Besides a 1990 NES game and Outlander, there wasn’t really a Mad Max video game back in the day that was just as good as the first three movies. If anything, the second movie’s plot had potential for a super arcade game.

The New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Works Better As An 8-Bit Game

Mike Fahey

11/26/14 10:00am

The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game for the NES was brutal. The 2014 movie reboot was horrible. CineFix's 8 Bit Cinema mixes together two bads to make a not bad at all.

Frozen Would Have Been An Excellent Super Nintendo Game

Mike Fahey

10/08/14 12:18pm

If only Frozen had come out during the 16-bit heyday of Disney video games. Then we'd have fond memories of this CineFix 16-bit interpretation, instead of Frozen Free Fall on the iPhone.

Mean Girls Would Make For An Action-Packed Visual Novel

Gergo Vas

6/12/14 9:40am

When the fine folks at 8-bit Cinema remade a movie as an 8 or 16-bit game, they never really left side scroller or adventure game territory—until now. Here's Mean Girls, the now ten-year-old Lindsay Lohan movie which keeps reminding us of how old we are, as a Japanese visual novel.

A Forrest Gump Video Game Would Be A Weird Mixture of Genres

Gergo Vas

5/14/14 9:20am

I really love how the talented folks at CineFix imagined how a old school video game version of the 1994 comedy Forrest Gump would have looked like. It'd have been a bit of everything: side-scrolling action, table tennis and even monster hunting.

The 16-Bit Fifth Element Game We Never Had

Gergo Vas

4/18/14 7:30am

Too bad that Luc Besson's shiny sci-fi epic The Fifth Element came out in 1997 and slightly missed the 16-bit era. As the latest 8-bit Cinema short by Cinefix shows, it could have been a pretty cool licensed 2D action game, something similar to Flashback or Blackthorne.

What an 8-Bit Brawler With Adam Sandler Would Look Like

Gergo Vas

3/19/14 9:40am

While the sequel to River City Ransom is still in development, the folks behind the 8-bit Cinema series resurrected the classic NES beat 'em up for a crossover clip with Happy Gilmore, an Adam Sandler movie from 1996.