Wasted opportunities or: Why wasn't this a video game??

[Cryomancer]

I also would've loved a "Weird Al" Yankovic game, either on the NES or SNES. Each level would be a parody of a different popular video game. There could be a Super Mario Bros. parody level, a Gradius parody level, a Donkey Kong parody level in which Michael Jackson is on top of the girders throwing barrels of bleach down at you, and a Wolfenstein first-person level in which you have to shoot all the mimes.

That actually sounds like a pretty good concept.

Also, there have been two Voltron games now, one for iOS and one on XBLA. They are both somewhat similar in gameplay, and decent although nothing super special. The iOS one is even 2D spritebased, so you could probably pretend it's an SNES game fairly well, heh.

[Mayhem]

Danger mouse

that is all

This is gonna sound repetitive but there was a Danger Mouse game on the C64. Maybe two even.

A BraveStarr game could've been great, too.

See above. Also on C64.

[Greg2600]

Also, there have been two Voltron games now, one for iOS and one on XBLA. They are both somewhat similar in gameplay, and decent although nothing super special. The iOS one is even 2D spritebased, so you could probably pretend it's an SNES game fairly well, heh.

You're too kind, they stunk big time.

This is gonna sound repetitive but there was a Danger Mouse game on the C64. Maybe two even.

Yes, C64 had a game for pretty much any licensed property imaginable. That meant little to most people, who didn't have a C64 back then.

[DigitalSpace]

This thread reminded of me of a dream I once had about playing a King of the Hill game on the SNES. I even posted about the dream in an old thread:

I had a dream that there was a King of the Hill game for the Super Nintendo. I was playing the first level, which had Hank going through the alley, and I get to the Hill's backyard and pause. When I came back to the game, Hank was gone and Bobby was running around the backyard with Ladybird.

The SNES was on the tail end of its run by the time King of the Hill hit the airwaves, but I'm kind of surprised that a game was never made for another system.

[MASTERWEEDO]

Danger mouse

that is all

or even Count Duckula

[MASTERWEEDO]

An "Are You Afriad of the Dark?" game couldda been sweet. Each level as a different story.

[duffmanth]

NKOTB was never turned into a video game cuz their whole audience was pretty much pre-teen/teen girls.

[Garry Silljo]

An "Are You Afriad of the Dark?" game couldda been sweet. Each level as a different story.

There is one on the PC. It's only one story though.

[Spidey80]

The first two I`m going to list got games either before or after the NES era,but it`s surprising that no one did an NES game based on these properties,even Taito who had a Hanna-Barbera license then
Yogi Bear
Scooby-Doo

Some other picks
Jonny Quest
Marvel licenses such as the Fantastic Four and the Hulk(you`d think Acclaim/LJN would have brought out games based on those characters)
Wonder Woman(come to think of it,why hasn`t she ever gotten her own game at all,regardless of system?)

[Haoie]

How many sitcoms get turned into games?

None?

Probably for the best. Although I do want to play as Steve Urkel at least once in my life.

[o.pwuaioc]

How many sitcoms get turned into games?

None?

Probably for the best. Although I do want to play as Steve Urkel at least once in my life.

Close enough?

[sloan]

How many sitcoms get turned into games?

Gilligan's Island - NES
Addams Family (various versions) - NES, Genesis, SNES

[Edmond Dantes]

Don't forget the Home Improvement game for SNES...

[StealthLurker]

Wished there was a 2D Vampire Hunter D game. The PSX game was so terrible. Maybe a cross up of Castlevania/Ninja Gaiden style motif and gameplay.

A Bionic Six game would have been cool too. Also mentioned earlier... Visionaires.

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[CelticJobber]

A game based on Full House or Saved By The Bell probably would've done good business for Acclaim/LJN in the tween girls demographic.

The rap group the Fat Boys were huge in the mid-80's. A videogame starring them would've done gangbusters at retail. Hell, it could've been based on their comedy classic "Disorderlies".

Also, I always thought there should've been a videogame based on the Capt. N cartoon.

[Gameguy]

A game based on Full House or Saved By The Bell probably would've done good business for Acclaim/LJN in the tween girls demographic.

There's a Saved by The Bell game on youtube, it's interactive like a choose your own adventure book.

[Kiddo]

Also, I always thought there should've been a videogame based on the Capt. N cartoon.

It was probably difficult enough getting the Captain N cast in the cartoon, but having a game with the same cast would've probably been full of licensing difficulties. In comparison, Bug-tte Honey, which has some similarities to Captain N as an anime series in Japan featuring multiple videogame crossovers, pretty much had none of the "Crossover" aspect in it's videogame adaptation and just felt like a weird, puzzly, kusoge version of Adventure Island.

Come to think of it, though, pretty much anything DiC's made (That wasn't based on a license) didn't get a video game adaptation I can recall.

On the note of 80's franchises which tend to get ignored, stuff targeted for girls tends to get the shaft. There was never a mainstream game based on G1 or G2 My Little Pony or Rainbow Brite, for example. The 80's revival of Alvin and the Chipmunks also got ignored probably because of the major focus on the "Chipettes".
... Come to think of it, there isn't one for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic either, is there? Wow, you'd think a game developer would be wanting to make some cheap cash-in on that while it's still hot.

[Rob2600]

Come to think of it, though, pretty much anything DiC's made (That wasn't based on a license) didn't get a video game adaptation I can recall.

In the U.S., the only Sunbow cartoon series that had NES games were G.I. Joe and Bucky O'Hare. It made no sense.

On the note of 80's franchises which tend to get ignored, stuff targeted for girls tends to get the shaft. There was never a mainstream game based on G1 or G2 My Little Pony or Rainbow Brite, for example.

Or Jem.

[sloan]

Underdog (endless opportunities to save Polly Purebread)
Poltergeist
Trading Places (play as either Ray or Lewis)
Mork and Mindy (get to fly with Mork back to Ork)
Hong Kong Fooey
Heathcliff
Planet of the Apes (yes, later versions were done on PS2 and Xbox, but a 2600 or Colecovision version would have been nice)
Michael Jackson's Thriller (lots of possibilities with corpses coming up out of the graveyard)

[NayusDante]

The Twilight Zone - This would be fun today, in a weekly "episodic" format.

Star Trek: Enterprise - Maybe it wouldn't have been cancelled if we had gotten a decent game. Preferably something a little more cerebral than Elite Force.

House M.D. - I know there was a casual DSi download title, but they should have given this one to Telltale. I always envisioned this series as a graphic adventure.

Robocop: The Animated Series - I can't be the only one who remembers this...

[Gameguy]

This should have been a real game.

[The 1 2 P]

The Twilight Zone - This would be fun today, in a weekly "episodic" format.

That episodic format was one of the concepts for the Alan Wake game. And they even had a background tv show you could watch on tv monitors you found in the game. The tv show was called Night Springs and it was based on....wait for it....The Twilight Zone.

[Xian042]

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors,

sorry if it was mentioned already, but this would have made a cool game