Top 10 WORST TV Shows Based on Video Games

Bad video game adaptations aren't just for the movies! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most disappointing, disastrous adaptations of video games in TV history. Our countdown includes shows “Donkey Kong Country”, “Tak and the Power of Juju”, “Sonic Underground” and more! Can you think of terrible TV show adaptations that would have been best left on the gaming console? Play along in the comments and let us know.

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[WatchMojo]

Can you think of terrible TV show adaptations that would have been best left on the gaming console? Play along in the comments and let us know.

[Makman]

Believe it or not, in a recent interview on YouTube, Jaleel White(Sonic’s voice actor from AOSTH, SATAM, UNDERGROUND, 2013 FAN FILM) said that Sonic Underground, was his favourite Sonic show that he worked on.😂

[olleselin]

Hey, "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!" was a childhood gem! After all, it's rap theme song was transferred to the theatricial movie that came out this year....

[pokestar]

I'm so glad the Kirby: Right Back At Ya wasn't on the list. It is pure comedy gold in my opinion!

[BlazerK]

I’m so glad the animated MK movies exists, because they stayed true to the video games while being their own stories, and more so than the so-called MK tv shows.

[paragonofawesomeness]

I feel that the Halo TV Show should be in this list. God that was awful. They had to give it its own timeline since apparently the writers couldn't even be bothered with continuity.

[gamerkingdom]

This is such… a odd list. In one hand, many of these shows do deserve to be on the list…. On the other…..
SO MUCH NOSTALGIA!!

[George]

Did you really mention Mortal Kombat Conquest? This TV series along with 1995 movie is by far the best live action adaptation of Mortal Kombat and quite possibly of any game

[SkyeonX]

So I’m not the only one that liked Sonic Underground and the Super Mario Bros Super Show? 🫡🔥

[dillonkinder]

The things I don’t like about Captain N is how they change the characters that looks nothing like them and their worlds

[matrixmaster]

Your disrespect to a classic like Sonic Underground, a birthplace to a meme like The Street Fighter Cartoon, a banger like Captain N: The Game Master, a Nostalgia fueler like TSMBSS, a much more tame and very interesting concept like Mortal Kombat: Defenders of The Realm, which btw, thanks for the reminder, I should consider seeing it sometime, and a really bang-up job of bringing a video game classic into our modern world like Pac-Man and The Ghostly Adventures, which got two video games, has disappointed me. I’m only neutral about a few on the list.

[d-man]

The Legend of Zelda was without a doubt a definite good cheese cartoon regardless of how bad it may have been.

[TheImaginator]

"Donkey Kong Country" and "Tak & The Power Of Juju" was a childhood favorite shows I love growing-up based on the two game franchises I enjoy playing.

[kish]

It’s a damn shame Shantae has yet to get her own show especially with Seven Sirens opening since is that is pretty much the closest we will get to a Shantae show.

[RylanPelt-nfmq]

We need to top 10 best TV shows based on video games

[Jonah-Hosein]

Defenders of the realm had a very talented voice cast, and was actually very accurate. I still have the dvds. It's in need of a solid remaster yes but for the time and at the time it was cool asf

Also sonic underground is heavily underrated too, it's theme song along holds up to time.

[Tubb]

Right of the back you're wrong. Street fighter cartoon was good. "stuff animation" THAT WAS THE 90'S

[TheGeekzNetwork]

Hey, come on, The Super Mario Bros Super Show has some charm to it! The 2 brothers have an adorable family chemistry in the live action segments, making them the best parts about the series. And some episodes in the cartoon are still enjoyable to watch.

[FortheloveofThomas]

Here's a dishonorable mention you missed the live-action Halo TV show

[kylegraham]

Now I wish we had a Sonic Underground fan reboot!