Hey Arnold!: The Movie (video game)

Hey Arnold!: The Movie is a 2002 platform video game developed by Altron and published by THQ, based upon the TV show's film released the same year. It is the only video game to be exclusively based on Hey Arnold!.

Hey Arnold!: The Movie
North American box art
Developer(s)Altron
Publisher(s)THQ
Producer(s)Masakazu Ishikawa
Programmer(s)Mitsuhiro Niioka
Composer(s)Tomoyoshi Sato
Platform(s)Game Boy Advance
Release
  • NA: May 29, 2002[1]
  • EU: August 30, 2002
Genre(s)Action-adventure, platform
Mode(s)Single-player

The boxart of the game is the same artwork to the theatrical poster of the film, the only difference is that the theatrical poster had its background in a grayscale or black and white color scheme with Scheck blending in with the color on top while Arnold and the gang was in color. Strangely, Scheck is omitted from the game's colored boxart.

Gameplay
Arnold prepares to throw tomatoes at one of Scheck's henchmen.

Just like the film's plot, Arnold and Gerald must save their neighborhood from an industrialist named Scheck, who wishes to demolish the area and build a mall in its place. The game consists of five worlds,[2] each one containing four levels and one boss enemy. The player may control Arnold, Gerald, Grandpa, and Grandma,[2] which all are assigned their own levels with their own objectives. The player may use weapons such as teeth and toilet paper to defeat enemies.[3] Helga, who can be unlocked with a secret code, replaces all the other characters. Using the same code will revert them.

Reception

Marc Nix of IGN gave the game a 5.5 rating out of 10 and praised its graphics, but wrote: "Unfortunately, the actual game doesn't show nearly as much polish as the graphics engine. The layout of the stages has you making all kinds of blind jumps — the viewing angle won't adjust to show you where you're jumping, so often you'll be jumping over bottomless cliffs or even across tiny platforms without a clue where you're going". Nix also wrote that "the password on Hey Arnold! is exactly what's so wrong about using a password save. It's 9 digits with upper and lower case letters, plus funky punctuation and screwy symbols that a kid could write down wrong".[2]

Jennifer Beam of AllGame rated the game three stars out of five and praised its graphics and "good background music". Beam called it "a well-delivered portable action game", but also wrote: "A fun and entertaining challenge the first time through, but probably will lose its appeal after the second".[3]

References
  1. "PR - 5/29/02 - THQ SHIPS HEY ARNOLD! THE MOVIE FOR GAME BOY ADVANCE". 2004-04-16. Archived from the original on 2004-04-16. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
  2. Nix, Marc (July 17, 2002). "Hey Arnold: The Movie". IGN. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  3. Beam, Jennifer. "Hey Arnold! The Movie Review". AllGame. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014.


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