5 of Our Favorite Horrible TV-to-Video Game Adaptations

Little Britain

The inundation of video games featuring "mini-games" is worthy of sociological inquiry. Who keeps caring to shell out 50 clams to play parlor games? The 2007 Playstation 2 version of Little Britain is just a melange of dinky, tedious games. Vicky Pollard (Matt Lucas) runs around a park and collects CDs! Daffyd (also Matt Lucas) rips off Paperboy and picks up copies of Gay Times from the streets! A Pac-Man retread featuring Marjorie Dawes (Uh, also, Matt Lucas -- I swear David Williams is in here somewhere) eating donuts! Not that Little Britain even seemed right for gameplay in the first place, but this release just proves that developers will steal concepts even when their program is allegedly marketable in its own right.

VIP

Pamela Anderson's long-lasting action series (four seasons and 88 episodes) ended up producing video games for a number of consoles, including Game Boy Advance and Playstation. This occurred when graphics didn't allow Lara Croft's boob-jiggle to harmonize with the rattle of her MP5, so horny preteens couldn't make Pam leap off cliffs to watch her rack soar and expand.

The X-Files

Rarely does a video game based on a TV show act too big for its paranormal britches, but that was just the case with the first Playstation version of The X-Files. While truly epic games like Final Fantasy VII warranted a three-disc package, The X-Files came with seven CD-ROMs. Peter Jackson, you have nothing on this shit. While this release has its defenders (some even herald it), the bottom line is you couldn't play as Mulder or Scully, let alone force them to make out mid-investigation. Some of us still have hope for a refund. And a vindicated childhood.

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