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Platform games were the stable
of games back in the 80's and 90's and to get away from the masses you'd
have to do something pretty different. The New Zealand story starts with
some kiwi's happily playing outside the zoo but suddenly Wally the Walrus
comes in and takes them all away so he can sell them. One of the kiwi's
called Tiki escaped and now he has to face a dangerous journey to free all
of his friends and to face the evil Wally. Who thinks of this stuff!?
Being a kiwi, a flightless bird, Tiki is forced to jump his way through
most of the levels to get to his friends but occasionally he can knock an
enemy off of their flying mounts which can range from clouds to birds and
balloons. This will give you access to higher parts of the levels but you
cannot travel through most platforms which you can do when you are walking.
The odds are heavily against you but you are not totally helpless, you have
a bow and arrow which will take out most enemies but some enemies drop weapons
like bombs and even lasers which will help you out.
The levels are constructed like mazes and altough they follow a set path
you can often choose wether to fly or jump to certain places whichever you
prefer. At the end of a level is one of your friends caged but at the end
of each area there will be a large foe waiting for you. You will have to
defeat the boss before you can go to the next area until you come to the
evil Wally the Walrus himself. The levels themselves have a timelimit and
if you don't rescue your friend in time a devil will come and try to take
you out. The graphics are very simply and what most people would refer to
as cute, the main character looks like a little chick all yellow and all.
Altough the characters in the game are pretty bizarre, I doubt many people
will even know what a kiwi is (a flightless bird that only lives in New
Zealand) this won't change much for the game though. The action is fast
and the levels are short enough that they don't drag on while they occasionally
introduce new things like swimming and such. The time limit can be annoying
but they put in an extra factor to not tarry around and the margins aren't
that small to be impossible to overcome. As far as platform games go this
is one of the better ones so give it a go.
Overal rating: 7.5/10
Erde Kaiser
New Zealand story, the was released for many different systems here are some notes:
| Amiga |
Released
in 1989.
Probably the best of the home versions, crisp graphics and good controls. |
| Amstrad
CPC |
Released
in 1989.
This is an unplayable mess, the screen flickers, there's no backgrounds
at all. Leave this alone I would say. |
| C64 |
Released
in 1989.
Remarkably good conversion and apart from some minor graphic downtowning
it's al there. |
Megadrive/
Genesis |
Released
in 1989.
This is very similar to the PCE version. |
| NES |
Released
in 1989.
The music is very sped up but otherwise it's pretty good. |
PC-Engine/
Turbo Grafx |
Released
in 1989.
Probably the best of them all, this is also the only version which
tells the story in the beginning. |
SMS
- Sega
Master system |
Released
in 1989.
Like the NES version the music is really fast but otherwise it's great. |
| ZX
Spectrum |
Released
in 1989.
Slighty better than the Amstrad version but still the screen flickers
a lot and non existant backgrounds. |
| Others |
This
version isnot available.
Atari ST released in 1989. |
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Date added |
Jul-20-2007 11:19 |
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New Zealand story, the |
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Developer |
Ocean
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Publisher |
Ocean
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First released |
1989 |
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Genre |
Action
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Download |
Amstrad CPC, filesize: 62 Kb
Commodore 64, filesize: 69 Kb
Commodore Amiga, filesize: 375 Kb
Nintendo Entertainment System, filesize: 92 Kb
PC-engine, filesize: 179 Kb
Sega Master System, filesize: 141 Kb
Sega Megadrive, filesize: 220 Kb
ZX Spectrum, filesize: 69 Kb
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Manual |
No manual available
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Solve / Docs |
No solve available
No extra docs available |
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