Hey, let’s talk about licensed games. Ever since video games
have existed, there have been video game tie-ins for popular movies, TV shows
and books to try to capitalize on the success of both gaming and the franchise.
Often times, these games range from mediocre to complete garbage. Developers
don’t seem to put the normal amount of effort they’d put into their regular,
non-licensed games. It could be because the company that owns the franchise
doesn’t want to actually pay a decent amount of money for a development team or
they rush it to meet a deadline or something but regardless, licensed games are
notorious for being bad.
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| Seriously, this game is terrible. Look at it! |
However, they’re not always terrible. In some rare cases,
licensed games actually fall into capable hands and have a lot of more effort
put into them. This was quite a bit more common in the 8-bit and 16-bit days.
Developers just seemed to care more back then. One company in particular who
seemed to care about whether their games were good was of course Disney. Games
based on Disney properties have been around since the days of Atari and for a
while, many of them were some of the best for their respective consoles. Sure,
in recent years they’ve sort of gone down the tubes making games like Monsters,
Inc.: Scream Arena and Hannah Montana: The Movie: The Video Game but at one
point, Disney had a pretty good track record with video games and even worked
with some of the finest developers in the business. So, I’m counting down the
ten I happen to like the best.
Also, before we start, for the sake of fairness, I’m not
including any Kingdom Hearts games on the list. Kingdom Hearts is one of my
favorite video game franchises of all time and likely every major entry of the
franchise would find a place on this list but I’m not going to be doing that
just so we can give some love to other games that deserve it.
