Games Based on TV Shows

If you’re buying gifts this Christmas and you like to go for the recognition purchase, y’know, “such and such likes that show/film/thing I’ll get them a distantly related book/board game/video game”. Don’t…..just don’t.

No one ever made a good game based on a TV show, ever, even if the show forms a suitable basis for a game they’ll still rush it on the cheap and make sure it sucks beyond belief. The favourite tactic is to copy an existing game badly and give it a TV show veneer. Here are some of the worst games based on TV shows.

• Murder, She Wrote
• House M.D.
• Grey’s Anatomy: The Video Game
• Cesar Millan’s Dog Whisperer
• Alvin and the Chipmunks
• American Idol
• The Apprentice
• Cold Case Files
• Dancing with the Stars
• Miami Vice
• The Shield
• Survivor: The Interactive Game
• The Office
• The Weakest Link
• The Price is Right
• MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch
• Lost: Via Domus
• Hell’s Kitchen
• Farscape: The Game
• Family Feuds
• Deal or No Deal
• 24: The Game
• Dallas Quest
• Grange Hill
• Prison Break: The Conspiracy
• The Sopranos: Road to Respect
• The Young Ones