A baby’s gotta do what a baby’s gotta do to play this collection of classic Rugrats games!
The nostalgia for Rugrats is always strong, and with this new collection of its earliest games Limited Run aims to capitalize on that. In fact, this collection is right up my alley as a millennial with a child.
A collection of six games from 8-bit to PS1 era (and a few variations), Limited Run has managed to keep these games as we remember them while going a bit of the extra mile by putting in some quality of life upgrades. Thes include updating the button prompts in the old visuals to match the modern consoles (I’m playing on a PlayStation 5). They’ve also added in the rewind feature and save states, which is great for younger kids, as well as soundtracks and digitized box art.
I have a lot of fond memories of a few of the games in the collection, but some of these I’d never played all so I was excited to pick this up. Search for Reptar was the one that I really have a lot of childhood memories of. I love that this one has more of an original story. Tommy has lost all of the pieces for his reptar puzzle and we have to go through the house and try to find them. All of the different levels are based on different episodes of the cartoon, like one that’s based on ice cream mountain.
There’s even the putt putt mini game, which is consistent across all three of the 3D games. It’s actually a really good mini golf game, and might be a contributor to my digital golf skills whenever we play online with friends in other games.
The 2D games are traditional platformers, and have those crunchy visuals from the Game Boy and GBA that we’ve come to appreciate. They’re basic, and have the quality level of what you’d expect from a late 90s/early 2000s licensed game, but it’s nice that they’re in there.
My young daughter did seem to enjoy the games. We had her watch Rugrats as a kind of lead of to this, though we haven’t put on the movies yet. That’s probably going to be the hardest point if we are looking to introduce this to our own children as something to play. We have to be aware that these are older games that are going to control a little bit wonky, especially the 3D ones, and they’ll feel weird in the modern sense, especially the camera controls.
I don’t think there was any one game I really disliked, either, so my nostalgia for the show and the games is still just as solid. These are the games that maybe your mom bought you back in the day after you saw the movie because she thought you’d like it (and maybe I’m projecting my own experience). I may not have played more than a couple levels of some of these when I was that kid, but the memories are still there and come right back.
This review is based on a PlayStation code sent to SideQuesting by the publisher. This video first appeared on The SideQuest Live for May 21, 2026.
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