The Nicktoons Handheld Crossover Saga 

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"Man I remember buying The Bee Movie game at Gamestop thinking it was some kind of GTA but with the Bee Movie characters, got disappointed on that, yet I liked the game overall " - Duke Nukem

Timmy was left out of the final game because he was being investigated for using his fairies to commit war crimes at the time.

Honestly the old Nicktoons crossover games are oddly charming despite their flaws. A simpler time it was.

Mark I’m heavily disappointed that this wasn’t a 50 minute video praising the masterpiece Morbius. Like Dr. Michael Morbius once said “It’s Morbin time”

16:15 It actually has an indication, the real one has a shadow and all the other ones don't have one.

i love that nicktoons unite on ds has unique music for each character spongebob has tropical styled music danny has rock timmy has jazz and jimmy has techno

*LS Mark:* "This colour combination of white and green is disgusting." *Danny Phantom:* 😔

I kinda miss licensed games too, I still remember buying Transformers: the game for DS for $0.50

The sequel finally came! *Now do the Cartoon Network games.*

42:30 Considering Timmy attempted to steal Cindy from Jimmy for his school dance, I guess it could be a act of revenge.

LSMark you didn’t have to crunch yourself to make this 50 minute video so it can stay on schedule. Honestly none of us would’ve noticed or care if it wasn’t. But I really really appreciate the work you put into these. Thank you man for making my Saturday a little bit better.

The upsetting bit about Timmy's depiction in these games changing so much is that he was kinda broken if you took the time to level him in Unite's console version. With a healing move, a freeze move, and the best range out of all four characters, he was all around great.

Danny Phantom in every one of these just shows how he's great as a video game character. I wish Nick would show him more respect outside of that. I'd kill for a DP comic for older kids, like they're doing for Zim.

I had Unite for the DS as well when I was a kid and just seeing the footage brought back all those memories of struggling with the camera controls. That weird glitch with the Plankton boss fight was also on my standard release version. I still remember when I got to that boss and it went from tiny jellyfish to Plankton just floating there to the jellyfish reappearing but upside down and the realisation that I couldn't beat him nor the rest of the game

I loved globs of doom on ds as a kid, I still think the music of that game is really good

Ahhh, you just unlocked a deep memory of me playing Nicktoons: Unite on my DS too, it came on one of those bootleg cards too lol. I also suffered from the disease of stupidity and not being able to clear the first level 💀

I just miss the era where we could get games based off of cartoons from nick and cn. Such a magical time...

Considering Globs Of Doom (the one I had) and Attack of The Toybots DS were developed by Natsume (as in developer of ‘Wild Guns’ Natsume) that might explain their quality. Attack for Volcano Island GBA was developed by the makers of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride. So that explains why it’s the best of the bunch. So good on them.

Such an AMAZING Morbius (2022) review. It really gave off the Morbin vibes. When you made that "its morbin time" joke was so good.

Guys, it's not morbin' time :(

25:42 seriously this make Butch Hartman looks like a Disney artist.

Finally someone talked about the GBA version of Volcano Island and gave it praise that game's probably taken up most of my childhood so seeing it brought to light is just rad

21:20 Danny's phasing ability is pretty cool, it reminds me of Lani-Loli in Crash 4: It's About Time, where you can phase through other objects that you can pass through, or stand on other platforms that are solid. It's neat how they used that concept for him, and it works pretty well for puzzles and platforming.

The DS port of Attack of the Toybots was me and my sisters favorite game growing up. The multiplayer and unlockable characters kept us entertained for ages. An absolute classic.

I really hope NASB gets a story mode like slap city. Combining actual platform levels with the gameplay and roster of the game would be awesome.

21:12 SpongeBob predicted the Drill Wisp from Sonic Colors 21:20 Danny Phantom predicted Lani-Loli from Crash Bandicoot 4 It's About Time 27:05 LMAO

I feel like Mark always has a problem with Jimmy in all of these games.

Honestly while I never really played any of the Nicktoons games as a kid, I'm genuinely kinda surprised they never included Timmy and Mr. Crocker in Globs of Doom cause they totally could've given Crocker some type of attacks or move set based on how inventive he is, considering he always had some sort of invention with wanting to capture Timmy's fairies, I think it would've been cool to see something like that if he was included being part of his character

I FUCKING PLAYED ONE OF THESE. My cousin was explaining to me the concept of emulation when I was relatively younger and they showed me how to use my boy or something to play one of these on my phone.

