The Nintendo 64 Cover For Club Nintendo (Italy), 1997. Support Us On Patreon

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Art by Colin Cracker

It’s a treat seeing this book - I love how the art style uses a more softer, painted design as opposed to the thick bold lines and brighter colors found in the OG show.

Now if someone can find Dexter’s Lab Zappo Change-O which has a similar visual design to this book, I’d be a happy camper

The Powerpuff Girls "Big, Terrible Trouble" Little Golden Book (1999)

Also, I honestly didn’t know this until later, but rest in peace George Lowe. You will always be Space Ghost to me. And Captain Beefy.

Holy crap I love this cover

Poor Kirbo, tho…

N64 Gamer #29, July 2000 - ‘007: The World Is Not Enough’ & 'Kirby 64’ Cover. Support us on Patreon

Damn! I gotta break this down a bit.

First, I was not expecting concept art and storyboards! I liked the storyboard involving the Amoeba Boys bumbling about and torching an entire library, that was fairly amusing. I’m not surprised that it didn’t make it that far into production, given how a lot of dev studios I believe at the time were pitching video games based on cartoons and many of them not sticking. Ah, such is a volatile industry…

Second, I also didn’t know this was meant to be a GameCube title either. I can only hypothesize: I guess when I discovered it, Shock of Ages was also meant to be released on the PS2 much like Relish Rampage? Or be a proper multiplatform title like other cartoon video games (PS2, OG Xbox, GameCube, PC/Mac, GBA…you get the idea)?

Now, if it was a GameCube exclusive judging by how it was presented on Kieth Erickson’s portfolio, had it been released it’d probably would’ve been a collectors item by now. A GameCube exclusive based on a popular cartoon show? Way too many hardcore fans and retro game collectors would’ve ate that up!

As for publisher, the GameFAQs page mentioned THQ, which is a bit weird considering how they had the exclusive rights to Nicktoons games. Bam Entertainment had the Cartoon Network license and published most of the Powerpuff Girls games. Then they lost it, and the rights for other CN shows went to a ton of other studios like Midway, Sega, Crave, D3 and even Capcom (well, namely for that Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law game).

I wouldn’t be surprised if Bam lost the CN exclusivity at some point it caused the game to be scrapped or switched publishers, then scrapped. Hell, there was a Dexter’s Lab game - a mech fighting game akin to MechAssault that was being made at the same time and that was further in development also. Maybe that explains why that got cancelled too.

This is such a cool find. It’s a shame that there wasn’t design docs, if any, or whatever else behind it. One can dream.

Hey! Seeing that you’re the resident rare PPG merch blog, I need your perspective. I know that the PPG video games aren’t very good but this one intrigued me because of how…mysterious it is. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps2/917583-powerpuff-girls-shock-of-ages

I have no idea if it was a real game that got cancelled or somebody made it up. I couldn’t find any prerelease info on it, or an archived announcement from any site - let alone GaneFAQs. Seriously, what is this game?

super sorry for the super late answer!

first of all, "resident rare ppg merch blog"?! you flatter me!

as for your question, it seems this really was a cancelled game! ive found the portfolio of Keith Erickson, an animator who worked on the game as well as the gba game mojo-jojo a go-go:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050219234557/http://raccoonlad.topcities.com/portfolio/port00.html

prop/location concepts

plus some storyboards!

not a clue on what this game would've entailed though! i don't think this game got far enough in production to warrant to have a public announcement on news articles which is why it's so mysterious! thanks for the ask!

Brilliant. Just brilliant *chefs kiss*

“Excuse me, he asked for ALL pickles.”

Told you there'd be more Sam

previous Samus art

Retro video game hot take: Sega’s ads here in North America sucked. They were really mean and gross and sexist and weird, and well…

I wanted to give my own spin on them.

Breaking from my hiatus to talk about the Switch 2.

I gotta say, realistically, I wasn’t expecting much beyond some more broader tech upgrades and social features. I like the new Joycon mouse features, the integrated social features and larger system, but not much was talked about the UI or whatever else for the Switch 2 (like an achievement system, themes, that sort of superficial stuff). But maybe that’ll be revealed in due time. Maybe.

Games on the other hand? I’m super stoked for Donkey Kong Bananza and Mario Kart Worlds! Those look fantastic. The NS2 upgrade system, ehhh…I mean, it’s expected, I guess. I’ll just get NS2 versions of those games anyway. Third parties - yeah, I knew those were coming. That Bloodborne spiritual successor I was not expecting, however! GameCube emulator for NSO, eh.

Overall, I’m definitely getting a NS2 for sure, but I’ll wait until Christmas or so at best. The prices are not my thing either for what is essentially a Switch upgrade - but given how the SNES and N64 days had some obscenely priced games and hardware, I’m not surprised. Really don’t want to jump on the terminally online hate train about the system, I got enough to worry about as is.

but seriously no kid Icarus or tin star WTF Nintendo, more like SUCKtendo amirite???

Need to play Persona one of these days