Are there any video games based on books?

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As in, solely on books, not books that were first turned into movies.

― ss sleepingbag (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

Naked Lunch RPG

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

oh wait there's a movie of that

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

Story of the Eye Fighter

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

Comic-books don't count for this, I assume?

I'm pretty sure there was a game based on Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream". There are probably a lot of sci-fi novels adapted into games, actually - I think I just read that there's a game loosely based on P.K. Dick's Ubik. And there was Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy game way back when.

― The Yellow Kid (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm assuming p&p RPG rulebooks don't count either, so out goes Shadowrun and Vampire.
Wasn't there a PC game based on Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series?

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

I have No Mouth and I Must Scream

Dune

Ringworld

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

the Dragonlance games

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't the Dune movie come out before the game did? Or was there an earlier game of Dune?

― The Yellow Kid (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

call of cthulhu!

― latebloomer scrabbly dabbly doo (skawreeng) (latebloomer), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

Betrayal at Krondor

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

Isnt there a Discworld game around somewhere? Old one I think.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

The Hobbit, all sorts of Discworld games, To the Lighthouse.

I lied about one of those.

― No Suntan, No Credibility (noodle vague), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

There's been a couple of Dragonriders of Pern games.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

There is an animated movie of the Hobbit.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

The Bible

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

wasn't XIII a (french) graphic novel before it was a videogame? does that count?

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

not if it's french, no.

― it's teh_kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't there an Alice in Wonderland FPS

― Merrini (Mezza), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

Numerous other games apart from that Canada Magee shitfest, but all of them preceded by numerous film versions of AiW.

― No Suntan, No Credibility (noodle vague), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.math.tu-clausthal.de/~matsa/C64/snap_neuromancer_1.gif

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Max Payne was based on the Sin City graphic novels.

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Manic Miner was based on Germinal.

― No Suntan, No Credibility (noodle vague), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Max Payne was based on the Sin City graphic novels.

uhm, no, tho both share the same source material.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

It is twilight. You see a teenaged girl sitting on the beach, playfully showing off her legs to you.
> jerk off behind wall
And then a rocket sprang and bang shot blind blank and O! then the Roman candle burst and it was like a sigh of O! and everyone cried O! O! in raptures and it gushed out of it a stream of rain gold hair threads and they shed and ah! they were all greeny dewy stars falling with golden, O so lovely! O so soft, sweet, soft!
> meditate on mystical properties of scent and sex

Ulysses, brought to you by Rockstar Games!

Rated M for Mature.

― c('°c) (Leee), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Tsk, like Rockstar would do a text adventure.

― No Suntan, No Credibility (noodle vague), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

There'd be some button-bashing involved for the jerking off, then a cut scene where Gerty says "OH LEO YOU THE MAN", then you'd nick a pushbike, ride off and run over a Priest.

― No Suntan, No Credibility (noodle vague), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

There was an earlier version of Dune that had characters in it that looked exactly like the folks in the Lynch movie. Dune 2 was the sequel to it and is the RTS classic everyone loves.

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

I seem to remember a "Rendezvous With Rama" for the Commodore 64.

Not kidding.

― John Justen,a ninja slapboxing fajitas out of J. Casablancas dental dam. (johnju, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

i need to read Rendezvous With Rama

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

A text adventure style computer game based on the book was made in 1984 by Telarium and exported to systems such as the Apple II and Commodore 64. Despite its primitive graphics, it had highly detailed descriptions, and it followed the book very closely along with having puzzles to solve during the game. It was adapted from the Clarke novel in 1983 by Ron Martinez, who went on to design the massively multiplayer online game 10Six, also known as Project Visitor.

Sierra Entertainment created RAMA in 1996 as a point and click adventure game in the style of Myst. Along with highly detailed graphics, Arthur C. Clarke also appeared in the game as the guide for the player. This game also featured characters from the sequel book Rama II.

(From Wikipedia.)

― Everything Is Ill-Educated (noodle vague), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

The Infocom game "The Mist" or whatnot was based on the stephen king short story.

similarly, that story provided the genesis for Silent Hill(reportedly) and Half-Life(definitely)

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (which was entirely unplayable to anyone who had never read the book).

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

rendezvous with rama is so great! did you know that MORGAN FREEMAN is obsessed with turning it into a movie? it's like his favourite book!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

wtf hahaha

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

That is way cool.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

i remember the rama series being amazing, but i read it a looong time ago.

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Also, "Robots of Dawn" by Asimov also for the C64, now that I think of it.

― John Justen,a ninja slapboxing fajitas out of J. Casablancas dental dam. (johnju, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

There was even a Asimov's Robots game translated into a VCR boardgame at one point

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

People that type 'uhm no,' on internet boards are really cool! And not pedantic cunts in the least.

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

and people that sass back to mods and offer up ad hominem attacks get yellowcarded.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 21 September 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! How about the old "I, Robot" arcade game?

― The Yellow Kid (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 21 September 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

Or is that really just an example of a video game just ripping off a book's title?

― The Yellow Kid (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 21 September 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six et al

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

good catch

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Weird Dreams for ST/Amiga came packaged with a novella in the box. Unsure whether the game was based on the short story, or if the story was written after the game as an extention of the plot, but it was a pretty neat idea.

― i am faek_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

(are you collecting yellow cards, Darra?)

― i am faek_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

okay, fixed it. that should be a proper yellowcarding.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently so. Ah well :)

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Beyond Good & Evil probably doesn't count, huh?

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

I totally forgot about HGTTG and the Tom Clancy stuff.

Will Wright has often said SimCity was inspired by his reading "Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander. Thats me cheating a bit now.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f205/Darramouss/NoahsArk.jpg

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Friday, 22 September 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Noah my ass. I know fucking Santa Claus when I see him.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Santa, Noah, both fictional characters so where's the harm?

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

SANTA CLAUS IS FICTIONAL!?!?!?!?!?

;_;

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

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― a.b. (alanbanana), Saturday, 23 September 2006 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

Parasite Eve was also based on a book.

― a.b. (alanbanana), Saturday, 23 September 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

actually it was based on a parasite.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 23 September 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

Was she called Eve?

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Saturday, 23 September 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Is there an English translation of that Tom Sawyer game? Want.

― Dedicated to Jaggers Who Do Drive-Bys (noodle vague), Saturday, 23 September 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

i want the controversial huckleberry finn game

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 23 September 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck I've only just noticed the black kid.

― Dedicated to Jaggers Who Do Drive-Bys (noodle vague), Saturday, 23 September 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Japanpaws.

― Dedicated to Jaggers Who Do Drive-Bys (noodle vague), Saturday, 23 September 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Is there a lynching mini-game?

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Saturday, 23 September 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

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