My Thoughts on “Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius” (PC Game)

 

(This is the cover art for the PC game, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.) 

I really don’t have a clever thing to say at the beginning of this review, so I might as well as just get on with it. It be weird that I’m reviewing the PC game to Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius before reviewing the movie, and originally I wasn’t going to, I was going to talk about in my review for the movie in the section where I talk about how it kicked off a franchise and talk about all of the media that it spawned. But, when I started watching the longplay of the game by Rnjwalkthroughs, which he called a walkthrough instead of a longplay, just to have something playing in the background while I was making my bed 🛏️ (as I do every morning), I thought that I should write a stand alone review for this game instead of just relegating it to a section on my review of the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius movie. So, I started watching it more clearly, making sure I paid close attention to it to make sure that I didn’t miss anything instead of just passively listening to it while I’m making my bed 🛏️. I will still mention it in my review of the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius movie when I get to it. I’m still planning on making it my 200th post, I’m getting pretty close, this will be my 182nd post. I just don’t know when I’ll be able to get a copy of the movie to actually watch for the review. 

 

The movie used to be available on Netflix, but it’s not on there anymore, and it’s not on Paramount+ either despite it being a Paramount movie (it was literally released under the Paramount label, made by the production company, Nickelodeon Movies). The only places where it’s available are Apple TV+, Fandango at Home, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, and Google Play Movies, and on all of those places, you have to pay to either rent it or buy it. You can’t just stream it for free so long as you have a paid subscription, no you have to pay it separately on each of these streaming platforms or websites, in the case of YouTube. And it’s not like it’s a movie that I haven’t seen before and I’m sure if I’ll like it or not, I have already seen it (multiple times) and I already know that I like it. So, I might as well just buy the Blu-Ray 💿, which is what I’m do. I’m going to buy the movie on Blu-Ray 💿 by ordering it on Amazon. I think that’s the best course of action for me. If they ever release a 4K 💿 of this movie, whether it’s by Paramount themselves or by a company that specifically specializes in doing 4K releases 💿 for movies like Arrow Video, then I’ll buy that, but if not, I’ll just stick to the Blu-Ray 💿. 

 

I don’t like buying DVDs 📀 for things unless the DVD 📀 is the only thing available, like with the Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Complete Series set, that one was only released on DVD 📀 as were the other complete series sets that Paramount has released for other Nickelodeon shows. Or a non-Paramount or Nickelodeon example, the action movie, Land of Bad 🇺🇸🇵🇭, which I talked about in my 2024 New Year’s Eve Recap, that movie was only released on DVD 📀 here in the US 🇺🇸 (despite it getting a theatrical release worldwide), but it apparently was released on Blu-Ray 💿 in other countries like the UK 🇬🇧, which explains all of those Land of Bad 🇺🇸🇵🇭 Blu-Rays 💿 on eBay. But, Jimmy Neutron the movie is not one of those, it did get a Blu-Ray release 💿, and that’s the one I’m going to get when I have the money 💵. Hopefully, I can get it before I hit my 200th post milestone, if not, then I’ll just do The Simpsons Movie as the backup. I was planning on reviewing that movie for my 199th post, similar to what I did with Deep Blue Sea and how I reviewed that movie for my 99th post, but if I unable to acquire the Blu-Ray 💿 for Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius in time for the 200th post, then I’ll just review The Simpsons Movie for my 200th post, since it’s on Disney+ and I have access to that streaming service unlike Netflix. 

Given that this is the first post of August and I only posted 5 posts in the month of July, and my last post for July was a repost of my review of Army of the Dead 🧟‍♂️🎰, you may have noticed that I still haven’t seen Jurassic World Rebirth. I was hoping that I was going to be able to see it while it was still in theaters, but it’s looking increasingly like I won’t be able to, and I’ll end up watching it either on streaming, VOD (video-on-demand), or Blu-Ray 💿 and 4K 💿, and there’s nothing good coming out in August as far as I know, except maybe Primitive War, which is getting a theatrical release. For those that don’t know, Primitive War is a science fiction war movie about a group of American soldiers 🇺🇸 in Vietnam 🇻🇳 who are sent on a rescue mission to rescue a platoon of Green Berets who went missing in the jungles of Vietnam 🇻🇳 (the plot summary/premise on Wikipedia doesn’t which Vietnam they’re in, North Vietnam 🇻🇳 or South Vietnam, but given the majority of the war was fought in South Vietnam, I’m guessing it’s South Vietnam, but it could also be North Vietnam 🇻🇳 too, not that most Vietnam War movies 🇻🇳 even make that distinction), only to content with dinosaurs that have been sent forward through time to the present (the then present of 1968) through Soviet and North Vietnamese experiments ☭🇻🇳. 

 

 

 

 

(These are the flags of North Vietnam 🇻🇳, South Vietnam, the Việt Cộng, and the Soviet Union ☭.) 

 

 

 

 

The movie is based on a book 📖 written by Ethan Pettus, and it’s main appeal is that it’s “dinosaurs in Vietnam 🇻🇳,” dinosaurs in the Vietnam War era 🇻🇳, and American soldiers 🇺🇸 fighting in Vietnam 🇻🇳 having to fight dinosaurs as well as Việt Cộng and North Vietnamese 🇻🇳. And also Soviets ☭, since the Soviets ☭ are partially the cause of why the dinosaurs are here in the first place, since they were conducting experiments in time travel ⏱️ in North Vietnam 🇻🇳 with their North Vietnamese allies 🇻🇳. It is also an Australian production 🇦🇺, although it stars at least two American actors 🇺🇸, Nick Wechsler and Jeremy Pivan, and one Canadian actress 🇨🇦, Tricia Helfer. Oh, and the actress playing Sindel in the upcoming Mortal Kombat II 🐉 (2025), Ana Thu Nguyễn is also in this movie, since she’s of Vietnamese descent, although she was born in Indonesia 🇮🇩 (meaning her parents were probably from South Vietnam and probably fled before the Việt Cộng and North Vietnamese 🇻🇳 took over in 1975), before her family moved to Australia 🇦🇺 where she has lived ever since. 

 

Jeremy Pivan by far is the most famous actor in this movie, which is sad because he’s pretty annoying, he usually plays the annoying guy ♂︎ in almost every movie he’s in, and he’s an asshole in real life and has been accused of some pretty horrible stuff, mostly of the sexual variety; sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, such as groping women ♀︎, exposing himself in front women ♀︎ without their permission (as in, he showed his genitals without asking them if he could do that or if they even wanted him to do that in front of them), and even preying on an underaged girl ♀︎. The movie probably would be improved if he wasn’t in it, though people would’ve would’ve still said that regardless of whether he was accused of sexual misconduct or not. Hopefully, he won’t too much of a distraction or hindrance on the movie. Here’s hoping he dies a brutal death and gets eaten by a dinosaur; or crushed, a sauropod could step on him too, I’d accept that. But, that movie won’t come out until the end of August, in the second to last week. It comes out on August 21, 2025, so I’ll still have to wait for a little bit. 

 

But, besides that movie, Jurassic World Rebirth was really the movie that I was interested in watching in either July or August. I have no interest in watching either Superman (2025) or The Fantastic Four: First Steps, despite both getting great reviews and doing pretty well at the box office, although Superman (2025)’s box office stalled at $527.7 million 💵 due to a poor turnout in the international market, particularly in China 🇨🇳. The movie did really bad in China 🇨🇳, one of the lowest box office takes for any Hollywood movie released in China 🇨🇳. Considering the budget for the movie was $225 million 💵, $527.7 million 💵 isn’t really considered a good box office take, in fact, it’s kind of considered underwhelming. I mean, Transformers: The Last Knight grossed $605.4 million 💵 worldwide and that was considered a disappointment, and that movie cost even more or less than Superman (2025), depending on which amount is accurate, with a budget of between $217 million-$260 million 💵. 

 

Warner Bros. and DC, much like Paramount were back then with Transformers: The Last Knight, were expecting (and hoping) this new Superman movie to gross $1 billion 💵 at least, or if not $1 billion 💵, then at the very least, make as much as either Man of Steel or Batman v Superman, with $670.1 million 💵 and $874.4 million 💵 respectively. Okay, $670.1 million 💵 is still not a great box office take, considering how much Man of Steel cost to make ($225 million-$258 million 💵), but $874.4 million 💵 is a great box office take, that is a lot of money 💵, considering how much Batman v Superman cost to make ($250 million-$325 million 💵). That would be a great gross for any movie, and any studio would be content with that, but not Warner Bros., they always want more 🤑. 

 

On a side note, Batman v Superman probably did as well as it did because it had Batman in it (meaning Batman is way more popular character at this point than Superman), and it was so controversial upon its initial release that many people probably saw it out of morbid curiosity or because they wanted to hate watch it 😤. Conversely, Man of Steel probably didn’t do as well because Superman is an innately American character 🇺🇸, Clark even says it himself in the film, he’s about as American 🇺🇸 as he gets, and a character as innately American 🇺🇸 as Superman has limited appeal outside of the US 🇺🇸. It’s not impossible since the Captain America 🇺🇸 movies (except Captain America: Brave New World 🇺🇸) did do well outside the US 🇺🇸, and they proved that even an innately American character 🇺🇸 like Captain America 🇺🇸 can succeed internationally if the right things fall into place. But, for Superman, it hasn’t happened yet. 

 

That’s why Superman movies tend to do better domestically than internationally. But, Superman (2025) couldn’t even reach that, it made less than Man of Steel, and just barely made more than Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 🐜, which made $476.1 million 💵 worldwide against a net budget of $330.1 million 💵 and a gross budget of $388.4 million 💵. Had it not been for the domestic market propping it up, Superman (2025) would’ve been a straight up box office bomb 💣. But, it is still a disappointment. Not a great start to DC’s new cinematic universe, James Gunn is starting off with his first L for the DCU; probably a more embarrassing L than any of the Ls for the DCEU considering that this movie is supposed to be the start of the cinematic universe, it’s supposed to be the movie that kicks it off.  

