Lego Island
Lego Island is a series of games that started out as a computerized game for one player but, due to its extreme popularity, has expanded into a physical game set suitable for brickfilming as well as many new releases of the PC-based original game.
The original Lego Island PC game had no hard-wired plot. It is perfectly OK to roam the island via skateboard as the game's main character, Pepper Roni, building it into the island paradise of your (Pepper's) dreams.
When sprucing up the island becomes tiresome, send Pepper to deliver pizza to the Brickster, the game's arch-villain, behind bars for trying to dismantle the island, brick by brick, to build his own private island (Ogel Island) from where he plans to take over the world.
As so often happens in tales of incarceration, the pizza-loving Brickster escapes from jail on Lego Island. He saved enough chili peppers from his many Pepper-delivered pizzas that, when eaten all at one time, his breath became so hot it melted the jail doors, allowing his escape. Now Pepper must do everything possible to get him back behind bars and save Lego Island from destruction.
You won't want the Brickster to succeed in dismantling Pepper's Lego Island and you won't want him to take over the world, either. These objectives have led to the evolution of the game over time and it's become a little more mission oriented, a little more action packed, with each new release.
As the game evolved, so did Pepper's modes of transportation. As he accomplishes one mission after another trying to save his Lego Island, he is rewarded with the use of a jet ski and other island-friendly modes of transportation, including a helicopter and bungee cord for jumping right into (or out of) the thick of things.
As the plot itself has thickened over time, so has the cast of characters that populate Lego Island. The Brickster enlisted the Brickster-Bots to serve as his robotic henchmen, following his dastardly orders to the letter.
Mama and Papa, Laura and Nick, and Nubby, all from the first version of Lego Island now have to share the stage with other characters as well. The second release of the computerized game included DJ, Technician Bob, Darren (one of the actual producers of the game series), soccer players, and eventually Johnny Thunder, Mr. Hates (aka Barron von Barron and Sam Sinister), and Cedric the Bull.
The Lego Island series quickly became so popular it was voted best Family Game of the Year in 1998 by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), which began awarding Interactive Achievement Awards every year since 1998.
