18 Licensed Arcade Games Based on 80s and 90s Movie Blockbusters
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ส.ค. 2024
- Licensed video games brought neat titles to the world of video game arcades. Full of classic tie-ins, some arcade games still excited modern gamers!
Before consoles became the norm, the best way to experience video games was by going to the local video game arcade. Their superior technology made them more powerful than consoles, and it was always possible to meet someone new who loved gaming too. Increasing video game arcades' popularity was the fact their biggest games were based on licensed properties.
The '80s and '90s were the era of the "tie-in," whether it was a cartoon, a comic book, or a video game. With infamously terrible titles such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Atari 2600), Superman 64, Batman: Dark Tomorrow, and Aliens: Colonial Marines, it's not surprising that the term "licensed game" typically has a negative connotation within the gaming industry. Since many corporate executives have seen games as just another "toy" to generate revenue for a brand, developers often aren't given the time and money necessary to create a decent product.
While some licensed video games were known for being terrible, that wasn't always the case. Some licensed games were considered great not only for their time, but retained their position among some of the greatest arcade titles ever created. Whether for their spectacular graphics, for their soundtrack inherited directly from the movies, for expanding the lore of the big screen, or for maintaining a very faithful atmosphere to the licenses on which they are based and that dazzle the fans, there are arcade games based on films that deserve to be remembered for the times of the times. Get to know them!
Intro and Outro Music
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Games Featured
0:00 Intro
0:13 Tron (Arcade)
0:44 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Arcade)
1:20 Vs. Top Gun (Arcade)
1:56 Rambo III (Arcade)
2:44 Willow (Arcade)
3:15 Batman (Arcade)
4:03 RoboCop 2 (Arcade)
4:40 Aliens (Arcade)
5:29 Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (Arcade)
6:08 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Arcade)
6:42 Judge Dredd (Arcade)
7:15 Hook (Arcade)
7:55 Alien³: The Gun (Arcade)
8:30 Jurassic Park (Arcade)
9:14 Street Fighter The Movie (Arcade)
10:26 Batman Forever (Arcade)
10:58 Die Hard Arcade (Arcade)
11:47 The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Arcade)
12:17 Outro
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Seeing that Hook got the Beat ‘Em Up treatment was the absolute last thing I ever would have expected.
Same here and it looks good. I've never played it
die hard arcade
7:04 See the girl walking Goro from Mortal Kombat 1? ( Background )
I must be the only person on the planet that loved Batman Forever. Gameplay, soundtrack, 2 player. Great times
Love the content! Bugged that Alien Vs Predator was the intro but not included in this list! That was such a good game.
It is not really based on any movie! The first AVP is from 2004 and the game is from 1994. I put it in the intro as an easter egg because I love that beat em up (and I wanted Predators in the video!!)
@@BitsBeats yeah thats a fair point. I remember beating that game in the arcade in my hometown mall so many times when i was kid. Great easter egg. Throw it in a future video for those to see the gloriousness of it!
@@BitsBeats Based on Predator 2 movie wich have Alien's skull in the end
Truly one of the best beat-em-ups ever made.
@@BitsBeats what crazy is I feel like the last movie ( not Prey) will loosely be like the game, after they revealed that Predator killing armor.
Dude they should seriously do a Alien vs Predator Arcade remake.
Probably hard nowadays because of the whole licensing issues. Back in the day licensing wasn't even a big deal. Even 7up had a free licensing to be used for a video game and other I think
Love the way they introduced Sagat hahahahah getting punched right in the kisser
It would take phone calls to get Capcom's Alien vs. Predator as well as Dungeons and dragons on Switch.
That was awesome in Judge Dredd seeing that guy walk a mini Goro on a leash. Lol
Randomly, Die Hard Arcade is one of the best games on that list
Games based on movies were tough to do back then,mostly due to that they couldn't be perfect translations
That terminator game is the first light gun shooter game i play, and i remember i use to faking my sick in school just to play this game and then being found out by my parent 😅😁..
That game was a freaking quarter eating machine. Seems like I watched a doc about the making of that game and the company even admitted it lol.
Top Gun was my nemesis as a child trying to land on that damn carrier....🤬🤣
There were 4 Jurassic Park arcade games :) One for each of the original 3 films and then the one by Raw Thrills, which I think may have acted as a prequel to Jurassic World.
