When did Scribblenauts come out?

Scribblenauts was released on 15 September 2009 for Nintendo DS.

Scribblenauts (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Scribblenauts

What Will You Write? Help Maxwell reach the Starlite by solving each challenge. Write any object you can think of and watch it come to life. Try another word and watch an entirely different solution unfold…

79 15 September 2009

What Scribblenauts is

Scribblenauts is a puzzle game developed by 5th Cell and released in 2009. It was published by Konami. It is available on Nintendo DS only. It runs on Objectnaut.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Scribblenauts is an emergent puzzle action video game developed by 5th Cell and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for the Nintendo DS. The game was released in 2009 in all regions except Japan, and in 2011 in Japan as Flash Puzzle: Maxwell's Mysterious Notebook by Konami. It is the third Nintendo DS video game made by 5th Cell, the first two being Drawn to Life and Lock's Quest. The objective of Scribblenauts, as implied by its catchphrase "Write Anything, Solve Everything", is to complete puzzles to collect "Starites", helped by the player's ability to summon any object by writing its name on the touchscreen. The game is considered by its developers to help promote…

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How it plays

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

How it was received

Scribblenauts holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Players rate it 72, 7 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Scribblenauts launched on 15 September 2009, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Asylum, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Pokémon SoulSilver Version and Pokémon HeartGold Version. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Asylum, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version.

Cheats and codes

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