What Year Is It? A Brand New Rugrats Game Has Been Announced

Erm……. Hell yes! Co-op aswell 😮

Haven't seen the rebooted series, but I hated in the original in the 90s. So I think I'll pass...

LOL
Rugrats + Super Mario Bros 2

Strange but certainly not unexpected. 16 bit visuals would have been a bit more period-accurate. Now Muppet Babies in an NES game would’ve really been amusing..

For some reason my brain created its own images for the game, giving flashbacks of the first person POV we get from inside Tommy’s eyes when he’s trying to walk in the intro to the series.

I think I’d have preferred a 3D monstrosity of Tommy’s wonky than another 2D platformer.

They are babies again? Is this like some nostalgia trip where they are imagining they can go back in time from adulthood?

I would had prefer this back in the 90s but right now it's just weird seeing them as babies again. Game seems fun though so may still check it out.

Stu! Dr. Lipchitz says video games aren't good for babies.

Hopefully it will be better than the last (and frankly only) Rugrats game I played, "Rugrats: I Gotta Go Party" for the Game Boy Advance, which was primarily a collection of mini party games, although the goal of the game was to find all of your friends, who were playing hide-and-seek.

Definitely interested. The classic NES look and feel is there. This should be a great nostalgic time.

This looks amazing

I like the style. To me, this look better then many retro inspirerd games that look like flash-game from 2005.
This looks like a late Nes game. Would like to play it on GBA or something😁

That bottom-right screenshot, Tommy in a purple/green land, is giving me Bubba'n'Stix vibes..
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No, it's not Bubba'n'Stix.. It's the other one.. What was the other one called..!?! Man, my memories are fading..

..some googling later..
Bubble and Squeak.. That's the one!

Looks cool although I was never really into the Rugrats side scrollers.

Now a remake of Search For Reptar I'd be all for.

In the year 2023 the last thing I expected myself to be excited for was a new Rugrats game, but here we are haha

Loved Rugrats on PS1, definitely keeping this on my radar.

I want to post the very end scene in Twin Peaks The Return but I don't want to spoil it

Yep cool. Have fond memories of the PS1 games.

Didn’t see that coming. The Rugrats in this game have a similar look to the Bonk character in the Turbo Grafx games. Not saying that’s a bad thing. I might get this.

This is amazing!

I never really cared for Rugrats, to be honest. But I'm happy to see Nickelodeon taking the gaming market so seriously in recent years. Reception was mixed, but I loved SpongeBob Rehydrated. NASB 2 is shaping up to be something really special. And although I'm a bit worried about how good it's gonna be, I'll be picking up the Avatar game on day one. It's also worth noting that Nickelodeon owns the rights to TMNT now as well, so Shredder's Revenge and that arcade compilation game wouldn't exist if Nick hadn't signed off on it.

I hope they keep this up. I'd love to see a Danny Phantom game, an Invader Zim game, a new Fairly OddParents game, etc. Would be good stuff! It just baffles me, though, why Nickelodeon is only letting THQ make SpongeBob games when they used to have such a strong partnership. They signed a deal several years ago giving THQ the rights to make games using all their franchises, but nothing ever came of that beyond SpongeBob Rehydrated and Cosmic Shake. Instead they opted to go with Game Mill and whoever is publishing this game.

Not that Game Mill is bad or anything. Their products seem to be about as good as Nick's budget and deadlines will allow. Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2 was really solid, but 3 felt like a step back despite having a better character roster. Lots of performance issues on Switch, although they may have been patched out now. The games could also be rather ugly at times despite looking really pretty in other areas. NASB 2 looks visually perfect, though. Like, Smash Bros. levels of polish, which makes me happy.

This game honestly looks pretty solid, so even though I'm not a Rugrats fan, maaaaybe I'll be tempted to pick this up as a platforming fan. They nail the 8-bit NES aesthetic perfectly, and the HD version gives me Scribblenauts vibes. I guess Nick decided if it was too violent to have babies getting punched in the face in NASB, they may as well give them their own game.

I hope Nickelodeon keeps this up, but like... maybe they could also make some decent new shows, since that's kinda their thing. I'm excited about what the Avatar team comes up with, but otherwise, ehhh. I also want Cartoon Network to start tapping into this market and make some solid games using their IP.

I had the absolute lowest expectations clicking this article but christ that looks great!

I really liked The MIX’s take on a Jay and Silent Bob game with Mall Brawl (And hopefully Chronic Blunt Punch when that finally releases). This is definitely on my radar.

This article coming from the UK you don't know this but Rugrats and other 90s Nickelodeon titles is part of black culture here in the states. I see it often - jackets, hoodies, other clothes everywhere. Might have something to do with it.

I love this! Old series have so much to give that couldn’t be done justice on old consoles. I remember playing Rugrats on N64 I think. It was bad. Just an excuse to make a Rugrats game. This actually looks good. Thinking back to old shows, I wish they’d make more games of them. Like Teen Titans or MMPR.