The nicktoons saga is pure fanfiction between Nick characters and its still better than most crossovers.

I hope in the future you can talk about All Star Brawl and ranking every nicktoon!

I loved this scene in Morbius, where Morbius is revealed to be a really good Nicktoons Unite player in the post-credit-scene.

"As a kid if it wasn't Mario, Sonic, or a licenced game, I wasn't interested" Never resonated harder with a quote, though for me it was Pokemon instead of Mario, I even have a distinctive memory of passing up Dark Souls for some shitty licenced game.

Hey, something I wish you’d noted that in DS Toybots, the stage’s gimmick plays into the respective boss fight in a nice way

I actually had the ds version for Attack on the toybots. I enjoyed it a lot, and I’m glad you enjoyed it as well.

I'll give these a go eventually. I would love to see you cover more licensed games because there's bound to be some more gems out there!

Oh my god, hearing the Globs of Doom music again just unlocked so many memories for me

I remember loving both console and handheld versions of globs of doom to the point both being the very few games I beat as a kid

Aww. I was hoping you'd talk about freeze frame frenzy, a kind of 2d Pokemon snap for the gba that has you taking pictures of out of place nicktoons to send them back to their dimensions. It even included a lot of show references, especially in the sponge bob and fairly odd parents levels. Heck, ZIM was the main antagonist!

I remember handheld ports of ongoing series from around this time followed a formula. This first game was rocky, but playable. The second game was shockingly ambitious on a technical level and actually fun. The third game got corrupted by laziness and regresses to being the worst of the bunch. The fourth game and onward were mini game collections.

I remember playing volcano island on GBA religiously as a kid. That was one of the only nicktoons crossover games I owned as a kid and I still enjoy it today. It’s honestly pretty underrated and I think it deserves more appreciation.

i remember having volcano island for the gba it was surprisingly a good game

The reason why the jellyfish robot was backwards is really simple. The boss probaly dies when the size is 0 in X, Y & Z, 0 means you don't see shit of that dud, however since he didn't died he continued shrinking, and the number under 0 is -1 in any editor, not only programming doing that means your shit will mirror his X, Y & Z.... That was my ted talk good video anyways

I actually remember playing nicktoons unite DS as a kid. I didn't get very far, but it's always weird seeing games that I almost forgot existed from my childhood. Especially from the DS since it's the only platform where I played a few games that weren't made by some major company.

I actually still own Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots for PS2 till this day, including my PS2.

from the sound of it, globs of doom sounds a _lot_ like the lost vikings with the key difference of having two rotating characters instead of a constant cast of three it's an interesting trade-off, actually. it seems like each nicktoon has a less versatile toolkit than the individual vikings, but the vikings, naturally, always have complete access to their tools. so while the level design in vikings could always factor in what the player can do without thinking about which characters they were given ... it also didn't really have a _choice_ in the matter, as the only way to limit the player's verbs was to lock one of the vikings away until the player solved a puzzle their toolkit would've invalidated, and consequently _all_ of that viking's tools were out of commission until they could be freely used again. the nicktoons approach, meanwhile, gives some _really_ granular control over the player's verbs that ... would probably benefit from having more than two characters available at once to compensate for each individual character's simplicity, but that starts to run into the issue where more characters means more characters you have to drag over to the exit, and there's a lot of finer details like that which really makes the game design part of my brain tingle

I fucking love licenced games. They're usually not that great but damn they were always fun, I wish they were still making them.

I remember getting a DS and Battle for Volcano Island for GBA as christmas gifts when I was 7 years old and I loved that game so much, it was the only thing I used to play for a while. I appreciate someone finally talking about it and mentioning how great its gameplay and music really are

As someone who absolutely loves globs of doom on the ds, I’m glad this video can give it more recognition, especially the soundtrack. The one thing I want to bring up is that the game also has cheats which can be used after finding stars in the levels. The problem is that the heroes have cheats for “funny” costumes which give them glasses and a mustache, spongebob even gets new clothes. Now NO ONE knows these codes, there is no concrete answers just speculation, no video proof of them, and even experimenting things such as beating every boss with no damage or getting A++ (which can be very difficult and sometimes have rng) in a world gets you nothing. The only proof of these actually existing is their sprites which can be found on sprite resources.

oh yeah i had nicktoons unite on the ds and never got past that plankton fight, even restarted the game from the begining a few times just bc i thought maybe i did something bad in the first levels but nope. i ended up trading it in at a game store i was so frustrated lmao

