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Adaptation Decay

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Are video game movies always bad? Is there nothing to love about old Nintendo cartoons? Are any video game comics worth reading? In this monthly premium show, Gary Butterfield and Kaye Ross look at all kinds of media derived from video games and take it apart, answering whether it's a good adaptation, and whether it's a good piece of art.

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  • 92 episodes
  • Updated January 14
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  • Mar 8, 2023 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Adaptation Decay 72: The Cuphead Show

    Well, Cuphead and his (adopted brother) Mugman, They like to roll the skee balls By chance they came 'pon the Devil's Game, And gosh, they paid the.... what rhymes with skee balls?

  • Oct 12, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Adaptation Decay 67: The Sims Spark'd

    The Sims is obviously an amazing game series and we wish we could play more of it. From the outside, the Sims community seems like an inclusive and welcoming space where people can be creative and have fun. And then we have the Sims Spark'd, the product of an ill-advised partnership between EA, TBS, and Buzzfeed Multiplayer. They gather 12 Sims content creators, put them in teams of three, and subject them to baffling challenges, for which they are judged arbitrarily by some people who just happened to be around the studio. You feel for the contestants trying to meet unspoken demands under increasingly brutal time constraints. But that's what happens when you try to make an expressive game into a competition. You can watch the whole series here, but we only discuss the first episode.

  • Jul 25, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Adaptation Decay 64: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, The Comic

    Did you know that DC published a comic to promote the release of Deus Ex: Human Revolution? Of course you didn't! The six issue arc follows Adam Jensen on a little side mission that takes place in between chapters of the game. A new augmented terrorist is on the scene, and the series of attacks has something to do with his past on the Detroit SWAT team. So he enlists the help of basically Lara Croft? It's weird, kinda bad, and tonally all over the place. So, perfect for this show.

  • Jun 8, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Adaptation Decay 63: Frogger: The Game Show

    You've never heard of this game show, and because it's on Peacock you'll probably never see it. But it's worth talking about because, wow, it's a very bad idea. Imagine sacrificing your bodily integrity to suffer concussions and broken bones on a more boring version of American Ninja Warrior, where every move is "gently jump to another surface and crawl on top of it". And imagine doing so while two hosts with the worst chemistry imaginable take potshots at you. It's a wild experience.

  • May 11, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Adaptation Decay 62: Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

    This newest Resident Evil movie is simultaneously a better adaptation and a better movie than the Paul W.S. Anderson movies, while also not being good enough. It crams the broad story of the first two Resident Evil games into a breathless mess that's goofy and entertaining, while wasting tons of opportunities to tell the best stories from the source material. But hey, at least it adapts the games.

  • Mar 14, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Adaptation Decay 60: Muppet Babies: It's Only Pretendo

    The Muppet Babies was a smash hit cartoon that started the "baby versions of popular characters" craze, but video game fans remember one episode in particular. Gonzo loves his Pretendo, and the entire nursery goes NUTS when they start playing it along with him. This episode is an excuse for us to get nostalgic for the Muppets while also doing a shorter episode, so we hope you enjoy going on this ride with us.

  • Feb 9, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Adaptation Decay 59: Double Dragon (Animated Series)

    Billy and Jimmy are brothers. One's a Dragon Master, one's a Shadow Master, until they're both Dragon Masters because a Shadow Master comes to town. It's dumb. The whole show, honestly, is garbage. It's hard to look at, hard to listen to, and it's a really bad adaptation. Avoid at all costs.

  • Dec 23, 2021 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Adaptation Decay 57: A Pac and Poke Christmas

    This month we take a look at two Christmas specials: one from the Pac-Man cartoon, and one from the Pokemon anime. The Pac-Man cartoon remains as baffling and boring as always, relying on the same non-joke about "chomping" for its entire duration. Meanwhile, the Pokemon Christmas special, "Stantler's Little Helpers" is very cute, but slight. Somehow, both specials have the same plot: Santa injures his reindeer, and it's up to the heroes to drug them so they can get back in the air.

  • Nov 13, 2021 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Adaptation Decay 56: GamePro TV

    What if the 90s were made into a pure, uncut video drug? You'd get GamePro TV. Hosted by J.D. Roth and the contemptible B-Man, this half-hour commercial claimed to be the television version of GamePro Magazine. Listen as we talk about this fever dream of green-screen effects and poorly stretched commentary.

  • Oct 17, 2021 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Adaptation Decay 55: Silent Hill: Revelation

    There are some nice things to be said about the original Silent Hill movie. It has pacing and script problems, but its production design is both high quality AND faithful to the games. When it came time to make a followup, they whiffed every single aspect of it. Sharon from the first movie is all grown up, and Silent Hill wants her back. At least we think it does, it's very self-contradictory.

  • Sep 8, 2021 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Adaptation Decay 54: Kirby: Right Back at Ya!

    We're as surprised as you are that this turned out to be okay. But it's kinda fun! We know that Kirby's cute, but he'd also be a nightmare to live around. This 2003 cartoon presents the reality of having a Town Kirby... a pre-verbal infant cosmic monstrosity who can destroy homes on a whim. Though we disgree with his methods, we have to say it's hard to fault King Dedede for wanting him gone.

  • Aug 11, 2021 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Adaptation Decay 53: Resident Evil Comics

    This month we talk about five issues of really bad comic adaptations of Resident Evil, which should actually be really easy to adapt! It's nonsense, really, how WildStorm managed to biff this one so hard. What starts as half-assed, rushed retellings of the first two games expands into some slightly better, but still worthless expansions and side stories. How does Barry Burton's therapy go? What if there were zombies in the Eiffel Tower? What if there were some bats in a desert?