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Useless adults

Culture theme

Adults within the depicted setting are surprisingly useless, leaving it to the kids (from toddlers to teenagers) to save the day.

10
games
8
platforms

Name variations: adults are useless, incompetent adults

Rule of Rose (PlayStation 2)
Rule of Rose
PS2 2006-01-19
Mega Man Battle Network (Game Boy Advance)
Mega Man Battle Network
GBA 2001-10-31
Bully: Scholarship Edition (Windows)
Bully: Scholarship Edition
WIN 2008-10-21
Mega Man Battle Network 2 (Game Boy Advance)
Mega Man Battle Network 2
GBA 2002-06-04
EarthBound (Super Nintendo)
EarthBound
SNES 1995-02
Zone of the Enders (PlayStation 2)
Zone of the Enders
PS2 2001-03-27
Bully: Scholarship Edition (Wii)
Bully: Scholarship Edition
WII 2008-03-03
Bully: Scholarship Edition (Xbox 360)
Bully: Scholarship Edition
X360 2008-03-03
EarthBound
3DS 2016-05-03
Bully
XBOX 2003-12-05
Requires the protagonist is significantly younger than the adults of the setting who would normally be doing this in real life.

The most likely reason for this is that the game is aimed for kids, thus kid saving the day is obvious for sake of being able to identify with the protagonist.

Popular tags

actionadventure friendshipbeatdown redeemingbeatdown serious

Games by year

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The first Useless adults video game was released on February 1995.

Rockstar Games and Nintendo published most of these games.

Platforms

GBA 2
PS2 2
SNES 1
Wii 1
X360 1
Windows 1
Xbox 1
3DS 1

Most common companies

Rockstar Games4
Nintendo2