The first Scooby game to be published by Toy Head Quarters (THQ).
The only Scooby-Doo video game released for the Nintendo 64.
Familiarity with the television show helps the player, as in one instance, the player must hide inside a two-dimensional painting to escape a villain.
A PlayStation version, identical to the Nintendo 64 version, had been in development by Terraglyph Interactive Studios, but was cancelled.
Because violence was never featured in the Scooby-Doo franchise, the game's designers had difficulty designing the gameplay in a way so that the player would have to either hide from enemies or move past them, rather than fight them.