I loved GBA Volcano Island so much as a kid. GBA was my very first console ever and that game opened the world of "real games" for me, in the sense that it made me enjoy every single second spent, even when I didn't knew what the story or main goal was. The controls and abilities felt good and natural, each character was fun to play as, even just to see the different sprite work (some of the best I have seen still to this date) and the music... THE MUSIC. Beat Therapy made some of the best stuff for this handheld, I even dare to call Volcano Island the best GBA soundtrack. I would sometimes just stay at the main title screen or the "lobby section" just to listen and relax to the music. I played the other two Nicktoons games on it, but Volcano Island really lives up as is own solid game, no nostalgia involved. It's an actual fun time with a lot of effort, heart and personality to it.

Toybots on DS was super fun; I remember playing with my cousin and having a blast.

Hey, i actually beated the DS version of Sponge Bob and friends quite recently. Timmy's touch screen hability is to freeze time so he can, you guessed it, sneak past enemies. Pd: Fairy Odd parents world is both better and worse than the console version. Better because you actually explore Demsville, and worse baceuse it's an entirely stealth based world, it's a good thing the Game didn't let you play it.

12:24 “Lack of a directional pad” Um… actually mark it was a lack of an analog stick 🤓🤓🤓🤓

This is the sequel I never knew I wanted

My favorite licensed games are the sonic games, they even came out before the movies

So I noticed that in the picture of the bootleg store Mark mentioned, there was a dragon ball game called dragon ball z 2v considered the rarest dragon ball game. Pretty surprising

I really wish we got morbius in 2007. We would totally get a licensed game

I have so many memories playing Globs of Doom on the DS growing up. I remember I used so really suck at the game and didn’t know what to do on multiple occasions (such as the trick cage in level 2 of Bikini Bottom or the jump at the end of level 2 of Pupununu Village) but every time I managed to get further I felt really good about myself. And when I finally made it to the final boss where you can choose whichever pairing you wanted, I thought that was pretty neat and exciting. I haven’t played it in a while, but I might want to go back and check out some of the levels I don’t remember playing as much. Oh also there is a button to have your partner follow you, they can jump and attack and stuff but they aren’t nearly as smart as a human player and they can get themselves killed on accident or if you set them up correctly which I always found funny.

I played the handheld Nicktoons games all the time as a kid, so this is really gonna be a nostalgia trip!

I am so glad that Mark is finally talking about Battle for Volcano Island on GBA, was one of my favorite GameBoy games as a kid

Battle for Volcano Island GBA/DS is basically Mega Man ZX with Nicktoons that’s amazing

Wow. A Nicktoons crossover game that has many flaws where it’s an example of when as it shows most of the characters in a different way possible

From the corner of my mind I remember seeing an ad for a web game that was like Nicktoons unite but it was about encouraging kids to protect the environment.

I have so much nostalgia for the game boy version of Volcano Island. Just hearing the music triggered so much joy.

The Spongebob featuring Nicktoons name has the exact same level of confidence as Sonic and Sega allstars

39:44 Whoa, what a weird time period for Nickelodeon Catscratch, El Tigre, My Life As A Teenage Robot, Invader Zim, and the other 5 main characters all being represented in one game is just kinda nuts

globs of doom for the ds was one of my favorite games as a kid…i think i got it out of a bargain bin at the grocery store when i was 8, and played it through multiple times lol. good to see it getting some love here

Damn one of the earliest memories I have is my dad coming home from work and surprising me by buying me the nicktoons unite game and banjo kazooie on gameboy and playing it with him before I went to bed it just made me unexpectedly emotional seeing that again

The Plankton boss fight in Nicktoons Unite for DS is notoriously bugged. You have to attack him very close to ensure you can defeat him without experiencing the bug. I didn’t beat the game for 16 years because of this.

Man, I wanted LS Mark to review the War and fall of Cybertron games

Idk why, but I could imagine a Nicktoons unite game where the main 4 end up in other worlds and they're all alone, like in Halo 3 ODST when playing Rookie in the empty and quiet streets of New Mombasa with rain pouring down and hearing Deference of Darkness playing.

These games is just plain fun, no need for a bunch of lore, just attack and jump. My personal favorite is Battle for Volcano Island on GBA! The soundtrack for that game is a hidden gem

"Arin Hanson syndrome" is a real thing, it - essentially - describes a person that has done some dumb shit on the Internet and is called out for it.

