Jumanji: Wild Adventures is a Blast From the Past

Movie tie-in video games are not gone, but they are not as common as they used to be. This is likely due to the oversaturation of the pseudo-genre, as well as the speed at which they were churned and effectively burned. It’s easy to remember the many terrible movie tie-in video games because they were released so frequently. It was somewhat of an obviously bad direction following the mega-flop of E.T.: Extra-Terrestrial on the Atari 2600, but in the 2000s, many others like Catwoman, Charlie’s Angels, Bad Boys: Miami Takedown, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Iron Man, and many, many more came into existence. However, there were good ones—and it seems Jumanji: Wild Adventures is, in many ways, a throwback to that era.