Wow. I didn't know anything about some of those games, and also just kinda assumed there were more games made over time. I always loved horror themed stuff, so I suppose I was willing to overlook the shortcomings of The Dark Half when it came out. I remember it being more frustrating than most point and clicks, but I also enjoyed it a lot more than LOOM, which was considered to be the penultimate P&C game of the time, and also ended up boring me to the point that I couldn't be bothered to finish it. The only other P&C of the era that I enjoyed as much was also notorious for being a difficult mess of trial and error: Gabriel Knight, another horror themed murder mystery involving Voodoo. Awesome video, and I'm in awe of how quickly you put this together considering just how much info you packed into it!
It’s honestly astounding how few King games there are considering the multitude of movies and various other adaptations. I got the impression that the critics of the day were all just frustrated with The Dark Half because it was complicated. Perhaps they just didn’t enjoy the challenge it presented them! And thank you! It actually worked out really well as the video I was originally planning to make was in the wrong spot on my timeline of planned vids. So because of your suggestion I didn’t have to figure how I was going to fill it! You saved me!
As an elder gaming geek, I loved your effort here. I would say, if you want a good King video game, Alan Wake was very heavily inspired by King and includes several references to him, even quoting him in the game, including some very winky nods to his films. Your character is a novelist in a Twin Peaks style town whose dark writings may be coming to life…As for these, I bet the Mist was the best. Text games are a blast (with very heavy nostalgia goggles firmly in place). Zork rules. Can’t wait to see what you think about The Langoliers. PS, if you thought the Lawnmower Man film was bad, be glad you didn’t see the sequel. Oof! Have a great couple of weeks, Mr Doyle.
I had come across Alan Wake while putting this video together, but decided not to include it since it wasn’t technically based on a Stephen King property. It definitely sounds far better than any of the actual King games though lol I will definitely continue to avoid the Lawnmower Man sequel. You have my word. Lol take care, Paul!
@@agreatundertaking well if you have 30 minutes to kill, Alan Wake had a live action prequel done to drum up support for the game. It’s called Bright Falls and it’s free on YT. Pretty cool and creepy.
Thanks for the Video 😀 I'm almost finished with tightening up the Outline for the 11 Episode Series of Salem's Lot, and will send it over when complete, Thanks again, in the meantime I'll be playing the Atari 2600.
@@agreatundertaking I'm DEFINITELY afraid of a LOT of Stephen King Novels/Movies, but I wouldn't be AFRAID if The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was made into a Movie. That being said, Looking Forward to The Boogeyman and the Salem's Lot Remake (if they EVER release it). Be Well !!! 😀
I've been getting a few very small creators in my recommended over the past week or so and I am really appreciating that! This is exactly my kind of content, you've got yourself a sub. 😊
❤️❤️❤️ Thank you so much, Lovecatx! And I’ve been getting more smaller channels in my feed lately too… I wonder if TH-cam actually did something GOOD to the algorithm!!! Probably not, but maybe!!!
This was really interesting. The only one of these I knew of was The Mist. My science teacher in high school had that on his class computer and I played the Hell outta that 'game'. The one thing I really remember was when you went out into the town, you'd come across a slug, if you forgot to pick up the salt to pour on it, it would "jump onto your chest and suck out your lungs". Again and again.... and again. Nice video game cuts and transitions, BTW. Another quality video. 👍
Hey! I have never, and likely will never, played any of these suckers, but The Mist does have that “choose your own adventure” appeal and I think I’d likely prefer it to most, if not all, of the others.
I'm a huge gamer. I played text-based adventure games in 1979 on PC that me and my dad built from Heathkit. It ran on HDOS which is Heathkit DOS. It had 8 inch floppy drives which used single-sided single-density floppy disks. I think it had like 128K RAM. Each disk could hold like 256K bytes. I learned BASIC in high-school and wrote numerous text-based games like a Karate game, Robot fighting game, and a rocket to space game. Kids enjoyed playing my games, so they weren't half-bad. I would challenge myself to beat my scores. I just remembered that I played a lot of text-based games about 1977 on my father's terminal which connected to a Main Frame computer at Bell Labs. The terminal fed paper. There was no monitor. We plugged the phone into muffs to connect to the Main Frame. I played Star Trek where I battled Klingons, LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) where I landed on the moon, Adventure where I explored strange worlds, and others I'm struggling to remember. I also played a Math game to help me learn multiplication.
Wow! As these sorts of games were before my time, or were in their “golden age” when I was still in diapers, I didn’t have any of those experiences. I imagine it felt, and WAS, incredibly exciting and innovative for folks such as yourself who were using and creating them when they were just coming on to the scene! Technology and the speed with which it moves is truly baffling.
