The Back Catalogue Of Video Game To Movie Adaptations

In 1993, this happened – Nintendo's best-known siblings broke on to the big screen. Mario (Bob Hoskins) and Luigi (John Leguizamo) are just your typical overall wearing NYC plumber brothers who find themselves dragged into a Koopa universe via an excavation site. It's a surreal ride. Just remember to trust the fungus.Amazon.co.uk

In 2006, Silent Hill hit screens, adapting Konami's 1999 video game of the same name. The movie sees Rose Da Silva (Radha Mitchell) in the unfortunate position of having to seek the remedy to her daughter's nightmares. The search takes her to Silent Hill, a town complete with its own forever-burning fire pit (courtesy of a coal mine disaster). If this place is your last hope, things aren't going well for you. Rather than a cure, they find a grim inter-dimensional maze of sinister and evil, inhabited by, amongst other inhuman creations, the iconic Pyramid Head.Amazon.co.uk

In the early '90s, gamers stomped the corridors of a military base as the anonymous marine, or "Doomguy" to his friends, unloading hurt on demonic beings as they invaded from Hell. Doom paved the way for modern FPS gaming. In 2005 Sarge (Dwayne Johnson), leads his team of marines to Mars, where during a rescue mission, they come face-to-face with some genetically questionable nasties. If you find yourself particularly partial to this sci-fi horror endeavour, there's more thanks to 2019's straight-to-video Doom: Annihilation. Amazon.co.uk

The Resident Evil universe appears to be unstoppable. Capcom's Resident Evil games stand tall in gaming mythology as pioneers and (mostly) perfecters of the survival-horror genre, and director Paul W.S Anderson's inventive film adaptations have earned a Guinness World Record for the Highest Grossing Game-Licensed Movies. The six films are loosely based on the games narrative, with new creations like the protagonist Alice (Milla Jovovich) appearing alongside the RE universe's ubiquitous Raccon City and Umbrella Cooperation. Not content with bringing one game series to life, Jovovich will be starring in Anderson's Monster Hunter adaptation this year, where she'll no doubt be kicking ass as per.Amazon.co.uk

Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft is a huge and sprawling franchise set in the world of Azeroth, comprising of novels, comics, tabletop games and video games. If you're adapting this glut of lore, where do you start? At a beginning, of course. 2016's film adaptation takes on the fantasy behemoth by telling of man's first encounters with the orc race – and not to spoil it, but they don't involve trade negotiations. Amazon.co.uk

Ubisoft's best-selling Assassin's Creed franchise is two tales at once, one present and one past, one sci-fi and one historical. In the 2016 film, Callum (Michael Fassbender) is placed into a device which unlocks his genetic memories, allowing him to relive the exploits of Augliar, a 15th Century Spanish assassin, and utilise his skills in the modern day to defeat a secret and oppressive Templar organisation. Amazon.co.uk

Capsom's Street Fighter is an arcade beat-em-up brawler in which the player button-mashes their way to becoming a martial arts champion. In 1994's adaptation, Col. William Guile (Jean-Claude Van Damme) and a rag tag bunch of recruits must fight their way to General M. Bison (Raul Julia) in order to save the lives of some hostages. The real link here seems to be tank-tops, punching, and kicking.Amazon.co.uk

In 1995, the writers Mortal Kombat movie played it a little closer to the video game roots then their Capcom competition. If the evil Prince Goro is crowned Kombat tournament champion for the tenth time, a portal of despicable unpleasantness will be opened for some reason and this cannot be allowed to happen. Enter the good-guy fighters. This plot purely and simply is contrived to allow as much martial arts to take place as possible – and that's absolutely fine. Amazon.co.uk

1996 saw a game storm the markets headed by British heroine Lara Croft. In 2001 and 2003, Tomb Raider was brought to the big screen, with Croft finding a herself channelled through Angelina Jolie in an adventure story which incorporates dual-wielding gunplay with a healthy dose of science, history and cosmic mysticism. Croft fights her way through tombs, the Illuminati and a searing critical reception to deliver a slightly bizarre and unbalanced cult hit. Amazon.co.uk

Alicia Vikander takes up the role of Lara Croft in this movie reboot based on the video game reboot. In this film we see a more rugged Croft on the search for her missing father. As she adventures her way to a mysterious island, we see that the rethought Lara relies less on tech and more on skill and resourcefulness. Amazon.co.uk

In 2003, Ubisoft's highly acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time had the player parkour, slash and bend time in an effort to defeat monstrous hordes, save a Princess, kingdom, and ultimately defeat evil. In 2010, audiences were treated to the swashbuckling Prince Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal) questing his way to nasty Uncle Nizam (Ben Kingsley) and the Dagger of Time. It's a romping Disney action movie, but there are no monsters. Amazon.co.uk

The Hitman video game franchise follows the taciturn assassin Agent 47 who, backed by a secretive organisation, travels the world to terminate his targets. In 2007, Timothy Olyphant took up the role of 47 in a plot which sees the assassin caught up in political machinations beyond his control and fighting without his usual levels of protection. It's pulp violence at its most pulp, and has garnered a modest cult following in the years since its release. The Hitman movie universe was also rebooted in 2015 with Hitman: Agent 47. Amazon.co.uk