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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Developer	Adrenium Games
Publisher	Activision
Engine	Unreal Engine 2.0
Released	November 10, 2004
Genre	Platformer
Mode(s)	Single player
Ratings	ESRB: Everyone (E) PEGI: 3+
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Game Boy Advance, PC

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 2004 game based on the Lemony Snicket book series and film. The game is based primarily on the movie, which in turn is based on the plots of the first three books of the series (The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room and The Wide Window). Players take the roles of Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, solving puzzles, fighting villains and finding objects. Players encounter characters such as Mr. Poe, Uncle Monty and Aunt Josephine, along with villains such as Count Olaf, The Hook-Handed Man, The White-Faced Women and The Bald Headed Man.

• Jim Carrey as Count Olaf/Stephano/Captain Sham
• Liam Aiken as Klaus Baudelaire
• Emily Browning as Violet Baudelaire
• Tim Curry as the voice of Lemony Snicket

The Game Boy Advance version did not have voice acting. This game features the first voice-over role for Jim Carrey for a video game. His first voice-over role for an animated film, Horton Hears A Who! will be released in 2008.

The three console versions have the same basic layout - players can switch between playing as Klaus, Violet and, at certain moments, Sunny. The game begins at Count Olaf's house, then progresses to Justice Strauss's home, back to Olaf's, then to Uncle Monty's house, then Damocles Dock, then Aunt Josephine's house, Curdled Cave and, finally, Olaf's again. Along the way, Violet invents things - Klaus's weapon (the Brilliant Bopper), her own weapon (the Fruit Flinger) (during the levels at Dr. Montgomery Montgomery's house, she adjusts the Fruit Flinger to catch escaped snakes, called the Reptile Retriever) Also, Violet later gets an invention called the Peppermint Popper which is just like the fruit flinger just faster, the Baby Booster (which helps Sunny jump), the Steady Stilts (so that Violet can reach high places), the Uplifting Umbrella, (which helps Violet Fly), and the Levitating Loafers (which can make Klaus fly). In the game, the heroes solve puzzles, fight Olaf's Villain Acting Troupe, and collect puzzles pieces with the familiar eye in the series and movie. If you collect 25 of each color puzzle piece, you reveal a place in your secret folder, which in turn reveals a picture where you can find a VFD package. This package reveals a special extra in the game, such as a making of featurette.

The GBA version is different in that players can switch between all three Baudelaires at all times. The game also features more places, such as Briny Beach. It is said to be harder than console versions. In The Reptile Room level, some reptiles are mentioned that never appear in the books.You can also play "The Handsome Man" at Lake Lachrmose

The PC version has several differences from the console games. For one, players cannot switch between characters. The game keeps the player as one character, switching to another when necessary, and even separates the older Baudelaire siblings at times. Secondly, there are two new environments, Briny Beach and a horseradish factory (presumably the one that is discussed in The Reptile Room, The Grim Grotto, Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography and The End). Finally, players have different inventions to make; the Smasher, the Lobber, the Lockpick, the Sprayer, the Lever Yanker, the Reptile Retriever, stilts, and a Grappling Hook. As a bonus, players can collect eyes; every ten eyes collected gives the player a poster for an Olaf theater production and letters from the alphabet which start a word that gets defined. Some of the words, such as Quagmire, referring to the Quagmire triplets and Xenophobe, referring to a word Jerome Squalor mentioned to the Baudelaires in The Ersatz Elevator are from the books.