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Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movies that Could Be Video GamesAlert reader Jay suggests:
I am not really a gamer, but it seems like “Being from Another Planet” could easily be adapted into a first-person shooter. What would your pick be? Keep your suggestions coming! 85 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movies that Could Be Video Games”Commenting at Satellite News
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How about Santa Claus Conquers the Martians as a LucasArts-style point-and-click adventure game?
Use…speeding bus…with…Dropo! ‘As happy as that would make me, it wouldn’t really accomplish anything.’
The Creeping Terror would make a nice, simple smartphone game. Going around vacuuming up people. There could be a baby-temperature-taking stage.
I Accuse My Parents, Phoenix Wright style.
The Thing That Wouldn’t Die Tamagachi.
In the “Future War” video game “Jean Claude Gosh Darn”, the nun & their gang have to make their way through a maze of stacked cardboard boxes while fighting off various T-Rex dinosaurs. Once they get to the other side it’s a battle to keep one’s shirt on as they have to take on the Robert Zadar cyborg!
Escape from the Castle of Fu Manchu! A text-based game:
“You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. It is pitch dark.”
That’s all it says, forever.
animatronic Thomas Jefferson Geronimo.
“You-think-you-can-take-me-go-a-head-on”
Wow, the possibilities, both for genuinely fun games and ridiculously awful ones. What stands out in my mind is a Mortal Kombat style punch/kick game with emphasis on spectacular post fight “Fatalities”, or murders. Ator could dismember an opponent with his mighty sword. The projected man could panic and electrocute his foe a la Raiden. Torgo could jump up and crush and opponents’ skulls with his mighty knees. Jack Frost could freeze and shatter fighters like Sub Zero in Mortal Kombat 2. Tor Johnson might just swallow and eat his nemesis. Lee Van Cleef could kill someone with some cool ninja weapon like his toothbrush. This could be it’s own topic. How would any given MST movie character “Finish Him”.
Too bad some of the prior suggestions aren’t real.
PacMan based game starring the Creeping Terror. I guess a Pong platform would be necessary.
“Cave Dwellers,” using a character with a hat that has a slimming effect on them, plus using scenes with A-T-V tracks from a machine that wasn’t yet invented!!
“Pod People,” especially since aliens see, to be popular, with smashing of eggs L.A.P.D-style, along with Trumpy making objects move around like the video for “Sledgehammer,” plus the kid sounding like Georgette!!
“Swamp Diamonds,” would have to at least have the Jane Hathaway marchers!!
I see Warrior of the Lost World more as a Spy Hunter clone.
‘Mitchell’ would be a great Grand Theft Auto clone. An open-world game with fantastic 35-mph car chases.
Don’t forget to use those turn signals!
The Last Chase. The description from this site about the movie explains the game perfectly:
In a carless, gasless, oppressive future depopulated by a plague, a disgruntled ex-racecar driver attempts to escape to California with a nerdy kid in tow.
The oil finally ran out… And somewhere in the future, the chase has begun. A phantom jet must catch and destroy the last car on earth.
The players can choose to be the race car driver or the one to chase the driver, trying to stop him from getting to California.
Will you get to California…or die trying?
Fill ‘er up!
I wouldn’t mind playing a first person survival horror game based on “Pod People.” Better yet, the game should let you alternate between playing Trumpy and Evil Trumpy. As Trumpy, you play mini-games of peanut-huffing and wacky random object levitation and Simon, as Evil Trumpy, you hunt down and suck the brains of the already brainless 80s rock’n’roll kids. Slap that sucker on Steam and I’d pay good money for it.
Cave Dwellers of course. I would love to get behind the controls of that hang glider, kind of like Pilotwings.
Escape 2000 the FPS and Outlaw, an RPG set in
Iowathe desert world of Gor. Enter cheat code “ImSoDrunk” to play Xenos.Here are some handy keyboard shortcuts for those playing Hercules on a PC:
“b” buffalo shot (momentarily disorients opponents)
“d” enables dialogue: press 1 for “I’m so sleepy…”, 2 for “By the gods!”, 3 for “Even if it costs me my life…”, etc.
“l” lift a heavy object. Press “t” to throw.
