Twisted Metal: Small Brawl & other Muppets Babies-style games?

[PopQuiz]

That other Twisted Metal thread reminded me that Small Brawl existed. It was a cheap spinoff where you play as a child Sweet Tooth and drive RC cars.

The Muppets Babies concept is fun, but you don't see it in games too often. Like, Kidz Bop versions of older games.

I guess you could say the LEGO games are a version of this. Are there any other examples?

 

[Rygar 8Bit]

Yoshi's Island comes to mind. There's those like backyard sports games as well aren't those real players as kids?

 

[Transistor]

Would Motorstorm RC count?

 

[Biscuits & Gravy]

Virtua Fighter Kids

Micro Machines?

 

[mopinks]

the true classics, Kid Kirby and Young Conker

 

[LewieP]

I was always kinda curious about SD Snatcher.

There are loads of SD Gundam games, too.

 

[Joltik]

Is Kid Dracula supposed to be kid Alucard or some unrelated character?

 

[Rygar 8Bit]

Is Kid Dracula supposed to be kid Alucard or some unrelated character?

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Ah fuck I should have gotten that. That counts, you play as Dracula as a kid.

 

[Huey]

Virtua Fighter Kids

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Yeah this was my first thought

Cool little game. I always thought it was weird Sega developed this on the STV board instead of model 2 where all their other fighters were

 

[KalBalboa]

Would Motorstorm RC count?

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This was the first game that came to mind for me, too.

Small Brawl is surprisingly fun. I didn't play it until a few years ago.

 

[ascii42]

There's those like backyard sports games as well aren't those real players as kids?

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Yep, literally says that on the box art, actually.

 

[MrNewVegas]

Shocked nobody has mentioned Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix.

 

[knightmawk]

Wonderswan had Pocket Fighter, which was like mini street fighter, and Guilty Gear Petit, which was like mini Guilty Gear. Maybe that counts.

Not sure if this is in the spirit of it but there was also Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition, which was a sort of abridged mobile port with more stylized cartoony graphics, and I think it came to Switch, but I don't remember.

 

[DarkLegion]

Not necesarily baby games but Neo Geo Pocket Color had a lot of games that had a cartoony style to fit the hardware

KoF R-2

SNK vs Capcom

 

[Ultimadrago]

Small Brawl's OST was a bop:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK2Fm3YM-O8

Child Slam was my main.

 

[Giga Man]

My first thoughts were SNK's Pocket Fighters and Capcom's Super Gem/Puzzle Fighter.

 

[PassiveObserver]

Battle Arena Toshinden actually had a kidified version called Battle Arena Nitoshinden (credit to Sean Seanson for putting me on). Similar vibe to VF Kids but apparently it plays completely differently to regular Toshinden with simplified inputs that make it almost like Smash Bros.

 

[Unicorn]

Why are there no Twisted Metal style games anymore.

 

[Dr.Social]

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

Sonic Rumble is coming this year:


View: https://youtu.be/Em6-SjjaYQE?feature=shared

 

[Bish_Bosch]

Always been curious about the insanity that is Demikids.

 

[Grenlento]

My first thoughts were SNK's Pocket Fighters and Capcom's Super Gem/Puzzle Fighter.

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Puzzle Fighter instantly came to mind. A fun puzzle game mixed w/ so much fan service.

 

[Ryuhza]

Why are there no Twisted Metal style games anymore.

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Because the world sucks. 😒

 

[sn00zer]

Virtua Fighter does Kingdom Hearts

 

[XaosWolf]

If super deformed styles count then Mortal Kombat Armageddon had a Motor Kombat kart racing mode with chibi versions of the characters.

 

[pete_clarf]

Are there any actual Muppet Baby games?

 

[Shin Kojima]

Mighty Final Fight?

 

[xyla]

No idea if that counts, but there's a mobile Blur game that completely passed me by.

 

[dom]

Yoshi's Island comes to mind. There's those like backyard sports games as well aren't those real players as kids?

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Pablo the GOAT