My only beef here is the lack of Yo Noid! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_Noid
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ET will always be the benchmark for bad film tie-ins, it seems. It was a product of its time though; the rumour goes that it was built in five weeks, but some argue six. Six weeks? Modern games take 18 months or more, so to manage that in six weeks is still kind of an achievement.

To my mind, film licences are not all bad – Lucasarts made some very good film tie-in games like Labyrinth (Douglas Adams helped though) and about half of the Star-Wars games (like, for instance, the ones not directly based on the films).

I have been teaching prospective game designers all about games history (which is how I ended up knowing so much pointless trivia) and am forming a hypothesis about the best tie-ins being book tie-ins for licences without films by studios who nobody has heard of. The Witcher, for instance…

And if you think games of films are bad, just take a look at films of games. It is fashionable to blame Uwe Boll, but he is just one example among many.
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