Made for TV?
Like many of you, as of writing this I’ve just finished watching Fallout on Amazon Prime. It is a brilliant show, and the first time any game adaptation has made me feel the way I do when playing a game. Not only is it incredibly loyal to the long-running franchise – I was there in 1997 when the first one came out – but it understands games in a way no other TV show or movie ever has.
Take the recent animated The Super Mario Bros Movie; that just felt to me like a bunch of cutscenes. There was no sense that this was gameplay brought to life. The Last Of Us adaptation was great, but that series always had aspirations to be more movie than game anyway. It got me wondering about other games from the past, and which ones might make good TV adaptations.