Thread 11941006

What are the best licensed games from the 1980s and 1990s made by Western developers?

>>11941006 (OP)
The only correct answer.

>>11941006 (OP)
Blade Runner
Frederik Pohl's Gateway
Discworld Noir

>>11941006 (OP)
pic unrelated

>>11941013
I specifically excluded 2000s stuff since around that era licensed games got a general "upgrade" from entertainingly bad to mediocre and boring. Be my guest though.

>>11941006 (OP)
Buck Rogers Countdown To Doomsday

Dune II

>>11941040
good choice

Star Trek 25th Anniversary and Judgment Rites.

>>11941042
Nah

>>11941006 (OP)
Genesis does what Nintendon't.

>>11941176
Nintendo did a lot of tech demos, dummy

>>11941142
I remember a guy that worked at SSI during the gold box era said in an interview somewhere that they hated doing these because it was some sleazy thing to do where the boss's wife (some nepotistic thing like that) was connected to selling the license rights to SSI as a kickback and the games made no money because no one gave a shit about Buck Rogers in the the '90s and the license had no actual value.

>>11941195
Yeah, but the gameplay is so damn good though! However, it could've had shorter shmup segments. A few of them felt like they went on forever.

>>11941006 (OP)
Off the top of my head, other than Aladdin...
Shadowrun (all versions are excellent)
Hook (Mega CD has the movie soundtrack, but I prefer the SNES tunes)
Pirates of Dark Water (Genesis one is actually the unaired ending of the show)
Willow (arcade game is ludo)
Sweet Home (better than the movie)
Turtles in Time/Hyperstone Heist (both awesome)
The Simpsons arcade game
Moonwalker (hee hee, shamone)
...and many more, I'm sure. The /vr/ era was great for licensed ludo.

>>11941176
Stupid cover, very unlike the game.

>>11941271
How so? You end up fighting the Joker, Two-Face, and Mr. Freeze like the cover implies.

>>11941176
>Mr. Freeze in jubilee as he watches Robin about to put his heel into the back of Joker's skull

>>11941264
Sorry to be pedantic, but...
>Willow
>Sweet Home
>Turtles in Time/Hyperstone Heist
Developed by Capcom
>Moonwalker
Developed by SEGA
I can see the confusion though, being Western IPs and all.

>>11941006 (OP)
The Rats
The Train: Escape to Normandy
Below The Root

>>11941291
>forgets to include simpsons arcade in the capcom greentext
FUUUUUUUUCK!

>>11941271
The general look and feel of the game is very unlike the source material so it kinda evens out lol

>>11941293
Those are Konami beat em ups.

>>11941302
Well shit, I'm even more retarded than I thought.

>>11941006 (OP)
Doom though technically the Bible is public domain so it's not licensed but built upon and existing IP

>>11941278
Game is dark and stylish, but cover is stupid colorful kiddy cartoon. I get they wanted to sell the game as per cartoon or tv show or whatever, but this game have nothing to do with such cheap trash, it's masterpiece on its own.

>>11941316
Luckily the driving simulator has less doofy-looking cover.

>>11941345
>has a
inb4 esl

>>11941176
The TAS games on SNES and GB exist though and are better

Not to mention Batman Returns SNES being the best Batman Returns

>>11941351
>Not to mention Batman Returns SNES being the best Batman Returns
Oh yeah, I heard that game was awesome! Hopefully that Genesis port gets finished soon, because it has a lot of potential.

>>11941201
>no one gave a shit about Buck Rogers in the the '90s
Yeah I only knew Buck Rogers from the stuffy 70s series which looked and felt pretty cheesy, and not in a good way (like Flash Gordon) at least not back then. Still good game despite it all.

>>11941291
>>Turtles in Time/Hyperstone Heist
>Developed by Capcom
retard alert

>>11941353
It is awesome, I think it's in my top 5 most replayed SNES games

>>11941395
It's not my fault that all Nips look the same.

>>11941345
Come to think of it, this game reminds me a whole lot of what that Raw Thrills arcade game would go on to do years later. That's pretty fucking cool if you ask me!

>>11941037
Apologies - I should have read the post better. Definitely not 80's or 90's. Although I will stand by that LOTR: Two Towers is the best movie tie in of all time.

>>11941006 (OP)
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Tie-Fighter and a lot of Star Wars games in general

>>11941006 (OP)
I'd say you posted the best one, OP.

>>11941176
This game feels like a meat grinder that got forced to wear a Batman skin to sell copies.

Spy vs Spy

>>11941006 (OP)
>>11942492
Capcom Aladdin is superior to Virgin Aladdin, and wasn't made by a bible thumper who was later involved in starting a streamed emulation service where each laggy frame of game is larger than the whole ROM

>>11942634
The guy who created Antstream? Eugh, I thought Stadia was enough to convince people that streamed gaming was complete and total ass.

