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Johnny Bravo in the Hukka-Mega-Mighty-Ultra-Extreme Date-O-Rama! for Nintendo DS brings Cartoon Network’s swaggering would-be ladies’ man to a handheld party-game setting. Developed by EM Studios, the DS edition reached North America through MumboJumbo in June 2009, while related releases appeared under Blast! Entertainment in other territories. It is a licensed spin-off of the Johnny Bravo animated series, built around the character’s exaggerated confidence, comic misadventures, and determination to win a televised competition.
The premise places Johnny on the outlandishly named Hukka-Mega-Mighty-Ultra-Extreme Date-O-Rama game show. His goal is to outdo a collection of rival contestants and earn a date with the program’s female host. Rather than following a long-running platform adventure, the game is organized around a series of short competitive events. That structure keeps the focus on changing challenges and on the show-within-a-show framing, with Johnny’s boastful persona supplying the connection between them.
On Nintendo DS, Date-O-Rama! is classified as a party and minigame title. Its point-and-select interface makes use of the handheld’s touch-focused design as players take Johnny through the individual contests. Progress comes from completing those events and advancing through the show’s competition, so the central question is not simply whether Johnny can perform one task, but whether he can stay ahead of the other hopefuls across the program’s challenges.
The game adapts a property whose title character is known for his blond pompadour, sunglasses, Elvis-influenced manner, and reliably misplaced self-assurance. That combination makes the game-show concept a natural fit: Johnny approaches every contest as if his supposed looks, strength, and intelligence already guarantee victory. The licensed presentation also connects the game to the wider Johnny Bravo cast and comic world, giving the competition a deliberately cartoonish tone instead of treating its romantic prize as a serious sports-style objective.
Date-O-Rama! is notable as a late video-game adaptation of a Cartoon Network series that originally aired in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It also differs by platform and region: the Nintendo DS version is associated with the 2009 North American release and MumboJumbo, while the PlayStation 2 edition was issued separately in Europe and Australia by Blast! Entertainment. For DS players looking for a compact Johnny Bravo tie-in, it offers a themed run of touchscreen-oriented minigame contests centered on Johnny’s bid to become the show’s winning suitor.
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- Developer
- Mastertronic
- Publisher
- Mastertronic
- Genre
- Other Adventure
- Players
- 1
- Release Date
- June 11, 2009
- System
- NDS