List of television programs based on video games

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This article provides a list of television programs based on video games:

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[edit] Animated programs

There have also been several one-off video game-based cartoons, including specials such as Bubsy, Battletoads and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon.

[edit] Live action programs

[edit] Series about video games

  • Captain N: The Game Master - Revolves around a kid who travels across various NES videogames.
  • Code Monkeys - About the lives of video game programmers and the animation was made a pixels
  • Deadly Games (1995) - plot centered around video game villains that have escaped into reality.
  • Harsh Realm (1999) - Hobbes whom is a soldier about to retire, is put into a virtual reality where the only way to get out alive and get back to his wife and the love of his life, is to kill a guy called Santiago. Santiago is another soldier who is in the game and has taken it over.
  • Game Over (2004) - TV series about the lives of video game characters after the game was over. Aired on UPN originally.
  • King Koopa’s Kool Kartoons - not actually based on a game, just a framing device for cartoons and toy giveaways.
  • Nick Arcade
  • ReBoot (1994) - The characters commonly assume the roles of enemy NPCs in “Game Cubes”.
  • Video Power
  • The Guild
  • Code Monkeys (2012) - Twenty years after the previous series, focuses the adventures of two video-game lovin teenagers who became protectors of a virtual-reality video-game and features a twist animation that parodies anime (based on laserdisc arcade games) and pixel art.
  • Virtual Insanity Advance (2012) - Sketch-comedy series centered around video games where people simulate popular and ancient corresponding video-games while interacting with real people and features short animated segments of cartoons based on popular video games.

[edit] Non-game series episodes with plots centered on video games

  • CSI: Miami
    • Season 3 Episode 20: “Game Over” (2005) - A skateboarder and video-game tester is found murdered in a car accident. Tony Hawk is in this episode.
    • Season 4 Episode 9: “Urban Hellraisers” (2007) - Murders are being committed in a style similar to a Grand Theft Auto-like game.
  • CSI: NY
    • Season 4 Episode 5: “Down The Rabbit Hole” (2007) - Centers around a murder via Second Life.
  • The Fairly Oddparents
    • Season 1 Episode 1b: “Power Mad!” (2001) - Timmy utilizes a virtual reality helmet to play a videogame he wished for as “challenging, a game that you can’t wish yourself out of”. A.J. and Chester use the helmets to play the game as well, not realizing they are in mortal danger.
  • Futurama
    • Season 4 Episode 3: “Anthology of Interest II” ((2001) - In the segment Raiders of the Lost Arcade Fry sees a simulation of life as it would be if it were more like a videogame.
  • Law & Order: Criminal Intent
    • Season 3 Episode 10: “F.P.S.” (2004) - A gamer, who appears to be connected to a network of thieves using spyware to commit fraud, is murdered.
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
    • Season 6 Episode 14: “Game” (2005) - Teenagers run down a prostitute. They seem to be acting out a violent video game.
    • Season 9 Episode 2: “Avatar” (2007) - Centers around an online game similar to Second Life.
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation
    • Season 5 Episode 6: “The Game” (1991) - Ktarians attempt to mind-control the crew of the Enterprise with an addictive holographic videogame.
  • South Park
    • Season 10 Episode 8: "Make Love, Not Warcraft" (2006) - A griefer named Jenkins repeatedly kills the South Park boys' characters in the online game, "World of Warcraft"
  • Stargate SG-1
    • Season 8 Episode 6: ”Avatar” (2004) - Teal’c becomes trapped a virtual-reality training simulator.
  • The X-Files
    • Season 7 Episode 13: “First Person Shooter” (2000) - The Lone Gunmen summon Mulder and Scully to a virtual reality firm when the new game they have helped design is thwarted by a bizarre female computer character whose power is much more than virtual.
  • Forever Knight
    • Season 3 Episode 15: "Games Vampires Play" (1996) - Nick investigates the death of a software designer who's murderer actually puts clues into the "vampire" game the designer created. Nick plays the game (which is erasing itself while being played) and finds his vampire tendencies being strengthened by the actions of the vampire character. He also finds the clues that lead to the murderer... in a church!

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