Napoleon Dynamite: The Game

released on Oct 23, 2007

Napoleon Dynamite: The Game is a video game based on the film, Napoleon Dynamite. The game was released October 30, 2007.


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Thanks to the animated series coming out years later, this is suddenly the least weirdest thing to come out of the 2004 indie comedy.

When it comes to making a game based on something like Napoleon Dynamte, you'd have to wonder what it would be like. To its credit, it tries to incorporate elements from the movie into the game, even if it's just stretching out short scenes to make it possible. I like the cut-out aesthetic, certainly fits with the nature of the film it's based on.

My only problem with the game is the medal system. Either you just have to play through to get a gold medal, or you have to get an unspecified score to get it, a simple (get this amount of points to get this medal) would've helped greatly.

It's weird in the sense of a movie like Napoleon Dynamite getting a game, but at the same time it could've been worse.

But fuck the Bow Hunting level, with a passion. You have to be as accurate and fast as possible just to get a gold medal.

Published and developed by companies specializing in licensed game cash grabs this game is as bad as you would expect. The game itself, however, is somewhat of an oddity and at least a little bit interesting because of it.

It's a pretty bizarre and incredibly short collection of minigames themed after the movie. It also released a baffling three years after the movie came out and seems to be mostly aimed at kids, which weren't really the target demographic of the movie in the first place.

Honestly a fun oddity to emulate for 10 minutes or watch a let's play of simply for how strange and obviously ill-advised it is.

One of the games of all time. I really liked the movie but the game is just an assortment of minigames that aren't very good.

Still a better minigame collection than every game on the Wii not called Mario Party.

Why did this release so many years after the movie
Why is this like an Angela Anaconda art style'd minigame collection for the "story mode"
Why is the rhythm game segments better feeling than Parappa the fucking rappa 1's port on the damn console

if u thought id end those three with a catch all answer, ur wrong, i literally have no idea why or how this exists LMFAO

But im actually going to give this some credit where it's due, the games are all functional enough, almost like weird flash games id play as a kid
Some of the minigames are dooty camel shit in a leather smock
and the others are just "ok"
Like if you're passing the time then i could totally see this working on a handheld back in the mid to late 00s
its also a couple hours to beat, and i think thats honestly too much for how some of these shits just drag on

weirdly enough NOT the worst licensed game ive ever played by a longshot though