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[deckardcanine]

Paramount Pictures will be adapting some of its popular older titles into video games. Already tipped for adaptation are the classic women-focused comedies "Clueless," "Mean Girls" and "Pretty in Pink."

Now, I have nothing against movies becoming video games long after their release in theaters, and I appreciate efforts to cater to the growing minority of female gamers. But I have, well, no clue how to make a halfway- or even 20%-decent game out of the Jane Austen modernization Clueless. The amateur driving scenes offer some playability, but giving options for the outcome really messes up the plot. I suppose there could be a more social focus, like a less perverted Leisure Suit Larry, but... eh. And much as I enjoyed the movie, I know it's not intellectual enough for an adventure game a la Myst. It doesn't help much if you look to the middling TV series, either.

I have not seen Mean Girls or Pretty in Pink, but I doubt they'd have a much easier time of it. The publication Express (source of the news) puts it nicely: "Do you get points for wearing pink?"

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[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Well, there's a reason that seemingly a high percentage of gamers, including me, say that their favorite console is one that debuted no later than the early '90s.

Still, this is hardly a bad time to be a gamer. Almost every other medium -- TV, cinema, music, fine art, comic books, comic strips -- has experienced a palpable decline lately, in some cases even on the brink of death. But electronic games have never been more widely popular. Certainly a long way from the Crash of '83 I've read about.

Besides, Nintendo still has a reputation for innovation, yet it doesn't have a monopoly on that front. If there's one good thing about the games I've derided in my initial post, it's their demonstration of a will to experiment.