Chavo del 8’s characters are timeless. The work of Roberto Gómez Bolaños, affectionately called Chespirito , knows no borders: the antics of Chavo himself, Quico, La Chilindrina and the rest of the neighborhood children continue to steal smiles from young and old from around the world almost four decades later.
Which, on the other hand, makes inviting us to be part of that unique group of friends and neighbors, even through video games, something really special.
Like all great fictional characters, El Chavo del 8 has had his own feature films, several comic series and all kinds of merchandising. He even returned to television after the new millennium through a new animated production, which led to something very interesting for his fans: the children and adults of the neighborhood began to star in their own video games. Better late than never!
It is not that Chespirito’s characters have not appeared on consoles and PCs. Without going any further, EA Sports allowed us to wear the Red Chapulín shirt in FIFA. But we must also admit that Chavo’s legacy in video games, to date, has not been particularly extensive.
A discreet walk through the middle, of course, but always focused on all audiences and conveniently adorned with all those little jokes that we repeated a thousand times in front of the TV.
Precisely for this reason, at VidaExtra we want to remember that boy with freckles and his friends from a different and not so well-known perspective: his video games . Gathering in one place the almost ten official projects that he starred in on consoles, mobiles and even web browsers, all of them duly ordered by date.
Any surprises? As Chespirito himself would say through his most endearing character, ” The last thing you lose is your belly, Mr. Esperanza .” Next, all the video games of El Chavo del 8 and his friends.
Chavo’s neighborhood
- Platform: Facebook
El Chavo’s neighborhood closely follows in the wake of Zynga’s games (Farmville, Cityville, etc.) for Facebook: once we have created our own neighborhood tenant, we can interact with the rest of the neighbors in their day-to-day lives.
Developed by Playful Play in 2014 with the coordination of Televisa, Chavo’s neighborhood included several minigames and collectibles that we could obtain through the social aspects of the game.
The kid
- Date:
- Platform: Wii
Developed by Blue River and under the simple but concise title of El Chavo, we find a classic Party Game -very in the vein of Mario Party- designed to take advantage of the characteristics of the Wii remote.
Ahead, some 30 classic and original activities to share fun and screen to four players through all the protagonists of the series, including Don Ramón or La Bruja del … Doña Clotilde !.
El Chavo Kart
- Date: 2014
- Platform: Xbox 360 and PS3
If with El Chavo Televisa you wanted to compete with Nintendo by measuring its star character with Mario Party, the inspiration for El Chavo Kart is even more blatant: Efecto Studios and Slang put members of the Neighborhood to compete in crazy car races through colorful settings .
It is clear that El Chavo Kart could not be measured with Mario Kart on Wii, but that it came out in contemporary Microsoft and Sony systems positioned it very well for fans of Chavo del 8. Above all, with the hilarious jokes of each character .
A Fair in the Neighborhood
- Platform: iOS Devices
Available for mobile devices, A Fair in the Neighborhood offers a collection of mini-games to take advantage of the touch screen based on an interesting excuse: a fair has just been installed in front of the Neighborhood and none of the tenants want to miss it.
Bonus Phase: Street Chavo
- Platform: PC
Although, all the games that you will see in this list are official, among all the variety of experiences created by fans there was one that could not be missing, even as a bonus phase: Street Chavo. Crazy, yes, but also a classic among Chespirito fans.
As can be deduced from its name, we are talking about a fighting game created from Brazil and strongly inspired by Capcom’s arcades where all the residents of the neighborhood will leave their knuckles in singular fights.
El Chavo Kart for mobile
- Date: 2015
- Platform: Android
Kokonut Studio and Slang adapted the Karts del Chavo del 8 experience for Samsung devices. An alternative that, without reaching the level of table-tops, continued to seek to please the character’s fans. Unfortunately, the game was removed from the digital store in 2018.
Learning English with El Chavo
- Platform: web browsers
Since 2013, Televisa has opted to offer a line of educational games with Chavo and his friends as the main characters. Among them, Aprendiendo Inglés con el Chavo , an entertaining English course with which to defend ourselves with the most colloquial terms and expand the essential vocabulary.
Learn to Program with El Chavo
- Platform: web browsers
The idea behind Learn to Program with Chavo is self-explanatory: through different puzzles and hobbies, the youngest members of the household will be able to begin to understand programming starting from the most elementary levels.
Learn math with El Chavo
- Platform: web browsers
Professor Jirafales’ students were not very good at mathematics. But, of course, at that time there was no Learn math with Chavo. The third and last of televisa’s educational titles puts good old Chavo and his friends before simple math tests.
El Chavo Baby
- Date: 2013
- Platform: iOS and Android
Aimed at the youngest members of the household, El Chavo Baby is a totally free application with very simple puzzles, coloring scenes and even memory games.
El Chavo Kart (2020)
- Date: 2020
- Platform: iOS and Android
The premise of El Chavo Kar t returns in 2020 maintaining a name but leaving behind the aesthetics of Chavo Animado : now, neighborhood friends and other invited characters (such as Chapulín Colorado himself ) inevitably remember the popular Funko bobbleheads to offer a more enjoyable and competitive experience.
