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Awesome games based off of cartoons
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Jaded Alyx
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un33dab@dpu$$y
Definitely Aladdin on Genesis, and the Mickey Mouse/Donald Duck games on the same system. Ducktales and Rescue Rangers were also quite good.
GhaleonQ
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Uh, if Mickey Mouse, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and The Simpsons count (movie [was he even on television until after that game came out?], comic, comic), then Astro Boy, _comics_ Versus Capcom, superhero beat-'em-ups, generally, Sam And Max, Captain Tsubasa, Jump Superstars, and Little Nemo: The Dream Master should.
ScrewAttack never seems like they try with their lists.
ScrewAttack never seems like they try with their lists.
Diablohead
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World of Illusion FTMFW
JoshuaJSlone
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I wouldn't go so far as to say awesome, but as a minigame collection based off a 50-year-old seven-minute short, it's kinda awesome that it even exists.
lolez2matt
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amazed no one posted those games before T_T
Hypereides
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Gomu Gomu said:
Came here to post this.
Also, this:
agaru said:
SiegfriedFM
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Transformers and Kim Possible are two amazing licenses for PS2. I reviewed KP but actually went and bought a copy recently and replayed it.
Jeff Albertson
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First game I ever had for the Amiga and loved it
Was Mickey Mouse, a character that debuted in the 1920's and was the mascot of the world's most successful animation company, on TV before a 1994 videogame? Did you just seriously ask that? Mickey Mouse started out in shorts that were later compiled into many TV shows and has had plenty of TV-specific shows, just like Looney Tunes. Nevermind that uh, cartoons don't necessarily have to be on TV to be cartoons. TMNT was a cartoon before it was a game, and the game was obviously based on the cartoon, not the (dark and violent) comic. The Simpsons were developed as a series of short cartoons for the Tracy Ullman show that spun off into their own series, the comics came after the cartoons.GhaleonQ said:
The Japanese cartoons should technically count but it's easy to see why they held back on those, it's an American list so it's going to focus on popular American cartoons, not Japanese ones. My previous rebuttal of all the stuff you thought was based on comics covers the rest aside from Little Nemo, which could count although OMG it was only a movie. The Sam & Max cartoon came after the game, before you try that route. And I will grant you that they sort of broke your rule on the X-men arcade game, as that was based on the comics and predates the animated series.
Yet, they tried much harder than you.
Father_Brain
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mr stroke said:Good but this was better
what.
What.
WHAT THE FUCK?
World of Illusion is awesome. Fantasia, however, is easily one of the worst 2D platformers I've ever played.
Either you're thinking of a different game, or you just have the worst taste ever.
Provided it hasn't canned in favor of something else, Warren Spector's Steampunk Mickey.
(Okay, so it hasn't come out and very possibly will not, but one can dream, right?)
(Okay, so it hasn't come out and very possibly will not, but one can dream, right?)
HUELEN10
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I've never seen screens or vids of this before, so before I go checking vids, I wanna know if my hunch is correct...Apenheul said:Instead of Popeye it should've had this in the top 10 (ranked in the top 3):
Coop multiplayer at its finest!
Does it play anything like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ4NUa-vydI&feature=related
DimmuBurgerKing
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HUELEN10 said:
That looks like an action game, while there's certainly a lot of action in Goof Troop it's more about solving puzzles. It plays a bit like Zelda the Minish Cap just with 2 players and with a linear level progression.
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I want this on VC
It's one of my favorite SNES games, I've finished it at least a dozen times.
<3
The Screwattack list was great all round, just a shame neither Castle of Illusion or Quackshot could get in there. Magical Quest is a great game, but it's perhaps a little too frustrating at times.
Props to the mention of Sheep, Dog and Wolf in this thread, superb game that. I remember never getting past one of the ice levels though
GhaleonQ
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Shig said:
Mmm, just checked BCDB and Wikipedia, and there wasn't a television series starring Mickey Mouse until after the game came out. The Mickey Mouse Club in no way starred the character, and clip compilations came from the theater, as everyone knows. In any case, it's not like the games were based on any cartoon series. Did you have a point that can't be construed as, "OMG HE CAMEOED IN THE INTERSTITALS TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY"?
Shig said:
"Only one game per-franchise and no animated movie based games."
