Rugrats All Growed Up

by THQ

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00005JHKH
• Item Weight: 12.3 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 30, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,222 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #59 in Software > Outlet
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Doctor Spooky has created one whopper of a problem for the Rugrats: accidental exposure to his time machine has caused Kimi, Tommy, and the others to age 10 years in an instant. Now the preteens' only chance of returning to their natural baby state lies in helping the doctor build an un-time machine. Unfortunately, the plans and parts are scattered throughout his laboratory.

Based on the special of the same name, Rugrats: All Growed-Up is an arcade game aimed at kids in the 7-years-and-older age range, offering minimal educational content and lots of action. The prematurely aged Rugrats move through maze after maze, dodging falling books in the library, avoiding kid-eating plants in the greenhouse, and ducking bats in the basement. Along the way they must climb ladders, jump gaps in their path, and solve puzzles to unlock stubborn doors. Finishing one maze will create opportunities to explore others, and along the way players can collect Spooky spheres which will enable them to free another time-accelerated Rugrat for use in gameplay.

As maze games go, All Growed-Up offers plenty of entertainment and challenge. Its graphics are bright and easy to decipher, making it a good game for children who are frustrated when their next step is obscure or nonintuitive. The player feedback is as supportive as fans of the show might expect: miss a jump or fall prey to a spooky spider, and the other Rugrats will heckle you. The game structure is more forgiving, though, allowing you to restart partway through a completed maze--instead of having to begin at the very start--when you fall or are otherwise put out of commission. This game is tough, in other words, but fair. It is also fully enjoyable, offering a pleasant romp through game rooms of increasing difficulty, with plenty of excitement along the way. (Ages 7 and older) --Alyx Dellamonica

Product Description

A Baby's Gotta Do What A Baby's Gotta DoProduct InformationRugrats: All Growed Up is based on Rugrats 10th anniversary primetime specialthat features the Rugrats babies 10 years older. The babies are watching theirfavorite TV show in the Pickle’s living room Dr. Spooky when they aresuddenly transported 10 years into the future by Dr. Spooky’s time machine.It’s not long before the babies want to go back to being babies and mustsearch for the parts to construct the un-time machine.It all started when the babies sat down to watch Dr. Spooky on TV over at thePickles' house.  That day Dr. Spooky was brimming with pride over theamazing new time machine he had invented.  The babies were totallyfascinated.  Their eyes were all glued to the TV.  All eyes except forAngelica's that is. She was looking right at the babies.  "There's nosuch thing as a time machine you dumb babies" she shoutedknowingly.  In a flash the babies were transported to Dr. Spooky's labwhere they discovered they weren't babies anymore - they were ten yearsolder!  The time machine had worked...but could they ever go back?Product Features Hurdle moving objects Explore different rooms Dodge falling books Search the castle for clues Inspired by the Rugrats 10th Anniversary Special The babies have been catapulted ten years into the future Help them find the pieces of a time machine scattered around DR. Spooky's castle Help them return to their lives as the babies we know and love Windows Requirements Windows 95 98 Me Pentium II 300 MHz processor 64 MB of RAM 140 MB Hard Disk space 8X CD-ROM drive 2 MB PCI Video Card 16-bit Sound Card 

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Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If you are buying this for a kid, don't bother, March 7, 2002

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a dad (Long Island, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rugrats All Growed Up (CD-ROM)

Don't waste your money on this one. It is ridiculous to expect a child to be able to play this game by using keyboard commands. My daughter is 8-years-old and very computer capable. She found this game completely frustrating. I usually take my lumps in life, but this game was such a complete waste of money that I am writing to THQ, Nickelodeon, and the corporate offices of ...(the store where my daughter bought this software with gift money) with the hope that someone out there will refund her money.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Frustrating!, December 23, 2001

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miomyo1234 (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rugrats All Growed Up (CD-ROM)

This game is way too frustrating for any age group. I played it with my 6-year old nephew and 10-year-old niece, and none of us can use the keyboard well enough to succeed.

The game works like a Super Mario Brothers arcade of ladders and roadblocks. The problem is that the keyboard commands do not respond well and a mouse is not supported. If you don't hit the spacebar-cursor key combination just right, you fall when trying to jump, and each time you fall, you must redo a very long sequence of moves to get back to where you left off. This becomes boring and extremely frustrating--leaving the 6-year-old near tears, the 10-year-old banging keys, and me wondering how this game ever made it past the testing stage.

THQ, the manufacturer, makes a lot of games for all the popular video game machines. Perhaps with a video game controller, this game can play well, but it does not translate to a computer keyboard.

1.0 out of 5 stars Hard for kids, and even HARDER for autistic ones., November 5, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Rugrats All Growed Up (CD-ROM)

I have a brother, an autistic but smart one, and he loves rugrats and liked the "all growed up" tv special, so we thought this'll be good for him, because he loves kids' computer games, and it looked so easy on the commercial, so we decided to give it a try.
It was extremely hard, and it took him a long time to memorise which key did what, and how to jump without dying. This really upset him, and I think I should give him Jumpstart games from now on.