If it makes you feel any better mark, the second you put that Disney channel game on the screen my mind instantly said “aw fuck I kind of want that”

The mechanic of collecting bolts and use them as health is very interesting, and on top of that do the boss fights also look decent in that game

I'm biased because I have many fond memories playing it with friends when I was young, but I really love the DS version of Attack of the Toybots. It does have a repetitive structure, but the different features of each world make it a little more unique. I love the music and that you can collect different Nicktoons during the racing segments of each world.

Freeze Frame Frenzy was one of my favorite games when I was a small child

For real I remember having Attack of the Toybots DS as a kid and playing the everliving CRAP out of it. It defined a good chunk of my childhood and I was surprised the gameplay held up pretty well

Licensed games died off once middle tier games became less common and triple a games became the norm, it's why not many games get released these days

I had a couple of these as a kid, but remember loving Volcano island for gba

Seeing real life sl mark in action he could definitely be on a Disney channel sitcom

Now the teaser makes sense also yeah not Many people talk about how different these versions are.

Damn, I owned the Nicktoons Unite DS game as a kid and I never could beat that Plankton fight, either. I thought I was just awful at video games and it's so validating to hear that the game is just broken.

i used to play the heck out of the gba nick games when i was little, specifically battle for volcano island.

my favorite nicktoons “game” was the one where you put a dvd into the tv and it calls bingo numbers and the box came with a bunch of bingo boards lmao, nicktoons bingo my beloved

Nicktoons volcano island, globs of doom and toy bots on the Nintendo ds was actually kinda enjoyable for me as a kid mostly in 2D with the fun challenges. Just imagine if they did the same thing for the PSP version. Plus it would be really cool if super evil villains like dark Danny, Azula from avatar or queen vexas from MLAATR in the boss fights.

Funny how back then I used to love licensed games due to their familiarity. I needed my Spongybobby on my PS2.

These were some of my favorite games as a kid. Although they're simplistic, I really enjoyed them and would spend hours trying to make sprite art based on them back in the day. Once tried making a fan game based on my own crossover at the time. It was very nostalgic, but I wish I didnt play Globs of Doom on DS. It was stupidly slow. Wasn't awful. Just kinda slow Also, I played Nicktoons Unite DS on an emulator. And as hard as it sounds, as long as you have a tablet or a mouse, you can ace the game. It just takes a while longer to master

Did you know Volcano Island GBA was actually developed by Half-Brick Studios, same developers who gave us Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride?

I had Attack of the Toybots on PS2 and got so mad because I was having trouble with a level for like a whole afternoon (I was like 7 and had no hand-eye coordination lol). Well I finally got almost all the way to the end, and then my character clipped through the map and fell into an endless void. I had to reset the console and start over. Also I had a combination cartridge of Nicktoons Freeze Frame Frenzy and Battle for Bikini Bottom for the GBA and I have so many great memories with those games that were brought back when I thought of the Nicktoons games again.

I played an absolute ton of the GBA Volcano Island game, it was cool to see you talk about it. I should revisit it sometime 👍

I did play the Globs of Doom on DS. But I couldn't ever beat the final boss however. The Soundtrack is a banger though. I like Amity Park,Retroville, and Ikren Spaceship.

5:07 I mean they're all something of a scientist themselves

You know what make a good plot for a Nicktoons game? SpongeBob leading a rebellion against the Nickelodeon execs to get rid of the SpongeBob standard where shows not an instant success will be dumped to Nicktoons Imagine the dialogue, “WHAT ARE YOUR DEMANDS!?” “Well I want equal treatment for the other shows for one.”

Love that danny phantom episode called morbing danny that was so hilarious

“You thought it was a Morbius video, but it was I, portable Nicktoons games!”

I have very distinct memories of receiving Battle for Volcano Island for the GBA as my second game on that console. I always wanted to revisit it to see if nostalgia was just holding it up in my mind. Glad to see that you’re getting some mild enjoyment out of it years later, Mark. Cheers!

17:10 This almost definitely happens because the scaling vector (set of numbers that scales the jellyfish model in the X Y and Z axes) was being decremented with each hit. Once it disappeared (hit zero), it started going negative which is why it started growing but upside down (and mirrored). If you had infinite time on your hands you could probably make it so huge that it took up the whole screen before the vector under flowed back to the max. Dunno why they didn't just clamp it to 0 lol