Asylum and SouthPeak announce Horrid Henry Missions of Mischief – based on the top rating children’s television series, produced by Novel Entertainment and the hugely successful Horrid Henry books written by Francesca Simon – is available in UK stores today on Nintendo DS and PC.To celebrate the release, a brand new horrid trailer has been unveiled showing the nation’s favourite naughty schoolboy getting up to all sorts of mischievous antics and adventures. In the game, fans finally get the chance to be Horrid Henry, as they run and jump through 40 fun stages and eight monstrous bonus levels collecting a range of genuinely horrid rewards.
Since first blasting onto the children’s book scene in 1994, Horrid Henry has quickly become a worldwide publishing phenomenon. With book sales exceeding 13.5 million copies in the UK alone, Horrid Henry is available in 27 countries worldwide including the US and has been translated into 22 languages. The hugely popular TV series, shown daily on Children’s ITV in the UK, has also sold globally and Henry has his own touring stage show, his own website and even a record deal with EMI.