History VideoGame / RugratsRoyalRansom

* TakeYourTime: Averted with the level ''Acrobatty Dash'' in Circus World, which gives you seven minutes to finish on Easy, 3:30 (!) to finish on Medium, and 2 minutes (!?!) to finish on Tough. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Best of luck.]]

* TakeYourTime: Averted with the level ''Acrobatty Dash'' in Circus World, which gives you seven minutes to finsih on Easy, 3:30 (!) to finish on Medium, and 2 minutes (!?!) to finish on Tough. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Best of luck.]]

* LifeMeter: If it depletes, you're [[CriticalExistenceFailure screwed.]]

** Despite the name, ''Rugrat Rug Race'' is not an actual race; it's a level in which you have to collect rubies while (more often than not failing) to control a flying carpet in under three laps.

** Despite its name, ''Rugrat Rug Race'' is not an actual race; it's a level in which you have to collect rubies while (more often than not failing) to control a flying carpet in under three laps.

* PlatformHell: Some of the levels, ''Meanie Genie'' on Medium and Tough difficulty being the best example.

** ''Rugrat Rug Race'' has an even more ridiculous example, as it's easier to get the rubies if you bang into a wall and have them fly into you than if you just steer the carpet and pick them up normally.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: Very common, due to the game mechanics. For example, in ''Punting Papayas'', there are certain parts in the level where you have to jump on platforms that lean forwards if you stay on them too long, plunging you into the river below. For some unfathomable reason, you have to wait until they've started ''leaning forward'' in order to successfully jump onto the next one.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: Pretty common, due to the game mechanics. For example, in ''Punting Papayas'', there are certain parts in the level where you have to jump on platforms that lean forwards if you stay on them too long, plunging you into the river below. For some unfathomable reason, you have to wait until they've started ''leaning forward'' in order to successfully jump onto the next one.

-->'''Susie:''' ''Wow'', a magic carpet ride! I wixh I was goin'.

* MeaninglessLives: Played with, depending on the difficulty mode you're on. If you're on Baby Easy, it's played straight, as you'll probably never manage to lose any of the coins you need to get back onto the [=PlayPalace=] (the game's equivalent of losing a life). Averted for the most part on Rugrat Meduim, due to the harder gameplay on that mode overall. ''Brutally'' averted on Reptar Tough.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: Very common, due to the game mechanics. For example, in ''Punting Papayas'', there are certain parts in the level where you have to jump on platforms that lean forwards if you stay on them too long, plunging you into the river below. For some unfathomable reason, you have to wait until they've started ''leaning forward'' in order to successfully jump onto the next one.

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* AbsenteeAcor: Spike, Reptar, and all the adult characters besides Grandpa & Stu are nowhere to be found in the game, despite being prominent cast members in the series.

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Snowmen, cyclops aliens, purple scarab beetles...

* LifeMeter: If it depletes, you're [[CriticalExistenceFailure fucked.]]

* DifficultySpike: Baby Easy is very simple. almost to the point of [[ItsEasySoItSucks being boring]]. Rugrat Medium is more challenging, but still easy to beat in one sitting. ''Reptar Tough'', [[NintendoHard on the other hand]]... let's just say you'll probably swear at your TV screen and RageQuit. A ''lot''.

* DifficultySpike: Baby Easy is very simple. almost to the point of [[ItsEasySoItSucks being boring]]. Rugrat Medium is more challenging, but still easy to beat in one sitting. ''Reptar Tough'' [[NintendoHard on the other hand]]... let's just say you'll probably swear at your TV screen and RageQuit. A ''lot''.

* DifficultySpike: Baby Easy is very simple. almost to the point of [[ItsEasySoItSucks being boring]]. Rugrat Medium is more challenging, but still easy to beat in one sitting. ''Reptar Tough'' [[Nintendo Hard on the other hand...]] let's just say you'll probably swear at your TV screen and RageQuit. A ''lot''.

* NintendoHard: The Reptar Tough difficulty level is much more hard than one would expect from a children's game in general, much less a ''Rugrats'' one. In fact, one of the only two written [[GameFAQS FAQs]] for this game on the Internet has its author admitting that she had to have help from a more experienced gamer to even ''finish'' the FAQ!

Five of the babies are playable; Tommy Pickles, Chuckie Finster, Phil [=DeVille=], Lil [=DeVille=], and Kimi Finster. There's no noticeable gameplay difference between them. There are three difficulty levels: Baby Easy (just as simple as it sounds), Rugrat Medium (surprisingly rather difficult at many points), and Reptar Tough ([[NintendoHard insanely hard]]).

The plot is as follows: Stu Pickles, Tommy's dad, creates the [=PlayPalace=] 3000, which is a huge playground made out of many levels that expands out of a small metal cylinder. He needs to leave to get [[NoodleImplements duct tape and paper clips]], so he leaves Lou Pickles to watch the kids. Once when he ([[SeniorSleepCycle inevitably]]) falls asleep, Angelica enters the [=PlayPalace=] 3000 and takes the babies' toys away. She challenges the Rugrats to come and get them back.