AUTHOR: SEGA RELEASE: 1987 TYP: Action SPIELER: 1 LEVEL: - SPRACHE: Englisch Partnumber: MK-5501-50 EAN: - WERT: 30 Euro
Willkommen im Pinguinland. Ihre Aufgabe: Bringen Sie zerbrechliche Eier aus einem fremden Land sicher nach Hause zurück. Die Reise führt Sie tief hinab in ein mysteriöses Höhlensystem, wo gefährliche Bestien darauf warten, Sie anzugreifen und Eier zu zerstören.
Welcome to Penguin Land, where you're going underground to plan more than your next move. Because now, with the help of a super advanced battery, you can actually design each game maze as you play and save your maze for more fun later. Here's the setting. You're aboard a cosmic expedition that's full of action and adventure. And guess who's in command? That's right, you're Overbite, commander of a special Penguin Task Force. Your mission: bring fragile eggs back safely home from a foreign land. Your journey will take you deep into mysterious caverns where dangerous animals await to attack and destroy your eggs. But remember, your space ship and crew need you too. So be careful not to „crack-up“ because you can't be a hero with „egg on your face.
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Pro Action Replay Codes
00C1 1903 Infinite Lives
00C1 A205 Infinite Polar Bears During Editor Mode
00C1 1D63 Infinite Time
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I love penguins (who doesn't?) but frankly this game sucks. Penguin Land's bright title screen and happy-go-lucky music suggests you're in for some lighthearted winter fun. Yeah right. Playing the role of an adorable little penguin the idea is to methodically transport an egg down the levels of a vertically-scrolling maze. The arcade graphics feature bright blue ice blocks against dark backgrounds. You can roll the egg, create holes, and drop it little by little until you reach the space ship at the bottom. Why is there a spaceship at the bottom? I couldn't tell you, but I think it might be the subject of a new History channel documentary. Anyway I toiled just to complete the first stage. Toiled! There are so many problems. First, you have to be extremely careful or your egg will get stuck. The egg can only withstand drops of a certain distance and a blinking cursor is supposed to help determine a safe height. Some blocks cannot be broken and others have special functions. For such a simple premise this game is complicated as hell. It's possible to drop boulders on polar bears (a la Dig Dug) but that's way too hard. Those bears lunge at you like heat-seeking missiles! Adding insult to injury, if you take too long contemplating your move a bird flies by and drops a brick on your egg! That's the last straw. Penguin Land's gameplay is so dismal, the inclusion of a level editor feels like a cruel joke. My friend Scott said it best, „I liked this game a lot more before I played it. - Videogamecritic.com
Penguin Land is one of those games having a very individual concept. Therefore, it can be recommended to just about anybody who wants to play something totally different. Your mission is very easy to understand, but not always easy to play: rolling a huge egg through the icy stages. You have to play 50 stages, that usually take about five minutes to play through. Each stage starts atop the level and you have to get the egg to the very ground. Overbite (the penguin you play) can peck the rocks in front of him and jump. This is all. There are about 10 different types of rocks, each having its own characteristics. Some stones can be moved, some fall apart when placing the egg onto it, some can be removed by peckking and so on. This is were the strategic part begins. So if you don't want your egg to be trapped somewhere, you sometimes have to think twice what rocks to move. And do not forget about the polar bears that always like to punch the §$%? outa Overbite in order to get the egg. […] I played the game about 8 times through. Because it is fun to do so once in awhile. Playing a level can be compared to solve a crossword or a set of Sudoku. It is very fun playing it for 20 minutes once in awhile and since the cartridge is smart enough to memorize the level you have reached, I sometimes do so. As already mentioned the big plus of the game is its unique concept - therefore if you want to play something different during lunch break - Penguin Land would be a good gaame to do so. And it would not keep you from returning back to work, maybe only 2 or 3 times. - www.smstributes.co.uk
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