The most popular based on a movie games
In the 80s and the 90s we all saw a lot of good blockbuster movies come out. Some of them were good, some of them were bad. Unfortunately, most of video games based on movies (called 'tie-in') were really bad. Developers tried to put everything they could in those games and divided gameplay in different parts, each of them with a different gameplay: platform, driving sim, puzzle, etc. The best games based on a movie are those that focus on a single genre: Indiana Jones games, Star Wars games etc.
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Star Wars: X-Wing
DOS1993protected LucasArts
Bram Stoker's Dracula
DOS1993 Psygnosis
Bram Stoker's Dracula (the game) is based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula (the movie) based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula (the book). Confused yet? Good. This 1993 action-platformer has you battling the undead with the grace of a ...
The Blues Brothers
DOS1991 Titus Interactive
The Blues Brothers is a platformer that follows the adventures of Jake and Elwood Blues as they try to put their band back together. The player controls one of the Blues Brothers through various levels, each filled with obstacles,...
Top Gun
DOS1987 Ocean Software
Top Gun is an abandoned flight combat simulation game developed by Ocean Software and released by Thunder Mountain in 1987 for DOS and a number of other 8 bit platforms. As the title suggests, Top Gun is based on the movie of the ...
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
DOS1989 Atari
Beverly Hills Cop
DOS1990 Tynesoft Computer Software
Take Eddie Murphy’s swagger, remove the charm, add some DOS chiptunes, and you get Beverly Hills Cop—a game adaptation that asks: “What if being a wisecracking detective meant stiff animations and random driving ...
City of Lost Children
DOS1997 Psygnosis
Star Wars Chess
DOSWindows 3.x1993 The Software Toolworks
Star Trek: First Contact
DOS1988 Simon & Schuster Interactive
The Black Cauldron
DOS1986freeware Sierra On-Line
007: License to Kill
DOS1989 Quixel
Before James Bond was saving the world with cinematic flair, he was crashing pixelated helicopters in 007: License to Kill. This top-down action game takes the movie and crams it into six bite-sized missions of explosions, awkward...
Home Alone
DOS1991 Manley Associates
Batman Returns
DOS1992 Spirit of discovery
Just like the movie, Batman Returns (1992) is dark, gritty, and full of dudes in clown makeup getting punched in the face. You play as the Caped Crusader in a beat-‘em-up side-scroller that delivers satisfying combos and a s...
Rambo First Blood Part 2
DOS1985 Angelsoft
Hook
DOS1992 Shadow Software
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
DOS1990 Elite Systems
Platoon
DOS1987 Ocean Software
The Terminator: Future Shock
DOS1995 Bethesda Softworks
The Terminator: Future Shock is an abandoned science fiction first-person shooter game based on the popular Terminator movies franchise, set in a dystopian world where machines has taken over the Earth. The Terminator: Future Shoc...
Who framed Roger Rabbit
DOS1988 Silent Software
The Taking of Beverly Hills
DOS1991 Off The Wall Productions
Beauty and the Beast
DOS1992 Infogrames
This isn’t Disney’s musical fairytale—it’s a DOS game, which means Beauty and the Beast is way more "puzzle platformer" than "tale as old as time." You play as the Beast, leaping around levels, solving very...
The Great Escape
DOS1986protected Denton Designs
As a prisoner of war, you must find a way to escape a prison in Germany in 1942. The prisoner has a daily routine which will follow if not controlled by the player for a certain amount of time.
Ghostbusters
DOS2006remake
Ghostbusters is a abandoned action game based on the 80s hit movie Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters was released in 2006 as a remake of the game of the same name developed by Activision in 1984 for a number of platforms including C...
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2001protected LucasArts
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds is a science fiction real-time strategy game set in the Star Wars universe, focused both on the first and the second Star Wars trilogy. Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds was developed by LucasArts...
James Bond 007: Goldfinger
DOS1986 Angelsoft
Plan 9 From Outer Space
DOS1992 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
The Train Escape to Normandy
DOS1988protected Artech Studios
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
DOS1989 Mindscape
Star Wars: TIE Fighter
DOS1994protected LucasArts
Arachnophobia
DOS1991 Blue Sky Productions
You don’t need to hate spiders to fear Arachnophobia (1991), but it helps. Based on the movie of the same name, it tasks you with exterminating wave after wave of creepy crawlies in a town that’s clearly being punished...