Pengo
| Developer: MartinSoft | Graphics: |
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| Publisher: MartinSoft | Sound: |
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| Year: 1994 | Difficulty: |
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| Genre: Arcade | Lastability: |
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| Number of players: 2 simultaneous | Rating: |
5/10 | |
An amateur adaptation of Pengo (arcade, 1982). You’re a penguin trapped in a maze made of ice blocks. Two ways to clear a level: crush all the enemies by shoving blocks into them, or arrange the three diamonds so they touch in a straight line. The music (at least in the more popular of the two versions floating around) is one of the catchiest in history: Popcorn.
This Amiga version holds its own compared to “professional” ports. That said, don’t expect a faithful reproduction of the original. The levels are different, the enemies behave nothing like their arcade counterparts, and the ability to smack the screen border to stun them is gone.
On an emulator, the “adf” version (Amiga Sector One) runs with the “A500+, 4MB Fast RAM” configuration. The second version (from the author’s site) requires installing a virtual hard drive.
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