MTV’s Beavis and Butt-head (Game Boy)

MTV’s Beavis and Butt-head is an adventure game developed by Torus and released on the Game Boy in 1999. You start at school as Beavis, trying to get out of detention to meet Butt-head in the park, and much of the gameplay is focused on dodging or spitball-attacking enemies, finding items, and completing tasks, which include playing dodgeball, delivering a burger, and freeing a gang leader from prison. Some of these levels draw on locations from the TV series. During a sequence that takes place in the sewers, the game shifts from a semi top-down perspective to a 2D platformer, while mini games are also scattered throughout the game’s nine levels. The game overall is very short and can be completed in under an hour.

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The Game Boy game bears no relation to the Beavis and Butt-head games developed for the SNES, Genesis, and Game Gear five years prior in 1994 and sharing the same title. These earlier versions, while all released around the same time, also differ from one another though they share a basic narrative premise.

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GT Interactive: Nathan Rose (Producer); Jamal Jennings (Assistant Producer); Even Stein (Director of Marketing); Ken Gold (Director of Online Marketing); Phil Tucker (Assistant Product Manager); Christina Kerzner (Media Specialist); Alan DiMattia (Marketing Specialist); Leslie Mills (Director, Creative Services); Vic Merritt (Creator Director); Michael Marrs (Sr. Graphic Designer); Liz Fierro (Art/Traffic Manager); Leslie Zinn (Graphic Designer); Jill Pomper (Graphic Artist); Peter Witcher (Manual Editor); Mary Steer (Director of Product Development Services); Steve Knopf (QA Manager); Jeff Oviatt (Test Lead); Keith Moran, Mara D Smith, Darin Cottle, Doug Price, Jen Press (Testers). MTV Interactive: Tony Calandra (Manager/Producer); Allie Eberhardt (Executive Producer); Kristofor Brown, David Felton, Mike Judge, Nick Litwinko (Consultants); Thomas Shea (Standards and Practices); Beth Matthews (Legal Affairs); Mike Judge (Creator, Beavis and Butt-head).