The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King is a game for the Game Boy Advance

Game Boy Advance

The is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo. It is the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001; in North America on June 11, 2001; in Australia and Europe on June 22, 2001; and in the People's Republic of China...

 released in autumn 2005.

The events of the game take place before those of the movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas, often promoted as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, is a 1993 stop motion musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced/co-written by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, a being from "Halloween Town" who opens a portal to...

. The story tells of Jack's

Jack Skellington

Jack Skellington is the protagonist in the 1993 Disney film The Nightmare Before Christmas. Jack is the "Pumpkin King" of Halloween Town and lives in a fantasy world based solely on the Halloween holiday...

 first encounter with his nemesis, Oogie Boogie, and how he claimed the title of "The Pumpkin King".

This game was released at the same time as The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge

The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge

The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge is a video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox platforms. It is set after the events of the 1993 Tim Burton film, The Nightmare Before Christmas....

.

Plot

The game starts with Jack Skellington preparing for Halloween, approximately one year before the events of The Nightmare Before Christmas. Unfortunately, Oogie is upset that no one remembered his own holiday, "New Bug Day". He sends his henchmen, Lock, Shock, and Barrel to kidnap Jack. They, however, bring Sally back instead, a rag doll-like creature. It's up to Jack to save the now bug-infested Halloween Town and Sally from the treacherous Oogie.

Weapons

• Frog Gun: It resembles Sally's "frog breath" from the movie. It is your main weapon. It is given to you by the Mayor at the beginning of the game, and is powered up by Doctor Finkelstein later.

• Bat Boomerang: Given to you by Doctor Finkelstein and later powered up by him.

• Pumpkin Bomb: A grenade shaped like a pumpkin. Powered up later by the Clown.

Characters

• Jack Skellington: He is tall and thin with a bat bow tie. He is the only character you control throughout the game (besides occasionally playing as Zero).

• The Mayor of Halloweentown: He is (literally) two-faced. He orders you around on your quest.

• Zero: You find Zero at your house, and he often helps you by guiding you through small places.

• Sally: Oogie's main hostage, Jack's main goal is to save her.

• Lock, Shock, and Barrel: Oogie's henchmen.

• Oogie Boogie: The main source of evil in Halloween Town.

• Citizens of Halloween Town: These include the Vampires, the Corpse Kid, and more.

Bosses

• Mega-Spider
  Spider
  Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
  
  - Lock, Shock, and Barrel's enormous mutated pet spider. It is fought in "Halloween Madness".
• Giant Snake
  Snake
  Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...
  
  - An artificial, bug-filled snake. It is fought in "The Doctor's New Pet".
• Mother Locust
  Locust
  Locusts are the swarming phase of short-horned grasshoppers of the family Acrididae. These are species that can breed rapidly under suitable conditions and subsequently become gregarious and migratory...
  
  - A locust with an abdomen swollen with bug eggs. It is fought in "search for the melting man".
• Rolly Polly - A large but somewhat weak pillbug
  Armadillidiidae
  Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of other woodlouse families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals...
  
  . It is fought in "Mushroom Mania".
• Enormous Polly - The offspring of Rolly Polly and is larger than the original. It is fought in "Mushroom Mania".
• Colossal Moth
  Moth
  A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
  
  - A huge moth that has super acidic saliva and exhales poisonous fumes. It is fought in "Blah, Blah, Blah".
• Zombie Centipede
  Centipede
  Centipedes are arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda of the subphylum Myriapoda. They are elongated metameric animals with one pair of legs per body segment. Despite the name, centipedes can have a varying number of legs from under 20 to over 300. Centipedes have an odd number of pairs of...
  
  - A huge centipede with wings brought back from the dead by Oogie. It is fought in "Crawloween".
• Lock, Shock, and Barrel - Oogie's henchmen, who are just three brats in an automated bathtub. They are fought in "Unpleasant Surprises".
• Oogie - The main villain. He is fought in "Boogie Time."
• Oogie Icky - A colossal beetle
  Beetle
  Coleoptera is an order of insects commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek , koleos, "sheath"; and , pteron, "wing", thus "sheathed wing". Coleoptera contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms...
  
  that serves as Oogie's ride. It acts as a motorcycle-esque mode of transportation for Oogie, Lock, Shock, and Barrel. It (along with Oogie, Lock, Shock and Barrel) is fought in "Bug Town VS Halloween Town".

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