliens vs Predator games could come from this. (It seems like every damn videogame discussion I get involved with lately keeps coming back to this thing, and I’ve not played it in 6 months now. Weird, that.)
You get one set of missions as a “Space marine” and another playing as a Khalian. It’s even got sequels/add-ons built into the storyline. You get the advanced weapons and armor technology upgrades for the APOT series of missions, a sequel where the marines and weasels fight co-op against the Syndicate, a third game where the missions take place closer to the galactic core as the Battlestation moves into new enemy territory…
You could even work a flight-simulator type game into the franchise for the Fleet’s early battles against the Khalian Raiders, a brainship add-on or sequel, and yet again, a new game entirely set against the new enemy, based on the Battlestation.
Damn. That’d be fun.
[sub]Now I’m all nostalgic for a game that doesn’t exist. I can guess what I’ll be re-reading all next month…[/sub]
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### Author:  [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2003, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/6 "2003-01-01T09:24:22Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Vinnie Virginslayer \*
> \*\*This was inspired by BioHazard’s thread:
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> Here’s some of mine:
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> ROLLERBALL
> \*\*
I think there was a nintendo game like this.
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### Author:  [@Keith\_Berry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith_Berry)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2003, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/7 "2003-01-01T12:12:33Z")
\*\*Dawn Of The Dead \*\*
Yep, I know we’ve got plenty of zombie games (House Of The Dead, Resident Evil, etc.) but I’d love to see a video game of this that followed the storyline closely…it would butter my bread to imagine a shopping-mall shooter, fighting zombies and bikers, using the game engine of \*\*Perfect Dark \*\* or something similar.
**Repo Man**
Punk rockers, dead aliens, flakey criminals, and car theft. Would make a great \*\*Vice City \*\* style game, only with more humor and not so many sociopathic themes. (Not that I have anything against sociopathic themes; \*\*Vice City \*\* is in very heavy rotation in my PS2…)
**The Mack**
You start off as a broke-ass sucka with no women and no respect…and through charm, hustling, manipulation, deceit, and violence, you work your way up on the pimping scale and acquire a stable of hos…objectives include cultivating innocent girls and getting them to turn tricks for you, acquiring new turf for your hos, evading the law, fighting off the encroachments of other pimps, mulling over the ideal velvet suit to wear on a Saturday Night, etc.
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### Author:  [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/8 "2003-01-02T12:46:49Z")
**Stargate**
I thought that this would make a great game, if someone put enough effort into it. Travel to a plethora of different worlds, solve puzzles, bring back technology that you would have to research to utilize, some action sequences that you could fight the g’ould…great idea for a game…now I just wish I either knew anything about game creation, or knew someone that did.
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### Author:  [@ShadowWarrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowWarrior)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/9 "2003-01-02T14:28:57Z")
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> \*Originally posted by HPL \*
> \*\*I think there was a nintendo game like this. \*\*
On various platforms there was speedball and Speedball 2 - very good games based on the rollerball idea
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/10 "2003-01-02T20:58:32Z")
The Last Starfighter.
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### Author:  [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/11 "2003-01-02T21:42:20Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \*
> \*\*The Last Starfighter. \*\*
Not only would this make a good videogame, I’m baffled that they never made one. The whole plot centers around a videogame, fer chrissakes!
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### Author:  [@LoN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoN)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/12 "2003-01-02T21:52:34Z")
A **Redwall** RTS would be great… you could play as either the Redwallers or some group of bad guys (hopefully created for the game)… the units are already delienated in the books (the squierrels and shrews are scouts, the mice are warriors, the hares are even better warriors, the badgers are the best warriors, the otters are the navy… etc…). I figure a campgain that starts in Mossflower, moves on the Redwall, and finnally ends up at Salamandatron (where you finnally get to use the Badgers) would be the best. Hero units would be included, of course…
I’m not a huge RTS fan and I haven’t read the Redwall books in forever, but I still think this would be a great idea…
Some sort of fighting game or RPG based on Micheal Moorcock’s books would be neat…
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### Author:  [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2003, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/13 "2003-01-03T08:48:47Z")
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> Some sort of fighting game or RPG based on Micheal Moorcock’s books would be neat…
“And so, you have defeated the leader of the enemy forces. In the process, you have gotten yourself killed, and destroyed the world as you know it. Congratulations!”
