10 Terrible Video Games Based On Movies

5. Friday the 13th (NES)

Here's a movie adaptation that should have been awesome; how cool would it have been to play as one of cinema's most iconic psychopaths, hunting down oversexed teens with extreme prejudice, wielding a giant machete? All of that promise is squandered here, though, because firstly, you don't even play Jason; you play about half a dozen of those aforementioned teens, and are forced to switch between them when an alarm goes off, informing you Jason is about to turn one of them into a shish kebab. What really boggles the mind, though, is that you spend the majority of the game looking for Jason, when, you know, you should be getting in the nearest vehicle and hauling ass out of there. I guess, in that sense, it's true to the movies, in that the characters are just as freaking dumb. Everything about this game is wrong; it is not satisfying to wander onto the screen just as one of your team-mates has been slaughtered by Jason. Given how the films somewhat make us root for the killer, we want to play as him, not some goofy jackass who probably had it coming anyway.