What MSTed movie would you make into a video game (platform? storyline? RPG?, MMO?)
I would personally do ‘Girl in Gold Boots” as a fighter ala “Street Fighter.” I could see using some of Buzz’s icky elf mojo attacks on Critter or the ‘Eats’ dad. But really much more like hair oil attacks vs. Critter’s patented ‘water softener’ finishing move and well … you get the idea. i’m more of an Xbox-er so that would be my console.
and who knows? after a few hours you too might remember how you had a pretty mind.
I am not a gamer so I still have a pretty mind, but those of you who are can have at it.
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I could see a Space Mutiny video game.
Avoid railing kills in the industrial-complex-laser-battle level.
Work out your moves in the Belarian dance level.
Hone your skills in the climactic, moderately-paced floor-waxer battle level.
Plus, you can earn bonus “Lamont Lives”.
I could see Hercules Against the Moon Men as an old school text adventure.
“You are in a sand storm. You may go NORTH, SOUTH, EAST or WEST.”
– go north
“You are in a sand storm. You may go NORTH, SOUTH, EAST or WEST.”
– go east
“You are in a sand storm. You may go NORTH, SOUTH, EAST or WEST.”
…and it goes on like that.
‘Phantom Planet’ could be a ‘Space Invader’ type game, where you have to repel the Solarite attack. It can also be a fighting game where you have to push your opponent onto the gravity plate.
Boggy Creek II –
Let’s go old school with this one. A natural fit would be Donkey Kong where you try to avoid having Tanya and Leslie bog down in a mud hole. Rewards would include bologna sandwiches and getting Tim to put his shirt back on.
I would pick Future War. I would have Runaway using various martial arts strikes and leveled up nemesis. Ex. Small Dino Trackers 10 pts Larger Dino… Cyborg 100 Cyborg Master 500… Besides scoring with hits he can hide behind boxes and pipes, gai and lose companions Ex Big Guys with shotguns and Mocha Ice Cream, hooker nun, Capt. Polaris and Puffy Hat Cop, gang members from Disney films etc.
The ultimate goal I guess would be to become Addiction Counselors?
I can’t come up with a better ending, suggestions welcomed
Space Mutiny was my first choice, but Ro-man led off with that… (Excellent choice, sir!)
How about Future War? Shooting dinosaurs in underground tunnels, fighting bad guys in a maze of giant cardboard boxes, shirts magically ripping off – I think it’s got some potential.
Mitchell done in the vein of Burger Time. Except rather than make anything, Mitchell just eats all the food.
Like Sampo, I’m not a gamer either, but I do remember going over to my friend’s house to play their brand new Atari game, Pong. Wheee! Sooo exciting!
I think Mighty Jack might really have been the prototype for Pong. Back…and forth…and…back…and captured…then, escaped but…was there a point? Why? Who are we? Was there a Q making some sort of weird ice while we played Pong? Maybe it was having a character named “Hatari” that set up some sort of resonance and caused Pong, and Space Invaders, and Asteroids, and Pac-Man. I dunno. Now I’ll just go over here and mutter to myself about the collapse of civilization and young villains getting intimate with their briefcases while white cats apparently direct operations from laps of dubious comfort, and Pac-Man gobbles up brain cells.
I’d play the hell out of an RPG style Ator,the Fighting Eagle or Cave Dwellers game. Also think Master Ninja would be a cool side scrolling arcade beat’em up.
Or, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzHB423A0qo.
The Final Sacrifice could make a good basis for a hidden object game.
The old school label gave the impression that you were alluding to the arcade game where you move Mario up the ramps to save the damsel, while jumping over barrels DK tosses at you. But that doesn’t really sound like the one you’re talking about (unless I’m missing something).
On something of a tangent, how about ideas for an MST3K arcade where we reskin classic arcade games and slap on the name of a movie, featuring Tom and Crow as the player manipulated characters. Going back to Donkey Kong, we could retitle it The Beast of Yucca Flats, having it be set on Butt Mountain with Tor tossing rocks at you as you maneuver Tom or Crow up the slopes. If you don’t mind throwing in a bit of Asteroids gameplay, occasionally have a plane pass by shooting at you.
