The Obligatory Movie Game Podcast

For the season 2 finale of the Obligatory Movie Game Podcast, Devon and Judd finally sit down to discuss Goldeneye 007 for the Nintendo 64. We’ve covered a lot of games on this podcast that live on in infamy, but this is one of the most revered games on the Nintendo 64, and it regularly tops lists of the greatest movie tie-in games of all time. Most fans remember playing round after round of the i...

For this episode of the Obligatory Movie Game Podcast, Devon and Bart do a deep dive on one of the most beloved movie games of all time. Thanks to its Rockstar pedigree, fans of the “Grand Theft Auto” games knew what to expect with “The Warriors,” but the care that the developers put into everything from the brawler combat to the score, was rare in a movie game. The characters, locales, and confli...

In this episode of the Obligatory Movie Game Podcast, Devon and Bart get to geek out about the Watchmen. In “Watchmen: The End is Nigh” the player, or players (since the game has local co-op) get to control Night Owl and Rorschach as they pair up and beat the ever-living-hell out of anyone they see. Bikers, top-knotted gang members, disco-loving, bell-bottomed bachelors, and sex workers are among...

In this episode of the Obligatory Movie Game Podcast, Devon and Jackson sit down to discuss another beloved horror franchise with “Evil Dead: Fistful of Boomstick” for the PS2/Xbox. The game tells its own story, and gets some points for its outlandish premise: some fresh translations of the Necronomicon are read live on a talk show, which unleashes some familiar horrors on Dearborn Michigan, and A...

In this episode of the Obligatory Movie Game Project, Devon and Camille sit down to compare the Blair Witch movies to the Blair Witch video game from 2019. Since this is a Halloween episode, they warm up by shooting the breeze about horror movies, each sharing some of their faves from various eras. From there, they examine the plot, characters and setting of the game, making connections, and ident...

In this episode of the Obligatory Movie Game Podcast, slasher fans Devon and Jackson start things off by giving their personal rankings of the Friday the 13th films, before comparing the 1989 NES game to the first 8 Friday movies. The game uses the Crystal Lake camp setting, but features zombies and evil wildlife like wolves and crows. It brings in the weird mom stuff from Part 2, but introduces a...

For the first part of the Trektember finale, Devon and Chris sit down to give their personal rankings of the various Star Trek series and films. Chris ranks the different TV series, touching on each one briefly, before Devon ranks the Star Trek films and discusses some of the best and worst elements of each. For the second part of the episode, Devon and Chris take a look at the 16 bit Next Gen adv...

In this episode of the Obligatory Movie Game Podcast, Devon and Hudson finally sit down to discuss a Star Trek game. There have been many Star Trek games over the last few decades, but for this first episode of Trektember, they’ll be discussing the game from 2013 that bridges the gap between the Star Trek films that J. J. Abrams directed. The game was panned by critics, and didn’t win over most ha...

In this episode of the Obligatory Movie Game Podcast, Devon sits down with Judd to discuss the first of two Rocky video games for the Playstation 2 (it also released for Xbox and Gamecube). The movie mode covers the first five Rocky films, putting the Italian Stallion up against famous opponents like Apollo Creed and Clubber Lang, as well as lesser known fighters that are merely mentioned in the f...

Riding the coattails of the Transformers: Rise of the Beasts hype, Devon and Hudson sit down to talk about the first Bayformers movie game from 2007. The game is pretty bare bones for releasing at the end of the PS2’s life cycle, but it’s still satisfying to kick the crap out of endless waves of enemy drones before transforming into a vehicle and burning rubber in search of the next scrap. Natural...

For this episode of the Obligatory Movie Game Podcast, Devon and Jesse sit down to discuss one of the most beloved movie games of all time. After EA’s Two Towers video game established a winning formula the year before, The Return of the King expanded on its predecessor by adding more playable characters, making the environments more interactive, and by improving the graphics and the cinematic fra...

For the final Pitch Party episode within the “Sexy Swordfights” theme, Devon, Bart and Alexis discuss entirely fabricated adaptations of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet. While there have been countless versions of the play performed on stages across the globe, and several filmmakers have taken cracks at bringing the story to the screen, very few R + J video games exist. Devon and Bart present alte...

