Rugrats: Time Travelers

The sequel to The Rugrats Movie, Rugrats: Time Travelers is the second platform game based on the long-running cartoon on the Game Boy. It would later be followed by Rugrats in Paris: The Movie.

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Starting at EE000 and ending at EF5A9 is an anti-Microsoft "graphic" of sorts. The EXIF data shows this was edited using Adobe Photoshop 4.0. The image is a shrunken version of an image distributed widely online, itself a reference to a court case Microsoft was facing at the time regarding charges of monopolistic practices; the company would be declared guilty not too long after this game's US release.⁶

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The French version contains HTML text from British news website The Register, from around January 27-28, 2000.

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