I had a text game for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when I was kid. I still have it around here somewhere, on a 5 1/4" floppy disk XD I kept getting stuck in the same place, so I eventually gave up on it.
Thank you for your service. The main appeal of text adventures was they could have far more options for different interactions than normal adventure games. Meaning their scope could be bigger, at the expense of needing to use your imagination. Time obviously meant normal Adventure games caught up. But the are still fans for some of the classics like Zork or The Lurking Horror. I think the problem with trying to adapt King into game form is his proganists are often observers. Think The Shining, Cujo, or Gerald's Game. Even in a game like Dear Esther which has no fighting or puzzles the protagonist has still made an active choice to climb a mountain to see the sunset one last time. I think Trucks would probably lend itself to a game adaptation the best. Or maybe It. But both would make for strange games.
The more I considered it, the more I came to understand the text adventure as a choose your own adventure book in a digital format. Which, in retrospect, was very forward thinking. Trucks would make for a fun one!
Imagine if they made a game based on The Lawnmower Man book. I'd imagine a top view of a lawn and you play the Lawnmower Man who eats grass. You get points for every patch of grass you eat but you have to avoid dangers in the lawn that steal your health, some of which are on the move chasing you. You do have inverters which would allow you to eat your enemies for a short-time. You earn money for each lawn you finish, which you can then use to buy upgrades. You win the game by beating the boss on the final lawn.
That’s a tough one. I have been mulling that over since making that video though. The Mist as a modern video game would be pretty rad. Cell, while not among my favorite King novels, would potentially be a fun one as well. Christine has potential as well, and you could alternate between playing as Leigh, Dennis, Arnie, and Christine.
@@agreatundertaking Cell did not end the way I expected. I was expecting Clay to save the world by finding and defeating whatever caused the pulse, and reverse the effects for most Phoners. A video game would need a boss battle where you win at the end instead of the open ended ending of the novel.
@@agreatundertaking With Mist, instead of being that guy stuck in a Supermarket, you'd be the scientist that accidentally opened the rift to the other world. It could be a first person shooter where you fight the monsters and try to find a way to seal the rift.
For someone who isn't a gamer you did a helluva job with these reviews. I don't think Stephen King is much of a gamer either he might have cared more than just agreeing to allow the project.
Emmett Otters Jugband Christmas is my favorite Christmas special of all time. I watch it every year. It's the best and the Riverbottom Nightmare Band rules 🤘 Also, these games look like hot garbage. I am a gamer and I feel fortunate to.have never heard of these before today.
Good news. The reason the Boogeyman is getting a theatrical release is because test screenings went well and I won’t be surprised if it was better than Salem’s Lot
Ya know, if it’s a good movie that doesn’t follow the original story that closely and stands on its own, that’s better than a bad movie that follows the story closely. As far as Salem’s Lot goes… I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. I’d kill for just a TRAILER at this point!
Oh my goodness. I forgot about this book. My mom, who is a great mom but not so great when it comes to what is deemed appropriate for a child, read this book to me ...a five year old child. Scared the crap out of me.
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You did it! Like, the NEXT VIDEO is exactly what I suggested! I can't tell you how excited I am to see this video!
I had to! You get a shout out in the video too!
You are a bad, bad man. 😉. What have done to this poor man?
🤣🤣🤣
@@agreatundertaking I'm honored!
Wow. I didn't know anything about some of those games, and also just kinda assumed there were more games made over time.
I always loved horror themed stuff, so I suppose I was willing to overlook the shortcomings of The Dark Half when it came out. I remember it being more frustrating than most point and clicks, but I also enjoyed it a lot more than LOOM, which was considered to be the penultimate P&C game of the time, and also ended up boring me to the point that I couldn't be bothered to finish it. The only other P&C of the era that I enjoyed as much was also notorious for being a difficult mess of trial and error: Gabriel Knight, another horror themed murder mystery involving Voodoo.
Awesome video, and I'm in awe of how quickly you put this together considering just how much info you packed into it!
It’s honestly astounding how few King games there are considering the multitude of movies and various other adaptations.
I got the impression that the critics of the day were all just frustrated with The Dark Half because it was complicated. Perhaps they just didn’t enjoy the challenge it presented them!
And thank you! It actually worked out really well as the video I was originally planning to make was in the wrong spot on my timeline of planned vids. So because of your suggestion I didn’t have to figure how I was going to fill it! You saved me!
