>> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:06:48 GMT, Warewolf
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Here's something that's been bothering me for the last couple of days -
>>>whenever a show becomes popular, a disk- or cartridge-based game is
>>>introduced to promote/capitalize on it...but how many of those games
>>>have
>>>you enjoyed so far?
>>
>>>It's great when the title in question allows you to play as any or all
>>>of
>>>the various characters *in-character* (the 'Looney Tunes' Gameboy game
>>>did
>>>this, in a way) but, if a game like 'Babs' Big Break' or 'Beast Wars'
>>>has
>>>too many flaws, it can reduce sales and its popularity with the
>>>networks,
>>>even though the original program still has its share of viewers. 9_9
>>
>> I don't think a bad game has much if any impact on the series it's
>> based on. Though often, by the time the game comes out, the property
>> has been so overmerchandised that the public is sick of it anyway and
>> the game is just one small part of the problem.
>>
>> But anyway, Capcom's Disney games on the NES and Sega's Disney titles
>> on the Genesis were almost all very good. Unfortunately, when Disney
>> began producing games under their own Disney Interactive banner in the
>> mid-'90s, the quality took a dip.
>>
>> Konami's early '90s Simpsons and TMNT arcade games were good fun, and
>> are still fondly remembered by most gamers. Unfortunately, somehow
>> Konami lost the deal for home-publishing rights on The Simpsons to
>> Acclaim, who specialized in license-based, quickly churned-out junk,
>> and thus most of the Simpsons console games haven't been worth
>> bothering with. Konami managed to secure the home rights for TMNT
>> though, and the console versions have mostly all been pretty good too.
>> Konami also did a pretty decent job with the Tiny Toons games.
>>
>> -lugnut
>
> TMNT 4: Turtles in Time is an SNES adaptatiion of the sloppier arcade
> game. It's also the only TMNT game I can stand to play these days, by
> virtue of its reasonably intense melee brawling action.
>
> Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Big Break is a SNES game that's fondly
> remembered. I thought it was okay, if not numbingly easy. The Game
> Boy TTA game might be good, in an even more simple-minded, old-school
> way.
>
> I'm drawing a blank, mostly because licensed games tend to fall on the
> forgettable side :)
>
I recall that many of these sorts of games came out back in the 80s when
home computing was just getting started. Beetlejuice (which used the
animated characters) wasn't a bad game but it was basically the same level
repeated with increasing difficulty and no ending. (I hacked a version to
give 100 lives, so I was able to play up fairly high.) There were plenty of
Disney titles like Rescue Rangers, though most of those were aimed at the
youngest players.
> Terrence Briggs, and don't forget: Cartoons Based on Video Games
> Suck :)
>
Not all, though the ones that air in North America tend to. Kirby is barely
watchable although the game is good. Pokemon wasn't bad in it's first season
but just went on too long. Captain N was a little better than the average
but it didn't go anywhere. The problem is that most of them are aimed a
children and are used as a way to market the games. Toy based shows tend to
be better.
