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Some television shows are ripe for interactive adaptations. Like Grey's Anatomy, or The Young Ones.
Part ad, part game. Advergames are designed to promote a specific brand or product, usually outside the game industry.
Some games have inspired the creation of literature.
Cartoon characters are personas from cartoons, which are animated moving sequences that are usually drawn but can be computer animated and can come from television, movies, anime or even the web. They can be humans, animals, or even things usually not thought of as living.
Games that are little more than extensive cinematic sequences in which the player has little interaction with what is happening onscreen. This notion of a cinematic game is epitomized by laserdisc arcade classics such as Astron Belt, Dragon's Lair and Bega's Battle.
In a franchise, it entails the second game that takes on a gritty and dark tone to distinguish it from the first.
The idea of taking an existing franchise and starting over from scratch, overhauling the gameplay and sometimes going so far as to remove it from any connection to previous games in a series. Such is sometimes done when attempting to revitalize a franchise that is showing its age and has fallen into disfavor.
A game based on an anime.
Video games that are based on comic books, manga and graphic novels.
Games that are designed to inspire the purchase of a specifically branded food product.
Games based on literature. This does not include licenses of another adaptation.
Whenever there's a new Pixar, superhero or Harry Potter movie they have to make one of these.
Some games have a complicated history.
Long-running franchises often end up in the hands of different studios over the years, but a direct sequel by an entirely different company is somewhat rarer.
Video games based on Japanese IP's that were developed by Western studios.
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