 

The Fantastic Four: First Steps just barely came out a week or so ago, but it seems to be doing well, so far it’s grossed $257 million 💵 worldwide against a budget of $200 million 💵 or more (the Wikipedia page says $200 million+ 💵 for now, but it’ll change as we get more information about how much that movie cost), and it’s likely to make more as it’s in theaters and it opens in more countries. There is a chance, if a bit slim, that it will outgross Superman (2025) and Marvel will come out on top of this little contest, which would be even more embarrassing for DC, because they went out of their way to get a Marvel man ♂︎ (James Gunn) to helm their new universe and to direct the first movie in that new universe, and still couldn’t make Marvel numbers (or at least, Marvel numbers pre-Endgame, which is considered the MCU’s golden age, 2008-2019). Jurassic World Rebirth, in case you’re wondering has so far grossed $741.1 million 💵 against its $180 million-$225 million budget 💵. 

 

It’s still in theaters, at least the time of me writing this, but if it doesn’t make any more than it already has, and it ends its theatrical run with $741.1 million 💵, then it will confirm my suspicion that this movie wouldn’t reach a billion, and it would end up being the lowest grossing Jurassic World movie. Not the lowest grossing Jurassic movie overall, but the lowest grossing movie to be called Jurassic World. I mean $741.1 million 💵 is still a pretty good box office gross, that would be a good gross for any movie, but it would be still be a huge disappointment for Universal, considering the heights the Jurassic franchise reached while under Jurassic World label. If this movie does finish its theatrical run with just $741.1 million 💵 or something just barely above that, and doesn’t make it to a billion dollars 💵, it will signal a diminishing return for this franchise with each film making less than the one that came before it, which has been the trend with these Jurassic World movies, each one has made less than the one came before it. 

 

But, I will try to see Primitive War in theaters if I can; if I have the money 💵 and the time. I will show up to support that movie so that Jurassic Park/World isn’t the only dinosaur-centric film franchise that  we get. But, even with all these people coming out to support it, I doubt that it will be a box office success, in fact I have a feeling that it’ll probably a box office bomb 💣. Not only that, but I feel like it’ll end up getting mostly negative reviews from critics, and will sort of be viewed as this year’s Army of the Dead 🧟‍♂️🎰, where the majority of people on the Internet 🛜 and the majority of professional film critics hate it 😡 and say it’s a bad movie, but it will still have a small dedicated fanbase that will still like it and say it’s good. I’d be genuinely shocked and surprised if Primitive War gets positive reviews, not that I’m rooting against it. I want it to succeed, I just don’t think that it will because it’s not based on a well-known brand. It’s based on a pretty obscure book 📖 from 8 years ago that hardly anyone read except for a small group of paleo and dinosaur enthusiasts, and only a small group of dedicated fans will actually show up to the theater to watch it, and it’s about a very niche subject matter. 

 

Dinosaurs themselves are not a niche subject, but the idea of putting dinosaurs in the Vietnam War 🇻🇳 is a pretty niche subject. It only really appeals to dinosaur/paleo nerds and history/Vietnam War 🇻🇳 nerds, if even that; it might piss off history nerds and Vietnam War 🇻🇳 nerds if it isn’t historically accurate or authentic to the conflict or the time period, not that they should really be expecting that in a movie with dinosaurs being sent through time to the Vietnam War era 🇻🇳; and of course science nerds, dinosaur nerds, and paleo nerds in general will be pissed off too if the dinosaurs aren’t accurate to the current science, especially since these dinosaurs are actual dinosaurs from the Mesozoic era that came from the past to “the present” (really the past for us) through time travel ⏱️, so there’s even more of an imperative to make them look accurate; whereas with the Jurassic franchise, there’s more leniency since the dinosaurs in those movies are clones whose DNA 🧬 was modified and isn’t exactly how it was millions of years ago. 

 

So, it already has limited appeal, and to top it off, the movie really doesn’t have any big name actors in it and it’s directed by a director who isn’t well known, at least not well known in the United States 🇺🇸. Like I said before, the only recognizable actor in this is Jeremy Pivan, but even then he’s not a huge star, like he’s not a big box office draw that will get butts into seats, he’s just not. If anything, he might be a repellent to anyone wanting to see this movie. Casting Jeremy Pivan in your movie is almost tantamount to casting Rob Schneider in your movie, that’s how much box office poison Jeremy Pivan kind of is. If you’re interested, watch the trailer to Primitive War, it’s a good trailer in all honesty. Alright, I spent a good chunk of this review talking about Jurassic World Rebirth and all this other stuff, so I should probably start talking about the game. To be fair, there is a dinosaur in this game (a T. rex to be exact), so it’s not completely off topic. 

Now, unlike a couple of the other games I’ve reviewed or I’ve talked about on this blog, this is a game that I have actually played before. I may not have replayed it for this review, but I have played it before in the past. Those other games that I’m talking about that I didn’t play before I reviewed them or talked about them are Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc and Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. Every other game that I’ve reviewed or talked about on this blog like Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Star Wars Racer AKA Star Wars Episode I: Racer, Star Wars: Republic Commando, Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, Skull Island: Rise of Kong, the Nickelodeon Kart Racers games, and Metroid Prime Remastered, those are games that I have played before reviewing them or talking about them. I have also played SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated 🧽💦 (which is a remake of the original Battle for Bikini Bottom), SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake 🧽🔮, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 🧽 game, SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab 🧽🍔, the original Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 5, Resident Evil 6, Pikmin, Pikmin 2 (as part of the Pikmin 1+2 combo pack), Kong: Survivor Instinct, Saints Row 2, Left 4 Dead 🧟‍♂️, Left 4 Dead 2 🧟‍♂️, Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance 🐉, Mortal Kombat: Deception 🐉, Mortal Kombat: Armageddon 🐉, and Mortal Kombat X 🐉, but I just mentioned those in a few posts here and there, I didn’t dedicate entire reviews to them or write about them extensively like I have those other games I mentioned. 

 

Same thing, but conversely with Geist, Bugsnax, Piglet’s Big Game, Scaler 🦎, Apocalypse (1998), Predator: Concrete Jungle, Aliens vs. Predator (2010), Aliens Versus Predator 2, the Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem game, the Star Wars: Battlefront games, and Super Mario Sunshine ☀️, those are games that I haven’t played that I’ve mentioned on this blog, but haven’t actually dedicated entire reviews to or written extensively about; not as extensively as I’ve written about Eternal Darkness. Although, I do plan on reviewing Apocalypse (1998) at some point, when I have the interest or drive. Super Mario Sunshine ☀️ is a bit different from those other examples because even though I’ve never played the game for myself, I did watch my younger cousin play it when him and I were both younger because he had a GameCube while I didn’t. Same goes for another game from my childhood, PokéPark Wii: Pikachu’s Adventure ⚡️, I didn’t play that game myself but I did watch my cousin play it because he had a Wii while I didn’t. 

 

I wanted play Super Mario Sunshine ☀️ and PokéPark Wii (as well as its sequel, PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond on the Wii U), but I just never got the chance to because their respective systems were no longer available and were out of date. Super Mario Sunshine ☀️ did get ported to the Switch 1 as part of an anniversary set along with Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy called Super Mario 3D All-Stars, but that set is out of print and no longer available for purchase in brick and mortar stores, and the only place you can get is on Amazon and probably on eBay if even that. Nintendo only made a limited number of copies specifically for the anniversary, and then stopped producing it and making it available past the anniversary. Artificial scarcity, that’s something that Nintendo is notorious for 😒. So I missed my chance to get it, and my hope of it getting it now is by ordering it online. While PokéPark Wii, on the hand, hasn’t been ported to any new systems, neither has its sequel, PokéPark 2. So, I really don’t have the chance to play that game. To bring this back around to Jimmy Neutron, I have mentioned the Jimmy Neutron game, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Attack of the Twonkies (which is based off the two-part Adventures of Jimmy Neutron TV special also called Attack of the Twonkies), I have played it, but I haven’t reviewed it or written that much about it. Keep that game in mind, because I will bring it up again later. 

This was a true childhood game of mine, I played it all the time. In fact, I played it so much and I loved it so much that when I actually believed in the 2012 end of the world prediction/prophecy (the one that said that the world was going to end on December 21, 2012 because the Mayan calendar ended in 2012, when the reality was that it was just the end of one cycle and the beginning of another, and wasn’t an actual end of the world prediction), this game was one of the things I wanted to take with me when the apocalypse started. Because I had also watched the 2012 movie by Roland Emmerich (which actually came out in 2009 instead of the year, 2012), and I was fully convinced that the government was building those same Ark ships from that movie to survive the apocalypse, and I was convinced my family was going to find a way to get on one of those Arks, and I wanted to make sure that I had this game with me when the day came and the world was coming to an end, and my family and I had to fly over to Tibet to get on one of those Arks. Of course, as we all know, the world didn’t end on December 21, 2012, it just kept chugging along, and my plan to take this game with me when the apocalypse started never had to be put into effect. 

 

Though some people nowadays probably wish that the world did actually end in 2012, given everything that has happened since then. The YouTuber, RedEye Reviews joked about it in one of his videos where he mentioned Hulk Hogan’s appearance at the RNC last year, saying that the world did actually end in 2012 and we’ve been living in a simulation ever since, and Hulk Hogan appearing at the RNC and officially endorsing Trump was proof of that 😂. I don’t remember the name of that video, but I ever find it again, I’ll be sure to link it here. BTW, Hulk Hogan is dead 💀, he died a couple of weeks ago on July 24, 2025, and I gotta be honest with you, I really don’t feel that bad about his death. I felt more sorry for Ozzy Osbourne when he died, just a couple of days earlier on July 22, 2025. 

 

Maybe it’s because of the Hulkster’s political affiliation, his political beliefs, how he endorsed Trump, the worst president in American history 🇺🇸 by far, who has done so much damage to this country in the 195 days that he’s been in office for so far, and I can’t really stand by anyone who would support a man ♂︎ like that; unless they were blood related 🩸 like my aunt or uncle, and even my dad kind of…he says he likes Trump but only because he sees him as an outsider who’s exposing the elites or whatever (meaning he’s fallen for the lie that Trump is some populist outsider when he’s actually as elite as they come), and for most part, he’s checked out of politics, doesn’t care about it all and is probably just going by what he’s heard from other people he knows because my dad has a bunch of friends. 

