ZDog

ZDog
Title screen.
Publisher	Zechess
Developer	Hummer Team
Console	VT03
Date	2006
Engine	Various
Sound engine	Hummer Sound Engine

ZDog is a VT03-based plug-and-play console developed by Hummer Team and published by Zechess. It contains 44 games. Some of the games are used in Hummer Team's other plug & play system, Samuri.

Overview

The system has three modes of play, each of which leading to the same 44 minigames. After completing each minigame, you get a star, which is stored in the Star Bank. The game is "completed" when the player gets all 44 stars.

All of the sound is digitized, and the games that ZDog shares with Samuri have their sound redone.

List of games

1. Space Cruiser - a shooter, uses the same engine as Air Combat from the Samuri
2. UFO Carrier - second variant of the same game 
3. Space Fort - third variant of the same game
4. ZDog Hero - basically the fighting game from the Samuri, only with ZDog, Hummer, Pink Jelly & Panda used
5. Hummer Hero - same game, but you can only play as Hummer
6. Jelly Hero - probably self-explanatory
7. Benthal - another variation on the shooter engine, starring a whale and set underwater
8. Sea Serpent - second underwater shooting game
9. Octopus - third underwater shooting game
10. Submarine - single screen shooter, you must go underwater to avoid stuff
11. Diplopod War
12. Pterodactyl - crosshair shooting game, defend the house from pterodactyls to the Aladdin theme tune
13. Duck Runaway
14. Space Ball - something with the sprites from Juggling Stunts but the player is in the middle and you have to catch the balls thrown by the other two in space
15. Harpoon
16. Surfing - you control Pink Jelly on a surfboard, and you have to avoid sharks
17. Hunting - similar to the hunting game on the Samuri, but with multiple stages and different animals mixed in together
18. Fly Eater - Greedy Frog on Samuri
19. Seals
20. Knock the Roots - variation on Big Hammer, etc.
21. Puppy Saver
22. Cross Street
23. Cute Heads
24. Matching
25. Venice Mugs - variation on Tomatina from the Samuri but the player is throwing mugs at people in Venice
26. Moose and Water
27. Honor Ribbon - Arkanoid clone
28. Mad Jumper - variant of Jelly Motor Boat
29. Shipwreck - Titenic variant
30. Heroine - Titenic variant
31. Cat vs Dogs - Pac-Man clone
32. Pingpong - a game of Ping Pong with voice acting.
33. Foredeck - Titenic variant
34. Double Decker - Titenic variant
35. Elevator - Titenic variant
36. Ocean Hero - Titenic variant
37. Panda Hero - another fighting game
38. Mad Dogs - variant of Crazy Cats on the Samuri
39. Samurai
40. Butter Fly
41. Lobster
42. Lion vs Zebra
43. Monkey - it is basically like Moose & Water but with a monkey in a tree
44. Star Bank

Trivia

• The game Mad Dogs is a variant of Crazy Cats on the Samuri plug and play. In the Samuri manual, it lists it as Mad Dogs instead of Crazy Cats.
• This is the last known release by Hummer Team.
• VDog, which seems to be an early version of ZDog, appears in the documentation for EmuVT.

Gallery

ZDog plush. The electronics are stored in its backpack.