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Muppet Monster Adventure for PlayStation 1
Muppet Monster Adventure for PlayStation 1 is a three-dimensional platform adventure starring Robin, Kermit’s nephew. A visit to Castle von Honeydew goes wrong when several Muppets turn into monsters. With a special glove and backpack, you set out into the surrounding area to collect evil energy and free your friends. You jump across platforms, search buildings and break objects open, while Pepe offers guidance about the dangers and opportunities along the way.
Robin’s monster transformations open new routes. For example, you gain a bat form for gliding and a werewolf form for climbing. Other powers help underwater or with heavy obstacles. This means a previously visited place can later yield a hidden find. Energy, Muppet Tokens and bonus letters are scattered throughout the levels. Bosses are also part of the rescue mission: familiar Muppets have taken monstrous forms and return to their normal appearance once defeated.
You play alone using the directional buttons or left analog stick of a PlayStation controller. Looking around, jumping and choosing the right form work together when finding a route. A restart point helps within a level after a life is lost. Saving your progress is a separate action through Save Game in the pause menu. This requires a PlayStation memory card in slot 1 with two free blocks; you choose a save location and confirm it yourself.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 1 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Muppet Monster Adventure for PlayStation 1 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Muppet Monster Adventure
Muppet Monster Adventure was released for PlayStation in 2000. Magenta Software developed the game; Sony Computer Entertainment handled the European release, and Midway published it in North America. Jim Henson Interactive contributed to an adventure that cast familiar Muppets in new monster roles. In the June 2000 announcement, Midway and Henson particularly emphasised that these monsters offered a new interpretation of the established characters, with Robin as the story’s unlikely hero.
The developers combined that licence with the collecting structure of a three-dimensional platform game. Muppets became bosses, monster powers became tools, and a haunted castle connected the different adventures. That choice made the familiar characters part of what you do: you do not simply free them in a cutscene, but also gain access to other places through confrontations and new abilities. The credits name Jim Lewis and Kirk Thatcher as the writers of the original story on which the game is based.
Michael Giacchino composed and arranged the music, with additional music by Adam Cohen. The original manual also lists a large group of Muppet performers among the voice contributors, including Frank Oz, Dave Goelz and Steve Whitmire. The production thus brought together game design, music and the puppets’ established performers. It remained a standalone platform adventure for the first PlayStation, alongside other Muppet games with very different structures. Muppet RaceMania, for example, focused on racing, while Monster Adventure built its world around exploring, transforming and rescuing.
Similar games for PlayStation 1
Like Muppet Monster Adventure, Spyro the Dragon lets you search three-dimensional areas, collect items and free captive friends. Spyro uses fire, charging and gliding from the outset to reach different routes. Robin expands his abilities through monster transformations, giving a previously blocked corner a new approach later. Both reward looking beyond the direct path, but Monster Adventure specifically connects new movement abilities to its Muppet monsters and their special powers.
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos shares the rescue of friends, the search for hidden items and jumping through three-dimensional environments. Croc uses his tail attack and explores individual platforming spaces to find Gobbos. Robin also gains different monster bodies that let him climb, glide or move underwater. Those transformations make returning to a familiar place worthwhile more often. The Muppet bosses also give the adventure a rescue structure in which a fight turns a familiar character back to normal.
Rascal also combines caricatured characters, three-dimensional rooms and collectibles that open new passages. You fire a Bubble Gun and search for pieces of a clock while travelling through time. Muppet Monster Adventure uses energy and Muppet Tokens and connects new routes to Robin’s forms. Rascal sticks more closely to the same movement abilities for its hero. The atmosphere differs too: historical themes and a kidnapped inventor in Rascal, familiar puppets and a comic ghost story with Robin.
Like Muppet Monster Adventure, Gex 3D: Return of the Gecko has three-dimensional levels, secrets and humour centred on a recognisable hero. Gex collects remote controls in worlds that parody television and films, with wall climbing and tail attacks as important movements. Robin collects evil energy and chooses monster transformations to progress. Both alternate exploration with action, but Gex builds its jokes around media parodies while Monster Adventure turns the personalities of Kermit and his friends into spooky characters.
Like Muppet Monster Adventure, Pandemonium! combines fantasy, platform action and transformations into other creatures. Nikki and Fargus, however, follow a fixed path through three-dimensional landscapes, where you mainly read jumps and obstacles in sequence. Robin moves more freely through areas and uses acquired monster powers to reach hidden places. In Pandemonium, you choose one of two characters beforehand and special gates transform you temporarily; Robin’s growing range of forms instead plays an important part in exploration.
