"Hey Beavis, the screen is still black!"
"This game sucks!"
"This game sucks!"
—An old-aged Beavis and Butt-Head, in the options menu of the Sega Genesis game. (The TV is shown to be unplugged and its cord dangling)
Well into the show's run, some video games were released tied into the series, of varying genres, but favoring the likes of action-adventure.
Sega Genesis
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: A certainly long one at the Streets, connecting the neighborhood and the junkyard, which are otherwise separated by an impassible wood barricade.
- Auto Erotica: There'll be a shaking car out at the end of the Drive-In. Use the camera from home here and a big lady will start chasing you.
- Batter Up!: Butt-Head can buy one with a boxing glove on it at the mall's toy store. Can be used to smash those shopping carts for food items, and he is seen smacking the Sega logo with it at startup.
- Chainsaw Good: Downplayed. "This is an MA-13 game, chainsaws only work on trees!" Oh, like the one you grab from Mr. Anderson's shed to use on the tree in his backyard for a ticket piece?
- Damage Over Time: After picking up the bad burger out by the Burger World dumpster, both characters will take one point of damage every several seconds (accompanied by a voice clip—you lose health everytime Beavis says "We're sick!") until you get them to the Hospital's examination room.note
- Dismantled MacGuffin: The concert tickets, which are in pieces.
- Donut Mess with a Cop: Throw out the donut from the couch as a fishing lure to get a cop. He can be killed easily for an energy item.
- Down in the Dumps: The barricaded-off junkyard at the Streets, accessible only through the sewer.
- Drive-In Theater: One of the game's stages, requires an accumulation of $3 to get in.
- Edible Ammunition: The guy at the mall's yogurt shop tosses waves of yogurts at the two when they drop by. He hasn't forgotten the time they took the ones they bought there (which they didn't like and couldn't have refunded because the place wasn't a "participating location") and smeared them all over the windows in "Yogurt's Cool".
- Everything Trying to Kill You: Inexplicable clones of Todd and Earl, rats, birds are among many other things want the pair dead.
- Fartillery: Both have gas for their main attacks, but the trope favors Butt-Head who actually farts. (Beavis uses belches, and the difference is which direction they go, back or forward respectively.)
- Guide Dang It!: Unless you have the right amount of luck in determining it, you may have to consult the guides for the code to Burger World's back door.Or just click here.
- It's a Wonderful Failure: The game over screen has the pair standing in Hell.
Beavis: I think we're dead or something!
Butthead: This sucks, dude!
- Multiple Life Bars: Beavis and Butthead each have their own energy bar, so if one is in bad shape, you can switch to the other character. The game ends automatically if either character dies.
- Non-Standard Game Over:
- Trying to grab the documents on the desk at the Army Recruit office results in the recruiter tossing a bomb at you, killing Beavis and Butthead instantly.
- Using a boot while couch fishing summons Earl, who will kill you if he catches you.
- Oh, Crap!: We dare you to use the boot from the junkyard for couch-fishing. It'll get you the invulnerable Earl, who'll kill you both if he touches you!
- Take the advice of the Pawn Shop Peddler at Turbo Mall 2000 if you try to pawn the boot:
Peddler: If I were you... I wouldn't use that boot for anything!
- Psycho Poodle: Mr. Anderson's dog if it gets hold of you. Can be averted by tossing it the bone from the junkyard before going into his shed, and again if you got the cat from couch-fishing with the pizza and choose to head past the front entrance and backstage at the GWAR concert.
- Shock and Awe: A spark-throwing electric machine is operated by Buzzcut in his classroom.
- Slippery Skid: Lead the lady chasing you from the shaking car at the Drive-In to the concession stand where the soda from the (hopefully) bombed machine will make her slip and drop a ticket piece.
- Throw Down the Bomblet: The bomb from the mall's Army recruiting office is used on the soda machine out at the theater.
- Unintentionally Unwinnable: Spend too much of your money before heading out to the Drive-In and you won't be able to get in—Aside from one ticket piece, the binoculars are there which you can trade to the mall's pawn shop for plenty of money for other things.
- Vomit Discretion Shot: Give the Burger World customer the rat/fries and he'll eat the whole shebang—The cutscene ends with a text-only screen, followed by a ticket piece left in a puddle of his vomit.
- Weaponized Ball: Look out for bowling balls that randomly roll in at you at certain locations.
- We Cannot Go On Without You: The game ends if either Beavis or Butthead die, and both of them appear on the game over screen, despite only one of them dying (though there are a few instances where you can kill both of them at once).
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: At the mall, bring the Army recruiter a snake from the pet shop and he'll be too busy cowering on the floor to bomb you for grabbing the documents off his desk, which sit on top of a ticket piece.
SNES
Also bearing the plot of getting the two to a GWAR concert, this one is a linear side-scroller and sometimes-platformer featuring all but two of the same locales as the Genesis game (Burger World and the Drive-In).- Ass Kicks You: The nurse boss at the Hospital attacks you by swinging her ample buttocks.
- Game Within a Game: The playable "Butt Fighter" arcade game at the Turbo Mall.
- Rake Take: Stepping on rakes, such as the ones at the Streets, will damage the player.
- Slippery Skid: Step onto a puddle of water and the two will slide straight forward and only be able to jump until they're back on a dry surface.
- Tactical Suicide Boss: Mr. Anderson is defeating by throwing back the apple cores he launches from his leaf-blower.
Game Boy
Top-view action-adventure game, which unlike others in the series has no real plot other than sneaking the two out of school, dropping by Burger World, and ending with them busting Todd out of the police station.- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: The one side-view area of the game is a sewer Beavis slips into from the school grounds.
- Dodgeball Is Hell: When passing through the school gym, Buzzcut will do a little dodgeball with Beavis before he can proceed.
- Edible Ammunition: Tomatoes, the second and more powerful of the game's available weapons.
- Sprint Shoes: The coffee is used by Beavis to turn into Cornholio and temporarily move a lot faster. For Butt-Head, there's the girly-magazines.