 

There’s also the fact that Hulk is kind of a racist, like it’s pretty well documented that Hulk Hogan has said some pretty racist shit over the years, mostly against black people. He’s also said some homophobic slurs too. All in that infamous sex tape which the media company, Gawker leaked to the press and Hulk sued them over, causing them to go bankrupt; Hulk literally sued them into bankruptcy over that sex tape. Hulk did try to apologize for saying those racial and homophobic slurs, but no body was really buying it and his reputation had been permanently tarnished. The fact that he endorsed Donald Trump years later in the 2024 Election 🗳️ didn’t help his case that he had actually changed or saw the error of his ways as far as the racism and homophobia stuff goes. His endorsement of Trump definitively shown where he stood politically. But, when put the racism and homophobia stuff aside, he also helped the WWF stop wrestlers’ attempts to unionize, which is always a dick move, no matter what. I always support unions and unionize, and I don’t support corporations that try to stop unionization or anyone who helps corporations stop unionization. 

 

Ozzy, for all his faults and all his controversies over the years, was still a better person than Hulk Hogan in my eyes. At least he didn’t like Trump and didn’t support him, in fact, he hated Trump so much that he threatened to leave the country and go back to the UK 🇬🇧 if Trump won the election 🗳️ in 2016, a threat that I don’t think he made good on, though I’m not sure on that. Any hardcore Ozzy fans reading this, please tell me if he moved out of the US 🇺🇸 after Trump won in 2016 or not. I know that Rosie O’Donnell recently moved out of the US 🇺🇸 and into Ireland 🇮🇪 because Trump won in 2024 and is now the president again. For her though, she did it for her safety because Trump has had this deep hatred for her over the years, singling her out as one of his worst enemies, and always calls her a “nasty woman ♀︎” and all this kind of stuff. And now he’s back in office, and he’s more authoritarian this time than he was in his first term, she’s worried that he’ll try to do something bad to her. 

 

She moved out of the country and moved to Ireland 🇮🇪 because she was afraid for her own safety under a second Trump presidency, and she said that she won’t return to the United States 🇺🇸 until Trump is gone, until he’s out of office, either because he leaves office of his own volition (because he wants to), is forced out of office, or dies while in office; his health is failing him after all, especially now with all the increased stress caused by this Epstein scandal, and his inability to change the narrative. But, given how much she’s enjoying Ireland 🇮🇪, she may decide to stay there permanently and live out the remainder of her  days there, to enjoy her retirement, live out her golden years because Ireland 🇮🇪 is a pretty nice country 🙂; and it’s actually in the EU 🇪🇺, as opposed to its neighbor, the UK 🇬🇧, which is not in the EU 🇪🇺 anymore after stupidly voting to leave in Brexit 🇬🇧. So yeah, Prince of Darkness > Hulkster any day of the week, but it is crazy that these two men ♂︎ died just two days apart from one another.

It was a comfort game for me, something that I would play after coming home from school, or playing before I went to school, and played on days I didn’t go to school, like on weekends, or whenever I stayed home because I was sick 🤒, or stayed home and pretended to be sick 🤒. I’d even play it whenever I visited my grandma’s house because my grandma used to have office in the house, and in that office, he had a Windows desktop computer that was compatible with this game, that could actually play this game. This was all before I started living with my grandparents, back when my grandpa was still alive, and when that office I was talking about is now my bedroom, in which I am writing this right now. 

 

I stopped playing the game when I started going to middle school, and by then, technology was advancing and could not longer play this game. It is a CD ROM based game 💿, and not only did a lot of newer desktops and laptops not compatible with CD ROM 💿, a lot of them didn’t have disc drives at all. The game is really unplayable now on modern systems since pretty all of them don’t have disc drives and most of them aren’t built with CD ROM 💿 compatibility. Rnjwalkthroughs had to play the game using a modified exe, which ran the game at a 1920x1080 HD resolution, when the native resolution of the game is 640x480 SD. That’s how he was able to get really good quality footage for his walkthrough, and why you’re able to play it back on YouTube at 1440p60 HD resolution, which is close to 4K, but not quite 4K, but it plays back on my computer 💻 better than 4K does. It would be cool if some company somewhere (like Nightdive Studios 😉) like were pick this game and do a remaster of it, so it could be played on modern computers. Perhaps, they could even make it available for Mac 🖥️💻 as well, since the original wasn’t available on Mac 🖥️💻, and was only available on computers that ran on Windows XP; and also maybe Windows Vista as well, but I’m not sure. 

 

But, it was still one of my most prized possessions, this was a game I wanted to take with me when the world ended, since I was fully convinced that the world was going to end in 2012 as I explained earlier. To be fair to myself, by the time December 21, 2012 did roll around, I had already realized that the apocalypse wasn’t going to happen and everything was going to be okay thanks to videos I watched saying the whole 2012 apocalypse was bullshit, so I wasn’t all paranoid and scared 😰 like I was in the months or years prior. That 2012 movie did a number on me, let tell me, I was so scared and sad 😭 that the world might end in a few years after that movie came out and that movie predicted it. I had a breakdown and started crying 😭, and I had to tell my family that I was sad 😭 because the world was going to end in 2012 and we’re all going to die, and they had to tell me to calm down and that it wasn’t going to happen, and they were right. 

 

The world didn’t end, we’re all still here, except for my grandpa of course, but he died in 2022 and it had nothing to do with the end of the world; even if it still kind of felt like the world was ending due to the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦, which is still ongoing to this day, as well as the women’s protests 🪧♀︎ in Iran 🇮🇷, which was a more positive thing to happen that war compared to the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦, even if those protests 🪧 really didn’t change anything. This is all stuff I should probably save for my review of 2012 (2009), but it is important to tell you just so you’ll know how important this game was to me, and why it still holds a special place in my heart ❤️ after all these years, despite its glaring flaws, which I’ll get to. I mean, Rnjwalkthroughs’s walkthrough of the game is the first video in my Favorites playlist, and was one of the first videos I added to the playlist after my previous Favorites playlist stopped working and had to be deleted, and I had to make a new one. So is a video showing all of the cutscenes in the game, that one is the second video in my Favorites playlist. 

The fact that I always found it to be a comfort game made it surprising to me that so many people found the game scary. Like, if you look at the comment section of Rnjwalkthrough’s walkthrough of the game, you’ll find nothing but comments talking about how the game is a fever dream, or how the game is scary and it freaked them out as a kid because of the music, because of that black government truck at Area 51 that would always chase you down  everywhere you went and would send you right back at the beginning part of the map and say “No civilians allowed here, time to go home little man ♂︎,” or because of the Yolkians saying “Intruder Alert! 🚨,” and even one comment saying that the game is almost like a “liminal space simulator” because of how empty and almost dreamlike it is. But that had to have been a newer comment from after liminal spaces became popular online, and the term “liminal space” became a buzzword that people on the Internet 🛜 to describe any place that’s even remotely empty. Like, “Oh, this is a place that normally has people in it, and yet it’s empty, it’s so creepy and weird, and unnerving. It makes me uncomfortable 😰.”

 

This was all new to me, when I searched for the game online and started watching these walkthroughs of it, and it’s a sentiment that I do not share at all. I never found this game scary at all, nor did I find it weird. Granted, I was a kid when I originally played this game, and I already been exposed to a lot scarier stuff than what’s in this game, and I was kind of desensitized to a lot of this stuff; I did watch R rated movies when I was at a pretty young age. But, really, none of the things people find weird or scary about the game aren’t scary or weird to me, and weren’t scary to me back then. Either I was a super brave kid or everyone else was a pansy when they were a kid, just easily scared by even slightest thing. It’s not even just this game, but other things too. So many things people found scary as a kid I just didn’t, and still don’t think is scary, no matter how many of these YouTubers try to convince that it is. 

 

The only thing I can kind of see being a bit scary is Jimmy’s mom’s disembodied voice whenever you walk top of your bed 🛏️ or her and Jimmy’s dad’s bed 🛏️ and she says “You stay off the bed with your shoes on young man ♂︎, 🛏️👞,” when you get close to the shelf full of fine china and she says, “Jimmy, stay away from the china!” That kind of freaked me out as a kid, but it wasn’t so much because it was scary but because it was startling, like you were trying to avoid doing something to get you in trouble, that sort of thing. Same thing with the black truck patrolling Area 51, I wasn’t so afraid of it because it was scary, but because I didn’t want to get caught, and be sent all the way back to the beginning of the map, with that teleportation booth next to the gas station and convenience store ⛽️🏪. Same thing with the Yolkians saying “Intruder alert 🚨!” and slowly inching towards you after they spot you, although I did think it was kind of funny 😂 to make all the Yolkians chase after me saying “Intruder alert 🚨!” and then hide behind a wall where they couldn’t reach me. That was most in the practice simulation when you’re practicing using the invisibility invention 🫥.

The music doesn’t bother me, it’s not weird or unnerving to me, in fact, it’s comforting to me and it was comforting to me back then. The music in this game is nice, it made feel right at home when I was a kid and it was how I imagined my own neighborhood and my own school (kindergarten and elementary), and nowadays, it gives me nostalgic feelings, makes me remember a more innocent time in my life and just generally gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Especially the music used for the neighborhood and the school, which is the same track. They use the same track for the outside of the school that they use for the neighborhood and didn’t bother to create a unique track for the outside of the school. The music track they use for Jimmy’s lab and the one they use for the inside of his house are both very nice as well, and gave me the same feeling the music track for the neighborhood and the outside of the school, though not to same extent. The music they use for each of the practice sessions, the dirt track, Area 51 (both before you get beamed up by the Yolkian ship and after), downtown, and the power plant are all really cool. The music is really well done in my opinion. I have all of my favorite tracks saved to my Favorites playlist, and they’re all in the top spots at the beginning of the playlist since the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius PC game and everything related to it is the first thing you see when you open my Favorites playlist. 

