I never got why there was a flood of Rugrats games during this time. It felt like they were pushing this to be the next Mario or the next Sonic the Hedgehog, but a good amount of the games weren't good, especially this one.
>>12477434>Why was there a flood of Rugrats games when it was one of the most popular cartoons around?Truly a puzzler>It felt like they were pushing this to be the next Mario or the next Sonic the HedgehogMore like pushing gullible kids to buy some shovelware with their favorite character’s face on the box, like all games based on kid’s cartoons.
the show was out since 91 but didn't get any games during the 4th gen for some reason
>>12477443I wouldn't say thats why Rugrats got so many video games, considering Rocko and Angry Beavers were also incredibly popular, yet Beavers never got a single game and Rocko only got one.
>>12477453Like wasn't Rocko basically like SpongeBob before SpongeBob existed? Because of that, it should've been the one that had a flood of video games since SpongeBob is the biggest thing Nick ever had.
>>12477453Rugrats was Nick's biggest show before the rise of SpongeBob. It got three theatrical movies.
>>12477468Pretty sure it was Rocko since it's a very similar show to SpongeBob and Rocko was very popular. I would know, because the only reason SpongeBob exists is because of Hillenburg working on Rocko.
>>12477443>>12477468It confuses me why people liked that shit at all. Not being contrarian just why would kids want to watch a show about babies
>>12477473Rocko was big, but Rugrats lasted over a decade. Search for Reptar for PS1 had fuckhuge marketing campaign and sold over a million units.>>12477476It has funny moments.
>>12477476Klasky Csupo was kino is basically the gist. they captured a dreamlike surreal lens of the world that hit well above a cartoon show for babies. maybe they could have made it work with a more traditional age range like hey arnold, or maybe the perspective of annoying babies was the price you had to pay.
>>12477463rocko was very absurdist. spongebob just had the benefit of amazing writers. i don't really see them as similar.
>>12477476>Not being contrarian just why would kids want to watch a show about babiesbecause it's a kid's show about kids using their imaginations and getting into fantastical situations...not sure what is so hard to see about it.
>>12477463Rocko was never nearly as big as Spongebob or Rugrats were.
>>12477594I'm pretty sure everyone who watched Nickelodeon in the 90s watched Rocko though. Also, I'm pretty sure Nick just forced Rugrats to be big. Rocko was literally SpongeBob before SpongeBob even existed, there's no way kids actually preferred Rugrats over the 90s version of SpongeBob.
>>12477434Wasn't Rugrats kind of like the only Nick show that had situations adults could relate to? Part of its appeal if I recall was that in addition to how like every nicktoon, it had stuff for kids to relate to, it also had the struggles of the parents which could appeal to the parent of those kids. I don't think the other nicktoons were relatable to adults.
Rugrats was huge for a good while, it lasted over a decade and got 3 feature length movies>>12477473Oh, you weren't there... ok
>>12477605If you mean Seasons 1-3 yes but after they rebooted it it became a show for 5-9 year olds
>>12477482>>12477489>>12477492Makes sense. I guess I missed out because even when I was the target demographic I always avoided the show because the premise
It was broadcasted and syndication in Europe and North América in mid-lates 90s
>>12477476The adults had a bigger focus in the early seasons. It wasn't until later that the babies got a bigger spotlight. This is also one of the (many) reasons the reboot sucks.
>>12478431Arlene Klasky basically won out because she always wanted a lame show about babies.
>>12477434Not going to lie I played and enjoyed Search for Reptar and the movie studio one for PS1 as a kid. Felt glad I wasn't restricted to N64 because this one just looked like a shitty puzzle game.
Early 90's for Nickelodeon was all Ren and Stimpy because it was their biggest show. Once Ren and Stimpy started falling off, Nickelodeon turned to their other properties and found that Rugrats reruns got higher than average ratings, so they shifted gear to shilling Rugrats and gave us all these fucking games and a movie and a revival.Now it's all Spongebob. Nickelodeon just shills the fuck out of whatever their biggest property is at any given time.Anyway, Search For Reptar is decent and having levels that are all based on episodes of the show is pretty fun. Studio Tour is kind of decent also if only because it's the same game engine as Search For Reptar, but it loses a lot of charm by just having random level themes instead of being based off episodes. Anything else is complete crap.
