Play Despicable Me - Minion Mayhem (E) Online

Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem came out for the Nintendo DS in 2010, published by D3Publisher. It was one of those licensed games that showed up a lot on the handheld, aimed at younger players who loved the movie. The DS was full of games like this, simple and built around a familiar property, not trying to push hardware limits but just to be a fun distraction.

You control one of Gru's bumbling Minions through a series of short, side-scrolling stages set in his lab and home. Your main goal is usually just to get from the start of a level to the exit, but it's never that simple. You'll tap the touch screen to throw bananas at targets, shake the system to make your Minion spin attack, and tilt the DS to roll around in a giant ball. The game is not very hard; the challenge comes more from the clumsy physics and your own mistakes than from complex obstacles. It feels exactly like being the cause of the problem instead of the solution.