Majesco gets Goosebumps

These games would have been cool 15 years ago. Goosebumps is a long and forgotten series, so why are they now making games based on the books?

Meh, this won't be helping Nintendo.

Books are for suckers. :P But seriously, when was the last time Goosebumps was relevant?

keep books books. its hard enough trying to get people to read. and does anyone remember the animorph game from the ps1. it was terrible.

Book-free sounds troubling. If these are games, used as a marketing tool, to introduce 'kids' into the Stine's world, it could discourage reading. So, will they be games? Or will they be (readable) e-books? If the latter: Will they have their own titles, or will they re-release existing titles? Will they be comparable lengths or shortened versions? What will each cost? Will there be a DS Wi-Fi download versions (pay one fee and get x-number of books)? There definetly isn't much usefull info here.

I think the DS is a great platform for releasing digital books. Like those ones where you choose which way the story will go at certain points in the story. There are 100+ million DS owners out there. Several of those are children. Putting out interactive books would be a good marketing strategy and would provide a fun and unique experience. I'm not sure if this is what they are doing here. It seems more like they are doing games based on the novels. I want to actually see original novels. Either way, this could lead to some good stuff.

@funsohng: That's why a zoom feature would be handy :P

isnt there a new series of books coming out tho, i read on the net that a series of books is coming out, about 5 for 6 all at horrorland, the games on horrorland and when the books come out those who have kids and use to read the books may buy them for their kids, so there not stuck in the 1990s at all

Wow, most teenagers probably don't even know anything about Goosebumps, or much of anything from the pre-Pokemon era.

Well I am sure the games are gonna be great for all the last gen'ers and all the DS players. Though I am surprised between making games for such "great" franchises like Cooking Mamma and Nancy Drew they have enough time for a Wii title. Even though they are still far away from making a 360 or PS3 title of any importance.

Goosebumps is way cool. So many memories from school :)

90's anyone? Why don't we make ANOTHER Carmen Sandiego game and aim it at kids. They'll know what it is.

what are you doing majesco?

Might give the Goosebumps game a look for nostalgias sake. Maybe, Probably not. But cool. Used to love Goosebumps.

I remember when the illustrator for Goosebumps game to my school like 10 years ago and we got free autographed advance copies of the newest book...something to do with eggs haha.

Breaking news! Majesco is stuck in the 1990s! Seriously guys...way to stay relevant with current trends in children's entertainment...This might have been a good idea about twelve years ago...Now it is just pointless and irrelevant because most kids today don't even know what Goosebumps is. Meanwhile, the people who read these books as children have since moved on to more mature novels and games. Really, who is the target audience? Current children who don't know what the series is because it mostly died out a decade ago, or people who used to read them and currently don't have much interest anymore? Either way, this is going to be a big waste of time and money...

Go back and make more Psychonauts and restart Advent Rising you morons, stop making suck titles and get to IT!

wow, i wonder if theyre going to has that dank mask that attaches itself to peoples heads

You're kidding me. I thought those books died a long time ago. BUT STILL REMINICSING FTW

This is epic win.

Reading kicks ass.

If they got back to making Psychonauts games, I might be interested, as these things are a little to grown out for me to say the least. Make the better games you used to make, even that darned JAWS UNLEASHED! game had some sort of appeal for TEEN - MATURE audiences even though it was MEDIOCRE and I'm being generous with MEDIORCE.

ah yes the good old days

noooooooooooooo....ugh....this is gonna be bad

I remember how bad the actors/actresses were in the Goosebumps TV series, rofl.

@Nurematsu: at first i thought where's waldo or i spy would be awesom but then again kids get too close to the tv screen and moms go mad and u know hwat happens next

Good books back in the day, but Im not sure about putting them into game form. Night of the Living Dummy or whatever it was called was my favorite for some reason. Used to watch the show on Saturady mornings too.

lol Goosebumps. The days of 1st-4th grade. Good Times. Gooooooooooooooooood tiiiiiiiiiimes.

Goosebumps game? You gotta be kidding me ¬.¬

thats really cool that scholastic is branching out. when i was a kid i was a big fan of the goosebump books. i'm glad to see they are trying to get the video game generation back into reading

I used to read these when I was a little kid :)

I used to read these when I was a little kid :)

@ cooldude03: Which is why Wii needs Where's Waldo! That would be kickass... maybe with randomly generated levels?

awww no bloodrayne 3

i used to collect goosebumps books hardcore in like 1st grade. even though i hardly read them

I really thought Majesco was turning a turn with Psychonauts, but I guess I was wrong.

I SPY should be a perfect addition to Wii gaming. The Wii Remote was made for this kind of gameplay.