List of games ported from video to tabletop
Yehuda has a wonderful post up, “A Guide to Board and Card Games Based on Video Games (1971 to 2007).”
Though I did get tired of the words “the game is a CCG” — which I attribute almost entirely to Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Pokemon.
FWIW, as a kid, I did board game ports of Pengo and Q*Bert. 🙂
Yeah, that is certainly a lot of CCGs – which has certainly come to be popular, wouldn’t you say? There’s definitely a fair number more of them than I had actually expected. It is interesting to glance over the list – a few on there that I wouldn’t have expected.
Is is a common trait among game developers? I remember making a dice based “Spy Hunter” with Hot Wheels and a game based on “Yar’s Revenge” made out of Lego bricks and the missile-launcher from a Battlestar Galactica toy.
I turned my Magic: the Gathering decks into chess. Ish.
There weren’t actually any rules, though. Then I ran out of people who knew what M:tG was.
Hey, game developers have to get their ideas from somewhere. It makes sense to use things like toys and board games to inspire video game ideas.