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What other 80s action classic Robocop devs should make into a video game?

Awesome thread! I am glad there are plenty of 80s babies/kids here.


A Better tomorrow (HK flick)
Above the Law
Kickboxer
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Quasicat

Member
I remember when the first TMNT game came out on the NES and I was so into Quantum Leap. I wrote a letter to Ultra Games telling them that it would be amazing if they created a Quantum Leap platformer game where you were doing quests and leaping to new levels.
Even though I was 10 when I came up with this, I would love to see a modern Quantum Leap game with Al and Sam.
 

Mr Hyde

Member
A game based on Roger Rabbit would be great, with the same type of high quality animation. Solving crimes as a PI in Toon Town would be pretty fun I reckon. It could be a new story without Eddie Valiant, but a new guy teaming up with Roger and Jessica.

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who framed roger rabbit animation GIF by TIFF

Who Framed Roger Rabbit 80S GIF
 

Seider

Neo Member
A game featuring the three Back to the Future films at same time. A sand box game where you could go forward and back in time in the four dates of the films. 1885, 1955, 1985 and 2015. You do something in 1955 and it changes whats is going in future.
 

intbal

Member
None.
The film industry should be making more 80s and 90s games into live action movies.
Gaming is the top of the entertainment pyramid now. Let the movies get the sloppy seconds.
 

Drizzlehell

Member
Damn, I didn't anticipate that this thread will suddenly make me wanna watch a bunch of 80s movies, lol.

Fuck it, I'm watching Rambo 2 tonight. I haven't seen Firefox in a loooong time either, so it's time for a refresher. Love that movie too.
 

Ozzie666

Member
Airwolf + VR (Re-write season 4 entirely, Redwolf)
Street hawk + VR
Knight Rider + VR (KARR, Goliath enemies)

Bring them all together in a shared 80's universe.

Blue Thunder, Iron Eagle, Tango & Cash
 

Holammer

Member
Commando was already suggested. It would make for a perfect rails shooter and we haven't seen many of them. Except for Blue Estate maybe.

 

DKPOWPOW

Member
I'd like a decent ish remaster/remake of that Die Hard Vendetta game. With an added multiplayer mode where everyone can say yippe ka ye mofo at the touch of a button as well as other beautiful words.
 

PillsOff

Member
First they should be capable to follow up Paul Fucking Verhoeven n make something more than a fan-made porn parody of the original THAN we can talk
 

CamHostage

Member
Plenty of good suggestions. I'd also like to see some of the Asian action of the '80s or thereabouts get represented too. I'm not sure how they'd translate, but Hong Kong cinema titles have been mined for content less than it should IMO (albeit individual moves and designs from these movies do get ripped off constantly...)

A great Jackie Chan movie game never got made, for instance, though there were a few decent tries with eponymous Jackie games. Somehow we never got Police Story: The Video Game, which maybe is a shame. (I say "maybe" because Jackie works best just because he's actually insane enough to be Jackie.)

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The Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest catalog also don't have any titles in video game form by my count, even though their style of action and character designs are the foundation of so damned many games! We never got a Five Deadly Venoms game, never a Fist of Fury or Drunken Master or Golden Swallow game, we never got a Cynthia Rothrock or Sammo Hung game (but we did get Jet Li: Rise to Honor,) Crippled Masters would have been an intriguing co-op game back when that kind of exploitation could fly, I don't know if the Flying Guillotine was ever stolen as a game prop (kind of Kung Lao?) much less made into a game... I can name countless games which ripped off this kind of stuff (Street Fighter alone owes some pretty pennies to Run Run's company,) but the actual brands never got their proper due in pixels.

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(*There was the Sega CD FMV game Supreme Warrior filmed on Shaw Brothers sets, but aside from that, I can't think of or find a game based on Shaw titles; let me know me if I'm wrong?)
 
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NahaNago

Member
Most of the 80s stuff that I would want has been named so I'll go with some 90s movies.
surf ninjas​
double dragon based off the movies​
double impact​
Jackie Chan( I'm just not sure how I would like this done though)​
black mask​
3 ninjas​

That is pretty much it for me. My 80s wish list was Big trouble in little China, neverending story, gremlins, and I've forgotten the rest.
 
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