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Now I have always had an interest in Gaming and Movies as my fellow colleague has and over the last 15 years Hollywood has tried to turn some of the best selling and most loved games into marketable movies which kids and adults of all ages will love…. well they have tried and in my view there have been more misses than hits..

Click to view the full list and how much they made  since 1993:

Figures are from the U.S. box office.

• Super Mario Bros. (May 28, 1993)Budget: $42mil/Grossed: $20mil
• Double Dragon (Nov. 4, 1994) Grossed: $2mil
• Street Fighter (Dec. 23, 1994) Budget: $35mil/Grossed: $33mil
• Mortal Kombat (Aug. 18, 1995) Budget: $20mil/Grossed: $70mil
• Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (Nov. 21, 1997) Budget: $30mil/Grossed: $35mil
• Wing Commander (March 12, 1999) Budget: $30mil/Grossed: $11.5mil
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (June 15, 2001) Budget: $80mil/Grossed: $131mil
• Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (July 21, 2003) Budget: $90mil/Grossed: $65.6mil
• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (July 21, 2001) Budget: $137mil/Grossed: $32mil
• Resident Evil (March 12, 2002) Budget: $32mil/Grossed: $40mil
• Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Sept. 10, 2004) Budget: $43mil/Grossed: $50.7mil
• Resident Evil: Extinction (Sept. 20, 2007) Budget: $45mil/Gross: $49.9mil
• House of the Dead (Feb. 15, 2003) Budget: $7mil/Grossed: $10mil
• Alone in the Dark (Jan. 28, 2005) Budget: $20mil/Grossed: $5mil
• Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (Sept. 14, 2005)
• Doom (Oct. 20, 2005) Budget: $70mil/Grossed: $28mil
• BloodRayne (Oct. 23, 2005) Budget: $25mil/Grossed: $2mil
• Silent Hill (April 21, 2006) Budget: $50mil/Grossed: $46.9mil
• Dead or Alive (Sept. 7, 2006) Budget: $21mil/Grossed: $480,314
• Postal (July 21, 2007) Budget: $20mil/Grossed: $18mil
• BloodRayne II: Deliverance (Sept. 18, 2007) Budget: $10mil/Grossed: No U.S. figure.
• Hitman (Nov. 21, 2007) Budget: $24mil/Grossed: $39.6mil
• Far Cry (Oct. 2, 2008) Budget: $30mil (est.)/Grossed: €566,594 (Germany)
• Max Payne (Oct. 16, 2008) Budget: $35million/Grossed: $40.6million
• Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (Feb. 27, 2009) Budget: $50mil/Grossed: $8.7mil

Now if I had to pick the best of the bunch they would have to be:

1. Mortal Kombat – Excellent game and the movie tranition was amazing. Seeing Sub Zero and Scorpion running amok.
2. Tomb Raider – Every gamers dream come to life with Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft!!! how much drool factor do you need
3. Resident Evil – Only the First one, the rest weren’t that great, but the first included lots of gore, zombies and guns… just what we like.
4. HitMan – I don’t care what some of you say but I liked it, the acting was dodgy, the effects weren’t great, but it had a good story and Tim Olyphant (what a stupid name) was decent in it
5. Silent Hill – One of the most scariest games ever and an easy one to trasnition into a movie..

Now for the worst

1. Super Mario Brothers – WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!
2. Double Dragon – The game as great, but the movie was dire
3. BloodRayne – more like PooRayne
4. Max Payne – ok how many more movies with Mark Whalberg as a cop on the other side of the law do we need… wait here comes another one
5. Street Fighter – the only good thing was Kylie and the late Raul Julia.. apart from that this film was a DUCK!!

You probably have your own idea of what you liked and didn’t like.. if you have any comments Tweet me – ashman18874

Oh and a tease of whats coming soon:

• The King of Fighters (November 4, 2009)
• Tekken (November 5, 2009)
• Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva (December 19, 2009)
• The Legend of Spyro 3D (April 10, 2010)
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (May 26, 2010)
• Resident Evil: Afterlife (August 27, 2010)
• Mortal Kombat: Devastation (2010)

- Ash