Poobik The Hare
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Available on many retro systems, Kiwi Kraze has to be one of the best platformers around.
Starting with appealing characters through to catchy jingles, KK gives a recipe for total addictiveness.
NES
The game starts off with an evil walrus taking a whole bunch of kiwis (although they look more chick
than kiwi). However, he has missed one (you), and now it's payback time as this kiwi heads off for
revenge and to bring back his buddies. Well...... that's how the game usually starts, but in this review
of the NES conversion, that part is missing although it does appear on other conversions of the game.
Anyway, The graphics are colourful, crisp & clear (on the NES version)and there's a brilliant little tune
that plays along with some nice spot effects.
NES
C64
Although the initial levels are fairly easy (growing harder as you progress), you must complete the levels
at a reasonable pace as if not... a devil will arrive and home in on you.
Amstrad
SMS
After a couple of levels you will encounter the bosses with some being somewhat harder to kill than others.
to help on your quest, you will use a variety of weapons that include laser shots, bombs, fireballs etc.
On shooting an enemy it may leave a weapon, fruit or the letters E,X,T,E,N,D Collecting all these letters will
result in an extra life.
Megadrive
PC Engine
KK takes you up, down, around and across all sorts of things, with arrows indicating the direction you want to
go in when it isn't clear. There are spiked floors and ceilings to avoid, numerous holes to leap and, just
before things get repetitive, you are obliged to change your mode of transport, whether it be to don a
diver's mask and swim underwater (if you can hold your breath long enough) or to leap aboard a passing
balloon, space ship or other temporary aerial ride, each method of transport having its own control method.
Speccy
Atari ST
For instance the balloons will constantly fall if you don't counteract their movement by pressing a button,
while the space ships will hover around quite happily.
Mame
To finish, some will think that this kind of game is quite girlie in play and looks, but I say (with a deep butch voice)
lovely game play, lovely grafix, give it a whirl... :wub:
Starting with appealing characters through to catchy jingles, KK gives a recipe for total addictiveness.
The game starts off with an evil walrus taking a whole bunch of kiwis (although they look more chick
than kiwi). However, he has missed one (you), and now it's payback time as this kiwi heads off for
revenge and to bring back his buddies. Well...... that's how the game usually starts, but in this review
of the NES conversion, that part is missing although it does appear on other conversions of the game.
Anyway, The graphics are colourful, crisp & clear (on the NES version)and there's a brilliant little tune
that plays along with some nice spot effects.
Although the initial levels are fairly easy (growing harder as you progress), you must complete the levels
at a reasonable pace as if not... a devil will arrive and home in on you.
After a couple of levels you will encounter the bosses with some being somewhat harder to kill than others.
to help on your quest, you will use a variety of weapons that include laser shots, bombs, fireballs etc.
On shooting an enemy it may leave a weapon, fruit or the letters E,X,T,E,N,D Collecting all these letters will
result in an extra life.
KK takes you up, down, around and across all sorts of things, with arrows indicating the direction you want to
go in when it isn't clear. There are spiked floors and ceilings to avoid, numerous holes to leap and, just
before things get repetitive, you are obliged to change your mode of transport, whether it be to don a
diver's mask and swim underwater (if you can hold your breath long enough) or to leap aboard a passing
balloon, space ship or other temporary aerial ride, each method of transport having its own control method.
For instance the balloons will constantly fall if you don't counteract their movement by pressing a button,
while the space ships will hover around quite happily.
To finish, some will think that this kind of game is quite girlie in play and looks, but I say (with a deep butch voice)
lovely game play, lovely grafix, give it a whirl... :wub:
