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  • Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!! is an enjoyable Zelda II clone with good writing, fun music, and fairly good graphics. It's very short, though, so one should probably enjoy it while it lasts.
    • Its second game Explore the Dungeon Because I DON'T KNOW! however...
    • Its third game The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom is an actually decent A Link to the Past clone with voice acting from the show, bosses that act like puzzles, and great gameplay.

  • Arthur had a series of Living Books PC games in the 90s. While they're obviously geared towards younger players, they have colorful art, full voice acting, a bunch of extras, and every page is loaded with fun Easter Eggs if you click around on items in the scene.

  • The first Avatar: The Last Airbender game on DS published by THQ. It has a plot that could fit right into the show, and voice actors from the show as well. It's an RPG with a lvl up system across four main characters. A little tedious at times with unforgiving bosses, but it's still a great addition to the series.

  • The makers of Beavis and Butt-Head In: Virtual Stupidity were explicitly told that they could rush a crap game out the door since it would sell anyway. Their response: "Uh, no." They proceeded to make one of the finest point and click adventure games ever, complete with the original voice actors, original animation, and even bonus music video segments.
  • Most Ben 10 video games have received a mixed-to-good reception from critics. The most notable one is probably Ben 10: Protector of Earth, which is a surprisingly good Beat 'em Up game that stays very true to the original show. Ben 10 Alien Force Vilgax Attacks is another recommendable one, which has an interesting story based on season 3 of the show.

  • Big Fat Awesome House Party. The game held a depth that most Cartoon Network browser games lacked, which caused it to become hugely popular with fans. The game was only originally going to last until April 2007; however, its popularity caused it to last until July 2009 (the same year the cartoon ended). At the end of its lifespan, it had over 13 million players.

  • Blazing Dragons had a Point And Click Adventure game released for the PS1 and Sega Saturn in late 1996. The game was well-received among many adventure gamers and critics for its great voice acting and animation, challenging but fun puzzles, and retaining the show's sense of humor. Some say that the character designs are better compared to the animated series.

  • Humongous Entertainment only made licensed games for one franchise during their lifespan, and that's Blue's Clues. First off, they all run on the timeless SCUMM engine like their other games, and they push it to its limits as always. The two games that were based on actual episodes of the show (Blue's Birthday Adventure and Blue's Treasure Hunt) feel like actual episodes from the show, right down to having Live-Action Cutscenes for Steve (yes, the SCUMM engine was actually capable of that). The other four games (ABC Activities, 123 Activities, Art Activities, and Reading Activities) on the other hand, are nice little activity center with somewhat of a goal to work towards. It just goes to show what happens when a company actually treats an already existing franchise with care.
  • Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion XL is a good Super Smash Bros.-like game with many different playable CN characters. It is not without its flaws, however.

  • Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation: V.I.D.E.O.G.A.M.E. is a very fun Ratchet & Clank-esque game with all of the voice actors from the show, good graphics and decent music, and is rather challenging with good gameplay.

  • Danny Phantom: The Ultimate Enemy for Game Boy Advance is an addictive and awesome Beat 'em Up based on the fan-favorite episode of the same name, and is very reminiscent of Streets of Rage. Oh, and there's also the music...

  • Dexter's Laboratory: Deesaster Strikes! for the Game Boy Advance has tight controls, good structure, a pretty solid soundtrack, and a plot that captures the quirky essence of the show, making a pretty decent game that does justice to the show.

  • Ed, Edd n Eddy: The Mis-Edventures is a respectable game adaptation of the series, perfectly capturing the look, feel and humor of the show, and throwing it all into an enjoyable, if short, platformer. The Game Boy Advance version of the game ends up being a completely different game in its own right, despite mildly sharing some of the plot with the console versions (it also ended up being much better than the other GBA game released, which is a lot worse).
    • Ed, Edd n Eddy: Scam of the Century for the Nintendo DS has a rather split opinion surrounding it. Some think it's a surprisingly good platformer with an interesting plot that stays close to the show, while others have called it out for having uninspired levels and Difficulty Spikes.
  • There exists a Felix the Cat video game for the NES and Game Boy, and both happen to be surprisingly enjoyable Mario clones, with fun gameplay and appealing graphics and music.

  • All of Taito's Hanna-Barbera games are very good. Especially all of their Flintstones games, which are all very solid platformers.

  • The Franklin games are passable at best, but the PS2 game, Franklin: A Birthday Surprise is pretty decent with Scenery Porn, accurate models of the characters (likely even better than the Franklin and Friends models), great music, and it helps that the mini-games give it a bit of Replay Value.

  • Game of Drones, a game based on Futurama, has excellent animation and catchy music. It's also at a good difficulty level - it's not so hard that it's frustrating, but it's not so easy that it's boring.

  • Taxan's G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero game for NES is a very fun action platformer somewhat reminiscent of Contra where you play as varied members of the Joe team to destroy Cobra bases.

  • The video game based on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy is a surprisingly fun beat-em-up style fighter with plenty of characters from the show, all voiced by their actual voice actors, with "Weird Al" Yankovic as the announcer!
  • Hanna-Barbera's Cartoon Carnival is a Minigame Game from Phillips for the Windows PC and Macintosh revolving around six famous cartoons from the studio. The game isn't necessarily Nintendo Hard, but with "ten levels of difficulty" for each mini-game, it's enough to entertain children for hours.

  • Capcom's Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law video game is considered to be pretty good. It's a simple point-and-click adventure game but since the show's writers were heavily involved, it's twistedly hilarious. It helps that Capcom had their own existing series of humorous lawyer sims to base it on.

  • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi has Kaznapped! for the GBA, which proves to be a fun platformer with an original story, bonus game modes, and a catchy soundtrack.

  • The Azeroth-published DOS game Inspector Gadget Mission 1: Global Terror! is a Carmen Sandiego-lite point-and-click/edutainment game that's strictly for kiddies. That being said, it almost perfectly captures the tone of the average first-season Gadget episode, and, most uniquely, Penny and Brain are the alternating player characters (Penny gets captured, and Brain has to free her with a Paper-Thin Disguise). The writing is also pretty good, hanging numerous lampshades on the series' formula.

  • Jackie Chan has several decently received games of his own that would otherwise belong in other topics, but in the case of Western Animation, Jackie Chan Adventures: Legend of the Dark Hand for the Game Boy Advance is definitely one of them. The visuals do a fine job of capturing the show and the game plays well enough with its standard beat 'em up mechanics to make the player feel like the stuntmaster himself with his martial arts and interactive improvised weapons (like umbrellas, trash cans, chairs, cables, and several others).
  • Looney Tunes
    • The Looney Tunes games released by Infogrames are well-made, fun and stay true to the original cartoons:
      • The company's first Looney Tunes title: Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time on the PS1 and PC is actually a pretty fun licensed platformer. Its Spiritual Successor, Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters for the same two platforms, wasn't too shabby either.
      • Looney Tunes Collector: Martian Alert! and Marvin Strikes Back!/Looney Tunes Collector: Martian Revenge! for the GBC were great Zelda-esque Looney Tunes games faithful to the style of the show with many of the characters from the show in them.
      • Duck Dodgers was a really fun Nintendo 64 game.
      • Looney Tunes: Space Race is a competent Mascot Racer with a great soundtrack.
      • Looney Tunes Racing is another decently-made mascot kart racer.
      • Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf (also known as Sheep Raider in some regions) is a surprisingly creative stealth game with memorable gadgets (including one that allows you to travel through time) and funny expository dialogue from Daffy Duck.
      • Infogrames' last Looney Tunes game: Taz: Wanted is arguably one of the best Looney Tunes games out there. While it is incredibly derivative of other collectathons, this is not a bad thing, and the game puts enough of a spin on familiar concepts to keep them fresh. It helps that the game has a very varied sense of humor, and the objectives are usually pretty varied enough to keep the relatively simple gameplay fresh- you won't just be collecting stars, but blowing up beach huts, crashing submarines, and destroying an entire shopping mall.
    • As with Infogrames, Sunsoft also produced several excellent licensed Looney Tunes game:
      • Their SNES games fulfilled this trope to a heartbeat. Road Runner's Death Valley Rally was an entire game-long reference to nearly every classic Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote short ever. Daffy Duck in The Marvin Missions referenced the Duck Dodgers original cartoons (as well as Marvin's appearances in some Bugs Bunny shorts), and Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Rampage managed to combine references of dozens of Bugs cartoons, from "Bully For Bugs" to "Bunny Hugged", in an overarching plot in which an animator clearly out to get Bugs turns out to be Daffy attempting to get revenge for "Duck Amuck." There was also Looney Tunes B-Ball, a NBA Jam-esque game that even has snippets of old dialogue.
    • The simply titled Looney Tunes for Game Boy Color is an oft-forgotten gem. It's a surprisingly fun platformer spanning 7 levels, each taking control of one of the Looney Tunes. Whilst nothing special, it's by no means a bad game and is surprisingly well made.
    • Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck (based on the short of the same name) is a very fun game for the Nintendo DS. Although it's very short, it has hilarious dialogue and minigames and several Continuity Nods to classic shorts. The best part? Daffy Duck was the one tormenting himself in the entire game.
    • Desert Demolition for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive is a very fun game as well. In addition to being able to play as Road Runner like the other Road Runner games, you also get the option of playing as Wile E. Coyote and using the various Acme gadgets to catch Road Runner.
    • Bugs Bunny in Double Trouble for the Sega Genesis and Game Gear is also fairly decent; despite the controls being off, the surprise difficulty in later levels, often-obnoxious music and having an Excuse Plot (it's All Just a Dream), the graphics are actually pretty good (mainly the Genesis version), especially the 3D rendering and animations, and the callbacks to the original Bugs Bunny cartoons are definitely satisfying for long-time Looney Tunes fans.
    • The video game based on Looney Tunes: Back in Action has a wonky camera and platforming segments that can get annoying, but overall is a decent and fun game with some rather good minigames and plenty of collectibles.
    • Sylvester and Tweety in Cagey Capers is a decent game for the Sega Genesis in which you play as Sylvester and chase after Tweety. The game has good graphics, a large inventory, and all the characters you'd expect (Granny, Hector, Hippety Hopper, and Sylvester Jr.).
  • Nicktoons Racing for the PC and PS1. While it doesn't really stand out from other popular mascot racers of the time like Mario Kart 64 or Crash Tag Team Racing, it generally uses the formula well enough, and has characters from and tracks based on eight of the then-twelve available Nicktoons; SpongeBob SquarePants, CatDog, The Angry Beavers, Hey Arnold!, Rugrats, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, The Wild Thornberrys, and The Ren & Stimpy Show.
  • Nightmare Ned is fondly remembered by some who grew up in the '90s, often without realizing it was based on a one-season show.
  • PAW Patrol: On A Roll!, While not that great of a game for older players, the good graphics, faithfulness to the source material, and platformer gameplay manage to make the game great for the Target Audience of young children.
  • Phantom 2040 for the Super Nintendo proves to be an interesting Metroid-style game that actually has several different possible paths, choices, and endings, lending a lot of depth that's not even seen in the Metroid series itself. Add some catchy music and a nifty "list of things you should know" at the Phantom's base and it proves to be quite fun.
  • The The Pink Panther based games Pink Panther's Passport to Peril and Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink are both well made, entertaining edutainment adventure games.
  • While most games based on The Ren & Stimpy Show generally belong on the other page, there are two exceptions:
    • Stimpy's Invention for Sega Genesis is an enjoyable little platformer. The graphics do a decent enough job of replicating the show, and the sound - including audio samples of the characters - is right on the money. But what makes it a truly enjoyable experience is the gameplay - Ren and Stimpy must work together to make it through each level, and the game itself is challenging while steering clear of being overly Nintendo Hard. The only bad mark on the game, though, is its short length.
    • Quest for the Shaven Yak: Starring Ren Hoëk & Stimpy for Game Gear and Sega Master System (the latter being a Brazil-only release) is a similarly enjoyable platformer, with good graphics and music by the system's standards. The only bad things about the game is that the gameplay is a bit too simplistic, and it's also too easy.
  • Rugrats: Search for Reptar is a decent game with good graphics and levels based on different episodes from the show. You controlled each of the Rugrats (and Spike) in different levels. It could be beaten in under an hour by an adult or teenager, but would give the young target audience a decent challenge, and would take them a while.
  • Sabrina: The Animated Series received some solid games. WayForward's platformer duology for the Game Boy Color were very well made with great graphics and tight controls. Magical Adventure for the PC was also quite decent with surprisingly fun minigames featuring voices and music from the show.
  • Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights. It's a game based off the classic series, and they didn't play around. The cutscenes and dialogue are like something out of the series, it appears to be set in the 70s, it's full of Awesome Music, and it overall keeps very true to the cartoon. The voices are spot on, the new characters fit well into the series, and it even has a Laugh Track like the cartoons. It has few, if any, relations to the newer incarnations of the series; it's just a throwback game, complete with numerous monsters from the classic cartoon. The camera angles may be a bit sloppy at times, and it may be a bit hard to jump around at times, but overall it's a great game; not to forget it has some cute Holiday Mode features.
  • Scooby-Doo Mystery Mayhem didn't sell too well but it got a few good reviews that praised the creepy atmosphere (helped by the music), the voice-acting and the fun gameplay.
  • Amid the many, many mediocre-to-bad games based on it, The Simpsons has a few games considered to be of good quality:
  • South Park: The Stick of Truth is a fun, hilarious turn-based RPG based on the show and written by its creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone and developed by Obsidian Entertainment. It is full of characters and references from past episodes of the show and features a fully explorable South Park. It has even been compared to Batman: Arkham Asylum in terms of faithfulness to the source material.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants games are almost always heavily praised for their quality. In fact, they even have a better track record than the show itself. They're commonly ranked among the best licensed games ever, minus certain ones like SuperSponge, Plankton's Robotic Revenge, and SpongeBob HeroPants. Most of the games, once the sixth gen came along, feature their own continuity; several elements are reused from each game and the visuals are almost always the same, which is pretty impressive for licensed games. Even the standalone Plug N Play Games rank among the most highly regarded of their kind.
    • Sponge Bob Square Pants Employee Of The Month — while fairly short and featuring 3D animation for cutscenes that can be best described as "trying" — is a solid, charming point-and-click adventure game, featuring funny and clever writing, top-notch environment design that explores and expands upon the setting of the show, and simple, yet intuitive and entertaining puzzles. Of all SpongeBob games, this is among the most faithful in terms of atmosphere, featuring lower stakes and a relaxed tone, yet still jammed with hilarious moments full of personality.
    • SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom was a remarkably decent platformer following on the Super Mario 64 formula. A lot of later SpongeBob games still use this game's engine simply because of how timeless it is. It even received a remake in 2020, which isn't something that you can say happens to a lot of licensed games. Plus, the music was absolutely AWESOME.
    • They also made a game based on The Movie, which reused most of the assets from BfBB and was just as good, if not better, for most of the same reasons.
    • SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! (the console version at least) is a rather enjoyable Minigame Game with excellent music (one mini-game is a rhythm game centered around it) and the Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy cartoon that the players compete to earn roles in clocks in at just over half an hour!
      • The Game Boy Advance version isn't bad either. It's a solid little platformer made by WayForward Technologies, and it even has its own minigames. While it doesn't have multiplayer, it's still a fun game in its own right.
    • Don't listen to the general public, Creature from the Krusty Krab was a pretty weird, creative, and fun game to play, where the best part was obviously the level with Giant Plankton.
    • And hey, if platformers and Minigame Games aren't your thing, there's always the PC games to check out. The ports of Lights, Camera, Pants and The SpongeBob Movie Game in particular are fun Point and Click adventures that expertly capture the humor of the show.
    • SpongeBob SquigglePants is a solid WarioWare clone with great art in various styles and charming cutscenes featuring Patchy the Pirate. Go for the 3DS version if you can to avoid having to purchase the uDraw peripheral for the Wii.
  • Steven Universe: Attack the Light is a mobile RPG with cute chibi-esque graphics, fun Paper Mario-style gameplay, with voice acting from the show's actors. The story was also written by the show's creator. The music is also great even if it wasn't composed by the show regulars Aivi & Surasshu. Most elements are from the show, and what's new has been generally accepted by fans. Its sequel, Save the Light, could be considered a vast improvement, if you don't mind the bugs (which patches being released have, for the most part, fixed). It has an improved battle system, good dialogue, new characters, and lasts a good while.
  • Strawberry Shortcake had a pretty good platformer game called Strawberry Shortcake: The Four Seasons Cake on the Nintendo DS, though it's berry hard to find.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
