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Jovial

Video game theme

Uses an excessively happy, merry, cheerful, or such tone. Characters are likely to be smiling almost always, and the general tone/mood might be similar to a funfair.

23
games
14
platforms

Alternate names: Cheerful, Merry

Flora's Fruit Farm (Windows)
Flora's Fruit Farm
WIN 2009-10-02
Swords & Soldiers (Windows)
Swords & Soldiers
WIN 2010-12-01
Swords & Soldiers (Linux)
Swords & Soldiers
LIN 2012
Rainbow Islands (Atari ST)
Rainbow Islands
ST 1990
Monster Mash (Windows)
Monster Mash
WIN 2009-07-17
Rainbow Islands (ZX Spectrum)
Rainbow Islands
SPC 1990
Rainbow Islands (Amstrad CPC)
Rainbow Islands
CPC 1990
Rainbow Islands Extra Version (Mega Drive)
Rainbow Islands Extra Version
GEN 1990-10-05
Rainbow Islands (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Rainbow Islands
NES 1991
Superfrog (Amiga OCS)
Superfrog
OCS 1993
Rainbow Islands (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Rainbow Islands
NES 1988-07-26
Rainbow Islands (Commodore 64)
Rainbow Islands
C64 1990
Related:
* Lighthearted

Contrast:
* Bleak

Popular tags

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Parent groups

Literary mood, Literary tone

Games by year

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The first Jovial video game was released in 1987.

Ocean, Team17 and Ronimo Games published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 5
Linux 3
Mac OS X 2
NES 2
Amiga 2
Atari ST 1
Amstrad CPC 1
ZX Spectrum 1
MS-DOS 1
Android 1
PS4 1
Arcade 1
Mega Drive 1
C64 1

Most common companies

Ocean6
Team175
Ronimo Games4
Taito3
PopCap Games2