And yet there was a Smurf game. Give me a minute to rummage around the Atari game box...
Ah, there it is: "Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle" for the Colecovision, which is odd that I'd find it in the Atari box. Odder still is that we never had a Colecovision, but this is neither the time nor place to be contemplating this conundrum. Obviously, I have never actually played this game, what with not possessing the system and all, but I have seen video, and, well, this is right up there with E.T. for the Atari 2600, which I sadly also have (plus a working 2600 to boot). To round out my list of worst things that could be made into games... this is difficult to say... Garfield. I know, Garfield remains today the most popular comic strip on the planet, but his time has passed. I still read it on the rare occasions when Paws Inc decides to bring out a new compilation book, but it's really going through the motions at this point. The wit, the charm, the spark, they're all gone, and game-wise, nothing good has ever come of it. Come to think of it, that last sentence verbatim could easily be applied to "The Simpsons".
Okay, so I lied when I said Garfield would round out my list, because the Simpsons dovetailed so beautifully into it. Instead, this which occurred to me while typing up there will round out my list: games having anything to do with fast food franchises, possibly expanding to any sort of corporate mascot game. McKids for the NES, Sneak King for the PC, Cool Spot... okay, that wasn't too terrible, but the first two... do I really need to say anything more than the title of the first two?
Alright, I know ADEN_ADES was looking for games that would be bad if they were made into games, and I prattled off one that already were. I'm still proud of my list, even if it does show a keen lack of imagination on my part and more of a total useless trivia recall. My point is: I honestly and truly don't care.
Oh, and if memory serves me correctly (total useless trivia recall), the Smurf game did indeed feature the odd "one chick smurf" who I want to call Smurfette and I also want to say there were eventually other female Smurfs (shouldn't it be "Smurves"?) but no one ever cared about them. I realize I could research that kind of thing, but it's midnight, and that would require effort on my part, so instead, I'm just going to stop typing now.
