The PROWLER Previews:Penguins
Travis Guy of Atari Explorer On-Line Magazine comments on this new Jaguar
game...
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Travis managed to snag this description of the upcoming Attack of the
Mutant Penguins from AEO's new UK correspondent Iain Laskey.
I've had a good look at it at Atari UK. It's weird!
The premise is that aliens want to invade Earth and tuned into our
TV transmissions to see what we are like and to help plot their
invasion. Unfortunately, they tuned into a nature program about
penguins so got the wrong info and decided to invade in the form of
penguins.
There are different types of penguin, as in Lemmings. The screen
looks like several big islands floating in space and viewed from
above at about 45 degrees. The basic idea is to prevent them getting
a given number of their penguins to the end of each level thus
tipping a giant pair of scales indicating they have won.
You stop them by running around, picking fights, setting traps,
removing/adding ladders and walkways etc. There are =loads= of odd
bonus rounds and odd bonus items to achieve. (e.g., if you get a
policeman, soldier, sailer, lumberjack and red-indian to meet up,
they become the Village People and do a quick song and dance
routine.) The gameplay has changed a lot in the prior 2 months so
this may all change again.
Travis also wanted me to add that the buzz he's heard has AMP to be a
"well odd" game. There's no news on whether penguins on television
sets will explode when this game is played, but I expect we'll know
more in a few months.
PROWLER The Atari Console Disk Magazine February 27, 1996
Copyright (c) 1996 All Rights Reserved Issue No. 01