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DESCRIPTION: This week, Drew and Charles give their poor guests a break and instead travel on a journey through the admittedly spotty history of games based on the “Mission: Impossible” franchise. From the lukewarm to the better-left-alone, this great franchise has not been served well in video game form, but from the original Nintendo to mobile and Facebook games, we’ve got this thing covered. Released May 8th, 2020.

SHOW NOTES: Here’s a rundown of all the video games we discuss in the episode.

In 2016 we got the LEGO Dimensions game, which re-created the story of the first movie and actually used clips of Tom Cruise’s voice from the film...

In 2015 we got the Rogue Nation mobile game, which was mostly a sniper game...

2011 brought us a Facebook game that was based on the first three movies but added an extension for Ghost Protocol when the movie came out...

In 2006 we got this java mobile game for M:I-3, which actually looks pretty cool...

2003 brings us Operation Surma, which was on XBox, PS2, GameCube, and GameBoy Advance. This one featured the team from M:I-2 and actually had Ving Rhames’ voice as Luther!

In 2000 we get this fun looking game for Game Boy Color...

In 1998 we get the game for PlayStation and Nintendo 64. This is generally regarded as the best of the bunch, which is unfortunately not saying much...

In 1996 we got the portable arcade game...

1996 also gave us the “Web Adventure” from Apple Computer as a tie-in with the movie...

In 1990 there was a Nintendo game based on the 1980s TV series...

And here’s the new SEGA arcade game that came out recently...

Last but not least, this was sent to us after we released the episode...

And as mentioned at the beginning of this episode, here is the NPR interview with J.J. Abrams in which he discusses ‘Escape from New York’...