What is it about movies and video games that make them so incompatible? No matter what anyone says, there hasn’t been a single movie made from a video game that has won any awards and I there are countless numbers of movies that have destroyed the story of the games that they came from (Max Payne, Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat, Super Mario Bros., ect…). It’s the same both ways, although the movie adapted into a game phenomenon is really more about money than making good games, but there are some exceptions to that out there (although for the life of me I can’t think of a single one… Hmm), but the exact attribute that causes these two mediums to act like oil and water is beyond me.
That doesn’t stop us from holding onto that small glimmer of hope that our favorite games will be adapted into a movie so epic it will go down in history (Halo anyone?). Well, the guys over at the Game Station have delivered a version of Super Mario Bros. that I only wish could be a movie or game. Perhaps the guys at Nintendo should take a page from the Game Station’s book.