  • Thomas & Friends: Kikansha Thomas To Nakamatachi is a PS1 game released exclusively for Japanese audiences by Bandai in 2000. The graphics, music, and presentation are all well-done and show-accurate, and the game is loaded with educational mini-games such as counting, memory, correct paths, and creativity. When replaying certain mini-games, certain aspects are changed so they're not the same thing twice. The game is also very simple to play, due to the fact that the D-pad is never used, only the face buttons. It can be played with either the standard PS1 controller or the special KidsStation controller it comes bundled with.
  • Konami and Treasure's games based on the Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs franchises were decent games in their own right — and quite faithful to the source material's visual and musical style, at that. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about the later games of the series made by Warthog Games (with one noted exception below) and Terraglyph.
    • Tiny Toon Adventures: Defenders of the Universe was supposed to be a fighting game for the PS2 and Nintendo GameCube which is pretty damn fun. Most of the main cast of Tiny Toons are playable characters (Including Fifi La Fume, Shirley The Loon, Furrball, and even the two antagonists Elmyra Duff and Montana Max), they all have their own unique abilities, the old voice actors all return except for Hampton's (Who is now played by Billy West), and the game plays pretty much like a sequel to Rakugaki Showtime. Sadly, the game was never released despite being just about finished for unknown reasons (Rumors are that it was because of a budget crisis with Conspiracy Entertainment which caused them to lose the license to Tiny Toons before the game was released). However, the game can be played on a PS2 emulator or the ROM can be burned onto a disc and played on a modded PS2 or PS3, and walkthroughs and gameplay videos of some of the characters can still be found on YouTube.
    • The Animaniacs game for the Sega Genesis is a decent platformer in which you must take advantage of each Warner's ability to solve puzzles and progress through the levels. It helps that the writing is an admirable attempt at capturing the tongue-in-cheek spirit of the cartoon, and is often genuinely funny.
    • The SNES Animaniacs was also very good. It did a very good job of capturing the look of the show and while it had less dialogue, managed to capture the slapstick feel of the show and the fact that Animaniacs usually parodies many different genres by having the levels be sets for different types of movies, and while all the characters have the same moves there are subtle differences in their properties. It doesn't have the different abilities of Animaniacs for Genesis, but it was a solid platformer with very clever level design and very fun music.
    • A broken clock is correct twice a day, and Animaniacs: The Great Edgar Hunt is definitely a case of this for Warthog Games, who otherwise had a lousy track record. The game is a solid collectathon platformer where all three of the Warners are playable characters, with the main voice cast reprising their roles, and with clever writing that stays very true to the show. The levels take place around many different movie sets basically allowing the theming to be whatever it wants to be with no limits, and the developers pushed that to its fullest potential. It does have some moderate Camera Screw and can be rough around the edges, but the game overall pays a lot of respect to its source material and caters to old and new Animaniacs fans alike.
  • The Dreamcast Wacky Races game was a pretty competent Mario Kart clone featuring a ton of tracks and modes, all 11 vehicles, as well as capturing the humor of the original show. Moreover, while most of the characters were voiced by sound alikes, two of them were voiced by the original actorsnote .
    • Europe got an Updated Re-release of the game on the PS2, entitled Wacky Races: Starring Dastardly & Muttley. This version added a new city based environment, with its own full set of new unique tracks, which are just as fun as the original tracks. (One of the new tracks even has an appearance of the Vulture Squadron's main planes, a Mythology Gag that should make any fan smile)
    • The Nintendo Entertainment System version of Wacky Races, developed and published by Atlus is quite an enjoyable surprise. It's a 2D platformer where you play as Muttley serving as the Villain Protagonist and help win the race for Dastardly. The music is quite catchy and the bosses are the other ten Wacky Racers. The player can choose which area to go to first and clear three to four levels, then they can choose the next area on the World Map.
  • Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, a 1992 Konami Arcade game based on the animated series of the same name, is a fast paced run-n-gunner in the same vein as Sunset Riders. Stimulating gameplay and colorful graphics, great sound and music, and four players can play at once as you play as the eponymous heroes, battling various villains from the show to save Lily Bovine.
  • While the PS2 and Xbox versions of the Xiaolin Showdown game belong on the other page, the DS version is surprisingly decent. Unlike the horrid PS2 and Xbox versions, the DS version has enjoyable gameplay, is somewhat challenging (and you actually can die in this version), and the levels aren't restricted to a rectangular box.
  • While not quite as good as other Hanna-Barbera licensed games, Empire Software made two decent Yogi Bear games, one for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the other for the Game Boy. Hanna-Barbera's Turbo Toons for the SNES wasn't too bad either.
  • While the console released Cartoon Network Battle Crashers belongs on the other page the later mobile semi-sequel/spinoff Cartoon Network Party Dash is a decent Downwell clone with fast bite-sized gameplay, a ton of unlockables/power-ups and not needing to spend any real money to play it as everything is unlocked with in-game currency.
  • The Amazing World of Gumball flash game The Princi-pals is a surprisingly engaging decision making simulator that's more or less a kid-friendly Reigns. The dialogue is accurate to the show's humor, it can be fun to read or attempt the various Sadistic Choices while trying to maintain the school, the minigames are fun breaks, and the endings for dying are less so scary and annoying and more whimsically dark.

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