Video Games based on TV shows that don't suck

Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure on the Sega Genesis is pretty great, actually.

YES the first Super Nintendo Tiny Toon Adventures game (released around the same time) makes a lot better use of the license, having levels based directly upon episodes of and locations used within the television series and YES the SNES game uses hardware effects like Mode 7 and scaling that the Genesis wasn't capable of, but. ignoring the license and judging the Genesis game purely as a platformer, I think it's one of the best "generic" platform games on the system and I just enjoy the gameplay experience more than the SNES game.

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There was an X-Files game on PS2 that was pretty great. It was basically Resident Evil but it was X-Files. You could play as both Mulder and Scully and it had the actual voice actors for everyone including The Lone Gunman and Cancer Man. As a big X-Files fan I really enjoyed it.
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That's one of my holy grail PS2 games that has eluded me at used game shops, thrift stores, and flea markets. I'll bite the bullet and get it off eBay eventually.
 
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The Sopranos: Road To Respect, a dumb game but they got the actors to voice it and it's ridiculous and fun to play. It's hilarious to see a serious and deep show like The Sopranos and just have it stripped down to a GTA/Godfather The Game knockoff.


Lost: Via Domus is a dumb game but I love it as a short adventure game, it doesn't fit into the series at all but shows off what may have been an alternate idea for where they would've gone with the story. It was pretty fun for like the 4 hours it took to beat it.
 
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Telltale's games based on TV shows are supposed to be good. I haven't played Walking Dead yet but I've heard good things. Playing the Game of Thrones one right now, which isn't as well received but I'm having a good time so far.
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When I was young I remember having a lot of fun with Simpsons Hit & Run.
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That was my shit back in 5th grade. Wasn't very good at it though.
 
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I've never played Battle for Bikini Bottom but I remember playing Revenge of the Flying Dutchman- a platforming/scavenger hunt game that was fairly challenging but enjoyable. Never managed to finish it as a kid, though. Lights, Camera, Pants was also decent, especially for a Mario Party-style minigame collection.

I'm not sure if the game or TV show came first, but Viva Piñata is so fucking good (and Trouble in Paradise is even better). I still play it nowadays cause it's a perfect relaxation game, and there's so much you can get out of it between collecting an army of adorable piñatas and wacking them all to death with a shovel.
 
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Lost: Via Domus is a dumb game but I love it as a short adventure game, it doesn't fit into the series at all but shows off what may have been an alternate idea for where they would've gone with the story. It was pretty fun for like the 4 hours it took to beat it.
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The most annoying thing about Lost: Via Domus is that roughly a quarter of the characters are voiced by their actual actors from the TV show while the other three quarters are voiced by VAs that don't sound all that much like the real actors so when there's a conversation involving a character who is played by the TV actor like Benjamin Linus (Michael Emerson), the disparity between the right-sounding and wrong-sounding characters is all that much more glaring.
 
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The most annoying thing about Lost: Via Domus is that roughly a quarter of the characters are voiced by their actual actors from the TV show while the other three quarters are voiced by VAs that don't sound all that much like the real actors so when there's a conversation involving a character who is played by the TV actor like Benjamin Linus (Michael Emerson), the disparity between the right-sounding and wrong-sounding characters is all that much more glaring.
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Yeah but native american Locke makes the game 10/10
 
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That new Battlestar Galactica game is pretty great.

Although to say it's based on the show is a stretch. It's a more accessible (Read the Up/Down axis isnt so large the 2d monitor camera becomes unmanageable) Homeworld with an overmap, just with some BSG paint slapped on the hull.
 
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Shaftie said:
Yeah but native american Locke makes the game 10/10
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Wasn't videogame John Locke played by David Lucas/Steve Blum a.k.a. the English dub voice of Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop? Of all the off-brand main character voices in the game, Locke's was probably the best.

Lost: Via Domus wasn't great but I kind of wish Ubisoft had done a sequel set around the end of the series that was able to show the full island and not just as much of the island as had yet been revealed by, what, mid-season 3?
 
I don't know if it counts but Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in World of Illusion is possibly the most amazing multiplayer platformer of the 16bit era and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. Either that or they can come play it with me and have some soda and chips, I'm easy either way.
 
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