Garbage Pail Kids Games

Garbage Pail Kids games are the odd little corner of the line where a French release and later game makers all tried to turn the cards into something you could play.

The earliest of the bunch here is Beurk, a board game released in France in 1989 as part of the Les Crados foreign line, followed by later efforts from Steve Jackson Games and Jago Studios. In 2014, Steve Jackson Games noticed there weren’t any Garbage Pail Kids themed games on the market and planned two, but only Super Snot Shots made it out, first as a surprise at NYCC that October, with 15 cards, four six-sided dice, and a rulesheet in a ziplock bag for 2 to 4 players and quick games. Disgusting Dice was announced and advertised as part of Topps’ 30th anniversary plans, but it was never released. Then on May 21, 2019, Jago Studios put out GPK: The Game on iOS and Android, with card collecting, battling, leveling up, and unlockables, plus new art made for the game.

Super Snot Shots exists, Disgusting Dice does not seem to have reached release, and GPK: The Game is the first Garbage Pail Kids video game.