Jonny Quest Games, Puzzles, and Toys

Milton Bradley Jonny Quest Game

The Jonny Quest card game, released in either 1964 or 1965. It's a fairly standard card game, with no Jonny Quest-style adventure theme.

Jonny Quest Tazos and Menko Cards (like pogs)

This Japanese "menko card" and Peruvian "tazos" were used as playing pieces in children's games, much like pogs.

Transogram Coloring Sets

There were three Jonny Quest coloring sets - Paint-By-Number, Pencil-By-Number and Crayon-By-Number - released by Transogram in 1965.

Transogram Jonny Quest Board Game


	(images courtesy Heidi Schreiber)

Here are links to some additional images: box, playing board

Milton Bradley Jonny Quest Puzzles

"Blazing Harbor" puzzle. Note the two different box styles. Aside from the color changes, the first box says the puzzle is for ages 8 to 13 and is labeled a "Junior Jigsaw" puzzle with over 100 large pieces (and designed for pre-teens), while the second says simply "Jigsaw" puzzle for ages 8 to 15, with over 200 extra large pieces.


(image courtesy Heidi Schreiber)

"Winter Adventure" puzzle. Image shows a "Junior Jigsaw" version. A "standard" version was also made.

(image courtesy Heidi Schreiber)
Link to image of the standard version of the puzzle put together.

Two Elementary Puzzles, a set of puzzles for the younger set, based on some early promotional images for the series.

Jonny Quest Puzzles from the UK

"An Unexpected Discovery" is the title of this puzzle, and it certainly was all that when this was brought to my attention. Many thanks to Tammy Harman, who sent this image and reported the following:
"Whilst flicking through a magazine (titled 'TV Zone #84), I discovered a picture of a British Jonny Quest puzzle. I don't know when it was produced, but I suspect by the style of the packaging that it is from the first run here in 1965. It appears to have an original painting as it's picture. I was amazed to find this picture, as it means JQ must have been phenomenally successful. The only time the BBC ever shelled out on any merchandising at that time was if the show was a great success. They nearly always waited to see how well it was received before producing anything."

Since the initial discovery of the puzzle above, another puzzle in the same series has been found! In fact, if one looks closely at the bottom of the box for this puzzle (see image at right above), it appears that there are at least 2 other puzzles (making a total of four) in this series. Does anyone have any more information on these or any better images they can share? If so, contact us!

Ann Laity wrote in:
I was interested to see, on your website, your comment about the series of Jonny Quest jigsaws. I recognise the box which shows the four different ones (The Fight with the Lizard Men, An Unexpected Discovery, The Surprise Escape, and One Way of Finding Out). My own jigsaw is the one shown on the bottom right of your picture - "One Way of Finding Out". I have just enjoyed doing the puzzle again after a gap of many years - but was a little disappointed to find that one of the straight-edge pieces is missing!! It must be several years since I last did the jigsaw - but I haven't given up hope of finding the piece. I have a bag of odd ones and I once reunited a missing bit after about 8 years. I was born in Sheffield, UK - which is where I grew up and where I was given the puzzle.

Thanks, Ann, for the information and the images! Ann supplied a scan of the puzzle box, the completed puzzle and another copy of the box bottom which shows the 4 puzzles in the series. Click on the images below to see larger versions.

Here are some more images of "One Way of Finding Out" sent in by another fan, Peter Moyle. This puzzle has a different piece missing than the one shown above. And Peter included a closeup of the graphic and trademark and copyright information from the box.

Peter also sent in the following images of two of the other puzzles in the series. Thanks much, Peter!

Kenner Give-A-Show slide projector

1965 Hanna Barbera Give-A-Show Projector from Kenner Toys. Colorful box features a large image of the Yogi Bear Show. Has pictures of Jonny Quest, Flintstones, Jetsons, Peter Potomus, Quick Draw McGraw, Magilla Gorilla, and Huckleberry Hound. The slides are as follows:

Jonny Quest "Warehouse Rescue"
Flintstones "Mammoth Delimma"
Flintstones "Kitchen Concert"
Peter Potamus "Brainless Buccaneer"
Peter Potamus "Watta Melon"
Yogi Bear "Rocket Riding Ranger"
Yogi Bear "Yogi's Buzz Bomb"
Yogi Bear "Punch for a Lunch"
Jetsons "Supersonic Sissy"
Magilla Gorilla "Hare Raising Robber"
Magilla Gorilla "Sled Snack"
Quick Draw McGraw "Out of the Frying Pan"
Quick Draw McGraw "Clobbers a Robber"
Huckleberry Hound "Barn Storming"
Huckleberry Hound "Barrel Peril"

Of course, the Jonny Quest slides are what give the set its value :-) There was another set offered with another JQ adventure called "Ray No More". Anyone know if there were any more?

Kenner Movie Projector

Produced in 1969, the Kenner Battery Operated Real Sound Movie Projector showed actual movies. This set has 3 film cartridges...the Flintstones, Jonny Quest and Herculoids. A close examination of the lower right corner of the box top in the picture shows what appears to be Jonny Quest (top row) and Dr. Quest (bottom row).

A separately-purchasable Jonny Quest film cartridge was also available. Does anyone know any details regarding its contents? Was this the same film that came with some versions of the movie projector (as shown above), or was it a second, different one?

Jonny Quest: Curse of the Mayan Warriors

from Hollyware
An MS-DOS role-playing computer game in which Jonny, Hadji, and Bandit must penetrate the mysteries of a Central American jungle to stop a gang of thugs from looting archaeological sites and stealing precious Mayan artifacts. The player controls Jonny's movements and actions; Jonny can interact with the people he meets and use the various objects they discover. While Hadji and Bandit mostly follow Jonny in his travels, they also at times act on their own to help Jonny when he needs it. And when they run up against the bad guys, help is most definitely needed...

Here are some comments from David Jennings, the game's original developer!

There was also a German version, see images of box and part of the German instructions.

Mike writes: "You can also find the Hollyware JQ game @ underdogs.cjb.net, but it's sometimes hard to get in as his collection of games is very large, dealing with "abandonware", older games that the industry has forgotten." (Thanks, Mike!)

Jonny Quest

A 1991 offering from Hi-Tec Software.

Full cover of Amstrad version (large)

Inner cover of Amstrad version (large)

Cassette from Amstrad version

Mike writes: "The game comes up with some credits and the official title screen 'Dr. Zin's Underworld'. It runs fine with the PC64win emulator,version 2.14. The share version can be found all over the web (one place that has it is www.vg-network.com, that has emulators for just about any system)." (Thanks for this info, Mike!

Bandit plush toy

This 16 inch-long stuffed toy was produced under license in 1996 by Mighty Star.

Hanna-Barbera cards

Promo boxed set Hanna-Barbera ADVENTURE cards featuring Jonny Quest, marked "Made for the friends & Employees of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons" & "not available for retail". Dated 1995.

There's also another set of cards called "classics" produced in 1994; here are some samples from that set.

Bandit toy

This is a little figure (looks like plastic or maybe painted wood) of Jonny's faithful canine companion.

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