List of television programs based on video games
This is a list of television programs based on video games:
Animated programs
See also: List of anime based on video games
- Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
- The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3
- Air
- Angry Birds Toons
- Arc the Lad
- Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden
- Bomberman Jetters
- Canvas 2
- Captain N: The Game Master
- Castlevania
- Chaos;Head
- Clannad
- Comic Party/Comic Party Revolution
- Dai no Daibouken (based on Dragon Quest)
- Darkstalkers
- D.C. ~Da Capo~
- Destroy All Humans! (in production)
- Devil May Cry
- Digimon
- Donkey Kong Country
- Double Dragon
- Dragon’s Lair
- Dragon Quest
- Earthworm Jim
- Ef: A Tale of Memories.
- Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf
- Fate/stay night
- Final Fantasy: Unlimited
- Fire Emblem
- F-Zero: GP Legend
- Gakuen Heaven
- Galaxy Angel
- Gamer Tonight
- Gungrave
- Harukanaru Toki no Naka de Hachiyō Shō
- Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni
- Inazuma Eleven
- Instinto del asesino Spanish Cartoon Based on Killer Instinct
- Kanon
- Kimi ga Nozomu Eien
- Kiniro no Corda
- Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
- Klonoa
- Koisuru Tenshi Angelique
- The Legend of Zelda
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series (based on Triangle Hearts 3 Lyrical Toybox)
- Medabots
- Mega Man
- Mega Man NT Warrior
- Mega Man Star Force
- Mizuiro 2003
- Monster Rancher
- Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm
- Mutant League
- Parappa the Rapper
- Pac-Man
- Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
- "Persona 4: The Animation & Persona 4: The Golden Animation"
- Piggy Tales
- Pokémon
- Pole Position
- Power Stone
- Q*bert
- Rayman: The Animated Series
- Rabbids Invasion
- Sakura Wars
- Saturday Supercade
- School Days
- Sentimental Journey (based on Sentimental Graffiti)
- Shuffle!
- Sister Princess
- Sister Princess ~ RePure
- Sonic Boom (TV series)
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Sonic Underground
- Sonic X
- Star Ocean EX (based on Star Ocean: The Second Story)
- Street Fighter
- Street Fighter II V
- Suki na Mono wa Suki Dakara Shouganai
- The Super Mario Bros. Super Show
- Super Mario World
- Taiko no Tatsujin
- Tak and the Power of Juju - Game and series were developed together from the beginning.
- Tales of Eternia: The Animation
- Tales of Phantasia: The Animation
- Tales of Symphonia: The Animation
- Tales of the Abyss: The Animation
- ToHeart
- ToHeart Remember my Memories
- To Heart 2
- Tokimeki Memorial ~Only Love~
- The Tower of Druaga: the Aegis of Uruk
- Tsukihime, Lunar Legend
- Utawarerumono
- Viewtiful Joe
- Virtua Fighter
- Viva Piñata
- Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
- Wild Arms
- Wind -a breath of heart-
- Wing Commander Academy
- Xenosaga: The Animation
- Yo-Kai Watch
- Ys
- Yumeria
- Z.O.E. Dolores,i (Zone of the Enders)
There have also been several one-off video game-based cartoons, including specials such as Bubsy, Battletoads and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon.
Live action programs
- Defiance
- Dragon Age: Redemption
- Fallout: Nuka Break
- Maniac Mansion
- Mortal Kombat: Konquest
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy
- Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn
- Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist
- The Super Mario Bros. Super Show
- Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
- Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?
- You Don’t Know Jack
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 animated to resemble and parody the tropes of 1980s 8 and 16 bit video games.
- GamesMaster (1992-1998)
- Deadly Games (1995) - plot centred on video game villains that have escaped into reality.
- Harsh Realm (1999) - Hobbes who 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.
- .hack (2002–present)
- GameCenter CX
- Ace Lightning (2002) - Children's television series centred on a teenage boy's life after his video game characters come to life.
