10 Video Games That Prove Some People Don't Know How To Let Things Go

“Give My Regards To Broad Street” wasn’t much of a hit in the theatres. In fact, Roger Ebert called the musical drama a “non-movie.” That didn’t stop developers from creating a game based on the film written by and starring Paul McCartney. In the game, Paul must drive around looking for seven missing producers who will help him create his new album. Even worse than the game play was the maddening 8-bit rendition of “Band On The Run” playing in the background on loop.

The Dirty Harry video game was released for NES, and is incredibly confusing, since NES was mostly geared towards younger players who likely didn’t know who Dirty Harry was.

Another game that was probably a little too adult for its audience was The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In this 8-bit game, you take on the role of the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface and try to go after your victims. It might work on a super fancy system now, but on the Atari 2600, not so much.

When this game came out in 1986, it actually became an 8-bit classic. In it, the player attempted to break out of a Nazi prisoner of war camp, similar to the story of the movie. What is so weird about it, was the fact that the game came out 23 years after the film.

Fight Club is a satire film all about consumerism, conformism and masculinity, which makes it a strange choice for a video game. The game, which came out 5 years after the 1999 film, became a simple one-on-one fight game, similar to Mortal Kombat. Characters from the movie appeared in the game, as well as Abraham Lincoln (which was a joke from the movie) and the lead singer of Limp Bizkit (that one made less sense).

Plan 9 From Outer Space is often referred to the worst movie ever made, and the game didn’t do much better. In the game, released in 1992 (the movie was released in 1959), Bela Lugosi’s body double stole the master copy of the film, and you had to track down the missing reels. It sounds both very meta, and very VERY bad.

A game based on a war movie seems like it would make sense, but when that movie is all about the futility of war, it doesn’t seem to work quite as well.

When you think “movie video games” you probably don’t think of 80’s sex comedies. However, the creators of this Porkys video game were certainly hoping that would change.

There are plenty of basketball games out there, so this one seems like it would make sense, but like so many others on the list, it came out way too late to be relevant (3 years after the movie). Plus, none of the stars of the movie seemed to want to have anything to do with the game, since Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson’s characters are absent from both the game, and the box art.