>When researching old ratings charts, it was usually in the top 25 ratings during the late 90s and early 2000s
>had 100 half hours
and yet it took until 2002 to get a video game and it was a movie tie-in. How did this show take so long to get a game? Wild Thornberrys and Rocket Power were around this time and they were also very popular just like Arnold was and they had several video games
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supersponge is still the best sponge bob game
Also, does anyone know what this one and only Hey Arnold game was like?
It was shit, sadly. A typical GBA shovelware platformer.
The show itself was good and movie was okay (I think, saw it only once on late night re-run, didn't imprint in memory too well).
It's hard to understand what even should be a proper Arnold game. What goals and abilities would he have?
I can only think of early 2000's 3D collectathon with comfy aesthetics, like PC Harry Potter or Banjo Kazooie. You hang out in the yard, do story missions for characters like Pigeon Man or Mr Simmons, and side quests for Arnold's classmates. Sometimes Gerald shows up with another urban legend and you're going to investigate. Plus mini games like baseball and pig war (capture the flag style).
The answer for most of these adaptions would be a 3d adventure game leaning towards point and click puzzle interaction with the occasional light platforming/action segment.
And for the handheld version that is completely different from console.
Simplify/remove the need mechanics, same for the furniture stuff (as he doesn't have to move to a new home time and time again), doesn't make sense choosing stats (Neat, Outgoing, Active, Playful, and Nice) at start of game for an already-defined character so make it so you can grow/alter the stats in other way, clothing option for example. Those are the changes I can think of now. I can easily see turning into a comfy game.
>It's hard to understand what even should be a proper Arnold game. What goals and abilities would he have?
I'd probably just rip off the Beavis & Butt-head game for Genesis and build a two player coop game around that consisting off fetch quests.
so kinda what they did, but i'd scrap the jumping around and collecting points thing.
also you'd just play as Arnold and Gerald.
Hot take. I never liked Arnold, he's just a more mature version of Arthur. Both Arnold and Arthur fricking suck and so did school cafeteria food
Arthur was an awesome character
I like hey arnold the show but yeah arnold is kind of bland. helga is the more fun protagonist.
He's bland on purpose to make everyone else around him stand out. If he was as wacky as everyone else they wouldn't stand out as much.
You just didn't have mono eyebrowed tsundere who was secretly in love in you as a kid to relate.
Or maybe you did but she never had guts to confess.
Anyway, sad. I like Arnold because I kinda lived in a neighborhood similar to his and had some friends who looked like Eugene and Harold.
>It's hard to understand what even should be a proper Arnold game. What goals and abilities would he have?
I'd figure just have an adventure style game that could be considered an episode as well like that Beavis & Butt-Head one or that Duckman one.
>It's hard to understand what even should be a proper Arnold game.
Animal Crossing (gamecube version with the really grumpy residents) knock off
Loving the sprites though, If I knew how to code I'd try to do something funny with it for the Genesis.
God Nickelodeon was so ugly and israelitey. No wonder millennials and Xers grew up to make shit like Big Mouth.
The movie came out in 2002 you fricking moron.
He never said otherwise dumbass
The show came out in 1996 and it was running for almost 6 fricking years before even getting a single game.
now here we go now here we go
Ask yourself, how could you make a game out of fricking Hey Arnold? It's a good show, but that shit was mostly just a slice of life show Of course they waited until the movie had a plot to do it.
You can turn literally anything into a basic b***h platformer/fetch quest game. It doesn't have to make sense. But I could totally see Hey Arnold being made into a super cool point-and-click adventure.
I do think a big part of why it didn't get a game until the movie, though, is that the movie plot is way more actiony than the typical episodes were. It's hard to adapt the entire concept of a show like Hey Arnold into a game, but when there's specifically a feature-length adventure with a 3-act structure, it's a lot more intuitive.
>You can turn literally anything into a basic b***h platformer
That's what they've did with OP pic. Not a satisfying result to me.
Just make a basic collectathon and you're done. All I want is to be able to explore Arnold's house to uncover the mystery of Grandpa's secret toilet room and wander around some streets to meet familiar characters. It's not that hard.
They made games out of Animaniacs and that show didn't really have a plot
Yeah, because there's potential for an action game.
>Similar gameplay as B&B
>Arnold & Gerald coop
>Enemies from the series (wolfgang/ludwig/weasel/sewer king/Vic/Morrie/Tony.B/Frankie.G/Philly.D/Bus Thug
>Throw bubble gum to knock them out
>Headquarter is Arnold's room in the boarding house
>use map in his room to decide where to go
>locations are school with playground/Cemetary/small park/aquarium/bowling alley/dinoland/library/union station/cinema/sewer
>add series characters here and there with fetch quests and items located in various locations
>to reach certain locations you gotta go through the sewer/street/alleys/parks
>these are inhabited by enemies
>run back and forth and give everybody their item
>once done this opens up the boarding house and you run around there doing stuff for grandpa
>you then get the mcguffin and Arnold & Gerald take the bus out front to wherever they wanted to go.