Shig said:
I do admit that I mixed up prototypes from Life In Hell (the rabbits were included, for that matter) with the actual Simpsons. My fault. Sorry. Your criticisms still don't hold generally, since the Popeye game cleary wasn't based on any of the Popeye television series, just the shorts and the strip. It's just a list of things that had an animated television series. Of course, all of my Japanese ones still hold.
So, now the question is, "If you didn't even watch it (since you didn't notice the movie thing), why go berserk over an awful web series?"
g0atcheese
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Hyperstone Heist 
Skiptastic
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TMNT II: The Arcade Game (NES) and TMNT III: The Manhattan Project (NES)
Hamtaro: ham ham Games (GBA)
Looney Tunes: Space Race (DC)
Just a few not mentioned...
Hamtaro: ham ham Games (GBA)
Looney Tunes: Space Race (DC)
Just a few not mentioned...
BobFromPikeCreek
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Awesome co-op game. Played the crap out of it as a kid.Apenheul said:Instead of Popeye it should've had this in the top 10 (ranked in the top 3):
Coop multiplayer at its finest!
cartman414
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LaserBuddha said:
Some of the most depressing, really.
HurricaneJesus
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Apenheul said:Instead of Popeye it should've had this in the top 10 (ranked in the top 3):
Coop multiplayer at its finest!
I must have played through this 50 times as a kid. I would always get to the pirate ship at the end of the game and get stuck for about 30 minutes on the last puzzle. From what I remember the game is mostly block-sliding puzzles. Good times.
chixdiggit
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PolarBearsClub said:Other awesome games:
Winner. One of the most over looked games ever.
Masked Man
I said wow
You know, for the longest time I thought that I was truly the only person in the world who loved Rescue Rangers and Ducktales. I loved the cartoons growing up, so I suppose it was only natural that I thoroughly enjoy the games--even aside from their stellar quality. It was only years later that I discovered that these games were actually rather popular outside of my tiny little world. :lol They win, in my book, but I totally respect and adore The Simpsons arcade. Adventures of Batman & Robin was great, too, as was Mickey Mania.
And, to whomever chose Fantasia: lolzwut. They totally butchered every single piece that they used for the game, and that just doesn't sit well with me. =/
And, to whomever chose Fantasia: lolzwut. They totally butchered every single piece that they used for the game, and that just doesn't sit well with me. =/
HurricaneJesus said:
The same with me, the last puzzle took a lot of time the first couple of times that I've played the game. My strategy was to find out where the last stone would end up and work backwards from there.
Perhaps the best moments are the parts where you have to negotiate with the other person you're playing with.
"Get bell"
"No U get bell!"
"No U"
*kick stone into other player*
Or when you're trying to do a puzzle kicking stones but your friend just happened to run around in the field, breaks the stone, and you can start doing the puzzle all over again.
Metal Gear?!
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Only in that they both play like a Zelda game, otherwise pretty different.HUELEN10 said:
Goof Troop plays exactly like A Link to the Past sans the sword. You do the same sliding block puzzles but you have to rely on throwing to get rid of enemies. It even has the exact same hookshot.
Other than Goof Troop and Harvest Moon it's a shame more games didn't imitate and expand upon the near-perfect gameplay of A Link to the Past.
Regardless of their origin, shorts were shown on TV for decades beforehand and it's basically the only way anyone born after 1950 experienced them. It's splitting hairs to say he never had a TV show beforehand. And though the game wasn't based on any particular cartoon, the fact that he didn't have pac-man eyes in it shows that's where the overarching design philosophy was coming from.GhaleonQ said:
Ah, didn't notice the 'no movie-based games' thing.
Same argument as Mickey.
Yes, I acknowledged that, but it's obviously a list playing for nostalgia so it's a moot point.
Eh, you had some stupid logic going there and I felt compelled to call it out. "TMNT shouldn't count because it was a comic first, even though the designs, story, and marketability for all the games obviously came from the cartoon"? Get the fuck outta here.
TheDarkKnight774
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Jazzem said:
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The Screwattack list was great all round, just a shame neither Castle of Illusion or Quackshot could get in there.
Yup, two of the very best right there.
It's an okay list, but clearly the man only played from the SNES and NES library when he was younger. There were a lot of quality titles (The Mickey / Donald ones mentioned here) which didn't get a mention, and when talking about the Tiny Toons game I always found, of the two NES and Genesis game, Buster's Hidden Treasure was the better one.
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