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List of The Smurfs video games

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMay 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ2745205 ↗
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This is a list of The Smurfs video games that have been published by developers such as Coleco, Infogrames, and Capcom. The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs) are a fictional group of small sky blue creatures who live in a village in the woods. They were designed by Belgian cartoonist Peyo in 1958 and were featured in the Belgian comics magazine Spirou. They are widely known through the 1980s Hanna-Barbera animated television series of the same name.

As a franchise, the Smurfs appeared in many video games throughout the 1980s and 1990s on many consoles.

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