Of course, as you can tell by the title, this game is based on the movie, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, albeit very loosely because it is almost nothing like the movie. I’ve seen a couple of people try to explain this discrepancy between the plot of the game and the plot of the movie by saying that the game is actually a sequel to the movie and takes place after, or it takes place after the unaired pilot (one of the unaired pilots, there was another one before the one that this person was referring to, back when the title of the franchise and the name of the character was Johnny Quasar, before the name Jimmy Neutron was chosen), and that’s how Jimmy already knows who the Yolkians are, and isn’t at all surprised and shocked that they’re here. 

 

The Yolkians BTW, are these egg-like aliens 🥚👽 that hail from a planet called Yolkus, like they literally look like egg yolks with eye stocks (almost like a snail or slug 🐌), hence why they’re called Yolkians. Green egg yolks mind, kind of like Green Eggs and Ham. Because they’re slimy, gelatinous, and blob-like, given their egg yolk-like appearance, the Yolkians move around in these egg shaped robotic suits that hover off the ground and make them look even more like eggs 🥚 than they already do. They worship this weird three-eyed alien chicken god 🐓 (or goddess since she’s a female ♀︎) named Poultra, which the Yolkians try to sacrifice all the parents in Retroville to in the film, and makes an appearance in the TV series, in the hour long special, The Eggpire Strikes Back, where King Goobot V and his royal assistant, Ooblar clone her with Jimmy’s cloning device using a small piece of her talon they managed to retrieve as a DNA source 🧬. Even though the original Poultra didn’t die at the end of the film, she was still alive. She just didn’t get to eat anything. 

 

But, I guess King Goobot and Ooblar figured it would be easy to just clone her on Earth 🌎, using one of Jimmy’s inventions, instead bringing the original one over to Earth 🌎. They couldn’t pretend that they were good now if they had brought her along, since everyone would’ve instantly caught on that they were up to no good and fully been on Jimmy’s side. And they wanted to not only deceive the people of Retroville into thinking that they had turned good and had forsaken their evil ways, but also to isolate Jimmy as much as possible and turn the townspeople and even his own friends and family against him and think he’s being an asshole, a buzzkill, a Debby Downer, and being overly paranoid for no reason, so that they wouldn’t believe him when he said that the Yolkians were up to no good (once more), and he’d be unable to stop them. The Yolkians would easily be to herd them all over together into one place like sheep 🐑 to the slaughter, and feed them all to Poultra, or at least her clone. 

 

Of course, it didn’t work in the end since Jimmy was able to prove without a shadow of a doubt that the Yolkians were still evil and that they had nothing but ill will towards the people of Retroville, and he was to defeat the Poultra clone by taking full advantage of the fact that (alien 👽) chickens 🐓 cannot burp and has her drink a bunch of Purple Flurp (the soft drink of choice in the Jimmy Neutron world), causing her to explode 💥 from all the fizz of the soda forming bubbles 🫧 inside of her stomach and making her gaseous. Again, chickens 🐓 can’t burp, even alien chickens 👽🐓 like Poultra and her clone, and with that gas no where to go, it inflated her body until she exploded 💥. So, the Poultra clone on Earth 🌎 is dead 💀, but we don’t know if the original one on Yolkus is dead or not 💀. 

 

Regardless of whether the game is a sequel to the movie or to one of the unaired pilots, it takes place in a world where Jimmy Neutron presumably had at least one previous encounter with the Yolkians, and whatever he did during that last encounter was enough to piss them off and make them consider him a “rebel” and hunt him down across the galaxy. Or maybe they mistook him for a “rebel,” because the Fleet Commander (the main antagonist of the game) asks his lieutenant if he’s located the rebel base yet, but Jimmy isn’t exactly leading a rebellion against the Yolkians and his secret lab/his house is not a rebel base. But, there are these wanted posters with Jimmy’s face on them, so they know who he is, and they’re treating him as a fugitive. 

Some people would say that this game doesn’t really have a plot, but that’s not true. The game does indeed in have a plot, it’s just that it’s a very thin one. Basically, most of the game is about Jimmy trying to find the last pieces for his science project for the upcoming Science Fair, which is a teleportation device (made out of phone booths). It is mostly complete, and it is how you fast travel in this game, but it is a bit limited in the number of places you can teleport to, mostly just restricted to Earth 🌎, and he needs just a few more parts to complete it, then he’ll be able to teleport anywhere. His goal is to teleport into space, specifically to the Moon 🌕. Though I really don’t know how useful an invisibility part 🫥, a computer chip, and a bunch of magnets 🧲 (which we don’t actually see and aren’t actual collectibles in the game) would be to completing a teleportation device; the computer chip might be useful, but the invisibility part 🫥 and the magnets 🧲 won’t be; like how would turning invisible 🫥 help you teleport into outer space? Or at least, the beginning part of space, since the Moon 🌕 is not technically outer space even if it is pretty far from Earth 🌎 (if you’ve watched the movie, Armageddon ☄️, you’ll understand that “beginning part of space” reference 😉). Meanwhile, a fleet of Yolkian ships, lead by the dreaded Fleet Commander, are traveling to Earth 🌎 to either kidnap Jimmy or kill him, I’m not sure, but either way, they don’t like him and they’re after him.

 

However, when they actually go in to take him, they accidentally snatch up Carl instead, mistaking him for Jimmy, on the count that the Yolkians (except for the Fleet Commander) think that all humans look alike. So, then it becomes about Jimmy having to go rescue Carl (and Cindy since she got abducted to in another failed attempt by the Yolkians to capture Jimmy) from the Yolkians. He has to get his rocket ship 🚀 back from Ultra Lord (or a guy ♂︎ who’s playing Ultra Lord for amusement park or convention appearances), who he lended it to after his own ship (presumably a fake one) got stuck in customs back in Tokyo, and he has to refuel it with plutonium which he can only get at the power plant, which the Yolkians attack for some reason, and then chase down the Yolkians to Area 51 for a final confrontation to rescue his friend (and his adversary/love interest ❤️). That’s really when the game starts feeling a bit more linear and like it has a plot, and there’s more of a tangible end goal that you’re working towards besides just “Jimmy’s trying to complete his science project, and the Yolkians are out in space trying to look for him.” 

As you can tell by that plot summary and if you’ve seen the movie, that plot is nothing like the movie’s plot, which was just about Jimmy sending a communication satellite 🛰️ (made out of a toaster) into space in hopes of contacting aliens 👽, that communication satellite 🛰️ being intercepted by some aliens 👽, the Yolkians, and those aliens 👽 coming to Earth 🌎 and abducting all of the parents from Retroville, and then taking them back to their home planet (Yolkus) to sacrifice to their chicken god 🐓, Poultra, and Jimmy and the other kids in Retroville have to go up into space, to the planet Poultra, and rescue their parents from the Yolkians before they get fed to Poultra. Whereas the plot for this game is all over the place, and kind of feels like it doesn’t have a plot until the last third when Carl and Cindy both get abducted by the Yolkians and Jimmy has to go rescue them. 

Although, they don’t actually go up into space, they just go inside this underground cavern underneath Area 51, which can only be accessed through a tunnel inside of a mesa at Area 51. The Yolkians try to make it into space, through that tunnel they built inside of the statue to get in and out of Area 51, but Jimmy stops them before they can reach the surface and fly into space. There’s even a Yolkian laser turret guarding it at all times, and yet the US government 🇺🇸 has done nothing about it. Meaning that the Yolkians just barely got there, and dug that tunnel themselves, and the US government and military 🇺🇸 are unaware of their existence, or the Yolkians have already been there for a long time, and built a base and established a presence there, and the military and the government know of their existence and just tolerate their presence or even assisted them in hiding their existence to the general public. Though for some reason, at the end of the game, after Jimmy successfully rescues Carl and Cindy, and all the characters you encountered throughout the game throw him this welcome back party at the Candy Bar and give him a trophy 🏆 for his efforts, the banner they put up says “Welcome Back to Earth 🌎.” Why would it say that? they never left Earth 🌎, they just went underground. 

 

And then of course, the Yolkians attack the Retroville power plant, drain its energy, causing it to overheat, and then abduct all of the workers (and also Ms. Fowl) so no body can fix it. It’s never really explained why the Yolkians did, like why would they need or want to drain energy from the power plant if they’re an interstellar species that developed faster than light travel? Unless, they knew Jimmy Neutron’s ship 🚀 ran on plutonium, and they only attacked it to impend his progress or prevent him from getting it, but how would they know that? Why would they know that? They didn’t recognize him when they found him at Retroland, they mistook Carl for him. They also didn’t realize they had him when they captured him the first time in Area 51 earlier on in the game. And even is that was their goal, they didn’t take any of the plutonium, they left it all there in the facility, in an office on the top level of the power plant overlooking the operations…😆 sorry, I couldn’t resist, I had to quote that monologue or tutorial guide from Goddard on what-to-do in the power plant. This is such a quotable game, I’ve played it so many times I know pretty every line of dialogue by heart. Also, why was Ms. Fowl at the power plant at night by herself? I know that she was planning a field trip there for the whole class, but it seems like the field trip wasn’t until the next day or next week, so why would she be there a day early or a week early? And why would she be by herself? 

 

Those are some of the questions about the plot that are left unanswered in this game. Some might even call them plot holes maybe. Either way, it’s best not to think about it too much, or else the plot of this game will just completely unravel. There’s even a bit of a fourth wall breaking moment towards the end of the game, where Jimmy says “this game is almost over,” when he talking about how difficult the final area will be, which is the Yolkian ship (the command ship). So, it’s like Jimmy at least is aware that he’s in a video game. To be fair, VOX also does the same thing during those practice sessions with the inventions, and she’s explaining the controls to the player on how to use them, but those are tutorial sections, and every tutorial section in a game is like that, and these practice sessions are not really apart of the story and are just a facet of the gameplay. 

