20 Weirdest Licensed Video Games EVER

The early nineties truly were a lawless wasteland when it came to licensed games, if it was remotely popular with kids and teenagers, chances are that it'd get some form of 16-bit tie-in game that was rushed out of the door to captilise on the current flavour of the month. 

By far the strangest example has to be Home Improvement: Power Tool Pursuit, a side-scrolling action-platformer based on the beloved family sitcom. Taking monumental liberties with the sitcom it's based on, this game took DIY enthusiast Tim Taylor and flung him into fantastical settings, fighting against aliens, dinosaurs, robots and a whole host of other non-DIY based enemies. Admittedly, these levels are framed as being sets for other TV shows and movies but the whole thing is presented in a way that it's all supposed to be real.

Admittedly, turning a sitcom about a man who hosts a DIY show on public access television into an engaging video game was going to be a tall order but the developer's decision to lean hard into standard video game tropes in favour of something more appropriate - a puzzle game, or a light management title perhaps? - will forever remain one of the biggest WTF decisions in gaming history.