>>12478496it was actually a shitty board game, a mario party without minigames
OP is some Gen X or Gen Z doing revisionist history. Rugrats was fucking huge, you can't compare it to any other nicktoon During its original run perhaps it was just as big as Doug or Ren & Stimpy but those shows got old and replaced and Rugrats continued, other hits like Hey Arnold were not in the same league as Rugrats. Don't even metnion other shows like Real Monsters or whatever that just died off. When Rugrats got new episodes the popularity just skyrocketed. This is when we got most of those games, The pique of Rugrats' popularity was when the first movie came out, after that the popularity slowly faded, but it's not like it died immediately, which is why you got so much merchandise about them still. By the third movie most people had moved on. Sponge Bob did become a hit although it also took a couple of years to hit its pique popularity.To make this /vr/ related, the best game is likely Scavenger Hunt on the N64, although I preferred Search for Reptar on the PS1 mostly since it was an actual platforming game where you could move around the places you had seen in the cartoon, but gameplaywise it really is the inferior game. Most of the other games range from mediocre to bad. But the game that came out like 3 years ago is a pretty good platformer, likely the best Rugrats game and even though you can play it with NES graphics and on an actual NES, technically it's not /vr/
>>12477434Nintendo realized they could make money licensing their shows so they licensed their biggest one. Might be something in the contracts between the creators of some of the old nick toons and nick itself where they couldn't agree on who would get paid what for the games so they just didn't make any.
>>12480536>Gen XPeople born in the mid 60s to 1979 know damn well rugrats was just about everywhere in the mid to late 90s, it literally is just zoomers who weren't there making bullshit assumptions of an era they clearly weren't around to experience.
>>12480582>nintendoAnon, most of the Rugrats games were on Playstation, and THQ handled that shit...
>>12480586Meant to type Nickelodeon, brain glitch thinking about man children.
>>12477448the show failed initially. it was reruns from around 1995-1996 that caused the show to boom in popularity, leading to a reboot in 1997. the original run and reboot are practically different shows, all the memorable stuff and memes are from the original 92-94 run.
>>12477476it wasn't about the babies. it was about how the parents dealt with the babies. at least, originally. in a lot of the early episodes, Tommy doesn't even speak. it was basically a cartoon version of Baby's Day Out.
The Rugrats in Paris game had some decent minigames. More of a rental than something you'd wanna own, though. My little brother really liked the Chuckie Chan one.
>>12477476For me, it was catdog
The real crime is we never got a Powdered Toast Man video game. That shit was awesome. Unless I’m wrong and it did get one that I somehow missed, which is possible.
I enjoyed Rocko, and yes it was popular, but I think modern affinity for the show, especially among internet people, has given people a skewed interpretation of its relative relevance at the time. Rugrats was absolutely the big thing for Nick through the 90s. I kinda get the feeling that Courage the Cowardly Dog gets the same treatment, where people overestimate the show's relevance when it was airing, because The Powerpuff Girls was by FAR the most popular thing on CN at the time, for both boys and girls.
>>12481752Even as a kid, it felt like things changed once Dil came to be.
>>12477434Because of the fucking Rugrats Movie release in 1998 jfc
Lowkey Rugrats kinda slaps. Between that, Pokemon and early SpongeBob, late millennial tv was PEAK fr fr.
The point and click game was fun.
>>12481873>show about talking babies going on slice of life adventures, and the only real infantile aspects are how they misunderstand the world around them because they're just babies>introduce a baby that doesn't talk and just acts like a realistic babyArlene Klasky seriously had NO idea why anyone liked that show.
>>12477434I had ghe first one for ps1 as a kid and enjoyed it
>>12481861and while Courage was popular, I don't even think it was the second most popular of their original series. I'm pretty sure their second most popular was either Dexter's Laboratory or Ed Edd n Eddy.
