382 - RGDS - Licence Denied:The Film and TV Games We Never Got
What if The Cannonball Run had been an OutRun-style arcade racer? What would an Ocean adaptation of The Lost Boys have looked like on the Spectrum? And could you make a point-and-click adventure out of the Carry On films without Kenneth Williams walking off in a huff? In this episode of RGDS, we pitch our dream retro adaptations of twelve film and TV favourites. We pick the machines they'd run on, the developers we'd trust with the licence and the scenes we'd turn into levels. We also dig into the unreleased Police Academy game before pitching our own take on the academy's hapless recruits. Along the way, we tackle The Princess Bride, Highlander, Tremors, The Money Pit, Children of the Stones, Turk 182, The Towering Inferno and They Live. Where else can you go from dodging Graboids to trying to get a bath upstairs in a house that's falling apart? Which one would you have bought, and what film or TV show would you give the retro game treatment?