- 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
- The Power Team (1990–1992) Featured various Acclaim video game characters.
- ReBoot (1994) - The characters commonly assume the roles of enemy NPCs in "Game Cubes".
- Video Power
- The Guild
- Welcome to the N.H.K. (2006)
- Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai (2010)
- Tron: Uprising (2012)
- Virtual Insanity Advance (2012) - Sketch-comedy series centered on 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.
- Video Game High School
- Video & Arcade Top 10
- Sword Art Online (2012) - A series where players get trapped in a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Game) named Sword Art Online.
- Accel World (2012) - A series about a boy who plays VR video games to escape bullies in school and discovers a secret program that is able to accelerate the human cognitive process to the point at which time appears to stop.
- Log Horizon (2013) - The series follows the strategist, Shiroe, and the other players of the long-lived MMORPG Elder Tales after they find themselves whisked away into the game world following a game update.
- Overlord (2015)- Japanese anime series about a VRMMO that is in the process of getting shut down but becomes real.
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.
- Community
- The Greendale 7 must help Pierce attain his father's fortune by playing an 8-bit video game.
- The Fairly Oddparents
- Season 1 Episode 1b: "Power Mad!" (2001) - Timmy utilizes a virtual reality helmet to play a video game 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.
- Forever Knight
- Season 3 Episode 15: "Games Vampires Play" (1996) - Nick investigates the death of a software designer whose 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!
- 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 video game.
- Season 6 Episode 26: "Reincarnation" (2011) - The segment Future Challenge 3000 is animated to resemble a video game.
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- 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.
- Red Dwarf
- Season 2 Episode 2: "Better Than Life" (1988) - The crew play a total immersion video game that grants the user's deepest wishes. Rimmer's self-loathing leads to manifestations of his subconscious fears.
- Season 5 Episode 6 "Back to Reality" (1992) - Exposure to a hallucinogenic toxin leads the crew to believe that the past four years of their lives were spent playing a total immersion video game. Seemingly back on Earth, they struggle to adapt to their "true" selves.
- Season 6 Episode 3: "Gunmen of the Apocalypse" (1993) - The crew use a western-themed virtual reality game to enter Kryten's computer virus-induced dream.
- Regular Show
- Season 1 Episode 5: "Death Punchies" (2010) - While playing a new Dig Dug-like two-player video game with Mordecai, Rigby expresses his resentment at always having to be "Player Two" due to his poor video game-playing skills.
- Season 2 Episode 7: "High Score" (2011) - After beating the world record high score at an Excitebike-like arcade game, Mordecai and Rigby find themselves competing for the 'universe record'.
- Season 2 Episode 8: "Rage Against the TV" (2011) - Mordecai's and Rigby's TV stops working just as they reach the final stage of the Double Dragon-like video game they have been playing for 20 hours straight, and locating another one (so that they can beat "The Hammer") proves difficult.
- Season 3 Episode 19: "Video Game Wizards" (2012) - Mordecai, Rigby and Skips take part in a video game tournament in order to win a specialty game controller (based on the Power Glove peripheral for the Nintendo Entertainment System).
- Seinfeld
- "Season 9 Episode 18: The Frogger" (1998) - At Mario's Pizza Parlor, George Costanza discovers he still has the high score on the old Frogger video game he played in high school, with a score of 860,630 points. He decides to buy the Frogger machine to preserve his fame, but Jerry asks him how he is going to move it and keep it plugged in to preserve the high score.
- 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.
- Season 11 Episode 13: "Guitar Queer-O" (2007) - This episode is centered on Guitar Hero.
- Season 17 Episode 2: "Informative Murder Porn" (2013) - This episode is centered on the parents learning to play Minecraft in order to get their murder porn back.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Season 5 Episode 6: "The Game" (1991) - Ktarians attempt mind control on the crew of the Enterprise with an addictive holographic video game.
- 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.
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