6. Total Recall (Commodore 64/ZX Spectrum/Amstrad/Amiga/Atari)
Continuing with Acclaim, we have their take on Paul Verhoeven's 80s sci-fi classic, Total Recall, a thrilling film that surely would have made for a similarly exciting video game, if anyone involved actually had more than a dozen brain cells. The overarching problem is that Acclaim attempted to develop and market the film as a broader project aimed at children, when of course, with its three-breasted hookers, eyeball-popping and gratuitous level of violence only Verhoeven can deliver, the film is anything but this. So, fans of the film are short-changed right out of the gate, but the game isn't even half-way competent within that undemanding framework; the protagonist doesn't resemble Arnie in the slightest, and spends most of the game brawling in alleys which, really, is not what the film was about at all. Where are the chases through space-ports, and that awesome elevator fight with Richter? Nowhere to be seen, because this game was made on the cheap to appeal to as wide an audience as possible.