Tapper would also make a good basis for a Mitchell game.
I’m currently on a workplace computer that blocks YouTube. What is it?
Thanks for using the topic Sampo, I was afraid it might have been weak.
Another for me based on the old Atari adventure games:
‘Eegah- watch out for snakes!’
The premise is that you’re Eegah and you’re whizzing out in the desert when the evil arch hall gang of arch, Roxie and her dad bust into your cave, steal your ancestors, tear down your cave wall bed cover and arch does evil things in your hot tub. You must then go out and gather your weapons of vengeance, flowers for woo-ing and of course…watch out for snakes.
The Eegah video game! You, as Tom, must fill your tires with water and go into the desert (in your trusty dune buggy) in search of Roxy.
Along the way, you must protect dad (and his satchel), sing corny love songs, and protect your cabbage patch Elvis skin from the sun.
And you must, above all things, WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES!!!
Lol. Damn it, Duke beat me out by one post.
That has potential, I could see an opening screen where instead of DK climbing up a building to some ominous music you have Crenshaw climbing to deliverance and the climax is him beating his chest then ‘I gotta tend ta mah fires.’
Would it help if I said ‘oops?’
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I play “MANOS: The Hands of Fate” (PC)
A playthrough of the long lost game adaption to the infamous and beloved cult hit “MANOS: The Hand of Fate”, it’s “MANOS: The Hands of Fate”, the game! Developed by indie developer FreakZone Games.
“Sidehackers”, Mario Kart style.
Just the racing, though. No subplots with JC, Rita, or Nero.
“The Pumaman” since superhero games are a big thing. It would be a two-player game, player one as Pumaman and player two as Vidinho.
I see a retro 16-bit RPG called “Zombie Nightmare.” The home base is the Twist ‘n’ Creme drive-in, where you pick up burgers, fries, and maybe poutine as energy. Run over other players with your car, shoot zombies, and call on the voodoo priestess for good ol’ blue mana. Add-on module includes lame 1970s softball and cemetery “dodge the zombies” mini-games. bip bip boop boop
Available in both English and French, bien sûr.
Combine the cheap Star Wars knockoff with the cheap LEGO knockoff and enjoy Mega Bloks Star Crash: The Video Game.
Not if you’re talking about the world of nuclear physics.
Perfect mash-up: The Mole People and Dig Dug, complete with blank-faced John Agar as your avatar.
Let’s not leave the shorts out in the cold. I see Uncle Jim’s Dairy Farm using the gameplay of Donkey Kong Jr., where you attempt to shimmy Tom or Crow up a series of ropes as Uncle Jim unleashes a series of barn vermin to hinder you. X Marks the Spot could serve as the basis of a Frogger reskin.
Especially if your game has people sneaking up behind with balloons/paper bags. POP!
I suppose you could do one from “Hobgoblins”, where you have to round up the creatures while avoiding the threatening fantasies. Think “Pokémon”, but really annoying.
“Invasion of the Neptune Men” would inspire one where you have to shoot down the Neptune spacecraft over and over and over and over and over again. There’s always the same number of them, and the game lasts a minimum of six hours.
There’s the “Superdome” football game. Lots of build-up, but the game never actually starts.
On the other hand, there’s the Gamera game, where you fight all sorts of monsters while defending little kids. I could see that one actually happening.
“Robot Holocaust: The Game”
You control Neo and his robot/human team as they fight through various obstacles to reach and kill The Dark One.
“The Starfighters: The Game”: Refueling. Lots of Refueling. What’s the matter, this isn’t your first time, is it?
Red Zone Cuba as a Metal Gear Solid type of game, complete with bonkers story.
Other shorts as reskinned video games:
The Home Economics Story – Burger Time
Mr. B Natural – Guitar Hero
What to Do on a Date as a dating sim
The Truck Farmer – Harvest Moon
Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell is ripe for a Breath of the Wild-type Switch game!