In addition to the main plot, there’s some subplots and side objectives you can do, like racing Nick both inside the school and at the dirt track outside by the football field to get Jimmy’s Area 51 map back (which Nick stole for some reason), which Jimmy then uses to get Area 51 and retrieve invisibility part 🫥, which leads to him getting captured by the Yolkians on that tiny scout ship), getting Sheen Ultra Lord’s autograph, helping Carl find his inhaler, collecting all of red neutrons, and capturing all of the escaped creatures from Jimmy’s lab like the Darwins (which are these genetically modified fish 🐠🧬 with arms and legs 💪🦵, named after Charles Darwin, in reference to his theory of evolution by natural selection and how fish 🐠 evolved into land animals; similar to the character, Darwin in The Amazing World of Gumball and the new revival series, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball), the Girl-Eating plants ♀︎, and a dinosaur; two dinosaurs if you count that hidden one you can collect by exploiting the game’s bugs and glitches. Along the way, you unlock various inventions that will help you out on your journey, and will allow you to progress and access places that you couldn’t reach before; meaning you can collect more stuff to add to your point total. 

 

Collecting the autograph for Sheen and finding Carl’s inhaler are connected because Carl lost his inhaler and he tells Jimmy that Sheen has a part that he could use in his science project, Sheen tells Jimmy about this computer part that he dropped in the sewer drain, Jimmy gets it (using Goddard’s remote control mode) and goes back to give it back to Sheen, then Sheen tells him about these magnets 🧲 that he found and offers to give them to him in exchange for Ultra Lord’s autograph. Jimmy goes to Retroland, gets the autograph, goes back to give it to Sheen back at school (at night mind you), only to find out that he went all the way down to downtown for some reason, Jimmy goes to downtown, gives Sheen the autograph, Sheen gives him the magnets 🧲 as promised as part of their trade, and Sheen tells him that he found Carl’s inhaler and give it to him to give back to Carl. Jimmy goes back to Retroland to give Carl back his inhaler, and that’s when he gets abducted by the Yolkians. 

 

So, had it not been for this little side quest involving Sheen, Carl would not have been in the right place (or wrong place, depending on how you look at it) to get abducted by the Yolkians, meaning that we wouldn’t have a plot for the rest of the game. To be fair, Carl going to Retroland was set up pretty early on in the game, when Carl asks Jimmy if he wants to meet him at Retroland later that night after he shows him the red neutron in Cindy’s backyard, and Jimmy turns him down because he wants to focus working on his science project, only for his journey to find pieces for his science project to lead him to Retroland anyway. This game does take place over the course of one day, and the time of day changes as the game goes along, with it going from daylight to sunset to nighttime, which is a pretty cool mechanic I must say. It is cool that they managed to work in a day and night cycle for this game, even if the level of daylight doesn’t change when you’re at Area 51. It’s always dusk. 

 

This game is probably the largest role, most screen time and most dialogue that Benny has ever had in this entire franchise, even if he is just a Nick simp, a Nick lackey, and a Nick hype man ♂︎. He’s the guy ♂︎ who Nick sends to challenge Jimmy to a race instead of doing it himself, he’s the guy ♂︎ who Nick takes his anger 😤 out on when he loses to Jimmy in both races and brings to literal tears 😭 (Nick literally makes Benny cry 😭 all because Jimmy beat him in a race), and then later on, Nick disappears, and Benny tells Jimmy to tell him that he’ll be right in front of the school waiting for him. And that’s all at night might you. Don’t know why Benny is just standing outside the school at night waiting for Nick to show up. In fact, why are any of these kids out at night? Like Sheen’s out at night, wandering downtown all by himself, Libby’s out at night, wandering the neighborhood, and of course, Cindy, Carl, and later Libby are at Retroland at night. 

 

The Retroland one is understandable. It was part of the movie’s plot, how they all snuck out of their houses to go spend time at Retroland without any of their parents knowing, going to an amusement park at night is pretty fun, it’s an ideal time to go, especially during the summer ☀️ (it’s a lot cooler at night than during the day during summertime ☀️), and sure, I’ll give you the hanging out on the neighborhood streets at night, but why hang out at the school, or in downtown at night? That makes no sense. I wasn’t out to go outside at night at all when I was a kid, and if my parents caught me wandering the neighborhood streets or wandering downtown at night all by myself, I would’ve been in huge trouble. 

 

But to my point, Benny does this, despite it being kind of weird, risky, and irresponsible to be out at night as a kid (especially a kid as young as Benny is), even he is just standing in front of the school, all because he wants Nick, he wants to be around Nick. It’s like his whole world revolves around Nick, and he can’t do anything without him, or he refuses to do anything without him. Even if Nick is mean to him in return, like he lashes out at him for losing the race to Jimmy, even though it wasn’t Benny’s fault that Nick lost. He just arranged the race and challenged Jimmy on his behalf. Those losses were purely on Nick and Nick alone. Nick is a huge jerk in this game NGL, more so than he is in either the movie or the TV show. Also, depending on whether or not you actually win any of the races against Nick, different cutscenes will play. Though, most people won’t see the cutscenes where you lose because to be honest, these races are pretty easy. Almost too easy. Even when I was a kid, I didn’t have much of a problem with these races, and I got the losing cutscene for the race at the school once. I think it might’ve even been during my first ever playthrough of the game, after my parents first bought it for me. 

 

Another weird thing about Benny in this game, is that for some reason, they had him constantly wiping his nose 👃. Like, after every sentence, every line of dialogue, Benny would just wipe his nose 👃. Something that he didn’t do in either the movie or the TV show. I like they just had him do that because he looks really nerd, he wears glasses and has buck teeth 🤓, he looks very much like a stereotypical nerd 🤓, only he’s wearing skater clothes. So, they had him wipe his nose 👃 to make him sound as nasally as possible, to really highlight his nerdiness 🤓. I guess, Benny is a nerd 🤓 to a certain extent, only he’s a nerd for Nick. To him, Nick is love ❤️, Nick is life. 

This is more of an open world game where you can progress at your own pace, explore the world, and collect all of the available collectibles for points. The more collectibles you collect, the more points you get, all the points you get will be tallied up at the end of the game. One of those collectibles I already mentioned was the red neutron, which are also health packs and can replenish your health (or “neutron energy” as it’s called in the game), and have a thousand times more energy than the blue ones, according to Jimmy himself. You get points with every red neutron you collect, and some of them are pretty well hidden, but make sure you look for them. Blue neutrons by contrast, are more common, and while you do get points for collecting them, you don’t get as many points for collecting them as you do red neutrons. Blue neutrons only give 5 points each while red neutrons will give you 200 points each. You don’t actually die in this game, you just lose all energy and you can’t use any of your inventions (except the ones that don’t run on neutron energy like the Goddard scooter 🛴), and if you ever run out of energy completely, you can always go back to the lab and recharge with 25 neutrons worth of energy to replenish your energy meter. 

One glitch in this game that I always liked to exploit was that when you get hit by an enemy, and then immediately exit an area or enter a new one, and Jimmy is still flashing red when getting hit while you do, he’ll be red when you enter that new area or leave that area. I always tried to get hit by one of the enemies (usually Humphrey) so that I could turn Jimmy red and he’d be red for the rest of the game until I got hit by another enemy. The same when Jimmy gets into toxic waste ☣️ or the practice simulator simulating toxic waste ☣️, and Jimmy flashes green, I’d always try to enter the phone booth or for the entrance of the power plant right away so that Jimmy would turn green. Same thing with the electricity ⚡️, I’d always try to get electrocuted ⚡️ in Jimmy’s lab or any other place with electricity ⚡️ and then enter the teleportation booth so that Jimmy would be a skeleton 🩻. 

 

Because when you get electrocuted ⚡️ in this game, Jimmy’s skeleton is visible, so if you time it just right, you can have him be a skeleton for an extended period of time until you get hit something else that makes that x-ray effect 🩻 go away. Though, that’s much more rare, and I only managed to achieve it once during one of my many playthroughs. Another funny thing I’d like to do was not shrink Humphrey or any of his clones when Jimmy gets the red neutron from Cindy’s backyard, and he accidentally clones him (after hitting him with his shrink ray and his shrink ray was set on “clone”), and then have the Humphreys chase him, and then when that cutscene where Jimmy is talking to Benny while on the phone 📞 while standing in the middle of the street starts, the Humphrey clones just keep hitting Jimmy, and Jimmy keeps doing his pain pose, flashing red, and then entering his still idle pose with his mouth closed while he’s still talking to Benny and his mouth is still supposed to be moving when it’s not. 

 

The blue and red neutrons are introduced pretty early on in the game, when Carl uses some of Jimmy’s “special lens spray” which allows people to see them, since without his special lens spray, they’re invisible to the naked eye. For some reason, the blue and red neutrons always made me think of those Kool-Aid Burst drinks that came in those plastic bottles with the funny things on top, how they had a blueberry flavor 🫐 (which was the blue one) and a cherry 🍒 or tropical punch flavor (which were the two red ones). This slight open world and collect-a-thon aspect of the game probably explains why it plays so fast and loose with the plot, and why the plot wasn’t given much priority, and why the plot is so different from that of the movie. The main purpose of this game was to give players the chance to explore the world of Jimmy Neutron, explore Retroville, and make it feel like a real place and make it feel you’re actually there. Though the technology at the time, and the budget they had to work with, limited how well they could achieve that. Though I will say that the game did benefit from not following the movie’s plot, since the console version of the game did follow more of the movie’s plot, and it didn’t exactly work out. More on that later. 

The game is very janky, especially by today’s standards, and it has a lot of bugs and glitches. It lacks a lot of polish, and you can tell that the people who made this game had a very limited budget to work with and they were more than likely working on a tight deadline to get this game out in time for the movie’s release since this was a movie tie-in game. You can tell that this game was unfinished and probably could’ve used a lot more time in the oven. You know, you’ll have characters sliding across the floor or ground during cutscenes, you’ll have characters just randomly walk in place both during cutscenes and during gameplay, like Ultra Lord, he’ll just slip down and just keep walking into the edge of the stage where he’s set up at the park, or during the cutscene where Jimmy asks him if he could have his rocket ship 🚀 back and Ultra Lord whispers to him that he needs to refuel it with plutonium to fly it outside of Retroland, he slides across that stage far away from Jimmy, and then he’ll just walk towards Jimmy and keep walking until he pushes him off the stage while Jimmy is talking. 