Tommy in the PC game Nick Toons Racing was different, so why not. Also a baby driving a go-kart, crazy! 😉

The most offputting cartoon of the 90s

I mean, after we got a Pinchcliffe Grand Prix game on Switch, what is there left to marvel at? Rugrats have never drawn much of my attention, but it's exciting to to see older franchises get new content to this day.

before i do my real one, i just gotta get this outta my system:

"The Media Indie Exchange (The MIX)"

pet peeve of mine is when someone names a thing in service of the acronym, to the detriment of the actual name itself. 😆

why is a new rugrats game in 2023 a surprise, in particular? isnt rugrats one of nickelodeon's biggest shows ever, if not the biggest? and their longest running IP with many spin offs, tv shows, and games made over decades? and, we are in an era where increasingly obscure and aged properties are being resurrected all the time anyway?

what am i missing, here?

PS - if anyone is wondering what's good about rugrats, or doesnt remember what it was like early on, or just likes kickass animation, please watch this:

https://youtu.be/i43hik3Jgs4?si=wo_B4rF6sWs5wymK

PPS - as a teen watching Aeon Flux, I made head canon that rugrats was the present day 90s in the same universe as Aeon Flux's future, only to find out many years later that Peter Chung made the pilot for Rugrats! pretty crazy. ✌️

I get way too many emails from limited run games. Especially for games I'm not interested in. But why does a game like this come along and I have to find out about it through Nintendo Life (not your fault NL, love you for this news!)? Wouldn't this reveal had been great for the emailed newsletter?

@-wc- Rugrats wasn't even close to SpongeBob. Plus there's been several other more popular things from the channel over the years, if I'm not mistaken. I will give you that it had a good run lol but it's pretty random that there's a new game. I wasn't even aware of the reboot of the series until moments ago.

Hey Arnold! next? I never watched Rugrats very much at the time, but think I found it quite funny and well made. If it's a good 2D platformer, I'll possibly try the new game.

I'm very surprised so many people on here haven't watched Rugrats growing up or hated it, since I remember watching it as a kid and thought, Next to SpongeBob, that it was Nickelodeon's most popular series before FOP took that spot. I'm surprised but also hyped for this game because I thought if any other property from Nick needed a "Rehydrated" version, it was Rugrats, but a whole new 8-bit side scrolling adventure in the style of SMB2, Wario Land, and The Jetsons Cogswell caper is good enough for me.

Now can we please get an official Glitch techs video game just to prove you guys are actually using the series for something good, please Nick?

If I can enjoy Grimaces B-day like I did then i'm in

Looks pretty awesome.

@yohn777

respectfully, you have flattened time completely in your analysis.

spongebob and fairly odd parents had longer runs in the end, but rugrats was the longest run in the golden era (it ran for the entire nineties) and held onto the title for many years before those shows took it (spongebob for example was on the air for THIRTEEN YEARS before it overtook rugrats' top spot, which is TWENTY ONE YEARS after rugrats came out.) as far as i can tell, nothing else comes close (and fairly odd parents is TRASH 😂 and i have a feeling it went so long because nick had nothing going on creatively during that time.)

regardless of if its technically or just arguably nicks biggest show or just one of, to me the idea of making a game out of one of the longest running animated shows of all time (tied for 8th with king of the hill, just looked it up) is anything but surprising, as i said before.

anyway this looks alright! maybe ill play it one day. 👍

OK, this looks pretty neat

Looks like the original one rather than the reboot too. I think I'll get this, looks like fun. Probably play the HD version though

My favourite Nicktoon growing up was absolutely Invader Zim, but I never had a problem with Rugrats either. It was fun, but I did generally prefer the more outlandish cartoons like Rocko and CatDog and Ren & Stimpy. and Zim.
...And of course SpongeBob, but that goes without saying - everybody was SpongeBob crazy during its initial three seasons.
If Nick is revisiting old properties for games, I'd love to see a Zim something at some point.

This Rugrats game looks pretty cool too - I like how trendy retro games have become - so much so that even third party licenced cartoon games are in on the trend. It's a hell of a lot better than the shovelware of the GBA and DS and PS2 and Wii these kinds of properties would normally get

@-wc- Nah, you're wrong about FOP being trash. Seasons 1-5 are considered pretty great, it's the last 5 Seasons that many consider to be the worst.

Never played any of the Rugrats games save for one on the PC based on the first movie that was kinda like a minigame collection, so I have little to no opinion about their quality.

Having said that, this has my attention. Although I'll probably play on HD Mode, the 8-bits one looks cool but it doesn't do anything for me as a I have no nostalgia for that era, maybe if it were 16-bits

@Dakotastomp

i am comfortable with being considered wrong 👍 im glad you like it.

This looks good!

I'm now hoping Nintendo have put a 16 bit Mode in Mario Wonder as an end game reward!