Games you wanted to/felt the need to play after seeing/reading a movie/tv show/book/comic/manga with a similar premise, action, or idea(s)?

[BrawlMan]

Rules: Not counting game adaptions of official IPs nor fan made adaptions. For example, after re-watching Havoc (2025) and the first John Wick. These scenes specifically, they put me in the mood for some Hotline Miami and Hong Kong Massacre. I will make an exception for those who decided to pick up any of the Batman Arkham titles, after seeing The Batman (2022). I know many a people online who still does this.

Spoiler: Havoc and John Wick Club Scenes

A similar case for when Sifu came out. I would re-watch Raid 1 & 2 to hype myself up before it released.

Spoiler: Raid Hallway Scenes

 

[jon2]

Tom Clancy's Hunt for Red October (1984) and SSN (1996) inspired me to play this:

688 Attack Sub (USA, Europe) Sega Genesis – The Repo

688 Attack Sub (USA, Europe) Sega Genesis. A Simulation game released on 1991 by MicroProse

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Jerry Pournelle's Janissaries (1979) inspired me to play this:

Age of Empires (video game) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Shuichi Shigeno's Initial D (1995) inspired me to play this:

Need for Speed Carbon (USA) - The Repo

Need for Speed Carbon (USA) Game ID: GW5E69. Languages: English. For the Gamecube

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Kaiichi Kawaguchi's Zipang (2000) inspired me to play these:

Naval Ops: Warship Gunner (USA) PS2 ISO – The Repo

Naval Ops: Warship Gunner (USA) PS2 ISO Game ID: SLUS-20663. Languages: English. For Sony PlayStation 2.

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Warship Gunner 2 (USA) PS2 ISO – The Repo

Warship Gunner 2 (USA) PS2 ISO Game ID: SLUS-21387. Languages: English. For Sony PlayStation 2.

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Actas's Girls und Panzer (2012) inspired me to play these:

Metal Max 3 (J+English Patched) DS ROM – The Repo

Metal Max 3 (J+English Patched) DS ROM Languages: English Patched, Japanese. For the NDS.

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Metal Max 2 Reloaded (J+English Patched) DS ROM – The Repo

Metal Max 2 Reloaded (J+English Patched) DS ROM Languages: English Patched, Japanese. For the NDS.

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Panzer Front (USA) PSX ISO – The Repo

Panzer Front (USA) PSX ISO Game ID: SLUS-01399. Languages: English. For Sony PlayStation.

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Panzer Front Ausf.B (Europe) PS2 ISO – The Repo

Panzer Front Ausf.B (Europe) PS2 ISO Game ID: SLES-52984. Languages: English. For Sony PlayStation 2.

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Tank Beat - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Yasuhisa Hara's Kingdom (2006)
inspired me to play this:

Mount & Blade: Warband - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Taku Kuwabara's Drifting Dragons (2016)

Drifting Dragons - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

inspired me to pick this up after so many years of not playing:

Monster Hunter 2 (English Patched) PS2 ISO – The Repo

Monster Hunter 2 (English Patched) PS2 ISO Game ID: SLPM-66280. Languages: English Patched, Japanese. For Sony PlayStation 2.

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and play this and other subsequent MH works

These are all that I can remember for now...

 

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Nothing yet

 

[BrawlMan]

Shuichi Shigeno's Initial D (1995) inspired me to play this:

Need for Speed Carbon (USA) - The Repo

Need for Speed Carbon (USA) Game ID: GW5E69. Languages: English. For the Gamecube

retrogametalk.com

We were already planning on getting the game when it was announced back in 2008, but I won't lie: Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift was somewhat an inspiration for me really learning to get a hand on the drift mechanics.

Nothing yet

Something will come in later for you.

 

[Heidegger of Shinra]

Reading this...

Made me want to play this...