I really like how in the pre-internet world they used to make video game adaptations out of anything, since nobody really knew where the medium was headed, and since video games were really the only kind of digital diversion that existed accessibly they'd actually sell. ITT post games that wouldn't get made today.
Not quite the same thing but I think it kind of falls under this category.Imagine if they made a Breaking Bad PS2 game or something.
>>12250745Gilligan's Island on the NES always seemed like an extremely bizarre choice of something to make a game out of. It was already an irrelevant boomer show in the 80's so who exactly was the audience for this game?
>>12250776I didn't know this game existed, huh. Same deal with Little Nemo the Dream Master, it was based on a property that was like 80 years old at the time. There was a movie adaptation that was made at the same time but as far as I know they don't have much connection.
>>12250776It wasn't irrelevant; it was all over daytime TV.>>12250780The game was supposed to be released at about the same time as the anime movie in Japan. idk if it was
I don't know when I came into possession of this game as a child, but I still have a copy of it.
>>12250817The Mayer knows that only the Noid can stop them.Using the power of his yoyo, he will TRY.
>>12250780>>12250807Yeah, the Little Nemo game was based on the movie, not the comic strip. The American marketing just got messed up because the movie didn't get released in burgerland until 1992.>The game was supposed to be released at about the same time as the anime movie in Japan. idk if it wasIt was released in Japan a year and a half after the movie came out, but that wasn't super rare at the time, when movies would stay relevant for years after their release.
>>12250780the movie bombed. there was also a nemo arcade machine that i believe was only released in japan and some spots in europe. you can play it on MAME and ive seen some flyers/marquee art however ive never been able to find even a picture of an actual cabinet.
>>12250780>>12250837I liked the Nemo arcade game. There's also an Willow Capcom game
T&C Wood & Water Rage isn't that odd. Surfing and Skateboarding were the current popular and hip things in culture in the mid 80's, it's what all the cool kids were doing. It's why Bart Simpson was given a skateboard in the early seasons. Riding on that popularity at the time was Town & Country Surf Designs, who were cashing in on the surfing and skateboarding trend. So for a videogame company to get the T&C license and make a videogame about skateboarding and surfing, that's pretty logical. Doubly so for being released in the late 80's.Fester's Quest is much stranger, since it only exists because the lead dev wanted to make an Addams Family videogame and begged the creator's widow for the license. It wasn't hip, it wasn't popular at the time, it wasn't even getting played regularly on Nick at Night, it was just a result of one guy's obsession.
>>12250745I'm not sure how it actually worked. Like I know they made these games cheaply and parents would buy them for their kids who liked the movies. But with games being so much more expensive then, why?
This game was not terrible
>>12250820Careful nigga, or he'll ruin your pizza. Classic anti hero kino.
>>12250776Gilligan's Island was used as a daytime kid's show. I can see how someone would think it might make a profit. But these things were often just the idea of some old man with the license that he pushed to make. I've heard old developers tell exasperated stories about how some old bat wife of some guy got them to buy the rights to something because it made for example her brother some pissant money, like the Buck Rogers Gold Box CRPGs.
>>12251162>Buck RogersI have that on the Genesis. It was the only Gold Box game besides Pool of Radiance I think to ever get a console port. It was a nice game for the Sega which was kinda lacking in good rpgs
They made a game based on that shitty movie with Bob Hoskins but it was actually pretty fun
I give you this often regurgitated bit of trivia.>based on the vangelis soundtrack to blade runner
Jingle Cats is a series of novelty Christmas cover albums where the instruments and vocals of various popular songs are replaced by pitch bent cat noises. Sony turned it into a video game.After every level you get a cutscene with a Jingle Cats cover. I really like their version of Billy Joel's "The Stranger:" https://youtu.be/VTcZciwLfeM?t=75
>>12251476was there a psx mouse peripheral?
>>12251675yes
>>12251675No. But you could plug a USB mouse into the USB port.
>>12251753That's how it works on the PS2. The PS1 has a dedicated mouse peripheral that uses the normal controller port. I have a Tokimeki Memorial branded one with Shiori Fujisaki on it. (Picrel is not mine. Its an image I grabbed off Google.) They have normal, boring ones, too, obviously. A surprisingly large number of games support it. Wikipedia has a list, but there's probably even more than that.Pretty much every console from the PC Engine to the start of consoles having USB ports (so the PS2) has some form of mouse peripheral. The most famous is the SNES mouse, but there's a PC Engine mouse, a Mega Drive mouse, a Saturn mouse, an N64 mouse (though its only supported by N64DD software), and a Dreamcast mouse. Collect them all, I guess.
>>12251968We're not talking about the PS1 zoom zoom. We're talking about the PSX which is a PS2 variant.I almost feel bad for you pseuding so hard with AI slop only to be hoisted with your own petard by your NU. Almost.
>>12251240SMW is nearly 3 years older than the SMB movie
>>12250745the theme from this game still jams.>>12250781wtrf>>12250941were any of the Spot games actually bad?for me its still the movie or TV show tie ins. Bebe's Kids? A strange movie based on standup comedian's routine?Home Improvement? a tv show based on a standup comedian's routine?