>>11942634
>Capcom Aladdin is superior to Virgin Aladdin...
This is very debateable, it's a matter of taste and of one's main priorities really.

>...and wasn't made by a bible thumper...
What does this have to do with anything? We're talking about Aladdin.

>...who was later involved in starting a streamed emulation service where each laggy frame of game is larger than the whole ROM
This sounds awful indeed... but again, what does it have to do with the quality of the video game, even if the creator sucks or whatever, this doesn't mean Capcom's is a better video game automatically, anon.

>>11941006 (OP)
Sonic

>>11941006 (OP)
U.N. Squadron

>>11941176
>1/4 of the game is a shmup level
would 100% agree if it didn't exist

>>11942904
Huh, I actually agree with you! Glad I'm not the only one who thought those levels were too damn long.

>>11941312
Religion and mythology aren't intellectual property, but intellectual property can be based on them.

>>11942751
Capcom Aladdin is better because my friend simulators on podcasts say it's better :D

Dark Forces

>>11942634
>weeb basic bitches when they can't mention Capcom Aladdin for 2 seconds

>>11942956
Or just property when intellect isn't involved at all in the process like in the case of Doom and it's just "what if demons were cyborg aliens"

>>11942751
NOOOOOO games can't be different they can only be good or bad and the bad ones are the ones that aren't the good and the good ones are the ones I like better and I like them better because they are the good ones and they are the good ones because they aren't the bad ones

>>11941176
It's a bit repetitive but a nice challenge in an obnoxious kind of way, and the visuals are great. On a technical level it's absolutely one of the best licensed Western games ever made even if AS a game it's a bit shallow.

>>11941006 (OP)
Goof Troop
Mickey Mania

>>11943587
Goof Troop was Japanese-developed AND barely a licensed game at all since it obviously was repurposed mid-development

>>11943594
But it's a good game

>>11943597
But you are, presumably, able to read. There's plenty of good licensed Japanese-developed games, which is obviously why the op made a point of excluding them to narrow down the topic.

>>11943605
Whatever, nerd

>>11943587
>>11943617
lmao I'm unironically not sure of whether bringing up a random and still off-topic Mikami game that's NOT snes Aladdin shows more or less self-awareness than this >>11942634

>>11941006 (OP)
It's slow-paced, but I like it

>>11943775
This reminds me, the game that actually inspired Resident Evil started as basically a licensed game when Infogrames got the rights to Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu

>>11941006 (OP)
Last Crusade is also nice but Fate of Atlantis is one of the best point-and-click games ever made; the replayability factor is specially rare.

Technically though I'm not sure it counts as a licensed game since it was made by a Lucasfilm subcompany and as such they weren't really "licensing" the Indiana Jones IP.

>>11941271
>t. Mad Hatter.

>>11941264
Ah yes the Hook game, the game whose longplay videos get nuked from orbit with copyright flags

>>11941006 (OP)
On PC you had a ton of licensed games that were actually fun, or at least interesting.

If you're expecting platformers or beat em ups, you'll be disappointed though. Most of them were adventure games, text games, or single-screen arcadey games.

>>11942634
Capcom aladdin sucked, because it didn't have the sword.

>>11943786
They revoked their license from Alone in the Dark when they realized that it was too far removed from the Call of the Cthulhu RPG.

>>11943510
which ones say that

>>11944318
my mom deleted the DOS port of Virgin Aladdin because there wasn't Mortal Kombat to delete

Joe Lieberman is playing Night Trap in Hell!!

>>11944454
Retronauts

>>11941013
I know there's probably some licensing issue or whatever but why the FUCK are there no remasters or ports of the LOTR tie-in games?

>>11941351
>Not to mention Batman Returns SNES being the best Batman Returns
This would be true if the Master System and Game Gear versions didn't exist. SNES was the 3rd best version though, still good.

>>11945336
Honestly it's probably licensing and the fact that there's no *diversity* among that cast.

>>11947049
Rent-free

>>11947056
I honestly don't know what this is supposed to mean? I was just making an observation...

>>11945951
The SMS version with the GG visuals maybe. As it is, we got a pretty darn good action platformer that looked like shit, and a simplistic ersatz beat 'em up that looked pretty nice.

>>11947058
I believe you believe that, hence: >>11947056

>>11947062
Okay buddy.

>>11944736
they look like dweebs

>>11947071
they're g*mers, and it's more a brand than specific people. Sometimes they let an autistic british sonic fan run an episode

>>11947060
Agreed, I much prefer the platforming focus on Master System, it plays amazing.