“m” get massage (heals Herc)
“n” nap (also heals Herc but takes longer)
“p” for pose options: press 1 to muffin out your chest, 2 to apply body grease, 3 to put hands on hips, etc.
“r” roughhouse (use for brawling in taverns)
“s” spit (in case you drink some drugged wine)
There already is a Nintendo DS game for Diabolik since it’s based on a European comic.
A Batman: Arkham City-type game based on Master Ninja 1 & 2. Max has to use his growing ninjitsu skills to fight gangsters and greedy businessmen while McCallister has cutscenes where he has to fight Sho Kosugi briefly as a lithe ninja, then has a gut in all of the other scenes with Max.
A Skyrim-type game that incorporates all of the fantasy films from MST3k and has customizable avatars that have preset skins of Ator the Avenger, Deathstalker, Lemon Kinen, Ilya Morormets, or Ivan the Arrogant (who occasionally turns into a were-bear). If somehow all of this folklore and poorly written fantasy were a part of a big sandbox world it would be cool.
The Rebel Set RPG. You’re on a 5 hour time crunch to pull off the lamest robbery of the century. Car chases, Rebel Set “attack” formations, items to pick up, mini-missions… it’s all possible.
Am I really the first person to imagine this?
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. First, you’re a baboon Then, you’re Rick. That’s more plot than most video games, already.
A Grand Thief Auto version of Sidehackers.
A flying simulator of Starfighters with no actual combat just lots of practice interrupted with meaningless dialog.
A Tomb Raider version of Catalina Capers with Creepy Girl as Lara Cross.
I know next to nothing about how it’s done, but perhaps someone could make a Sword and the Dragon mod for the Skyrim game? One could play as Ilya Murometz.
For the post apocalyptic movies, Escape 2000, City Limits and Warrior of the Lost World, there could be mods for the Fallout games.
How about a terrible NES game of The Magic Voyage of Sinbad. You play through a slow and difficult game, chasing the blue bird of happiness, only to end up back where you started.
Better late than never; thanks for using me topic, El Sampo!
Good ‘Mitchell’ ideas already, how about a Japanese 16-bit RPG where Joe Don is charged with finding the Smack Sword, all the while having to fight off Mustang Hoods, Golfers, Trash Collectors, and other nefarious underworld elements. At each level up, our hero would be rewarded points each in Marksmanship, Schlitzmanship, and the valuable Verbally Abusing Children skill.
The title would be, “Mitchell Holy Fighting Beer Quest 3: The Oiling.”
I had my own designs on a video game based around Bert I Gordon’s ‘Village of the Giants.’
I saw it as a side-scroller like ‘Pitall,’ where you’d fling rocks at giant moving legs, encounter giant spiders or cats, things like that…all on your way to getting the antidote to reduce the giants down to size.
Squirm Tetris: Artfully drop worms into the Sheriff’s jail cell.
Re #17: Angel’s Revenge as a H-game? That would work. I think that any of the fantasy movies would work as a decent Elder Scrolls style wide-open-sandbox RPG. Agent for HARM, Operation Kid Brother/Double 007 would be a good FPS. Space Mutiny as a 8-bit side-scroller, with the hero squealing every time he moves. Its usually played muted. A Street Fighter style game where you can play as any MST3K movie character, each with their own special moves? Oh, wait, that’s been done.
Manos isn’t the only MST3K film with a game, as someone has done an iPhone/iPad game based on Jack Frost:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/father-frost/id487219333?mt=8
@47 As someone who is into pinball, the idea of one based on an MST3K title is interesting (especially given how one popular machine, which is available on the Pinball Arcade) is based on The Creature of the Black Lagoon, which is the film that Revenge of the Creature is a sequel to. There’s a lot of good choices, too (i.e. Cave Dwellers, Manos, Diabolik).
As for titles not yet mentioned, how about Fugitive Alien, especially if the game utilizes elements from the Star Wolf TV series that don’t appear in the compilation films (as well as the novels that the show is loosely based on)?
A dating sim based on all the shorts covering that subject. Bad ending is you end up like the girl and guy in Too Much Affection/Paula in Violent Years.