>>12482587The first summer when spongebob came out they played the same few episodes on repeat for like 8 hrs a day. If I couldn't find kids to play with outside I on any given day I was so fucking bored it was unreal.
>>12481861I would be surprised if anyone delusional enough to think courage was close to as big as the powerpuff girls. it was a cool show but the powerpuff girls were a cultural phenomenon bigger than the network.
so the writers wanted to do a show like the Simpsons but Arlene wanted retarded baby shit and in the later seasons she eventually won out
>>12482750I assume they wanted to emphasize the older brother - younger brother relationship, with one acting more mature and the other acting like a baby, but it is indeed strange when both characters are still literal babies. Of course I didn't grasp it at the time, but I guess even my child brain detected a "jumping the shark" moment when they added Dil and lost interest in the series.
>>12477468ynr this got huge because of a Rugrats movie
>>12477434>I never got why there was a flood of Rugrats games during this timbecause nickelodeon had infinite money due to the success of the show and merchandising of any kind was immensely profitable.
>>12482621I'm not a fan of point and click adventure games in general, but I do think they're one of the best genres for most non-action cartoon adaptations. Bring on writers for the series and make it an interactive episode with branching paths. Much better than just slapping characters into a generic platformer or racing game or whatever.
>>12477434>I never got why there was a flood of Rugrats games during this timeDoes this answer your question?
>>12485363Honestly pretty ballsy. I remember they had a Passover episode, too. Johnny Bravo is one of the only other shows I recall mentioning religion, specifically mentioning Jesus during the Christmas episode.
>>12485408You were not immune to propaganda.
>>12485117>I'm not a fan of point and click adventure games in generalWhy?
>>12485363not really. sure there were plenty of other jew cartoons on the jew tv networks they could have pushed for videogames instead.
>>12482621>The point and click game was fun.OH FUCK I had this one. The Aliens intro always creeped me out as a kid
>>12477434I rented this game ONCE in 1999 and "That's the way the cookie crumbles" has been playing on loop inside my brain ever since, GET OUT OF MY FUCKING HEAD
>>12485413Believe me, it didn't work that well, lol. Just being exposed to different cultures isn't radicalizing by itself, but seeing a certain group being overly represented in media just made the conspiracy theory seem more plausible over time.
>>12485478Because the concept has never really appealed to me. The closest I've ever played was Treasure Cove as a kid, which was fine for what it was. Maybe I should try more.
I always wished they had a whole Reptar game like the last level in the PS game
>>12485478They are boring. No real mechanics or systems, just simple interactive fiction and 'try and guess what the dev was thinking' puzzles. And if I want a puzzle game it's probably going to be a more abstract puzzle game not a cryptic pixel hunter.
>>12477473Old man here. Rugrats was the most popular nicktoon after the collapse of Ren and Stimpy and it had crossover appeal by also being for babies so it covered a wider range of youth demos from early 20's stoners who liked the crude grungy art to toddlers. Rocco was on the B-Tier along with Ahh! Real Monsters, behind Rugrats and Ren and Stimpy but ahead of Doug and Hey Arnold.The early big 2000's toons are all more popular than any of the 90's toons because of the Internet however.
>>12485363>>12485408I forget the exact situation, apparently the passover episode was something they always wanted to do but the network forced them to put even more jew shit into the show along side it.
>>12478534They never cared nor took care.
>>12478534Hey what about the NES game with it's HD skin available? That one was pretty good.https://youtu.be/jeS0KB5WiYQ?si=877B3ktgpkuSskAyI wonder why that developer didn't made follow ups based on other Nick shows, we could have gotten a SpongeBob game in that style.
>>12477434I can tell you're younger. Heres a history lesson for you OP. Rugrats was HUGE in the late 90s. Like Spongebob huge for Nickelodeon. Reruns played during the afternoon would get better TV ratings that premieres of shows on primetime on major networks. That's how big it was. It's why The Rugrats Movie was made as well. Rugrats had a huge second wind after it's 3rd season that pushed it for several more seasons plus another spinoff show entirely (All Grown Up!)
>>12482621>>12486264Fuck the PS1 game, this was the best Rugrats game
