1 - Psychonauts



Tim Schafer's crazed masterpiece couldn't be better suited to a TV adaption. It's already widely praised for having a fantastic cast of kooky characters, and with the game's distinctive visual style it would be a doddle to translate them onto the small screen. Add a truly unique premise that allows for practically unlimited variation in tone, setting and situation, as well as a chance for some more serious commentary, and you've got a series waiting to be made. It helps that the game is practically a cartoon itself, what with its cracking script and flat-out weirdness. There's a goldmine waiting under this one

2 - Team Fortress 2



Valve's already gone halfway here with its series of 'Meet the...' shorts, and has announced a comic book based on the Red and Blu teams' antics, so why not go the whole hog and start up an animated series? Wouldn't be for the kids obviously, but I can imagine a lot of fun to be had in a series of 5-10 minute shorts taking the piss out of the generous range of sterotypes on offer, combined with some fun cartoon carnage, and maybe a few sly inside jokes.

3 - Persona



I'm thinking either 3 or 4 here. You've got a readymade schoolkid cast, secret societies, mysterious dungeons and a whole heapload of monsters. Plus the neatly divided moon cycle/weather cycle of the games absolutely lends itself to an episodic format, with the overarcing mystery being solved across the course of the season Some of it wold need toning down (the shooting-yourself-in-the-head bit springs to mind), but there's so many clever ideas in the Persona games I'm sure you could still make something super-interesting out of them.

(Yes, I know there's already an anime, but it's only loosely connected to the game. Plus I'd be fun to see a more western take on it. Is that sacrilege?)

4 - Kingdom Hearts



Bear with me on this one. You'd need an army of lawyers to untangle the rights and several hundred rewrites to polish the godawful dialogue, but at the end of the day you've got a truckload of Disney characters pouring out of every orifice. The games themselves are essentially divided neatly into episodes that would perfectly fit a 'world of the week' format, the non-disney characters are at the very least inoffensive and the series's plot is both insane enough to sustain several seasons and simplistic enough to promote the whole truth-n-love message a cartoon is expected to. Would be difficult to pull off but would also be the most likely to succeed. Also, the world could always do with more Winnie-the-Pooh.

5 - Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure



Bit left field this one, but the game has such a gorgeous aethetic its hard to pass up. I'm thinking that this one could skew a lot younger than the others. Again, there's a simple premise to string out - find all the bits of the pirate Captain - that would be easy to break down into episodic chunks. If you kept it short, maybe 15 minutes-ish and made each episode simple, bright and colourful, I can easily see tis appealing to younger children. Plus it has pirates. What's not to like?

6 - Street Fighter



...OK, maybe not...