“Potatoes are what we eat!” And you can eat them too as the intrepidly charming Mark Relson!
Secret Agent Super Dragon/Danger Death Ray/Operation Double 007/Agent From H.A.R.M. could all be Goldeneye-like N64 shooters!
“You’re the brother of one of H.A.R.M.’s best agents as you travel to Holland to find a stolen Death Ray!” Pass the firearm tests and unlock even more booze for the boss of H.A.R.M.! Pay exorbitant fees to play as George Lazenby from Master Ninja II!
I envision an arcade (remember those?) somewhere in Minnesota where you can play the original “Space Invaders” for a quarter. As your game begins three random MST riffers step out and mock you until your game ends.
Spy Hunter could be reskinned for Warriors of the Lost World.
Just the rake fighting scene from Hobgoblins. Play as Kevin or Nick. Lose health points if the garden hose out acts you. And if you lose, you’re girlfriend will berate you.
You’ll feel like you could play this forever… and you probably will.
Torgo: The Video Game! Basically the same as “Frogger” except you have to try to get slow, wobbly Torgo across a busy street. Nobody has ever won.
I’m also thinking The Time Travelers could work as a tower defense game, where you try to fend off the hordes of mutants long enough for the starship to be fully supplied and launched.
I think the Pumaman video game would work better as a single-player game. You play as Vidinho, and your job is to do all the work while Pumaman slowly jumps around, awkwardly flies, fails, and plays dead.
Invasion USA could be a good shooter/ strategy game playable as either the US or the Soviets. The USSR player has secret agents to take over tractor factories as well as sturdy soldiers who ‘vant viskhey and vomen’ or misidentify baseball mascots. And the US player can visit bars, give blood, take taxis and if it gets real bad …call in Chuck Norris?
I suppose all good RT fans know, there actually WAS a Megaforce game for the Atari 2600?: https://youtu.be/Gs-VyNZj_G4?t=7
(It was still summer ’82, “E.T.” hadn’t become a thing yet.)
From Fox’s brief attempt at making third-party Atari-cartridge games, the makers of “M.A.S.H – the Videogame”.
Also the rodeo short would make a good video game, in the vein of sports games.
The RIDING WITH DEATH RPG.
The only role is Abby, and you can’t actually do anything, just comment every now & then as the game unfolds.
Great for slackers.
All of the Coleman Francis movies put together, in an open-world sandbox RPG like Skyrim. Will you join the invasion of “Cuba”, mine tungsten in the hills or hunt down the Beast of Yucca Flats? Work your way up the hierarchy of the Guild of Skydivers, but watch out for assassins putting acid in your chute!
Also, no matter what story threads you explore, someone will shoot at you out of an airplane.
It’s still possible to be a gamer and have a pretty mind, just don’t use those online multigamer talking headsets while playing…They’ve been known to cause brain damage in users.
(Or, maybe they just had it already before playing, it’s hard to tell.)
That said, I wouldn’t mind adding “Starcrash”‘s Stella Star to the Overwatch team. Yeah, Nerf this. :)
but there was no video game.
There are actually quite a few a video games based on Diabolik (the character, not the movie). Unsurprisingly, they were all made in Italy, where the Diabolik comics are still very popular. One one of them, “Diabolik: The Original Sin” from 2009, got an English language release, the others were only released in Italy on the Amiga and C64.
Johnny at the Fair, the Video Game. would be like the old E.T. video game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj0RPCAAbU4
Maniac Mansion = Maniac Manos?
A Case of Spring Fever –
This video game would combine three things that I don’t care for, but many others seem to love: golf, video games, and irritating animated characters. In it each time you get ready to swing the club Coily jumps out as screams “NO SPRINGS!”. If you complete the course under a certain score then you get to go to the clubhouse and choose which club to beat the tar out of Coily with. Personally, I would use a wood for a more satisfying THUD.