Theme: Videogame Adaptations

Videogame Adaptions refers to films adapted from videogames. For films that feature people trapped inside videogames or game characters come to life see Films About Videogames.

Videogaming encompasses a variety of platforms from home computer and X-Box to arcade games to ones made for mobile applications and virtual reality. These cover a variety of genres from shoot-‘em-up, martial and military action to survival horror games eliminating monsters, aliens and various creatures. Other games involve puzzles and adventures – tomb raiding adventures or are space operas and adventures in a fantasy realm.

There have been a reasonable number of films adaptations of videogames since the very first Super Mario Bros. (1993). Videogame adaptations do not have a very good reputation and are mostly regarded as disappointments by fans, although there are a number of examples where one would argue otherwise.

Part of the reason for this is that films and videogames have very different narrative formats – films require fixed stories and identification characters whereas in games the player is the hero and the story is a more open-ended one as they explores a realm and direct the action.