Or…
You have collected the Elric Power-Up special attack. To use this power, press C+B+Up+Left, then flee at top speed. If you are within 500 feet of the summoned Elric, he will kill you after killing your enemies. Find a locked door to hide behind.
Yeah, that’d be fun. 😃
[sub]Actually, we had a whole bunch of fun with the Stormbringer dice and paper RPG, back when. A PC game version would be a lotta fun, so long as you can keep adding new party members every few minutes.[/sub]
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### Author:  [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/14 "2003-01-03T19:36:16Z")
Arena football (done right, not that NFL Blitz knock-off crap game that came out), Canadian football, and outdoor lacrosse (I think a crap indoor game was made).
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### Author:  [@LoN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoN)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/15 "2003-01-03T19:43:02Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Skeezix \*
> \*\*“And so, you have defeated the leader of the enemy forces. In the process, you have gotten yourself killed, and destroyed the world as you know it. Congratulations!”
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> Or…
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> You have collected the Elric Power-Up special attack. To use this power, press C+B+Up+Left, then flee at top speed. If you are within 500 feet of the summoned Elric, he will kill you after killing your enemies. Find a locked door to hide behind.
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> Yeah, that’d be fun. 😃
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> [sub]Actually, we had a whole bunch of fun with the Stormbringer dice and paper RPG, back when. A PC game version would be a lotta fun, so long as you can keep adding new party members every few minutes.[/sub] \*\*
I’ve only read two Moorcock books (Elric of Melnibone and the Chronicles of Corum), but I think I understand the premise. Something like _Eternal Darkness_ would be neat-- eact set of levels lets you play a different Eternal Champion. The whole “kill enemies to stay alive” thing from Elric actually works for a game, and if you put in a good swordfighting engine it would be even better.
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### Author:  [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2003, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/16 "2003-01-04T06:48:53Z")
Strewth, that.
An EC first person “shooter” would be fun, in a gratuitous violence sort o’ way. Possibly something like the game engine used for Jedi Knight could do this justice.
That idea’s got merit, in fact. An Elric game would at least have a real basis for having you wander around killing **everyone** you run into, with no common folks in the way.
Face it, if you lived in the Young Kingdoms, and heard that the White Wolf was in town, unless you wanted to kill him yourself, you’d head for the friggin’ hills at top speed. Well, I would, anyway.
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### Author:  [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/17 "2003-01-04T07:29:26Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Cheesesteak \*
> \*\*Not only would this make a good videogame, I’m baffled that they never made one. The whole plot centers around a videogame, fer chrissakes! \*\*
They did make one, for the original nintendo. You flew a spaceship around and blew things up.
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### Author:  [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2003, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/18 "2003-01-04T09:10:47Z")
**Curling**.
Kidding, kidding. I mean, curling, yikes.
In all seriousness, though, I think some of the books (yes, I know it says ‘movies, TV shows and sports,’ in the OP, _not_ books, infomercials, radio jingles and billboards), from The Chronicals of Narnia might make for a cool video game…it would have to be pretty large scale, say, Legend of Zelda-ish in stature.
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### Author:  [@LoN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoN)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2003, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-tv-shows-and-sports-that-would-make-great-videogames-possible-spoilers/145919/19 "2003-01-04T09:17:34Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Skeezix \*
> \*\*Strewth, that.
>
> An EC first person “shooter” would be fun, in a gratuitous violence sort o’ way. Possibly something like the game engine used for Jedi Knight could do this justice.
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> That idea’s got merit, in fact. An Elric game would at least have a real basis for having you wander around killing **everyone** you run into, with no common folks in the way.
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> Face it, if you lived in the Young Kingdoms, and heard that the White Wolf was in town, unless you wanted to kill him yourself, you’d head for the friggin’ hills at top speed. Well, I would, anyway. \*\*
Elric’s cool, but I still like the idea of playing different Eternal Champions. I haven’t actually played any games that worked that way, but apparenlty changing main characters each level is pretty funny. An Elric game on its own would also rock. I’d make it so if you stopped killing for, say, 30 seconds, your health would start to decrease. It’d make the gameplay nice and frentic. And i’d add basic RPG elements, 'cause they make me happy. And a horse. Like in Zelda…