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** The most egregious problem with this particular licensed game is that they had a cheap, easy method to make a decent game. Take ''Street Fighter II'', change the graphics, release. Instead the developers seemed [[Genre Blindness|Genre Blind]] and tried to develop a brand new fighting system, only to be foiled by the limited development time and budget they should have expected had they been more [[Genre Savvy]]. |
** The most egregious problem with this particular licensed game is that they had a cheap, easy method to make a decent game. Take ''Street Fighter II'', change the graphics, release. Instead the developers seemed [[Genre Blindness|Genre Blind]] and tried to develop a brand new fighting system, only to be foiled by the limited development time and budget they should have expected had they been more [[Genre Savvy]]. |
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* The infamous ''[[Superman 64|Superman]]'' game for the N64, based on [[Superman: The Animated Series|the animated series]], is another licensed game that's a contender for Worst. Game. Ever. It featured clumsy controls, mediocre graphics, and a horrendously dull plot, where [[Lex Luthor]]'s diabolical scheme was to trap Superman in a virtual world... and literally make him [[Pass Through the Rings|jump (or fly, rather) through hoops]]. |
* The infamous ''[[Superman 64|Superman]]'' game for the N64, based on [[Superman: The Animated Series|the animated series]], is another licensed game that's a contender for Worst. Game. Ever. It featured clumsy controls, mediocre graphics, and a horrendously dull plot, where [[Lex Luthor]]'s diabolical scheme was to trap Superman in a virtual world... and literally make him [[Pass Through the Rings|jump (or fly, rather) through hoops]]. |
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* There was a video game based on the movie ''White Men Can't Jump''. Not only did it come out four years after the movie, but it was based on the [[Atari Jaguar]] system. By this time, Atari was losing in the console war, and in less than a year, they discontinued the Jaguar. |
* There was a video game based on the movie ''White Men Can't Jump''. Not only did it come out four years after the movie, but it was based on the [[Atari Jaguar]] system. By this time, Atari was losing in the console war, and in less than a year, they discontinued the Jaguar. The game itself was a shameless attempt to cash in on the name of [[White Men Can't Jump|a popular movie]], and is just two-on-two basketball with [[In Name Only|nothing to do with the movie at all]]. The controls are bad, the graphics are bad, and the dialogue is nothing but one cliche after another. Even if you like video basketball, this was a game to avoid. |
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* The ''Starship Troopers'' MMO had space battles instead of marine-bug battles. This was because it was actually just a version of the Silent Death computer game (also developed by Mythic) with different graphics. In spite of the cost-cutting, it still came out a year after the movie. |
* The ''Starship Troopers'' MMO had space battles instead of marine-bug battles. This was because it was actually just a version of the Silent Death computer game (also developed by Mythic) with different graphics. In spite of the cost-cutting, it still came out a year after the movie. |
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* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]] had a few bad games in this era: |
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]] had a few bad games in this era: |
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