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"which films/television programmes would make great game ideas?"

It seems as though games companys are buying up the rights to make more film/tv franchised games, as the film industry is also buying the rights to games to make films. There are many good films and television programes that may have been overlooked to turn into games or have not been suggested yet. My favourite for conversion are "seven days" a time travelling game to set right events that occur within the last seven days with missions like save the president from assasination. please add your own ideas.

I can see a Neighbours game proving instantly popular. You could get to assume control of Bouncer, the dog, and run amok in Ramsey street, mauling every character that ever annoyed you to the extreme. I'd start with Melanie Scully, rarghh!

If anyone has seen the manga film 'Blue Sonnet' that would be an excelant game, You could play as either Blue sonnet of the red fang and battle it out in a 3D beat'em up style fight fest (That sentence sounded good in my head)!

What about catdog the cartoon, controling either end of catdog while the computer controls the other end:
such as cat task get the morning breakfast and the newspaper to read while distracting dog and preventing him from destroying the paper
or a dog task dig up the garden to find favorite toy .
there could be many bizarre thing you could do just as in the cartoon...
such as getting to the shops on a bike: dog peddles while cat steers and having to interchange control of them to negotiate difficult stretches of road or to control the speed of the bike to make jumps , there would be possibilities for a two player co-operative modewith each player taking one end of the catdog.
this cold be a crazy game!!!

The A-Team, as long as it wasn't a poorly created game then this could be ace.

Ive said it time and time again they should release a game based on John Carpenters masterpiece, Escape from Neew York!! The chance to play as (the real) Snake Pliscan!! That would be great!!

Bartlex wrote:

Yeah, Also a Stargate game would be good. If squaresoft
> took both these games up (Seven Days & Stargate SG1) they would
> have immediate best sellers.

I agree!

sideshow buzz wrote:
> It seems as though games companys are buying up the rights to make
> more film/tv franchised games, as the film industry is also buying
> the rights to games to make films. There are many good films and
> television programes that may have been overlooked to turn into
> games or have not been suggested yet. My favourite for conversion
> are "seven days" a time travelling game to set right
> events that occur within the last seven days with missions like save
> the president from assasination. please add your own ideas.

Yeah, Also a Stargate game would be good. If squaresoft took both these games up (Seven Days & Stargate SG1) they would have immediate best sellers.

I have been away for a while, but I'm back now.
I have mostly been watching US television ( mainly old repeats of whose line is it anyway... ) but I did come across a tv programme (also a good comic book - once did a cross over story with lara croft) called Witchblade
I think it would make a good game conversion if one isn't already in the works.
Other than that some fool broke the television in the residence halls so I haven't watched tv for a week.
more suggestions soon!

How about a Championship Manager film? A person plays his game as usual, then suddenly he realises that he is controlling the real life club through his computer!

Of course, hilarity would prevail!

I know it's a stupid idea, but what if there was the game, Bed Knobs And Brommsticks game was to be invented.