As an elder gaming geek, I loved your effort here. I would say, if you want a good King video game, Alan Wake was very heavily inspired by King and includes several references to him, even quoting him in the game, including some very winky nods to his films. Your character is a novelist in a Twin Peaks style town whose dark writings may be coming to life…As for these, I bet the Mist was the best. Text games are a blast (with very heavy nostalgia goggles firmly in place). Zork rules. Can’t wait to see what you think about The Langoliers. PS, if you thought the Lawnmower Man film was bad, be glad you didn’t see the sequel. Oof! Have a great couple of weeks, Mr Doyle.
I had come across Alan Wake while putting this video together, but decided not to include it since it wasn’t technically based on a Stephen King property. It definitely sounds far better than any of the actual King games though lol
I will definitely continue to avoid the Lawnmower Man sequel. You have my word. Lol take care, Paul!
@@agreatundertaking well if you have 30 minutes to kill, Alan Wake had a live action prequel done to drum up support for the game. It’s called Bright Falls and it’s free on YT. Pretty cool and creepy.
I’ll check it out tonight after the kids are off to bed! Thanks, Paul!
Thanks for the Video 😀
I'm almost finished with tightening up the Outline for the 11 Episode Series of Salem's Lot, and will send it over when complete, Thanks again, in the meantime I'll be playing the Atari 2600.
Thank you! I’ll be on the lookout for your email!
@@agreatundertaking I'm DEFINITELY afraid of a LOT of Stephen King Novels/Movies, but I wouldn't be AFRAID if The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was made into a Movie. That being said, Looking Forward to The Boogeyman and the Salem's Lot Remake (if they EVER release it).
Be Well !!! 😀
I would be thrilled for ANY of those adaptations to see release! TGWLTG would make an excellent movie!
I've been getting a few very small creators in my recommended over the past week or so and I am really appreciating that! This is exactly my kind of content, you've got yourself a sub. 😊
❤️❤️❤️ Thank you so much, Lovecatx! And I’ve been getting more smaller channels in my feed lately too… I wonder if TH-cam actually did something GOOD to the algorithm!!! Probably not, but maybe!!!
Great video as per usual. Really looking forward to the Four Past Midnight video. Take care.
Thanks, M. Hope you’re doing well so far this year!
why did I not even think that they would have tried to make an SK video game.... Your analysis of them all went pretty much as expected
Yeah this was one of those “of course” moments for me lol I’m honestly just surprised there aren’t dozens more!
This was really interesting. The only one of these I knew of was The Mist. My science teacher in high school had that on his class computer and I played the Hell outta that 'game'. The one thing I really remember was when you went out into the town, you'd come across a slug, if you forgot to pick up the salt to pour on it, it would "jump onto your chest and suck out your lungs". Again and again.... and again. Nice video game cuts and transitions, BTW. Another quality video. 👍
Hey! I have never, and likely will never, played any of these suckers, but The Mist does have that “choose your own adventure” appeal and I think I’d likely prefer it to most, if not all, of the others.
I'm a huge gamer. I played text-based adventure games in 1979 on PC that me and my dad built from Heathkit. It ran on HDOS which is Heathkit DOS. It had 8 inch floppy drives which used single-sided single-density floppy disks. I think it had like 128K RAM. Each disk could hold like 256K bytes. I learned BASIC in high-school and wrote numerous text-based games like a Karate game, Robot fighting game, and a rocket to space game. Kids enjoyed playing my games, so they weren't half-bad. I would challenge myself to beat my scores. I just remembered that I played a lot of text-based games about 1977 on my father's terminal which connected to a Main Frame computer at Bell Labs. The terminal fed paper. There was no monitor. We plugged the phone into muffs to connect to the Main Frame. I played Star Trek where I battled Klingons, LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) where I landed on the moon, Adventure where I explored strange worlds, and others I'm struggling to remember. I also played a Math game to help me learn multiplication.
Wow! As these sorts of games were before my time, or were in their “golden age” when I was still in diapers, I didn’t have any of those experiences. I imagine it felt, and WAS, incredibly exciting and innovative for folks such as yourself who were using and creating them when they were just coming on to the scene! Technology and the speed with which it moves is truly baffling.
I had a text game for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when I was kid. I still have it around here somewhere, on a 5 1/4" floppy disk XD I kept getting stuck in the same place, so I eventually gave up on it.
Ah yes, the days of the floppy disk. I remember it well lol
Thank you for your service.
The main appeal of text adventures was they could have far more options for different interactions than normal adventure games. Meaning their scope could be bigger, at the expense of needing to use your imagination. Time obviously meant normal Adventure games caught up. But the are still fans for some of the classics like Zork or The Lurking Horror.
