''Jim Henson's Muppets'' is a 2000
Game Boy Color
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platform game developed by
Tarantula Studios
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and published by
Take-Two Interactive, based upon the
Muppets franchise of the same name.
Gameplay
''Jim Henson's Muppets'' is a
platform game in which Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's time machine sends the
Muppets back in time. The player is able to play as
Kermit and
Animal and must travel through different eras time to save the rest of their friends. The game features six zones with a
time travel theme, spanning the prehistoric era to the wild west. Each zone features four stages, with a boss level at the end of each zone. Gameplay involves navigating levels to find keys, energy and other bonuses, and using projectiles, such as paper planes and drumsticks, to defeat enemies.
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Reception
''Muppets'' received mixed to negative reviews, with many critics focused on the lackluster gameplay and poor connection of the game to the Muppets franchise with few unique features for a platform game.
'' IGN'' dismissed the game as a "badly-botched license game" with "wretched" gameplay, stating "the control sucks, the graphics are sloppy, the game's music is ..not related at all to the Muppets, the action is tedious, the enemies follow patterns and have no intelligence, and aside from the cuts scenes, there's nothing Muppety about this game".[ ''Game Boy Xtreme'' stated ''Muppets'' was a "terrible platformer with use of colour and poorer playability".][ Writing for '']Hyper
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'', Frank Dry stated the game was a "generic platformer with a few vaguely interesting ideas", with the game "lacking serious entertainment value".[ '']Computer and Video Games
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'' observed "the action is negative and the characters move along clumsily".[ Milder reviews included those from Nick Woods of '' Allgame'', who described the game as a "suitable choice for smaller kids", whilst noting "the rest of the gameplay is not unique".][
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References
External links
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{{The Muppets
2000 video games
Game Boy Color games
Game Boy Color-only games
The Muppets video games
Platformers
Single-player video games
Take-Two Interactive games
Video games about time travel
Video games developed in the United Kingdom