FromSoftware's Neverending Story, and other dream '80s games

The announcement of an Indiana Jones game in development from Nazi-whooping enthusiasts Machine Games, plus several new Star Wars games from EA and Ubisoft is pretty darn exciting. However, there's a lot more to the '80s than Harrison Ford-fronted action movies.

While we've already seen some of the biggest films of the leg warmer decade adapted into games, they're often pretty poor, and there's still a huge catalogue of '80s movies that haven't had their most sincere and heartwarming moments gutted and turned into game mechanics and progression loops.

But for the game to come close to matching the acclaim and cult appeal of its filmic counterpart, it's got to be developed by the right studio. The Thing, Ghostbusters, and Friday the 13th all made a splash, but quickly disappeared from memory. All of this got us thinking: what if we devised a list of the best '80s films to turn into games, as well as the studios we want in charge of our definitely sensible adaptations.

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