Oct 27 2016SaveAdapt And Die10/27/16Adapt And Die10/27/16The Thing’s video game sequel got everything right except the ThingAnthony John Agnello141SaveThe Thing is nauseating. Seeing it for the first time in a sticky-floored screening room a couple of years back, I…
Jun 28 2016SaveAdapt And Die6/28/16Adapt And Die6/28/16Scud: The Disposable Assassin lost its spare style in the move to video gamesAnthony John Agnello41SaveRob Schrab’s Scud: The Disposable Assassin is a comic book so thoroughly of its time that it feels like the physical…
May 27 2015SaveAdapt And Die5/27/15Adapt And Die5/27/15Charlie’s Angels was always in on the joke—until it became a video gameAlex McLevy231SaveWhen the first of two Charlie’s Angels movies produced by Drew Barrymore arrived in theaters in late 2000, you could…
Nov 4 2014SaveAdapt And Die11/4/14Adapt And Die11/4/14The Last Action Hero game accidentally proves the movie’s muddled messageNoel Murray106Save“Magic ticket my ass, McBain.”
Aug 7 2014SaveAdapt And Die8/7/14Adapt And Die8/7/14A Japanese studio turned Major League into an extraordinarily dull video gameAnthony John AgnelloSaveA Major League video game on NES should greet players with a character select screen. Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen,…
Mar 18 2014SaveAdapt And Die3/18/14Adapt And Die3/18/14The Bachelor video game simulates the most miserable parts of datingSteve HeislerSave“Love is a battlefield.” —a very confused military tactician
Jan 29 2014SaveAdapt And Die1/29/14Adapt And Die1/29/14Jeopardy! without fussy rules and stodgy judges is not truly Jeopardy!Sam Barsanti248SaveWhen Thomas Hurley blew a Final Jeopardy! clue on a Kids Week episode of the long-running quiz show, some people…
Jan 16 2014SaveAdapt And Die1/16/14Adapt And Die1/16/14How a Ghostbusters video game stifled the improvisational verve of the filmAnthony John Agnello200SaveEarly in its development, Ghostbusters was about Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi traveling through time and multiple…