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The Smurfs

This game is targeted to young players. This is a 3D lateral view platformer where the player controls one of those little blue people through 20 levels in order to save his friends captured by the evil…

14 December 1999

The Smurfs is a platform developed by Helio Game, released 14 December 1999 on PlayStation.

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What The Smurfs is

The Smurfs is a platform game developed by Helio Game and released in 1999. It was published by Infogrames. It is available on PlayStation only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

This game is targeted to young players. This is a 3D lateral view platformer where the player controls one of those little blue people through 20 levels in order to save his friends captured by the evil Gargamel. Levels features forest, icy plains, volcano undergrounds, Gargamel's castle, the Smurf's village, and so on. The adventure itself is split in two parts, one being a simple tutorial while the second parts represents the game itself.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the The Smurfs series

The Smurfs is the 22nd of 41 entries we hold in the The Smurfs series. It arrived 11 months after Nintendo Mini Classics: The Smurfs. The next entry was The Adventures of the Smurfs in 2000.

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What it launched against

The Smurfs launched on 14 December 1999, within three weeks of Quake III Arena, Shenmue, Planescape: Torment and Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine.

Released around the same time: Quake III Arena, Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine.

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When did The Smurfs come out?
The Smurfs was released on 14 December 1999 for PlayStation.

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