Most official movie tie-in video games are terrible, which has lead to a quarter-century drought of desirable licensed movie games. Aside from Blade Runner, Disney’s Aladdin and Goldeneye on the N64, you can pretty much cast them all into the fires of hell.
8 Bit Cinema takes movies and turns them into short, animated retro-inspired video game sequences. The show runs on the movie-obsessedCineFix YøùTùbé channel, and fuses elements from both classic games and notable films into a few short minutes of pop culture genius.
For the record, 8 Bit Cinema is just a name – many of these remakes would undoubtedly have required 16-bit hardware (Genesis and SNES era) were they to exist in the real world.
Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction makes perfect sense as a side-scrolling mid-90s shooter, particularly when the movie’s disorderly series of events is put into chronological order. This version combines shoot-outs, a rhythm game “dance simulator” and button-bashing bonus round that rewards you for cleaning all of Marvin’s skull and brains off the back seat.
Frozen
If you’re sick of Frozen, you probably haven’t seen it in its true glory: as a top-down Chrono Trigger clone. It’s surprising how well the plot of this all-singing, all-dancing Disney production works as a SNES-era RPG, complete with Olaf the lockpicking snowman.
Sin City
Were it not for the comic book, the Sin City movie could have easily been based on some obscure 1980s arcade platformer. As is expected, the Streets of Rage-esque scrolling beat ‘em up formula applies perfectly, with the movie’s gloomy locations and monstrous baddies setting the perfect, pixel-dense scene.
Mean Girls
An unlikely addition to the list, Mean Girls doesn’t exactly spring to mind as a particularly good 8-bit cover – except when it’s a retro Japanese dating simulator. Watch the 2004 Linsday Lohan comedy re-imagined, complete with an 8-bit soundtrack and craftable revenge items.
The Matrix
Had The Matrix been released ten years earlier, there’s a real chance something resembling this 2D side-scrolling adventure game would have made it into arcades. With a hero in a trenchcoat, a suited antagonist who can replicated himself and suitably impressive special moves list in the form of bullet time, I’m starting to think this is the lick of (retro) paint the franchise needs in 2015.
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