Top 10 Video Game Firsts
05. First Video Game to become a Major Motion Picture
Considering how many video games have made the transition from video game to movie over the course of the past thirty years, you're probably good and curious as to which one was the first now that we brought this first to your attention...
Before we reveal that though, we should probably point out that the transition (perhaps interpretation is a better way to say it) of video game to movie generally speaking is about as successful as the transition of book to movie, which is to say not very successful at all in that it generally results in either a very cheesy movie, or worse, a movie whose script writer (more often a director with “vision”) has horribly militated it by injecting their own take / creative light into it. Ruined it in other words. Sigh.
Of course that is not so much true with movies that became video games... OK yes it is.The first video game to be translated into a Major Motion Picture? Super Mario Brothers. No, really. Not kidding...
Super Mario Brothers the Movie was released in 1993, and starred John Leguizamo (he played Benny Blanco in Carlito's Way but you probably remember him better as Javier in Kick-Ass 2 if you actually went to see it?) as Luigi and Bob Hoskins (probably best remembered as the protagonist Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit) as Mario to what were arguably mixed reviews...
So the first video game to make the transition to movies is also the first video game to set the trend for that transition to be umm, well, bad. And there you go! What a first / first!
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I was thrown off by the "First 3D shooter question, as it isn't necessarily accurate.
For one thing, it associates 3D to equate to FPS, which is incorrect. Considering the number of vector-based or even sprite-based flight games that started in the 80s, many of these had a step up on Wolfenstein as far as 3D engines go. I mean, Red Baron's vector graphics presented a much more real 3D "shooter" than Wolfenstein.
Secondly, if you ARE simply talking FPSes, while Wolfenstein 3D is the first widely honored game, the same engine was used for the older Catacombs 3D, featuring largely identical mechanics, minus the commercial success and recognize-ability.
Given your attention to detail in so much else on this article, this seems a rather strange area to veer away from the otherwise well-researched path.
turns out you can do good and still turn out evil. Just saying.
that descibes ea and activision