Go! Go! Hypergrind

Nintendo exclusive

Go! Go! Hypergrind is a skateboarding video game for the Nintendo GameCube that was developed by Poponchi and published by Atlus Co. Animation studio Spümcø of Ren & Stimpy fame contributed character designs and animations to the game.

Released: 18 November 2003
Platforms: GameCube
Genres: Sports
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Action Comedy
Country: Japan
Age ratings: ESRB T

About

Go! Go! Hypergrind is a 2003 skateboarding video game developed by Poponchi and published by Atlus USA for the GameCube. It was released only in North America on November 18, 2003.

Development was led by Poponchi, a small group of developers at Atlus, with animation studio Spümcø of The Ren & Stimpy Show fame serving as a collaborative art design firm for the game, with founder John Kricfalusi acting as an executive producer. Despite being developed in Japan, it was never released in the region.

›Story

In the game, Spümcø is holding auditions in the "Toon World" for a new skateboarding cartoon called Go! Go! Hypergrind. In the Story Mode, the player choose one of the cartoon star hopefuls and attempt to impress Spümcø and pass the audition.

Keywords

multiple protagonists
wolf
talking animals
skateboarding
anthropomorphism
monkey
split-screen multiplayer
pig
cat
love triangle
cartoon cutscene
rock music

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Gameplay

Go! Go! Hypergrind allows players to select one of several wacky cartoon characters and skateboard through a variety of cel-shaded levels. The objective of the game is to steer characters into a variety of classic cartoon "mishaps", usually involving inflicting pain on the character in some way, and then chaining one mishap directly into another to create combos.

There is also a versus mode offering five different game types, which can be played with two players or against the computer.

Story

Spümcø is holding auditions in "Toon World" for a new skateboarding cartoon called Go! Go! Hypergrind. In the Story mode, the player chooses one of the cartoon star hopefuls and attempts to impress Spümcø and pass the audition.

Reception

Go! Go! Hypergrind received "mixed or average" reviews, holding a rating of 67.03% based on eleven reviews according to review aggregators Metacritic and GameRankings.