Three Games from My Childhood That Could Have Been Good Movies

One of my all-time favorite movies is the film Clue, a movie that is based off the board game by the same name. While most other game-inspired movies haven't become cult classics and even less (including Clue, ironically) were box-office bombs, the recent success of A Minecraft Movie shows there's potential. My daughters alone have seen the movie twice (on the same day).

The recent success of that video game-inspired film got me thinking about the games I enjoyed when I was younger, and I thought of three that could have (and maybe could still be) entertaining on the big screen.

Mutant League Football 

Suggested Plot: Despite being part of a successful coaching family and showing potential as a college offensive coordinator, Susan Holtz-Lombardi's gender creates a roadblock to her dream of becoming a football head coach. This changes when she is offered the opportunity to coach the Midway Monsters, a team in the start-up Mutant League. Despite the obstacles created by coaching various monsters and mutants, Susan is thrilled for the opportunity. That is before she learns, too late, her contract stipulates she must win the league championship, or her team is allowed to serve her for dinner.

Roller Coaster Tycoon

Suggested Plot: While in a drunken stupor, an out-of-work and divorced engineer and inventor stumbles into a city auction and when he sobers up, he learns he purchased a recently bankrupted roller coaster theme park for $500. At first, he thinks he stumbled into a windfall because a real estate developer (who missed the auction because of car troubles) is willing to pay him top dollar for the property. However, when he meets the woman who previously owned the park built by her father, it is a love at first sight that makes him decide to try to restore it. What he doesn't know is the developer is willing to do whatever it takes to sabotage that plan.

Wall Street Kid

Suggested Plot: A business school dropout, we'll call him Scott, loses his job at a fast-food restaurant after giving a elderly homeless man a free meal. The next day, he learns the homeless man isn't actually homeless and instead is a childless billionaire looking for a kind-hearted person to give his fortune to before he dies. There's just one catch - to prove he won't immediately lose all the money the man has worked his entire life to earn, Scott is given $10,000 and has only one year to invest it and turn it into $1 million. Complicating things is a new trade war that has sent the country into a recession.