um, that's nuts. That Taito collection is thick with stuff.
Taito Legends - Plump Pop
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 On 04/10/2014 at 02:31 PM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
Plump Pop is a 1987 arcade game that was never released in NA. This game plays a lot like Breakout. You choose from dogs, cats or pigs which hold a trampoline and bounce their child up into a field of balloons and clouds. Boss creatures appear in the sky on some levels, and dispense more balloons. By bouncing off the boss creatures you anger them until they are vanquished. The game is full of soft pastel colors and cheerful music.
The gameplay is very simple but the soft colors and the strange bosses kept me playing. I got through two of the three bosses, the Jack-O-Lantern and the Octopus, but there is a final boss of two demon putti (naked winged babies) who throw poo at you. I wish I’d gotten to that one.
There are a lot of screens. I think 40 plus some bonus screens and the boss fights. One issue is that sometimes you can’t move fast enough to respond to a quick rebound. It becomes a good strategy to send your child up higher through the lower rows so he/she can rebound off the top row of balloons and the top of the screen, staying up there longer. This is a strategy for Breakout as well.
In case you'd actually like to read a real review, here's one I read.
If you want to see the putti in the final fight that I didn’t get to, look at minute 11 of this video. Note that you can play two players to make the game a lot easier.
“The evil spilit was ruined by you”
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