List of M&M's video games

Overview[]

M&M's The Lost Formulas[]

M&M's The Lost Formulas is a 3D platform video game and the first M&M's-based video game and was released on September 28, 2000, for both Macintosh and Microsoft Windows.^[1] It was published by Simon & Schuster Interactive in North America and JoWooD Productions in Europe and developed by Boston Animation. The gameplay is similar to that of the Crash Bandicoot series. It also features a "math mode" in which players are tasked with solving math problems ^[2] The math levels are for children ages 5-10.

Plot[]

Yellow and Red work at an M&M's factory, and are about to go on a vacation, when Red finds out that Yellow left the M&M's Minis in charge of the factory while they were about to leave. Due to their incompetence they have turned the factory into a mess and left robots running wild everywhere, and also have hidden many of the M&M's formulas. Before they leave on vacation, Yellow must head there and stop them. Throughout the game, Green, an M&M who also works at the factory, tests them on their progress.

Gameplay[]

Yellow is the only playable character. There are 8 levels (with three zones on each level; the start zone, math zone, and the end zone): "Get Out of Town," "Milk Chocolate," "Oh Chute!," "Candy Colors," "Stamping and Sortin'," "Pack It In," "Warehouse Woes," and "The Shocking Truth," plus 4 bonus levels. There is an additional bonus level at the end of both the start and end zones if all three pieces of the secret formula are collected (with Level 1: Get Out of Town and the end zone to Level 8: The Shocking Truth being the only exceptions). Levels one, the math zone of level five, and seven are played while riding a vehicle. Math zones are similarly themed to the start/end zones but require the player to solve a simple math problem. The answer is selected via either jumping to a numbered platform, or driving through a numbered box. The difficulty of the problems slightly increases as the levels grow higher, but can also be set in the menu.

M&M's Minis Madness[]

M&M's Minis Madness is a platform video game for the Game Boy Color released in late 2000 for American markets. It is a platform game where the player controls 4 different M&M's characters who each have a specific ability which can be used to solve puzzles. The characters can be switched at any time by the player.

It was rated 6 out of 10 by Nintendo Power. IGN rated it 4 out of 10, describing it as "barely competent" and too easy.^[3]

M&M's Shell Shocked[]

European PlayStation cover art.

M&M's Shell Shocked is a action platform video game released on September 30, 2001 for American markets by Simon & Schuster Interactive. The game is the ps1 version of the Lost Formula but it is also similar in the vein of Crash Bandicoot, players control Yellow in an effort to escape from their miniature counterparts (M&M minis), however Red and Green also make an appearance. On July 20, 2002 the game was released in Europe by JoWooD Productions. This game is a remake of M&M's The Lost Formulas, except there is not a Math Zone, the name was changed, power-ups were added, and the levels were either shortened or slightly altered. Due to hardware and CD ROM limitations, the bonus level "Pipe Down" was removed. The bonus level "Robot Stampede" however uses the "Pipe Down" music (from M&M's The Lost Formulas). In order to make up for the Math Zones, boss zones were included as the final zone (known as "Zone C") of each level (replacing the Math Zones).

M&M's Kart Racing[]

M&M's Kart Racing is a racing video game for the Nintendo DS and Wii, based on the M&M's license and developed by Frontline Studios in co-production with Calaris Studios. It is the 5th of the 7 M&M's video games. The game allows to play one of M&M's characters in 15 race environments.

M&M's Kart Racing was critically panned upon release. It has a GameRankings score of 22.50% and 22.33% for the Wii and DS versions respectively.^[4][5]

IGN gave the DS version 3/10 and the Wii version 2.5/10 citing that "commercial mascots make terrible videogames" and that the game "barely uses the license at all".^[6][7] GameSpot gave the DS version 2/10 stating that the game "could put you off M&M's for life".^[8] GameSpot also awarded the game "Flat-out Worst Game" award in GameSpot's "Best and Worst of 2008" awards. GameZone also panned it, giving it 2/10. The game was also awarded the lowest-rated kart game by Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2011, stating that the game's nearest "rival" was Shrek Swamp Kart Speedway, the latter of which has a GameRankings score of 26.40%, 3.9% more than M&M's Kart Racing.^[9]

M&M's Adventure[]

M&M's Adventure is a action-adventure video game released on the Nintendo DS and Wii video game consoles by Zoo Games and developed by Nikitova Games.^[10] A PlayStation 2 n was thought it was only an idea when they chose the consoles on which it was going to be launched, but unreleased. The game takes place around Christmas, With Green, Yellow and Red in the factory of M&MS when have a system error, the harvested candies ejected and all robots gone AWOL, So our heroes will embark on the factory to stop the system error and save the factory. 

The Factory works as a Lobby in which you can access the different levels all based on different festivities which are: Valentine's Day, Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween and Christmas for unknown reasons . At the beginning you only play with red but as you progress you can play as yellow who has the power to double jump and green who can attack with a racket. In the lobby there are parts blocked by doors with the face of a character which requires the use of that character (depending on the color and image of the door m & m only that m & m can enter). The game has 1 boss of world ant the final is a snowman

The two versions are exactly the same but with some differences such as the use of fog in the ds version to load the 3d terrain or that the wii version has different soundtracks depending on the area you are in. The game had bad reviews arguing that it is not worth buying from the critics but users consider it a decent game. In general, the wii version had better critics than the ds in which the great graphic drop is noted and the fact that it has only 2 songs in the whole game

M&M's Beach Party,[]

M&M's Beach Party is a party video game released on March 11, 2009 for the Nintendo Wii. In the game, The player defeats the other M&M's characters in 6 minigames: Kayak Race, Volleyball, Mr. Runch Slam, Skeeball Race, Ring Toss, and Colornator.

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