The aliens be predator
Game was based on a real
Movie to that got cancelled. I read the original script and it was pretty good. It took place on another planet with humans working alongside the predators. One of the predators was named long horn. I read the script back in 99
Honorable mentions: Robocop (1988 arcade games), Jurassic Park 3 (light-gun arcade shooter), Terminator Salvation (light-gun arcade shooter), and the Star Wars arcade games: the original by Atari & it's sequels: the Empire Strikes Back & the Return of the Jedi, Star Wars Trilogy arcade, and Star Wars Racers.
Great video as always! The box art for the last few games are all die hard in the video though
Copy paste mistakes. So sorry 🙏
@@BitsBeats no prob, just pointing it out in case you missed it. Keep up the great work
I love how they made Alien 3 a shooting game. There is not a gun in the entire movie.
JP 94, I can hear and feel the feedback like I was at Chuck E. Cheeses again lol
El de Michael Jackson era cagado de risa 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 con ese poder especial AAAUUU!! 🕺
No sabía que ese de Alien había competido tan fuerte con las tortugas ninja, interesante 🤔🤔🤔🤔
El de jurasic park dónde los dinosaurios te persiguen simplemente es alucinante, yo no lo jugué pero desde aquí veo lo chivo que era.
Vaya el Batman de aquí si está chivo ve, porque la versión de super Nintendo 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 es terrible.
Street fighter 🤦🤦🤦🤦 pero siendo justos se ve que el juego es fluido y no arrastra los pixeles.
Pensé que ibas a poner strar wars racing, en N64 es chivo ahora imagínate en el arcade... Chivisimo.
Otro video genial como siempre 😃👌
Está guapísimo ese juego de Jurassic Park (1994). Para mi, mucho mejor que el The Lost World. Es cortito pero super intenso, y me encanta el escalado de sprites que tiene.
@@BitsBeats Definitivamente 👌 yo siento que en los arcades les salía mejor que en consolas caceras porque en la super Nintendo 🤦🤦🤦🤦 fea esa cosa y por lo menos fuera solo ese el problema, si no que no te dicen que hacer y uno anda como pendejo dando vueltas sin sentido y por lo menos el final fuera bueno, 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣👎 sinceramente no sé cómo mi hermano le tuvo paciencia.
Definitivamente es de jurasic park es de esos que debes jugar si o si en la cabina original, ya emulado ha de ser bonito pero no ha de tener el mismo impacto.
Y sobre Star wars esa película es ya del 2000 😅😅😅😅 no de los 90, no lo recordaba.
@@evilblader7 De hecho, el Alien Vs Predator de SNES, tiene solamente UNA cosa a favor: La música. Honestamente, se la rifaron, de no ser porque tenemos que sufrir ése horrendo juego, hubiera quedado mejor como álbum de estudio, inspirado en las franquicias, hecho en sintetizador de 16 bits xD
@@elbarry7016 De veras? tan malo es? Pero si es así como dice que vendió tanto? D:
@@evilblader7 Sí, es malísimo. Busca Alien VS Predator, SNES, y verás a lo que me refiero, es insufrible, pero la música es increíble.
Outstanding video as always thanks 😎👍
Many thanks!
@@BitsBeats No problem 🙂
Dredd walking like the guy from the vindaloo music video.
The T2 game was awesome for its time!
Wish there was commentary over this
i never beat the Aliens game, ran out of quarters back in the day. I do remember seeing Rambo III, aliens 3, and a couple of others back in my day.
I’ve never seen the Willow arcade game ever…it looks cool
The piles of triceratops shit in JP had me “LOL”
The one game on here they really brings back memories of my childhood Corner Street Arcade I played many different types of video games but the one that stuck out the most from this video was Willow something about it reminded me of super goals and ghosts on Super Nintendo I got so good at it that I would be able to beat it with one life so you can say I cost me one quarter to beat the whole game I remember being 14 years old and having the willow arcade machine surrounded by people cheering me on my friends thank you for taking me back to my childhood you have a new subscriber keep up the good work
One more thing I'll never understand why they never reported Willow to the Super Nintendo they could have made an exact Port of the arcade it would have been awesome because Capcom made super ghouls and ghosts which I also was able to Master on Expert difficulty I was able to beat the game the right way beat it once and you have to beat it again to get the real ending on Expert I did all that why didn't they ever bring Willow to the Super Nintendo is my question
I love reading comments as nostalgic as this one. make sense of my videos
😂 Someone’s walking a baby Goro on a leash in the Judge Dredd game, quite unexpected.
I would have loved to hear AVGN take on Judge Dread! Lol
Missed out on The Punisher! A great beat em up
Alright arcade games 🕹 what i been waiting for
How come Judge Dredd made the list if it wasn't based off the movie? Still a great video!!
