Pengo recording
Nov 18th, 2007 by admin
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
This was a great game made during the time that games with “cute” characters were all the rage. You play as a red colored penguin who needs to defeat a bunch of “Sno-Bees” in a maze of ice cubes, and also to try not to get struck by them.
The game shares a little bit in common with other such classics as Pac-Man and even Dig Dug, since the play field, here being a maze made of ice cubes, is interactive, and when just one Sno-Bee is left, it may decide to split from the stage, thus ending one stage and leading to the next. Try to knock the ice cubes into the Sno-Bees, and when near the walls on the side, you can kick the them, which causes a vibration that stuns the Sno-Bees, making it possible to eliminate them by running over them and “picking them up”. Some of the “eggs” the enemies hatch from are marked by the computer’s making them flash, and if you can memorize their positions before they do, you can kick them apart, which’ll destroy them before they hatch. Note that the Sno-Bees work faster and more aggresively every consecutive stage, and thus become more formidable.
Most interesting part is the trio of diamond cubes, which, when all placed together, will result in a special bonus, after which all Sno-Bees present on the stage will be stunned, making it possible to collect them all. This bonus effect only works once every stage.
This was also quite notable for incorporating the Popcorn music theme from 1969. Every two stages or so, there’s a penguin celebration in special cutscene interludes underneath the scoreboard, just like how Pac-Man was the first game to feature amusing little interludes in between stages.
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