This vertical scrolling shoot em up adapted the meat of the movie's premise for its gameplay players in a tiny spaceship swimming through a human body's bloodstream.Īlien, 1982, Atari 2600: One in what would become a long line of video games attempting to capture the essence of Ridley Scott's space horror movie.

Since its debut with Deadly Discs, Tron, with its cyberspace war and glowing neon couture, has continued to spawn video game properties in 2010 the live-action sequel Tron: Legacy spawned Tron: Evolution, while the universe and its characters have been featured in numerous games in the Kingdom Hearts JRPG franchise.Īdventures of Tron, 1982, Atari 2600: This souped-up version of Tron: Maze-A-Tron was a bit like Donkey Kong, in which Tron would climb up a set of platforms to catch floating objects and avoid enemies.įantastic Voyage, 1982, Atari 2600: Somewhat delayed, this game is based on 1966 film of the same name, which is based on a Jules Verne-esque short story by American writers Jerome Bixby and Otto Klement. An Atari 2600 version of Maze-A-Tron was initially in development, but the port became so radically different that it was published as a new game entirely. The former is a score chaser, while the latter is puzzle-based. Tron: Deadly Discs, 1981 Tron: Maze-a-Tron, 1982, Intellivision: Mattel published two games based on Disney’s science fiction film Tron just one year apart. Death Race was the first video game to spark the violence and games debate, at the time earning the ire of major news outlets including NBC and CBS as well as the National Safety Council. In this top-down racing game, players run down on-screen gremlins that turn into tombstones on the road that they then must avoid. The film is set in a post-apocalyptic America in which citizens get their kicks watching a deadly coast-to-coast road race. did not, while others failed to impress critics at the time - and only one can claim the title of being a wholly-licensed movie-based video game.ĭeath Race, 1976, arcades: Death Race, published and developed by arcade game specialists Exidy, was based on the 1975 cult film Death Race 2000. This list is the result of the recent excavation of Atari - we wondered, what was the precedent for movie-based games prior to this flop? Of the games listed below, some found the success that E.T. Tron spawned a handful of video games that found great popularity in arcades, popularity that Atari and Mattel's Intellevision found a hard time matching. The movie-game business didn't pick up steam until 1982, around the release of Disney's cyberspace adventure film Tron. the Extra-Terrestrial on the Atari 2600, few films got the video game treatment.

Prior to the universally-regarded flop of E.T.

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