Robocop 2 and aliens are great arcade games had a blast playing them recently
Get video btw
I saw aliens vs predator by capcom and off course I have to click and give like
So many ideas for games on the evercade.
I never experienced most of these games. Arcades where I grew up or traveled could have a fairly diverse number of games, or just one or two cabinets. Still, That Terminator 2 game was EVERYWHERE lol And yet though connected to movie franchise and not on this list, Alien vs Predator the side scrolling beat em up wouldnt have a film for years until the early 2000s. Yet STILL we cant get a port of it in the modern age? T
I'll toss in something that misses the criteria so slightly but ..
The Warriors game that came out is really a solid not quite movie, movie game.
As it does act as a prequel of sorts as well.
Their are some, obviously including this list, of really good movies games.
That Wolverine game on PS3 was fun.
Green Lantern on PS3 is a guilty pleasure, played co op it was competent.
Willow was a fsntastic gsme both on the NES and on the Arcade ¿Any idea how long it took between the movie and the games? They made it Triple A quality when I feel they camr out way way WAY after the movie did.
Perfect
B&B you really do be making me fill my MAME folder my G.
Glad to read your comment
The problem with the Hook arcade game is that the voice used for Peter Pan sounds nothing like Robin Williams. -_-
Die Hard Arcade NEEEDS a reboot or remaster
Anybody know any good arcade emulators for Mac I cannot find any and any emulator consoles recommendations
What the hell did Ryu said during that hurricane kick?
I want a pet baby Goro!!
Which game has the biggest sprites?
Sounds like a great theme for a video!
Why Aliens vs Predator didn't make this list, but that turkey Street Fighter movie game did? 😖
AVP didn't have a movie adaptation until a decade after the game. Likely, Capcom based it off a comic book special/series. (Several of Capcom's best known beat-em-ups were based off of either comic books (AvP, Punisher) or graphic novels. (Cadillacs, Warriors of Fate))
Nice
Die hard arcade so such a fun game!
Is Alien versus Predator available on the Super Nintendo or Genesis do you have to make modded cartridge
I also have been happy if I could have Saturday night slam Masters number 2 game
Muito bacana
You forgot star wars.
Game top perfect
Thank you
Alien vs Predator is fantastic…the SNES port…not so much. The Aliens game was really good as well…I hope the Spider-Man beat ‘Em up by Sega made the list
How come the first Robocop didnt make the list? also technically Die Hard Arcade isnt connected to the film in any way other than terrorists in a sky scraper as the original name in Japan is Dynamite Deka & theres nothing Die Hard in it beyon the similar setting
Some of those games need to be on the Nintendo switch that would be cool 😎 yo 👍👍
6:09 Why is there PAC-Man starting noise
I believe parts of this video were filmed in someone's arcade collection.
It's just edition by my side to make ambience to the presentation of the games
Game top
Predator 2 ?
judge dredd looking.....off to anyone els?
Where are RoboCop 1 & 2?
RoboCop 2 appears
Moonwalker's based on a movie?
Yes, from 1988. Although it is not an ordinary film in the narrative aspect
What Is Sega Talking about That never Happened in Die hard
Downvote CUS AVP was the only arcade game worth mentioning AND YES IT COUNTS cus it’s based on the films AND THE DARK HORSE BOOKS
Where was goddam predator .....only reason I clicked link ....
....linn....kurosawa.
I still play Batman Forever Arcade on my PS1. Would love to buy the original cabinet.
Judge Dred looks terrible.
Aliens for the arcade is such a fucked up game. When were there electric shooting aliens and big beetles in the movie?!
is the lost world running on an emulator?
Yes, there's an emulator for the AM3 games
@@BitsBeats thank you! i will check it out.
First Atari arcade game to include digitized speech, including Harrison Ford? Star Wars arcade doesn't ring any bells?
Thumbs down for misinformation.
I am going to find out more about this. I trust your judgment.
Sometimes I make mistakes. Sorry about that!
@@BitsBeats
Everyone makes mistakes. Few people accept corrections, especially when it comes to videogames. Even fewer double check to make certain I'm telling them the truth.
Points awarded. And thank you.
I could only find the Japanese version of Sega’s Star Wars Arcade. th-cam.com/video/YJwseTVyum0/w-d-xo.html
When movies were not woke amd still awesome
Do You even know what "woke" means? Cause i Don't like internet baiters that Don't really know the terms they use .