 

Besides Ultra Lord, the only other adult characters we see are Jimmy’s parents, Hugh and Judy Neutron, and Ms. Fowl, every other adult “character” in this game is unseen and we only hear their voices, and most of them are voiced by Rob Paulson, the same guy ♂︎ who voices Carl. Like, all of Retroland employees (who we don’t see and only exist as disembodied voices) and all of the Yolkians are voiced by Rob Paulson, and then I don’t know who voices that Area 51 patrol guard, it could be Rob Paulson, but I’m not sure. I know that Rob Paulson voices Ultra Lord, that’s for sure. Besides the core cast of characters, there aren’t any other characters populating this world, like there are no NPCs walking around. It’s very empty world, and the backgrounds don’t really look real, like the trees 🌳 in the background of the neighborhood don’t look like actual trees 🌳, the hills in the background of the school and downtown areas don’t look like actual hills. They’re very flat 2D backgrounds that look almost like cardboard cutouts, like you on soundstages, and the backgrounds aren’t actually real and were just painted on or something. It gives the game a sort of artificial quality to it, I can sort of see why some people would see these locations as liminal spaces, even if I don’t agree with the use of that term in this context. 

 

Sometimes the wrong music plays for the wrong area or the wrong scene, and sometimes no music plays at all. Like, to give you example, when you save Libby from the Girl-Eating plant ♀︎, some action music is supposed to play I guess (it’s the same music that plays when you race Nick inside the school), but every time I played it, it just played the normal neighborhood music. When you’re inside the school, sometimes that action-y race music plays even when you aren’t racing Nick and other times, no music plays at all. The characters’ mouths aren’t even lip synced to the dialogue during cutscenes, like the mouths just move up and down while they’re talking, and the mouth movements don’t at all match what their saying. In addition to that, the voices themselves are very compressed. So is the music, but it’s not as bad or as noticeable as it is on the voices. The character models are also very stiff, almost being statue-like when they’re not in motion, and eyes don’t really move except blink (like the eyes blinks but the pupils don’t at all move while they’re talking or doing anything). 

But, despite all that, despite all those flaws, I still can’t bring myself to hate this game. I still have a love for this game, warts and all. You could say it’s a guilty pleasure for me, but there’s little guilt for me with this pleasure. The pleasure outweighs the guilt for me on this one. It’s charming, and I actually think that the jankiness adds to the game’s charm. When you look at the other Jimmy Neutron game that this studio made, Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron, it is a lot more polished compared to this game, but it lacks a lot of that charm that this game has. Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron does have the distinction however of being the only Jimmy Neutron game that isn’t an adaptation of preexisting material, meaning that isn’t directly based on anything else that came before. 

 

All of the other Jimmy Neutron games, including this one, are either based off the movie or one of the TV specials, but Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron actually has an original story that was created just for that game. It also has that weird glitch that this game has where the game immediately repeats the opening cutscene again and restarts the game completely over again after you’re done playing, almost like it’s on a continuous loop. Although in the case of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, it doesn’t start at the opening cutscene with the Fleet Commander inside of the Yolkian ship asking his lieutenant if he’s “located the rebel base yet.” Instead, it starts with the second cutscene in the game, where Jimmy is testing out his teleportation device for the first time, and it fails, and he makes a few tweaks to work out the bugs, and then asks Carl to test it out for him, and Carl refuses; only for Jimmy to convince Goddard to test it out by enticing him with some food, which is like some tin foil and cans since Goddard’s a robot dog, or a “robotic cybernetic K9” as Jimmy himself put it. The studio that made both games is called AWE Games in case you’re wondering. 

 

 

 

(This is the cover art for Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron, a direct sequel to the PC game, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.) 

There are things about this game to genuinely admire. I do like all of the inventions that you get to use in this game, probably my favorites are the rocket ship 🚀, the Scooter mode for Goddard 🛴 (which allows Goddard to transform into a scooter 🛴), and the Grapper mode, where I guess Goddard turns into a grappling hook to swing across high places, like the icon for the Grappler claw shows Goddard as the Grappler, but when you actually use it looks like it’s being used out of Jimmy’s shrink ray. Even if I did had trouble using the Grappler as a kid, it’s still a pretty cool and useful invention, and allows you to access high places you can reach with your jet pack alone. Speaking of which, the shrink ray and the jet pack are the first two inventions you start with when you start the game, and they’re the inventions you probably use the most throughout the game. The jet pack more so than the shrink ray, because the jet pack is used to break your fall and slow down your descent and soften your landing if fall from a great height, but you do use the shrink ray to dispatch enemies, like shrinking the Humphrey clones, shrinking the escaped creatures from Jimmy’s lab, and shrinking any Yolkians who you encounter if you aren’t able to turn invisible 🫥 in time. 

 

They both use up neutron energy when you use them, which is the one downside about using the shrink ray and the jet pack, but when you fall from a great height and the jet pack automatically activates to slow down your fall, it doesn’t use any neutron energy which is good. The Goddard remote also comes in handy, especially in comes getting into small, low to the ground places that Jimmy can’t normally reach, though you only use it to find the computer part that Sheen dropped in the sewer, and to find those extra items inside the school that you couldn’t get to the first time. The only times the invisibility invention 🫥 only comes in handy is when you’re facing the Yolkians in their ships or in their underground base inside the caverns of Area 51, and need to sneak past them in these stealth sections, almost like you’re Solid Snake in a Metal Gear game, if Solid Snake had an invisibility or cloaking device 🫥 and he didn’t have to just hide behind walls or duck below crates to evade the enemy while infiltrating their base. 

 

I’ve never played a Metal Gear game before, but I know of the franchise and I know the character, Solid Snake, because a lot of YouTubers I’ve watched over the years are Metal Gear fans, plus almost every gaming channel in existence has brought up Hideo Kojima at least once, and Metal Gear is the franchise he’s the most associated with, but he started another franchise with his own company, Kojima Productions, Death Stranding, which recently put out its second game, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, which is set in Australia 🇦🇺 and stars Elle Fanning for some reason. It still stars Norman Reedus of course, but it does also feature Elle Fanning in a major role, and she’s apparently barefoot 🦶for large chunks of the game or the entirety of the game, and I guess there are some lingering shots of her feet 🦶, and now there are all kinds of foot fetish jokes 🦶 whenever Elle Fanning is brought up. 

 

Like, the second trailer for Predator: Badlands, which co-stars Elle Fanning, had a few comments joking about Elle Fanning’s feet 🦶, saying that Hideo Kojima’s a foot fetishist 🦶, that he made Elle Fanning go barefoot 🦶 for the entirety of the game or the majority of the game, and jokingly asking if Elle Fanning will show her feet 🦶 in this movie, though knowing the Internet 🛜 and knowing how people barely even hide their fetishes, I’m guessing some of the people saying that want Elle Fanning to show her feet 🦶 in that movie, despite them acting like they’re just joking about it and making fun of Hideo Kojima. All of that foot stuff 🦶 in regards to Elle Fanning is because of this game, Death Stranding 2. I’ve never played that game (in fact I didn’t know that it was even out yet until I saw all those comments in the comment section of the second Predator: Badlands trailer), I didn’t even play the first game, so I have no interest in any of this. I have no stake, no frame of reference, in this discourse surrounding Elle Fanning and her feet 🦶. 

 

I have no intention of playing either Death Stranding or Death Stranding 2, especially if the gameplay is as boring as it looks in all honesty; Death Stranding always kind of looked like a boring game outside of the overly cinematic cutscenes (with celebrities ranging from Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Tommie Earl Jenkins, Léa Seydoux, Margaret Qualley, Lindsay Wagner, and even Guillermo del Toro lending their likeness and voices in most cases; Guillermo del Toro did not actually voice the character his likeness was used for), where the actually interesting stuff happens. The only interest I really have in this franchise is that movie that A24 is apparently still making out of Death Stranding (I’m guessing that it’ll be an adaptation of the first game)? I don’t know if that’s still happening or not. If it is, and it does come out, I’ll watch it. I mean, it is pretty clear that Hideo Kojima would rather be making movies instead of video games, since he’s been making these Death Stranding games as “movie-like” as he can, which is why the gameplay is lacking and is the least interesting part about it, except maybe for the boss battles, which are probably few and far between. But the games? No sir, I will not play those. Maybe if Hideo Kojima puts in Jean-Claude Van Damme in the inevitable third game (if Death Stranding 2 is a success, which I’m sure it will be, but I could be wrong), then maybe I’d be interested. I was promised that he’d be in the Beetlejuice sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and he wasn’t in it, so….

 

Even if it would be older Van Damme, who isn’t as fast or limber as younger Van Damme and it would be older Van Damme’s voice, but that shouldn’t be problem. Either they’d actually let him be older Van Damme, or they’d try to make him younger and even use AI or whatever to make his voice sound younger. I wouldn’t put it past Hideo Kojima to do something like that, or the gaming industry as a whole to pull something like that. If not him, I’d take Jet Li, and if not him, I’d take Michael Jai White, or Scott Adkins, or even Iko Uwais, or Joe Taslim. Those are the only guys ♂︎ who would convince me to play a Death Stranding game if they were in it. At least, the game actually looks like Australia 🇦🇺 this time, at least it actually looks like the place it’s supposed to take place. The first game was supposed to take place in America 🇺🇸, and yet it looked more like Iceland 🇮🇸. Probably because it was, they actually used Iceland 🇮🇸 as a frame of reference when creating the environments in the first Death Stranding game, even though, as I said, it’s supposed to take place in America 🇺🇸. Would it have killed to use actual American locales 🇺🇸 as frames of references to create the environments for their weird avant-garde sci-fi post-apocalyptic walking simulator game? What is that supposed to tell the people of Iceland 🇮🇸? Oh, your country is so desolate and depressing and it sucks so much that it’s as reference to design environments for a post-apocalyptic world! I’d be kind of insulted if I were an Icelander 🇮🇸. 

