Guess the film from its 1980s computer game tie-in!

by Dan Cooper |
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Hereā€™s a test for you: identify the popular movie, purely off the back of how its 1980s computer game version looked. Back in the 1980s, computer game developers were pretty open about getting the rights to all sorts of movies ā€“ back when it was cheap to do so ā€“ and publishing resultant games. As such, some titles that you may not ordinarily think ripe for computer game versions made it to the likes of the ZX Spectrum. Likewise, those that did werenā€™t always ā€“ due to the limitations of computer graphics at the time ā€“ instantly recognisable. Weā€™re very much children of the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 era here. Thus, hereā€™s a quiz as a tribute. Itā€™s very simple: how many movies here can you guess from the visuals of their tie-in videogame? It all plays out in a YouTube video below, so you donā€™t have to wait long for the answers. Just make sure youā€™re honest when totting up your scoreā€¦! Good luckā€¦ ā€” Thank you for visiting! If youā€™d like to support our attempts to make a non-clickbaity movie website: Become a Patron here. Sign up for our email newsletter here. Follow Film Stories on Twitter here, and on Facebook here. Buy our Film Stories and Film Stories Junior print magazines here.
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