For this episode of the Obligatory Movie Game Podcast, Sam and Bart join Devon to chat about The Pagemaster for SEGA Genesis. The different horror, fantasy and adventure settings lend themselves well to a video game, and there are no shortage of baddies from the film that are rendered in vibrant 16 bit graphics. However, many of the best characters from the film have been all but erased, and the g...

For the second episode in the Pitch Party trilogy of episodes on movies that contain [sort of] sexy sword fights, Alexis and Devon must pitch their own made-up games based on Kill Bill, to Bart. With tons of action, a bad-ass lead dead-set on exacting her bloody revenge, and a whole gang of cool villains in her way, a Kill Bill video game feels like a no brainer, but alas, no tie-in was made. Devo...

For the final Obligatory Movie Game Podcast episode of May, Devon and Dalton dive into Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, the jaw-droppingly expansive Star Wars RPG from 2003. Unlike most games covered on this show, KOTOR was almost universally loved upon release, and it set the standard from Star Wars games moving forward. Many blogs, youtubers, and video game news outlets still feel like it...

Star Wars month continues as Devon, Hudson and Mark discuss one of their favourite Star Wars games ever made. They begin the episode by sharing their personal rankings of the Star Wars movies, before getting into the discussion on the game. This is the first time the Obligatory Movie Game Podcast has covered a game from the Playstation 4/ Xbox 1 generation, and the lucky game to become the newest...

May the 4th be with you! It’s May, and the Obligatory Movie Game Podcast is ready to pick off some womp rats, starting with the 1991 New Hope adaptation for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Even though the difficulty level is harsh (even for the NES), and some of the iconic villains are traded for thrilling adversaries such as the tractor beam generator, the game takes the player through the eve...

In this episode of the Obligatory Movie Game Podcast, Devon and Hudson sit down to look at another superhero tie-in from the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era. Fantastic Four shares some gameplay elements with other co-op beat em ups like Shrek 2 and X-Men Legends, but it takes some bizarre liberties with its plot. Instead of locking themselves away to conduct tests and to try and find a way to reverse the ef...

For this Obligatory Movie Game Episode Devon and Darryl cover one of the most infamous, and also most-requested-for-this-show movie games of all time. E.T. for the Atari 2600 has garnered a baffling (if a little overblown) reputation as the game that caused the video game crash of 1983, almost destroying the video game industry altogether. A lot of ink has been spilled on the game’s outrageous for...

For this Pitch Party episode, Alexis and Bart pitch their own original concepts for video game adaptations of The Princess Bride. The Pitch Party episodes are an offshoot of The Obligatory Movie Game Podcast in which three people come up with, and defend, their own concepts for video games based on films that they love. Since Devon is in the director’s chair for this round, it’s up to him to green...

For this year’s Valentine’s Day Obligatory Movie Game Podcast Episode, the love affair with Arnold Schwarzennegar movies continues as Devon and Judd sit down to discuss Total Recall for the NES. As big sci-fi fans, they chat about some of the themes that frequently pop up in Philip K. Dick’s stories, and they compare the future in Total Recall to our present, thirty-three years after the film came...

On this episode of the Obligatory Movie Game Podcast, Devon and Hudson take advantage of the hype around the recent Avatar sequel, and tackle the Avatar game for PS3 and Xbox 360 that released along with the first movie. Since the game is technically a prequel, they compare the plot of the movie to that of the game and find they’re remarkably similar. Devon and Hudson also need to compare their pl...

In this episode of the Obligatory Movie Game Podcast Devon and Jon discuss two video game adaptations of a movie instead of one. Two different studios developed Aladdin games in 1993 (plus there were about a million ports), and since Jon grew up playing the Super Nintendo version he focuses on that adaptation, while Devon focuses on the SEGA Genesis version. Both games were adored by critics and g...

For this episode of the Obligatory Movie Game Podcast, Devon and Shawn finally cover a James Bond game. There have been many James Bond video games across various consoles, but From Russia With Love has a special charm to it. The game was made in between Pierce Brosnan’s tenure as Bond and that of his successor Daniel Craig, and the developers decided to use the limbo period to show some love to t...

Happy holidays everyone! In this episode of the Obligatory Movie Game Podcast, Devon and Judd take a look at the Die Hard Trilogy for the original Playstation and SEGA Saturn. The package came with three totally different games based on the first three Die Hard films. The three games were on a single disc and each one had its own style of gameplay (third person shooter, first person on-rails shoot...