the Astrobots has some rather surprising moments appear in the story that start to make completing the small selection of worlds more interesting. The set up incorporates plenty of recognizable characters from the show and and explains the reason for the action well enough, but while things do start off with just some light humor to break up the exposition, Gumby vs. These worlds are contained within story books that the clay characters can enter and exit as they please, and while this does sound like it has the potential for some interesting 2D platforming stages, most of the levels just feature generic themes rather than recognizable literature with book titles like The Magic Castle, African Safari, and The Wild West being among these oddly broad books. One of the first actions of these reprogrammed machines is to interrupt a picnic where Gumby is eating with his family, his horse Pokey, and a dragon-like creature called Prickle, the robots capturing all of Gumby’s allies and taking them off to new worlds. While Professor Kap is working on a device that can control the Astrobots, Gumby’s more notable trouble-making adversaries The Blockheads invade and switch the robots to their side, using them to spread chaos. The Astrobots Gumby goes up against don’t seem to be particularly prolific characters across the multiple Gumby television series, but they do lend themselves quite well to being video game antagonists.
Instead, we get the famous clay man appearing in a short GBA side-scrolling platformer with no clear explanation as to why 2005 was the year he finally got his first video game. Why Namco thought the iron might be hot for the brand is a mystery, I even thought it must have been a tie-in for some planned revival of the franchise but can find no evidence to support that.
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However, since that movie he’s basically just been merchandised with almost no new content produced since… besides an inexplicable Game Boy Advance game called Gumby vs.
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Gumby’s star rose in the 50s and 60s with television episodes that featured creative use of stop-motion animated clay characters who happily transformed their bodies into new shapes and objects, and after reruns helped it catch on again later it managed to get a new series in the 1980s and even a feature film in 1995. Almost since the turn of the millennium, nostalgic intellectual properties have seen a surge in adaptations and revivals, but there’s one fairly well known franchise that hasn’t really seen much of a spotlight.
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