A Bug's Life (PlayStation, 1998)

This game has some flaws in the animation (it was one of the first to try for true 3D action and POVs) but the challenges more than make up for it. Based on the movie of the same name, the main character is Flik, the nonconformist ant who finds a better way to do things. In the game, he gathers grain, fights nasty bugs, and collects the letters of his name to get a new life. (Hint: if you keep doing the Training Level over and over, you can get up to 9 lives to start instead of the default 3. You don't have to complete the whole thing --just collect F-L-I-K, get the extra life, save, then come back and do it over. You can also go back to Training and get more lives between levels. VERY helpful!) You have to find and sprout seeds, collect coins, etc. to solve various challenges -- and if you get the Gold Berry on each level, you can knock out those grasshoppers for good! The only complaint i have is that the controls for saving a game and starting a game are confusing, so I erased a game the first time around. But I still give it 5 stars!