Go! Go! Hypergrind

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Go! Go! Hypergrind
Developer(s)Poponchi
Publisher(s)Atlus
Director(s)Kazuma Nishiwaki
Producer(s)Yoshinao Shimada
Kevin Kolde
Designer(s)Tadayuki Konno
Programmer(s)Tadashi Maki
Artist(s)Masaki Shimizu
Eddie Fitzgerald
Gabe Swarr
Jim Smith
Platform(s)GameCube
Release
  • NA: November 18, 2003
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Go! Go! Hypergrind is a 2003 skateboarding video game developed and published by Atlus for the GameCube.[1] It was released only in North America on November 18, 2003.[1] 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.

Plot

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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.

Gameplay

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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.

Reception

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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.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Go! Go! Hypergrind Ships". GamersHell. Archived from the original on March 28, 2018. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Go! Go! Hypergrind for GameCube". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. 2008. Archived from the original on March 2, 2009. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Go! Go! Hypergrind for GameCube Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. November 18, 2003. Archived from the original on November 22, 2013. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  4. ^ Linn, Demian; Tsao, Jennifer; Byrnes, Paul (January 2004). "Review Crew: Go! Go! Hypergrind". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 174. Ziff Davis. p. 160. (Transcription Archived 2003-12-22 at the Wayback Machine).
  5. ^ Helgeson, Matt; Leeper, Justin (December 2003). "Reviews: Go! Go! Hypergrind". Game Informer. No. 128. Sunrise Publications. p. 159. (Transcription Archived 2005-11-18 at the Wayback Machine).
  6. ^ Navarro, Alex (November 14, 2003). "Go! Go! Hypergrind Review for GameCube". GameSpot. CNET Networks. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original on December 5, 2003. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  7. ^ Fischer, Russ (November 27, 2003). "Reviews: Go! Go! Hypergrind (GCN)". GameSpy. GameSpy Industries. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original on December 6, 2003. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  8. ^ Irwin, Mary Jane (November 17, 2003). "GameCube Review: Go! Go! Hypergrind". IGN. IGN Entertainment. pp. 1–3. Archived from the original on April 14, 2004. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  9. ^ Orlando, Greg (December 2003). "Now: Go! Go! Hypergrind". GMR. No. 11. Ziff Davis. p. 88.
  10. ^ Halverson, Dave (April 2003). "Reviews: Go! Go! Hypergrind". Play. No. 24. Fusion Publishing. p. 85.
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