Video game makers draw on a variety of creative licenses to build their code on. Most of the resulting creations, of course, suck.

So let’s add to the pile–your choices for a TV show that would not work in the least as a video game.

Dave: I’m a fan of the show, but Mad Men would make a pretty lousy game.

I guess you would have a stealth level as Don Draper attempting to have as many affairs as possible without his wife catching him, you could foster an active user-generated content community with obtuse marketing plans for cigarettes, have a secretary verbal abuse minigame and, inspired by this season’s tomfoolery, pump up the riding-lawnmower related gore.

Mainly there would just be a lot of smoking.

Adam: Okay, I’ve got one. A sitcom from the nineties that nobody would ever want to adapt into a videogame. It was barely palatable at the time in television format, and adapting it to a videogame would be lunacy. I mean, what would the plot be? You’d use tools, like a nail gun, a blow torch and a chainsaw to fight.. what? Dinosaurs? Acid-spewing mummies? Robots? That’s crazy talk.

I’ve got two words for you, folks: Home Im–

… Oh. Umm. Hmm. Okay, apparently that’s a real game. Boy, is my face red. Yikes.

By Dave Johnson

Tags: Symposium Ad Nauseum, tv shows

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