>>12250747kek everytime ponies boast gloat about the size of ps2 library, i am reminded its lagerly filled by crap like that
Kino thread is kino
>>12252106No, when I asked about the "PSX" I just meant the PS1 as it was commonly called before any of the sequel consoles came out, calm down
>game based on a movie about boomers pining for the 1950s and how cool it is to fuck your mom
>>12250781I need to play this
>>12250745I'd like to mention that the illustrator of the T&C Surf Designs mascots, Steve Nazar, passed away this year. RIPHeavily dig the geometric artstyle and flat colors on this image in specific. I can see how someone might see this and think "hey, maybe we should make a game about this"
>>12252673forgot to attach image
>>12252663>as it was commonly calledTell me you're a zoomer without telling me
>>12252686Please open this article and read the opening of the first paragraphhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)
>>12252617That game kicked ass, like GTA mixed with true crime
they didn't just get A game, they had an entire FRANCHISE. Mental
>>12252808weird licensed gbc/gba games could get their own thread. There's so many.
>>12252691>provides link that doesn't support the claimYup, that's a zoomie
>>12252895fucking SENTENCE ONE of the article>The PlayStation[a] (codenamed PSX, abbreviated as PS, and retroactively PS1 or PS one) you're just gonna deny it again anyways, but it's funny how hard you are trying to avoid fessing up to making a minor mistake
>>12250745At that time, video games were still viewed as toys, and toy companies were more involved.Milton Bradley for example, published 4 NES games including Marble Madness, all of which were Rare developed.
>>12250807A lot of ancient TV shows were shown randomly in various daytime or weekend slots on independent TV channels. At the time, in most markets there were more TV stations than networks, in the 80s there were 3 national broadcast TV networks + PBS. Also there were some times when there wasn't any national network content (weekend afternoons when no major sports were going on for example) so the local affiliates also had time slots to fill.Not to mention, cable was in its infancy, and a lot of basic cable channels also didn't have a full lineup of original programming. Networks like USA used to get the bulk of their programming from reruns.So kids in the 80s would have been seeing a variety of programming from older generations mixed in with the typical syndication first cartoon series and the like.
>>12250849I always thought fester's quest was an already designed game that had a license shoehorned onto it at the last minute, given that the gameplay is just Blaster Master without the vehicle levels.
>>12251476What is this game? Ghost Trick with cats?
>>12252941Nope, they just copy+pasted a lot of the engine code for Fester's Quest to lower development costs. It was always designed to be an Addam's Family game from day 1. Full story of it's development in an interview with the lead dev here:http://www.kidfenris.com/2014/11/interview-festers-quest.html
>>12253092It's a licensed game based on Jingle Cats, Christmas novelty albums where cat sounds are used to recreate popular songs.The PS1 game itself tasks you with caretaking cats in a home, and building their relationships up so they like each other enough to perform one of those songs for you, with ten songs featured.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTcZciwLfeMThe game just recently had an English fan translation completed.https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/06/you-can-now-play-the-japan-exclusive-ps1-cult-classic-jingle-cats-in-english
>>12252897>zoomie looses it's shit>rants about theys/thems """source""">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)>quotes the part that doesn't support theys/thems claim>^fas it was commonly called>not found>copes and projectsepic>>12252663>as it was commonly calledlolDeranged zoomies trying too hard to fit in btfo for the 9001^9001 time
>>12252663>>12252691>>12252897I know you mean well, but please do not engage with the obvious troll. Everyone knows you're right, including the guy you're arguing with. This thread is fairly interesting and I don't want it to be cluttered with nonsense.
>>12253092Its full title is Ai to Yuujou no Neko Monogatari - Jingle Cats - Love Para Daisakusen no Maki, or, as the fan translation calls it, A Cat's Tale of Love & Friendship - Jingle Cats - On a Mission of Love.The best way I'd describe it is as a arcadey virtual pet game. Unlike most virtual pet games where you manage your pet(s) over a long span of time, Jingle Cats is broken into brief discrete levels between which the game state is reset. In every level, you pick two cats: a lead cat and a partner cat. Your goal is to raise the two cat's affection for each other (indicated by the bar at the top of the screen). You raise the cats' affection levels by getting them to play with each other. Once its maxed out, you can issue a "love attack," prompting the cats to confess their love for each other (or if they're the same gender, do a brotherly dance?), ending the level.The cats have various stats which are affected by the tools in the hot bar. You have to keep them fed, clean, and happy. At the beginning of the game, you only have to manage the lead and partner cats. As you progress through the levels, the game gets more difficult by giving you anywhere from one to three additional cats to manage. These additional cats do not have an affection bar to raise, but they do have the other stats and can interact with the game world. The love attack will fail if any stat on any cat it too low, so you have to divide your attention across all of them.Unfortunately, the levels don't have much variety other than the number of cats you must manage. The game gets repetitive quickly, though its only two-ish hours long so I don't find this to be a huge deal breaker. The game's biggest strength is its charming visual aesthetic. Every element has tons of animation. Its crayon and line boil style feels anachronistic on the Play Station library. Much like the albums its based on, the game is more of a novelty than a work with significant substance, but I enjoy it nonetheless.
>>12252617dumb ninbaby, ps2 library was the greatest ever
thinking back to childhood, there was a "Frankie Goes to Hollywood" game on 8bit home computers like the C64. yes... a computer game for kids based on the 'relax don't do it when you wanna CUM' one hit wonders. and there was a licensed "Platoon" run & gun on Spectrum. fucking PLATOON... an anti war war movie about stoned draftees accidentally murdering VCs and fragging their lieut. thinking about it, it was OCEAN that came up with all these bizarre licensed titles
>>12253639My bad, you're right, it's a pointless argument
>>12250745>The one game everybody had in their collection.
>>12253838>Frankie Goes to HollywoodStill one of the weirdest damn games I ever played. Learning later that it was about a band kind of explained it, but not really
James Clavell's Shogun getting not one, but two games was pretty weird. One of them was a text adventure (sort of makes sense), the other a strange side-scrolling platformer (this is just fever dream shit).
