Yeah, publishers had countless bedroom coders approaching them with their games, so as far as I'm aware a lot of them were basically re-skinned with some sort of recognizable licence to give it brand recognition and then kicked out the door.
The badge on that cover gives me "Featuring Dante" vibes.
Acclaim released nine(!) games in their Olsen Twins series in span of just three years in 1999-2002. There was supposed to be tenth one, but it was cancelled because the twins sued Acclaim due to unpaid royalties in a lawsuit which was one of many reasons for company going bankrupt and has one of my favorite hilarious takes on licensed games.
The lawsuit included a letter from the twins' attorney, Martin Singer, that stated that Acclaim had "taken the franchise of the Mary-Kate and Ashley brand in video games which had flourished and has now run it into the ground."
Yeah, I knew there was something afoot. I know there's quite a few games in here that never officially came out. I recall Blues Brothers 2000 as a Blockbuster only game. I rented it. P bad.
Oh right, and there was this too:
I could see this working in today's post-Spec Ops: The Line world, but back in 1987, when video games were still thought of as (and largely, were) for children? I don't know what kid would wake up on Christmas morning excited to get a game based on a movie about the horrors of the Vietnam War.
(I know there were plenty of adults playing video games back then, but the adult audience was nowhere near as big as it is today, and surely not big enough to justify making a game based on Platoon.)
Dave Benson-Phillips? Ok, now I'm really intrigued.
I've never played this game but it used to stare at me from the shelves when I worked part time at Gamestation. It had a big sticker celebrating the fact the main character (a blue smartie) was voiced by Dave Benson-Phillips. That name will mean nothing to anyone not of a certain age and who grew up in the UK.
And it was actually pretty decent if memory serves me.The 7-Up logo got its own video game:
I can maybe understand this one at least, if Addams Family aired reruns on TV at the time then it might have kept its popularity despite no new episodes being made. It was a pretty big property, even got a Scooby Doo crossover episode.
it's fun to remember that this game actually came out a few years before the Addams Family movie, somehow
I remember being creeped out by it when I was a kid, but definitely also knew it was related to Addam's Family. Never owned it, but I've heard it's a pretty lousy and infuriatingly hard game, as expected from a licensed Ocean title.
I see what you did there, good work!
I loved this game lolI don't really know how popular was this mascot in the 80s/90s, but, yeah:
I think folks just wonder who actually was clamoring for a playable Blues Brothers experience. In fairness, someone with a bit more sense could've made a Stuntman-esque game out of it.
Why?
And suddenly Sony's lack of enthusiasm for game preservation makes a whole lot sense.
I own this ironically. It's as terrible as you'd expect. A shitty racing "game" interspersed with low quality bad acting from Hooters waitresses cheering you on or scolding you for being terrible.
I can do you one better than this:And how could I forget:
A 4 hour long 3D brawler broken up into two parts, part one released when Snyder's movie released in theaters, the second part dropped when it had its home video release.
If nothing else, I suppose it's an appropriate adaptation of Snyder's version of Watchmen which was essentially "I don't understand Watchmen and I'm not going to pretend I do, so look at the cool slow motion." Faithful in a sense, then.
This exists
I'm aware. I just think it's neat that Goof Troop directly contributed to RE1's development.
They also reskinned as a blues brothers ?
