Well that makes sense. I assumed something like that happened because that game has almost nothing to do with the movie. It's too bad because with a few tweaks and more content that game could of been pretty good.
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Licensed games that have nothing to do with the license
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Well that makes sense. I assumed something like that happened because that game has almost nothing to do with the movie. It's too bad because with a few tweaks and more content that game could of been pretty good.
Home Improvement on Snes. The game revolves around a storyline of Tim "The Tool-man" Taylor being lost in time and having to collect the Binford tools.
He's not lost in time, he's going onto the sets of other shows.
Wayne's World on various formats.
Would have been better as a "make my music video" game on Sega CD.
There was a Wayne's World game? And that just looks terrible. Oversized digital pictures of the characters put over a different sprite body.
Bart vs. The Space Mutants for the NES was unique in that it used the license relatively well, but only for the first level. As Bart you walk around Springfield spray painting buildings and playing pranks to meet the level objective. After that it's just crappy platforming through generic locations.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
This is a licensed Skittles game, believe it or not.
In the same style:
Sponsored by Quavers. Great puzzle game.
Mobile Light Force? Not the Charlie's Angels license
PSOne was Gunbird
PS2 was Shikigami no Shiro
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
As much as I love the Fast and the Furious arcade games, they're just Cruis'n Exotica with a famous movie license and cars from said movies.
The action itself doesn't reflect the batman cartoon at all.
It's just a run n gun ala Gunstar Heroes but with Batman skins.
It's a great technical showcase for MD with the Batman license slapped in.
It didn't having nothing to do with the license, but Namco's Star Wars game on the NES had Luke Skywalker with black hair fighting animals that were disguised as Darth Vader
These Star Wars games (including the SNES versions) had some pretty batshit sections....more interesting though is a lot of the creature designs were unused from preproduction on the original films
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
The JVC Star Wars series elaborated a fair bit, but nothing out of the ordinary for the time. The Namco one was just batshit crazy though.
JackDebian
Banned
This is completely the opposite of what OP was asking for, but I recently found out that Journey to Silius on the NES was originally programmed to be a Terminator licensed game. Sunsoft failed to get the license and they were forced to come up with an original story to go along with the game that, frankly, was not very engaging. It's a shame because the mechanics and music for JtS were great, better than any of the actual licensed Terminator games, which were all total crap.
Phreakuency
Banned
I know it's MJ and he shoots basketballs and there are hoops on the walls so obviously effort went into making it 'his' game, but seriously a platformer with the greatest basketballer of all time shooting spiders...
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Does this count?
Nothing to do with Goldeneye movie or even have James Bond in it lol.
Nothing to do with Goldeneye movie or even have James Bond in it lol.
I actually wrote this up a while ago, but it's relevant to this post:
So you probably don't know what the above game is. What is an "Agro Soar" exactly, and why does he have his own game?
Well you won't find Agro outside of Australia -- he was the host of a weekday morning cartoon show along with the human host Ann Marie. It's best to point you to this hilarious video of outtakes from the show. He even had his own Ice Cream!
Somewhere in his 8 year reign on Television he got himself a Gameboy title, developed by well known Aussie developer Beam Software. Seeing this title back in the day I always wanted to play it, or at least know about it.
Looking it up a few days ago I found Agro Soar actually was similar to a lot of other titles, and began investigating. For one -- the game involves some magician bringinf you to a dinosaur world. Like, what? Agro's more of a thingamajig, never involved dinosaurs, so what made that happen?
Apparently Agro is a main-character switch of a game called Baby T-Rex which was released in Europe, which itself is probably hard to find. It was released the same year as Agro Soar and involved a little T-Rex riding a skateboard.
Hold on, wait a minute, didn't Beam do another game with that some time later? And those plant springs look familiar...
Beam released this game! Radical Rex, a sidescrolling platformer with a T-Rex on a skateboard in 1994 for the Megadrive and SNES. From what I can tell Beam must have created the Gameboy version of the game much earlier and then attempted to push it to numerous publishers. At some point they remade the concept into Radical Rex -- removing the rock throwing concept and gave him fire breath.
It's not often that you see how a game evolves over time, especially this early in the game industry. It's also one of the first games that switched a game around for another copyrighted character, like we've seen in Angry Birds Rio, Temple Run: Brave, Fruit Ninja: Puss In Boots, and Where's My Perry?
RadioHeadAche
Member
Did the game have a level like the video-game from the intro?
RoadHazard
Gold Member
That's the same game as the Bamse one I posted earlier! Like, 1:1 but with a different main character.