Beside those small sections inside of the Yolkian ships or the Yolkian stronghold, you never have to use the invisibility invention 🫥. In fact, it’s not really available to use outside of those sections. Even when I was playing this game as a kid and I got to those sections, sometimes I didn’t use the invisibility invention 🫥 because I wanted the Yolkians to hit me so that Jimmy would flash red and I could turn him red by entering a new area while he’s flashing red. The baseball invention ⚾️ is cool, but it’s only useful for popping the balloons 🎈 at the school for points, or playing those carnival games at Retroland (which are referred to as “midway games” in the game) for points, or pressing the buttons on those consoles to turn off the industrial fans at the power plant because the fans will keep from getting to the power switches. 

 

But, probably the most useless invention in the entire game is the gravity bubble 🫧, which is one of the few inventions in the game that’s actually from the movie, along with the shrink ray, the jet pack, and the rocket ship 🚀. Although it has a different name in the movie than in the game. In the movie, Jimmy calls it the “Super Bubble Gum Mobile” on the count that he has to chew it like a piece of bubble gum to activate it. But here, it’s called the “Gravity Bubble 🫧,” while on the invention menu select screen, it’s just called “Bubble 🫧.” Guess the developers weren’t told what the actual name of that invention was, and they just came up with their own name for it. Jimmy also doesn’t to chew it like a piece of gum first and then blow it like a bubble like in the movie, instead it just appears when select it from the invention select screen. Like all the inventions in the game really. There’s never a point in the game where the gravity bubble 🫧 ever comes in handy, except maybe to get pass hazardous obstacles like the toxic waste ☣️ at the power plant, but again, you could just use the Grappler claw for that. So, even the one thing that the gravity bubble 🫧 might’ve been useful for in an actual main story objective can easily be done by a different invention. The game does offer these tutorial sections, where you can test out all of the inventions and learn how to use them in a controlled simulated environment. These tutorial sections are optional though, so if you don’t want to do them, you can skip them. 

I also like the music, I already talked extensively about the music in this game, mostly in how people find it scary, or unnerving, or weird, or uncomfortable and I didn’t. The music is great, I love the music in this game. Even if it is a bit compressed, as I said either, if the right music doesn’t play for the right area or the right time or music doesn’t play at all, it doesn’t take away from the quality of the music itself. It gives the game it’s relaxing, easy going vibe, which played a part in it being a comfort game for me, it fits well for a game that’s a bit open world, a bit nonlinear in its structure, and where you can progress at your own pace and explore the world around you, collecting as many items as you can to get as many points as you can. Even the music that isn’t supposed to be relaxing or easy going and is supposed to be ominous and foreboding, like the theme for Area 51 or the power plant, or any of the Yolkian locations is pretty good too. The music that plays when get inside the power plant and you have to shut everything down is great, it’s not scary or weird, it’s cool, it’s like some electronic dance music almost. 

 

And the music in the practice levels, oh man, the music in those practice levels are awesome, all of them. I would say my favorite is the first one, the one for the shrink ray and the jet pack, and also the scooter 🛴 and the Grappler, and then one used for the baseball mode ⚾️. The one for the Goddard remote is cool, that one is smooth, like it figures Goddard gets the best theme. There is a piece of music that went unused, it’s the original theme for the inside of the school. When you beat Nick in that first initial race and you explored the inside of the school, a different theme was supposed to play than the one plays in the game itself (if it even plays at all), like they composed an entire unique theme for the interior of the school, but for some reason, it went unused. Instead, that same music that plays when you first enter the school just before you race Nick plays after you beat him and explore the inside of the school. If you want to listen to it, you can click here. It’s pretty cool, I saw one comment say that it sounds like music from a Nintendo 64 game, like it literally said “holy shit Jimmy 64,” that’s what it sounds like. It’s a shame they didn’t end up using it. I wish they did, but at least Rnjwalkthroughs uploaded it to YouTube and made it available for us to listen to. 

The game does faithfully recreate Retroville. Even if it is a lot smaller and less detailed than it is in the movie and later in the show, due to the limited budget that the developers were working with and due to the limitations of the graphics technology at the time, it does still manage to look like the Retroville from the movie and later, the show. Same with Jimmy’s lab, it looks pretty close to how it looked in the movie and the show. It gave players the chance to really explore this town and let you do stuff in it, even if most of what you’ll be doing is just collecting stuff because this game is a collect-a-thon. There are some weird or interesting details in the game that I noticed about this on this recent viewing of the walkthrough and also cutscenes which Rnjwalkthroughs compiled together and wanted to comment on in this review 🤔. 

 

Like, the rocket ship 🚀 that’s in this game is the first one that Jimmy flies at the beginning of the movie, when he sending that communication satellite 🛰️ he made out of his family’s toaster into space, and then it just falls apart as the engine gives out and sends him and Carl plummeting down to Earth 🌎, and all the fail safes Jimmy put in space make the problem even worse and cause the ship to fall apart faster as they’re destroying all these houses 🏠 in the neighborhood as they descending down. That’s the ship they used, and it’s way more functional in this game than it is in the movie. Even when Jimmy tried to repair it in the movie, it still fell apart. But on the front cover of the case, as you saw at the beginning of this review, they used the second ship that Jimmy uses, the red and blue rocket 🚀 that he got by modifying one of the rides at Retroland and turning it into an actual spaceship in the film, and the one he uses for the entirety of the series and probably in Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron too (since it’s more based on The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron than on the Jimmy Neutron movie). At no point does Jimmy ever get that ship in the game itself, despite him going to Retroland, he just sticks with that first rocket 🚀 that he had in the opening scene of the movie. 

 

Sure, he gets that ship at Retroland because he lended it to Ultra Lord to use a display for his meet and greet in the game, but he doesn’t get the red and blue one there, and that isn’t where he got it in the movie. I don’t why the developers went with that ship instead of the red and blue one, maybe they just liked the look of the first rocket 🚀 over the second that Jimmy uses in the second half of the movie. Maybe they didn’t actually see the movie, and the people who made the movie just sent them notes and concept art and this first ship was the only one they sent, and the devs just thought that this grey one was Jimmy’s signature ship, the ship he always uses to fly around, but it’s not. It’s the first ship he has at the beginning and he loses it right away because it’s a piece of junk, and then gets a new one that’s better in every way. 

 

One thing that did bother me about this game that they got wrong about Jimmy’s character in this game is that he’s afraid to ride the Bat Outta Heck ride, like if you approach it and try to ride it, it just shows this close up shot of the ride and Jimmy saying “I don’t wanna go in there” in a nervous tone 😟. Why would Jimmy be afraid of that ride? That was the one ride that he, Carl, and Sheen wanted to ride when they got to Retroland in the movie. It’s completely inaccurate to his character 😤. In fact, there a couple of rides that you can’t ride when you’re in Retroland, like the Ferris wheel 🎡, which Jimmy says “Nah, too boring. This ride is for kids,” even though he is a kid. I guess it’s one of those things where when you’re a kid, you don’t want to be seen as a kid, you want to seen as mature and grown up, and you want adults to take you seriously. I know I didn’t want to be seen as a kid when I was a kid, I took myself very seriously, even though the adults around me definitely did not. 

 

Also, Carl is wearing his suspenders from the movie, which they get rid of in the show, I miss those, I think they really looked good on him, they match his outfit, and they make more sense since he is a bigger guy ♂︎ (you know, he’s fat), and those suspenders would actually hold up his pants, his stretchy pants. The scaling is a bit off in this game, like when that cutscene plays when Jimmy infiltrates that underground Yolkian base and he spots the Yolkians carting Carl off into one of their ships, and Carl complains about the bathroom 🚽 being dirty and being out of paper towels 🧻, the spaceship they’re taking him away into looks really tiny for some reason, but in the next shot it looks way bigger, the size that it normally should be. The game does admittedly have an anti-climatic ending. There are no boss battles in this game, unless you count the two Nick races as boss battles, which I don’t. It just ends with Jimmy confronting the Fleet Commander, asking him to release his friends, the Fleet Commander refusing, sending a guard to capture Jimmy, Jimmy shrinking that guard, him threatening to shrink the Fleet Commander if he doesn’t release his friends, and the Fleet Commander immediately caving and agreeing to release them and send them all back home, but not before he declares that Jimmy hasn’t seen the last of him. 

 

The Fleet Commander being the main antagonist in this game and not King Goobot V or Ooblar is a weird, especially considering that he wasn’t from the movie and was a character created just for this game, and him and Jimmy seem to know each other and there’s some beef between the two, and the Fleet Commander has a personal vendetta against him. It just makes this game’s connection to the movie all the more confusing. But, even if they did bring King Goobot and Ooblar, they probably wouldn’t have been able to get Patrick Stewart and Martin Short to reprise their roles for this game since they were both too expensive for this game. But, they could’ve just done what the show would eventually do and just hire replacements, different voice actors (actual voice actors) to voice the characters and can sound enough like them to where you could tell they are the same characters. Oh, and there’s Jimmy’s fireplace 🔥, which isn’t actually a doorway into a secret room with all these collectibles inside. That part is weird, I’ll give people that, and it is actual fireplace 🔥 in the movie and in the show, it’s not some weird secret room or whatever. 

 

Oh yeah, and there’s that weird ending with the welcome home party at the Candy Bar, and everyone’s congratulating Jimmy on saving the day, and there are these clapping sound effects 👏 in the background, while Jimmy stands on top of a table next to Goddard and his trophy 🏆, his big trophy 🏆, and he just has this blank expression on his face 😐, just standing in his idle pose. It’s very reminiscent to the ending scene of Neon Genesis Evangelion, where Shinji in that place that looks like a bright blue sky with clouds ☁️ and the people knows are clapping 👏 and congratulating him. I saw a lot of people compare it to the scene from Neon Genesis Evangelion, and yeah it is like that. I wonder if the people who made this game were fans of that show. 