Sidehackers as a racing game that switches genres into a Final Fight-style beat-em up. Your cumulative score/token count will lead to a good ending where Rommel is smart enough to not turn his back on JC at the end. Be careful avoid chili peppers!
Time Chasers as a Chrono Trigger style RPG, expanding into other time zones. They both involve there being a spare copy of the hero, after all.
Going into RT, an action RPG for Prisoners of the Lost Universe that’s less like Zelda and more like Nintendo-Hard games like Jurassic Park (minus the FPS sequences), an escort-mission platformer for Laser Mission, and the most boring poorly edited fighter ever for Guy From Harlem.
@10 In a Cave Dwellers game the “invisible monsters” would actually be a good challenge.
@14 Better for Warrior of the Lost World to be an open-sandbox ala Grand Theft Auto, though Fallout would be a more appropriate comparison (other than actually being a good post-apoc story) and to give it enough material throw in some other movies like The Last Chase, Robot Holocaust, Robot Monster, Teenage Caveman, World Without End, and Warriors of the Wasteland (which I guess makes it the Kingdom Hearts of crappy post-apoc movies). An expansion pack could let you play a pre-apoc scenario with Escape 2000.
@24 Give me the option/Game Genie code/hack to play as Sho Kasugi and you’ve got a deal.
@27 If we could post GIFs/images, this would be where I’d post Fry screaming “TAKE MY MONEY!” I’d also throw in mini-bonus rounds where you have to match the best riff to the image.
@37 Ugh, Top Gun game was one of the worst, only time I saw my dad (who was probably better at non-RPG games than me) curse one out.
@76 Yeah, unlike video games pinball has a better track record with licensed propeties. I loved the Addams Family, Lethal Weapon, and Star Trek pinballs, and longed to play the Doctor Who pinball I saw at a small-town diner I applied for a job at, but it never opened up.
Zombie Nightmare as one of those frustrating old Sierra games where you have to type in precise commands “Don’t use the exit”, “throw spaghetti at mom”, “watch mariners opening day”. I can see it now.
Moon-Zero-Two would be a great mission to mission level game, sort of like “Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.”
You would start in orbit capturing space junk, then use your credits at the moon bar with dancing-girls in the background.
The girl would come up to you and ask for your help in finding her brother, and you will have to figure out clues to move from action based scene to action based scene. This would include a time bases moon trip where you have to get to her brother’s base before your oxygen runs out. You would have fist fights, laser gun battles, and all sorts of interesting characters.
#78- Fantastic game idea. I remember a few of those Sierra games. There was one really frustrating one I played with some girl in a museum looking for artifacts. It was so terrible.
#69- Lara Cross? Lol.
As for my game, I would go into the actual world of MST and have you play as TV’s Frank. You have to avoid all the gruesome ways that Dr. Forrester wants to kill you. Avoid Vend-a-Guts and Tough Love Seats as you attempt to escape Deep 13. Do not be distracted by potato cakes or the Square Master. If you die, the background music for the GAME OVER screen is the Satellite of Love singing about being Frank about Frank.
The Magic Sword as a fantasy RPG, perhaps? I would second the idea of Riding with Death 13 hour travel game, but with more of an “Oregon Trail” style to it.
So does anyone have the time and skill to perhaps make some of these ideas into online Flash games?
how about a sidehackers racing game were you actually have to lean to the left and right on curves using kinect controller or Wii steering wheel 1st place is JC’s groovy necklace last place you have to morn…(sniff,sniff…) your… dead girl…RITA!!!(symbols crash) gahhh,eh eh no-o-o-o!!!!
The Final Sacrifice video game in the old school streets of rage style but we call it Streets Of Rozdower. Fight through the mean streets of Alberta, Canada as either Zap or Troy or team up with a friend too fight off waves of jack booted British Columbians in various shades of strappy wife beaters. Cans of beer and Pork Roast are power ups the final boss would off course be Satoris but use you Pipper summons wisely it will take more than the grizzeled old prospector kick combo to win the grappling hook fight. Collect recycled beer bottles for money to by Larry Czonka cards for Troy’s collection. If you collect them all to unlock the secret character Trumpy. It will be a hit it is being made by the creators of Torgo’s Dance Dance Revolution
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