I think the problem with trying to adapt King into game form is his proganists are often observers. Think The Shining, Cujo, or Gerald's Game. Even in a game like Dear Esther which has no fighting or puzzles the protagonist has still made an active choice to climb a mountain to see the sunset one last time.
I think Trucks would probably lend itself to a game adaptation the best. Or maybe It. But both would make for strange games.
The more I considered it, the more I came to understand the text adventure as a choose your own adventure book in a digital format. Which, in retrospect, was very forward thinking.
Trucks would make for a fun one!
Imagine if they made a game based on The Lawnmower Man book. I'd imagine a top view of a lawn and you play the Lawnmower Man who eats grass. You get points for every patch of grass you eat but you have to avoid dangers in the lawn that steal your health, some of which are on the move chasing you. You do have inverters which would allow you to eat your enemies for a short-time. You earn money for each lawn you finish, which you can then use to buy upgrades. You win the game by beating the boss on the final lawn.
Hahahaha! Just a naked dude eating grass in a frenzy. Would certainly be entertaining lol
Which Stephen King book would you like to see adapted into a game, whether it be video, board or otherwise?
That’s a tough one. I have been mulling that over since making that video though. The Mist as a modern video game would be pretty rad. Cell, while not among my favorite King novels, would potentially be a fun one as well. Christine has potential as well, and you could alternate between playing as Leigh, Dennis, Arnie, and Christine.
@@agreatundertaking Cell did not end the way I expected. I was expecting Clay to save the world by finding and defeating whatever caused the pulse, and reverse the effects for most Phoners. A video game would need a boss battle where you win at the end instead of the open ended ending of the novel.
@@agreatundertaking With Mist, instead of being that guy stuck in a Supermarket, you'd be the scientist that accidentally opened the rift to the other world. It could be a first person shooter where you fight the monsters and try to find a way to seal the rift.
Yeah good point… maybe just a COD Zombies style game where the only objective is to kill the zombies lol
_The Legend of Zelda Goldman_
_Super Cycle of the Werewolf_
_The Dark Half-Life_
_The Colorado Kid Icarus_
_The Shining Resonance Refrain_
_Gerald's Game_
The Running Mega Man
Super Mario Ghost Brothers of Darkland County
The Eyes of the Double Dragon
That’s all I’ve got lol
@@agreatundertaking Not bad!
The Legend of Zelda Goldman 🤣🤣🤣
@@agreatundertaking _'Even now, I wake up, and I think: Is Zelda dead yet? ...Is she?'_
Ys X: Wanderers From A Buick 8
I did hear that some of king's work was adapted into video games but never played them thank god I never did
Yeah you should continue to not play them, for sure lol
Now that they're video games Uwe Boll can set his sights on making them into films... 😁
Hahahahahhaha! What could possibly go wrong?! The man has a flawless track record, after all.
For someone who isn't a gamer you did a helluva job with these reviews. I don't think Stephen King is much of a gamer either he might have cared more than just agreeing to allow the project.
Thanks Jim! Yeah, I wonder how much involvement he could’ve had if he actually WANTED to be involved.
isnt alan wake also from stephen king?
I looked into that and what I’ve found says it was inspired by King and stories by other horror authors, so yeah I suppose it technically is!
Emmett Otters Jugband Christmas is my favorite Christmas special of all time. I watch it every year. It's the best and the Riverbottom Nightmare Band rules 🤘
Also, these games look like hot garbage. I am a gamer and I feel fortunate to.have never heard of these before today.
Hell yeah! Emmett Otter fans UNITE!
Also, I apologize for burdening your mind with the fact that these games exist.
Good news. The reason the Boogeyman is getting a theatrical release is because test screenings went well and I won’t be surprised if it was better than Salem’s Lot
Ya know, if it’s a good movie that doesn’t follow the original story that closely and stands on its own, that’s better than a bad movie that follows the story closely. As far as Salem’s Lot goes… I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. I’d kill for just a TRAILER at this point!
@@agreatundertaking Same man, I would like to see the trailer they showed at cinemacon
Damn… that trailer dropped at cinemacon 8 MONTHS AGO! 🤦🏻♂️
@@agreatundertaking ikr
holy fkn word barf!!!!
Lol yeah that’s definitely something I do.
The Boogeyman movie is set for a theatrical release in June 2nd 2023
Alright! I assume this is a “loosely based on” adaptation.
@@agreatundertaking It is sadly. I’ll admit they have a good list of actors in it.
I’ve enjoyed some less strict adaptations, so I’ll maintain that cautious optimism.
@@agreatundertaking Same
Oh my goodness. I forgot about this book. My mom, who is a great mom but not so great when it comes to what is deemed appropriate for a child, read this book to me ...a five year old child. Scared the crap out of me.