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Well, the games may have a loose canon, but they primarily tie in to a predominant merchandise product of the time. The logos they use are a hint. Even games that wildly mix 1987, Archie and Mirage elements (like the Tournament Fighters games) use the 1987 series logo for sheer recognition.

I have a suggestion:

The 1987 video games could be called the "early Konami video games", since Konami produced or sublicensed virtually all of them, and they drew influences from as many as four or five separate official sources (Mirage comics, 1987 series, Archie comics, Golden Harvest films, etc.). And we call it "early" Konami because Konami still published the earlier 2003 TV series video games before that license went to Ubisoft for the rest of the 2003 TV series video games.

However, the later video games more closely tied to later franchises can be associated more directly with the specific TV series or film franchises that inspired them, hence "2003 TV series video games" and "2012 TV series video games" and "Paramount video games".

But back to the topic of film articles. The 1990-2007 film franchise may have been produced by completely different hands at their opposite ends, but they are still officially one film franchise of four films. New Line Cinema published the first three films in the U.S., and Warner Bros. published the fourth film in the U.S., but official releases in most other countries didn't involve New Line or WB at all because they had other regional distributors. So my most confident recommendation is to use the name "Golden Harvest/Imagi", and not call them "New Line" or "New Line/Imagi".