I’ve spoken about terrible movie adaptations of games on here so far, but few things in this world can be quite as terrible as a video game tie-in for a movie. Make no mistake, that’s exactly what Mad Max (the game) is, no matter what some people may say to try and convince you otherwise. It doesn’t just borrow from the established canon of Fury Road, but can be considered a direct prequel to the events of that movie. Aside from the inclusion of the War Boyz, it also has Scabrous Scrotus as the main protagonist, Scabrous being one of the three sons of Immortan Joe. It pulled from some of the greatest source material any game could ask for, and still managed to screw it up spectacularly.

The Super Mario Bros. movie was described as a nightmare by many of the cast and crew members; Bob Hoskins himself was the victim of many on-set accidents and injuries, a couple that nearly killed him. Its critical reception was nothing short of appalling and was almost universally panned. In his 2007 autobiography, John Leguizamo said that to get through the shooting of this movie, both he and Hoskins were drinking between takes. For me, personally, it was one of the strangest and most confusing films I would ever watch as a child and is probably the first time I ever tasted true disappointment in something video game related.