Penguin Adventure

Penguin Adventure (or Yumetairiku Adventure 夢大陸アドベンチャー) is a Video game developed and published by Konami on the computer MSX in 1986. It is the first play on which the creator Hideo Kojima worked, in the capacity as assisting director.

It is about the continuation of Antarctic Adventure (1984) .

Penguin Adventure interferes play address and race Against-the-watch. The player controls a penguin which runs unceasingly to go to seek a gold apple with an aim of looking after Penko Hime , the princess of the penguins. The hero, baptized Pentarou, became a kind of mascot for the MSX.

Penguin Adventure is often regarded as one of the best plays of the platform MSX

Gameplay

The player must direct the character so that it wastes less possible time (the penguin running uninterrupted), the obstacles going of the basic enemies to the bends S, Crevasse S, Rondin S and others.

The action proceeds on a vertical scrolling, the penguin is located in bottom of the screen and can move from left to right and jump; All the difficulty of the play is based on the anticipation of the jumps to avoid the obstacles or to enter the " cracks with bonus". The action of the play is a succession of races with decorations which change according to the levels.

The hero can pile up a kind of savings, and certain cracks on the road are in fact of the shops, the short cuts, the tests or others. Qualities of this play are its rather long lifespan and its innovative concept.

As much of Konami plays of this time, Penguin Adventure exists in two versions: Japanese woman and English. On the Japanese version, some of the aspects of the play as the purchase of the no-claims bonus are made more difficult.

To note

  • Penguin Adventure left on MSX to the format MegaROM (cartridge of 1 Mbit). On a MSX making it possible to insert simultaneously two cartridge S, to insert at the same time Penguin Adventure and Nemesis 2 made it possible to play with a penguin swimming in space and launching hearts, in the place of the spaceship and of its machine-gun.
  • the English word penguin results by Manchot into French and not in Pingouin as it is often seen.

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