Super PoPo's Adventure is a Famicom/NES platforming game themed after the children's TV program Teletubbies. It was possibly developed by Gamtec and released sometime in the early 2000s.
The gameplay engine of Super PoPo's Adventure is shared by two other titles, Pocket Monster and Panda World. Each game has numerous differences in mechanics, though they share the same music and sound effects. It is unknown which came first; it is possible all three games were developed concurrently.
Overview[]
The game is a simple platformer where the player controls Po (Named PoPo in-game and on the title), who must find the other Teletubbies' items such as a ball and a hat. The player finds the items by collecting puzzle pieces in each stage that form the item they need. If the player does not collect all of the puzzle pieces in a given stage, the level will have to be restarted. Various enemies also appear in the game; enemies can only be defeated by shooting at them or collecting a puzzle piece while they're on screen.
Unlike Pocket Monster and Panda World, this game has underwater stages where the player uses the jump button to swim in the stage. Other stages also have water, which bizarrely turns everything that is red into blue; this includes Po, the life icon, and a few enemies. On land-based stages, Po rides a scooter when accelerating (as she does in the TV series). In the last world, Po's scooter is missing, even though it can still be used in-game. On the final stage, the player fights a tree boss with a face (similar to Whispy Woods from the Kirby series); after the tree is defeated, the game ends.
Trivia[]
- There is an unused Teletubbies logo stored with the graphics for the title screen, along with text saying "PUSH". The former was removed likely to avoid any copyright issues from the BBC, while the latter was likely supposed to appear next to the "START" text.[1]
- When returning from watching a demo gameplay, Dipsy will sometimes turn red on the title screen. It is unknown why it happens; though it could simply just be a bug itself or a programming error.
- The game is (or was) notably uncommon in traditional multicart releases, particularly when compared to the Pocket Monster variant. The only known 2000s cartridge releases are on two X-Boy multicarts; the game has since appeared on a few additional multicarts and plug & plays from the early 2010s onward.
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