10 Movies You Never Knew Had Their Own Video Game
6. Napoleon Dynamite
Back when Napoleon Dynamite premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, nobody could've imagined that the $400,000 indie comedy would be acquired by a major studio and end up grossing over $45 million worldwide.
Even fewer people could've predicted that the film would be spun off into a handheld game for PSP and Nintendo DS in 2007, courtesy of movie video game factory 7 Studios.
How do you adapt such a singularly quirky movie into a video game? By basically creating a compendium of 30 mini-games and slapping the movie's aesthetic on it, of course.
That's the hook for Napoleon Dynamite: The Game, which offers up a series of rudimentary shooting, movement, and rhythm mini-games memorable only for their stylishly rough-hewn sketchbook visuals.
It's difficult to imagine fans of such a non-conformist, unique movie as Napoleon Dynamite vibing with something this pedestrian, and why did anyone think waiting more than three years to release it was a good idea?
Beyond the cultish fans, the rest of the world had long moved on.