At least, they got most of the original voice cast from the movie reprise their roles in this movie, including Rob Paulson. Rob Paulson really turned up for this game, he doesn’t just voice Carl, but he voices all of the Retroland employees (who we don’t see but only hear), all of the Yolkians (including the Fleet Commander), and Ultra Lord, who sort of counts as a Retroland employee, but not really, he’s his own thing. Everyone sounds like how they’re supposed to, except for maybe Goddard, Goddard’s voice is way off in this game, but that’s only because they had Sheen’s voice actor, Jeffery Garcia to do the voice for Goddard in this game, whenever he talks. It’s always out of left field whenever he talks in this game, you don’t expect it, and the voice doesn’t match at all. And they have him give instructions to Jimmy (and the player) about what to do to shut down the power plant so it doesn’t overheat and destroy the town, and also where to find the plutonium for the ship. But, at least they got the original voice cast to voice the characters in this game, this super low budget game. The console version couldn’t even do that. Almost everyone’s voiced by a different voice actor in that game, or at least Carl is. What does it say about the quality of the console game that Rob Paulson would rather do the PC game that even fewer people played than do the console version?

 

 

 

 

(This is cover for the GameCube version of the console game, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.)

 

 

 

 

That finally brings to the console version of this game. It’s kind of inaccurate to even call it a “version” of the game since they’re two completely different games, two completely different entities. They were made by different studios, they were made for different systems, and they have different plots. The only similarity they have, the only thing that they share is the title: Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Other than that, they’re completely different games. It’s not like with most games where it’s the same game, the same experience across every platform that it’s made available on, no, these two completely different games that they just happen to slap the same name onto. The console game follows the story of the movie a lot more closely than the PC game does, where all the parents in Retroville have been kidnapped by the Yolkians, and all the kids in Retroville have to go save them with Jimmy leading the charge. Except the game already starts out with the parents already being kidnapped, and the kids having to prepare or train to go save them, or at least I think that’s what happens. 

 

The game starts out in Retroland, with Jimmy exploring the park, and trying all the rides. So, maybe it’s before the parents get kidnapped, but it’s definitely not starting where the movie starts off, with Jimmy launching his homemade satellite 🛰️ into space and then rushing to school. None of that is in the console game. There are a few similarities between the console game and the PC game, like neutrons being collectibles in the game, although they aren’t health packs in the console game like they are in the PC game. Instead, they’re treated more like rings in a Sonic game or coins in a Super Mario game, they’re just a collectible that you may or may not get points for, but they do not replenish your health at all. Carl loses his inhaler in both games, although in the console game, he loses it while at Retroland, and you have to retrieve it and bring it back to him, while in the PC game, we aren’t told explicitly where he lost his inhaler. We just know that he lost his inhaler and Sheen found it for him…somewhere. It’s also a budget title that was probably sold a pretty low price for a video game (though I could be wrong), and the character models aren’t exactly great, in fact the character models in the console game look pretty ugly. The character models in the PC game looked ugly too (some more than others), but that more down to the less advanced technology that they to work with on that game. 

 

The console game was made with better technology, since it was going to be released for the PlayStation 2 and GameCube, the two newest consoles at the time and the two most advanced consoles at the time, and yet the character models still ended up looking like shit. The whole game as a whole looks like shit. The mouths don’t even move at all when they talk on some of the characters. At least the mouths on the characters move when they talk in the PC game. It’s not lip synced to the dialogue or anything, but at least they move. And like I said before, they couldn’t get Rob Paulson to voice Carl in the game, he straight up refused to voice the character in the console game and chose to do the PC game instead. It would have bothered me so much that Carl’s voice wasn’t the same in this game as a kid, in fact it still bothers me now because the voice actor they got to replace him doesn’t sound any good. It’s an awful voice. It just isn’t a good game at all, or so I’ve heard. I’ve played the console game before, obviously, I didn’t even know it existed until the 2010s, and it just flew over my radar as a kid, even though I had a PS2, I didn’t get one until 2006, which when it was starting to reach the end of its cycle and we’re starting to get a new console generation, the PS3, the Xbox 360, the Wii, all of those. But, the people who have played it, mostly say that it’s a bad game and it’s not worth your time, and the people who have played both the console game and the PC game say that the PC game is better. Of the two, the PC game is the better game. Which makes me feel good, I played the superior of the two Jimmy Neutron games that were released in 2001. 

 

Okay, they both weren’t released in 2001. The PC game was certainly released in 2001, on November 6, 2001 to be exact, but the console game was actually released in 2002, on September 25, 2002, almost a whole since the movie came out, which was on December 21, 2001. Same date as the predicted 2012 apocalypse which didn’t happen, funny how that worked out since I was so afraid of the 2012 apocalypse as a kid 😰. So, the PC game out first, before the movie even came out, meaning it was still riding on high on the hype for movie, while the console game came out second, long after the hype surrounding the movie had died down. Some territories didn’t get it until 2003, like Australia 🇦🇺 and the EU 🇪🇺 didn’t get the console game until 2002 and 2003, with the EU 🇪🇺 getting it first on PS2 on March 7, 2002, and Australia 🇦🇺 getting the PS2 version second on April 9, 2002, so not that long of a wait for the Australians 🇦🇺 at least compared to the Europeans 🇪🇺. 

 

North America (the US 🇺🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦) got the GameCube version of the game three months after the PS2 version on December 16, 2002, while the EU 🇪🇺 got the GameCube version on March 7, 2003, a whole year after they got the PS2 version. The GameCube version was not released in Australia 🇦🇺 at all, so, sorry Australian GameCube owners 🇦🇺 22 years later. But, even these territories got the PC game later than the US 🇺🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦. The EU 🇪🇺 didn’t get the PC game until March 15, 2002 and Australia 🇦🇺 didn’t get it until June 9, 2002. Same thing with the Game Boy Advance version, but I really don’t know anything about that version, but it was released on the same dates the PC game was released in those three territories, North America, the EU 🇪🇺, and Australia 🇦🇺. 

 

 

 

 

(This is the cover for PlayStation 2 version of the game, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Jet Fusion.) 

 

 

 

 

There were other Jimmy Neutron games released after this. Obviously, you had Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron, but you also had The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Jet Fusion, which was based on the Jet Fusion special, Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion, which was really more of a TV movie since it had a half-hour length. The plot of that game is different from the actual special, but it does still feature the Jet Fusion character (who’s heavily inspired by James Bond and is voiced by Christian Slater both in the TV special and in the game), and does ultimately end with Jimmy teaming up with Jet Fusion to save the day and defeat Professor Calamitous, who is the main antagonist in both the TV special and in the game. Beautiful Gorgeous isn’t the game though, though I could be wrong on that, since I’ve never played the game and it’s been a long time since I’ve watched the longplay. Beautiful Gorgeous BTW, in case you didn’t know, is Professor Calamitous’s daughter and she’s aiding him in his evil plans, even though she didn’t really want to be villain and had other ambitions that we never actually learn about. 

 

 

 

 

(This is the cover for the GameCube version of the game, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Attack of the Twonkies.) 

 

 

 

 

 

Then after that, there was The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Attack of the Twonkies, which I also mentioned earlier. That game sticks the closest to its source material, which is the Attack of the Twonkies TV special, although it adds a lot of stuff so that it could actually work as a game. It’s also considered the best Jimmy Neutron game that’s been made so far. I’ve played it, I never finished it, but the parts I did play were pretty fun, I enjoyed it. It’s a good game 🙂‍↕️. All of the games were published by THQ, although most of them were made different developers, obviously. Attack of the Twonkies was the only one made by THQ themselves, THQ Studio Australia 🇦🇺 to be exact. So, it was made in Australia 🇦🇺, that’s another connection to Australia 🇦🇺 besides Death Stranding 2. There hasn’t been another Jimmy Neutron game since, and that’s a shame because I would really like to play a new Jimmy Neutron game. Whether it’s a remake or a past game or if it’s a complete new game. Especially considering that THQ’s successor, THQ Nordic owns the rights to make Jimmy Neutron games, like they have the license from Nickelodeon, but they haven’t actually done anything with it. They’ve just been sitting on it. 

 

It’s especially disappointing that they’ve got a new SpongeBob 🧽 game coming out, called SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tides 🧽, which was made by the same developer as Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated 💦 and The Cosmic Shake 🔮, Purple Lamp, and is yet another original game with an original story, this centering around a conflict between King Neptune and the Flying Dutchman. Or maybe it’s about King Neptune and the Flying Dutchman teaming up to wreak havoc on Bikini Bottom for some reason, I’m not sure 🤷‍♂️. It’s interesting that this game and the upcoming movie, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants 🧽 both have plots that revolve around the Flying Dutchman. I wonder if that was intentional or if it was just a coincidence and was purely by accident. It’s also going to be more of a co-op game this time, where you can switch between the two characters, SpongeBob 🧽 and Patrick and play as either one of them at any time. And it can be played with two players, if you have someone there to play with you, like either your friend, your romantic partner ❤️, or some other family member (a brother, a sister, a cousin, etc.), with the other player controlling the other character. Like if you play as SpongeBob 🧽, then the other player would play as Patrick, or vis versa. Whereas in the previous two games, you were only really able to play as SpongeBob 🧽, even when Patrick or other characters were present. It looks really good, and I plan on getting it when it comes out. So, with a new SpongeBob 🧽 game coming out, I think it’s about that we get a new Jimmy Neutron game. What do you say? Are you up for it? 

 

 

 

(This is Rnjwalkthrough’s walkthrough of the PC game, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, as well as the cutscene movie compilation he made of it. This is probably the most comprehensive walkthroughs of this game that exists on YouTube. No one has documented this game better than this guy ♂︎ has. I am genuinely impressed. The thing I’m the most impressed about his walkthrough is all the secrets he was able to uncover. There are so many hidden items in this game that you wouldn’t be able to find otherwise unless you were tinkering this game like this guy ♂︎ was and exploiting all of its glitches and bugs, and just overall jankiness.)