FIX IT FELIX ARCADE GAME

Have you ever wanted to play the FIX IT FELIX JR. arcade game from the Wreck It Ralph movie? It is actually a fictional game that originated from the movie; but Disney did commission a Fix It Felix Jr. video game to be created to help promote the animated film during its 2012 release. These games were placed in arcades at Disney theme parks pus some other select locations.

Seven years later Fix It Felix Jr. games are rare to stumble upon at an arcade. For someone wanting to play the video game your best option is to play an online version of it that Disney has produced. That is unless you work for Walt Disney Studios who I hear have their own arcade cabinet versions of both Fix It Felix Jr. and Sugar Rush within their animation department.

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For those who really want to play an arcade style version of Fix It Felix Jr. there is an option for you. Basic Fun Toys has released a Fix It Felix Jr. edition of its Arcade Classics collection. Basic Fun produces mini version of 1980s style arcade games that Fix It Felix Jr. was inspired by. So in addition to playing Basic Fun Arcade Classics style games of Centipede, Dig Dug, Galaga and Pac Man, you can also play Fix It Felix too.

I picked up a Fix It Felix Jr. miniature arcade game from Walmart. You can pick them up at a local store or order one online. My family has enjoyed the Wreck It Ralph movies so much I couldn't resist buying a Basic Fun Fix It Felix Jr. Mini Arcade Game when I saw it on a Walmart toy aisle shelf.

The Basic Fun version of Fix It Felix Jr. is pretty accurate to how the game is portrayed in Wreck It Ralph. The game starts off with Ralph climbing up to the top of the Nicelanders' apartment building smashing windows along the way. To win a level, players must make their way to the top of the apartment fixing the windows broken by Ralph along the way.

Windows are repaired with Felix's magic hammer. Watch out though because you need to avoid bricks being tossed down by Ralph as players navigate Felix up to the top of the apartment. In addition to dodging bricks, you'll need to move around closed window shutters that block your path, avoid ducks that fly into your way and avoid other obstacles that present themselves as levels become more difficult to progress through.

Keep an eye out for pies sitting in window sills. Sometimes a Nicelander will leave a pie in a window that Felix will want to gobble up.  Eating a pie will temporarily make Felix invincible and increase the magic hammer's power so that it can fix two broken window panels at a time.

Complete a level and you earn a medal. Then the Nicelanders toss Ralph off the apartment's roof. Just like they do in the Wreck It Ralph movie! Then you start all over again with each level being more difficult to get through.

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Our whole family has been having a lot of fun playing Fix It Felix Jr. from the Basic Fun Arcade Classics collection of video games. If you've watched Wreck It Ralph and wanted to play Fix It Felix Jr. this mini arcade game gives you the chance.  Head over to basicfun.com for more information about Fix It Felix Jr and the other Arcade Classics video games they sell.

There really is a Fix It Felix Jr video game!

Growing up in the 80's one of my biggest thrills was a trip to the local arcade and playing the high-tech 8-bit games of the time, like Donkey Kong, Burger Time, Q-bert, and Pacman, with their neon blinking lights and chirping sound effects that left us kids in awe and amazement.  My favorite video game of the time was Popeye which I spent hours upon hours playing with dollars upon dollars of quarters.  You played the famous comic strip sailerman trying to grab the hearts thrown out by your love Olive Oyl as the bully Bluto chases after you trying to knock your block off.  But if you gained enough points and grabbed a can of spinach you could super punch Bluto off the screen and keep him from kidnapping your beloved Olive Oyl.  Compared to today's three dimensional high definition games that you can play online against dozens of people who can be located anywhere in the world at once Popeye is really "old school" but it is still one of my favorite games of all time and I have really fond memories of those arcade visits of my youth.  I really wish someone would make an adaption for my Ipad or Iphone of Popeye like they've done for Pacman and Frogger. Unfortunately, Popeye is a Nintendo creation which at the moment won't publish their games, like Donkey Kong & Super Mario Brothers, for smartphones and tablets because they see it as competition to their own game counsel business.

I rented the Disney movie Wreck It Ralph and watched it with my kids last night.  The movie brought back a lot of nostalgia for those arcade games of my youth.  In the movie Ralph is the bad guy in an arcade game called "Fix It Felix Jr" which is celebrating its 30th anniversary thus putting it's origination at around the time period games like Popeye and Donkey Kong were popular.  Ralph "wrecks" an apartment building in the game and throws bricks at Felix Jr, the "hero" of the game who fixes the damage caused by "Wreck it Ralph" with a magic hammer. "Wreck it Ralph" becomes tired of being overshadowed by Felix Jr. and being treated poorly by the other characters in the game so he sets out to turn himself from "villain" to "hero" in which the movie's adventures ensue.  For more about the movie visit the official Disney site  http://disney.go.com/wreck-it-ralph/  

 While watching Wreck it Ralph my kids were asking me if they could get the "Fix It Felix Jr." video game to play. I smiled and told them I didn't think it existed and was just a part of the movie but curiously typed "Wreck it Ralph" into the Apple app store search feature on my Ipad.  Low and behold what did appear? The "Fix it Felix Jr." video game did exist and it was available for FREE on the app store!  Disney has recreated the "Fix It Felix Jr." game from the movie in all its 8-bit graphics glory.  My kids and I have had a blast playing  it this weekend ... I guess you can go back to the arcade again! I really enjoyed sharing an experience with my children that was similar to my own childhood experiences where we all had fun playing together.  Whether or not you grew up in the Pacman/Donkey Kong generation I think anyone will have a good time trying out this fun retro themed video game.

CLICK HERE to download the "Fix it Felix Jr." video game from the Wreck it Ralph movie.

I'm an ios guy with iphone, ipad & itouch mobile devices so most of my posts about tech stuff will have Apple app store links ... that doesn't mean there aren't similar apps for androids, windows, etc just means I may not have looked for them.