[Panerai]

[neodad]

publishers came to a shocking realization: More people will play a good movie-based game than a bad one.

My kids love their King Kong game. They also love the new Star Wars (Battlefront?) game.

[muawiyah]

Without much change in their format or approach to marketing, a small neighborhood internet videogame company increased seasonal sales 400%.

There's this massive wave rolling through entertainment sweeping all before it as these kids get older and have more money.

It's possible that the financial failure of King Kong (the movie) is simply telling us where the bucks are going ~ and it's not to movies, nor to television.

[Sofa King]

Video game ping!

If you want on or off this list, Freepmail me

[zencat]

And then there are movies based off video games:

Final Fantasy
Resident Evil
Blood Rayne

[Thoro]

They made a console Blade Runner game? How did I miss that?

Jackson's Kong videogame being a hit doesn't really surprise me. Jackson was somewhat involved in the hack-and-slash Lord of the Rings console titles' development. You could tell then that he and those involved "got" it. Even though it's a hack-and-slash, it's one of the best hack-and-slash games you'll find, with a fantastic presentation. You could tell there was effort behind it to not make it a throwaway game, which it easily could have been.

[Republican Wildcat]

Since the disastrous sales of the 1983 game "E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial" almost drove Atari into bankruptcy, it has been common knowledge that movie-license games are cheap quickies designed purely to capitalize on a film's publicity.

Disastrous? Weird. That was a pretty decent game for the Atari. I enjoyed playing it as a little kid - one of the few games you could actually "beat" instead of just going in endless loops like PacMan, Endoro, Venture, etc.

[M1911A1]

Games based on movies are pretty awful, as a rule.

As with any rule, there are exceptions.

"Lego Star Wars" is a hit with my kids.

"Call of Duty", while not based on a movie per se, relies heavily on HBO's "Band of Brothers" and "Enemy at the Gates" for the single player storyline.

I have heard that the Narnia game is supposed to be good, I might be getting that one.