Nickelodeon Super Brawl

Nickelodeon Super Brawl
A logo from the 2014 update of Super Brawl 3, featuring some of the playable characters
Genre(s)Fighting
Developer(s)
  • MP Game Studio (Super Brawl 1-2)
  • Workinman (Super Brawl 3-4, World)
  • Playsoft (Super Brawl Universe)
  • Ludosity (All-Star Brawl)
  • Fair Play Labs (All-Star Brawl and All-Star Brawl 2)
Publisher(s)
  • Nick.com (1-4, World)
  • Playsoft (Super Brawl Universe)
  • GameMill Entertainment (All-Star Brawl and All-Star Brawl 2)
Platform(s)
First releaseJingle Brawl
December 26, 2009
Latest releaseNickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
November 7, 2023

Nickelodeon Super Brawl, or simply Nickelodeon Brawl, is a series of crossover fighting video games, featuring characters from various Nickelodeon animated television series. According to the team at Nick Games, the series follows the play style of "popular fighting games like Mortal Kombat, Super Smash Bros., Street Fighter, and Tekken, but with a comical twist."[1]

The first five Super Brawl games were browser games available on Nickelodeon's website.[2] After Nickelodeon removed its online games in 2018, the sixth game was instead released as a mobile app.[3] A console game follow-up to Super Brawl, called Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, was released in 2021.[4][5] and a sequel, called Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2, was released in 2023.[6]

In the original series of browser games, the most-played title was Super Brawl 3: Good vs. Evil, which garnered 40-45 million plays on Nick.com.[7] Super Brawl 3 also won a Webby Award for Best Web Game in 2014.[8]

Games

  • Jingle Brawl (later rebranded as Super Brawl) is the first game in the series, released on Nick.com on December 26, 2009[9] with a Christmas theme. The game was also updated with other seasonal themes, named Super Brawl Summer and Super Fall Brawl.
  • Super Brawl 2 was released in December 2010.[10] This game added a tag-team mode where two characters fight two others.
  • Super Brawl 3: Good vs. Evil was released on March 24, 2013.[11] It became one of the most-played games on Nick.com, with over 40 million sessions as of 2015.[7] This game pits Nickelodeon heroes against villains and introduces "fans" (human helpers dressed like Nickelodeon characters who assist the player).
    • An April Fools' version called Super Brawl 3: Just Got Real was added in 2014, featuring photorealistic versions of a few characters.
  • Super Brawl 4 (stylized as SUPER HERO BR4WL) was released in July 2015 and features superhero characters, including the franchise's first character from a live-action sitcom (Henry Hart from Henry Danger). A Halloween-themed update was added in October, called Scary Brawl.
  • Super Brawl World was released in January 2017.[12] It is the final online entry in the series.
  • Super Brawl Universe was released as a mobile app in March 2019.[3] Published by the Polish studio Playsoft, this game introduced the concept of color-coded classes, used to determine which character has advantage in a battle.[13]
  • All-Star Brawl was released as a console game in October 2021.[4]
  • All-Star Brawl 2 was released as a console game in November 2023.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Super Brawl World – Game Design and Development". Workinman Interactive. 13 March 2015.
  2. ^ Leatherland, Noah (July 19, 2021). "What Do We Know About Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl?". Comic Book Resources. Released between 2009 and 2014, these simple web games were well-received enough to warrant five releases
  3. ^ a b Milligan, Mercedes (March 18, 2019). "Nickelodeon's 'Super Brawl Universe' Enters the Mobile Ring". Animation Magazine.
  4. ^ a b Stanton, Rich (July 14, 2021). "Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl may be the Smash Bros. killer". PC Gamer. Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, interestingly enough, isn't a new thing, but the latest in a series of Nickelodeon 'Super Brawl' games that began on the company's website over a decade ago
  5. ^ "Listing For Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Appears Online". TheGamer. July 10, 2021.
  6. ^ a b Foster, George (July 27, 2023). "Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 Revealed, Adds Jimmy And Squidward As Fighters". PC Gamer. The leaks were real - Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is back.
  7. ^ a b Rickman, Lisa Maria (31 July 2015). "His business is fun and games". Rochester Business Journal.
  8. ^ "Webby Awards - Super Brawl 3 - Honoree, Websites and Mobile Sites 2014". Webby Awards.
  9. ^ "Nick.com homepage news (The Latest)". Archived from the original on 2009-12-28.
  10. ^ "Nick.com - Super Brawl 2". Archived from the original on 2010-12-25.
  11. ^ "Nick.com - Super Brawl 3". Archived from the original on 2013-03-25.
  12. ^ "Super Brawl World launches worldwide". Workinman Interactive. January 2017.
  13. ^ Jones, Elton (December 6, 2020). "5 Super Brawl Universe Tips & Tricks You Need to Know". Heavy.