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As someone who was forced to watch Dirty Dancing over and over by an ex as a particularly cruel brand of torture, I’m really hoping this isn’t true. According to G4 (my source for everything video game related), Codemasters and Lionsgate are working together to put out a Dirty Dancing video game?! Just the thought of it makes me want to put my laptop in the corner. Of course, I’m curious what 80’s movies you’d be even more surprised to see as video games. My money would’ve been on Beaches never making it, but now I’m not so sure.
What would be the goal of Purple Rain, Goonies, Breakfast Club, or Lucas?
posted by Max on 5-30-2007 at 9:43 am
I’d love to play a game based on Heathers.
posted by Platypus on 5-30-2007 at 10:41 am
In “Beaches! The Game” you have to fly higher than the eagles, else be pecked to death by their beaks. Of death.
posted by jill on 5-30-2007 at 11:07 am
They should make a game out of Weekend at Bernies, in which the object is to keep Bernie Lomax fresh, and counts how many people you fool into believing he is alive through various situations and methods (which would allow you to earn points to redeem with the “girl next door”).
posted by Celeste on 5-30-2007 at 12:15 pm
Teen Wolf would be a cool game.
posted by Bill T. on 5-30-2007 at 3:27 pm
This is easy, Blue Velvet.
In a related note, I got my (now ex) fiancée to watch David Lynch’s Lost Highway, and as the credits rolled, she started hitting me, yelling, “What the hell just happened!”
posted by Daylightrambler on 5-30-2007 at 5:48 pm
Nintendo (NES) released a Goonies game. Lots of fun, but not as cool as a Big Lebowski game would be….
posted by Aaron on 5-31-2007 at 5:56 am
Does anyone remember a David Bowie movie called “Labyrinth”? Seems custom-made for a game show. (Please, let the prize at the end be something better than your baby sister!)
posted by Frankie on 6-22-2007 at 1:46 pm