It features a new opening story sequence at the start of the game, as well as 20 additional levels set after the original 50 levels, in which the player switch controls from Nick and Tom to the twin princesses Puripuri and Puchipuchi after the Snow Brothers themselves get kidnapped by a new adversary. The Mega Drive version was released on May 28, 1993, is the only console port of the game directly developed by Toaplan themselves. It features a new story sequence at the beginning which depicts an origin story unique to this version in which Nick and Tom are established to be human princes who were cursed into becoming snowmen by an evil demon named King Scorch. The NES version, titled Snow Brothers in North America and Europe, was released in November 1991 in North America and December 1991 in Japan. The Game Boy version also adds an extra set of 10 levels after the 50 levels adapted from the arcade version are cleared. Several other aspects of the game were changed due to the technical restrictions of the Game Boy, such as bosses that originally fought in pairs in the arcade version now fight alone and potions are now given different shape due to the Game Boy's lack of color display. It is one-player only and changes the story to compensate for this by having one of the titular Snow Brothers be kidnapped while the other sets out to rescue him. Jr., was released on in Japan and January 1992 in North America. The Mega Drive version was released exclusively in Japan. Each version was published by a different company in Japan (Toaplan themselves published the Famicom version, while Naxat Soft and Tengen published the Game Boy and Mega Drive versions respectively), while the NES and Game Boy versions were published in North America by Capcom. was ported to the Game Boy, Nintendo Entertainment System and Mega Drive. These ghosts can't be killed or stunned, so the player's only hope is to avoid them while eliminating the rest of the enemies to move on to the next screen as soon as possible. After a short time, the evil pumpkin will spawn ghosts that can travel freely through the level and seek the player character.
It is invincible but can be stunned and sent to appear elsewhere in the level with snowballs or snow shots. If the player takes too much time to complete a level an evil pumpkin head will come and try to kill the player character. Also, both the Blue and Yellow Potions increase the power of the snow thrown from either Nick or Tom. The effects of the red, blue, and yellow potion wear off after the player loses a life. Green causes your character to inflate like a balloon while having the ability to fly around the screen and knock out enemies for a limited period of time.Yellow increases the distance that snow can be thrown.Blue increases the amount of snow thrown, thus making it easier to cover an enemy in the snow.The color of the potion lets the player know what special power-up he or she will acquire: When a player bowls an enemy over, it may drop a potion bottle. In the Sega Mega Drive port, after the 50th level, you play as one of the snow castle princesses. Each boss can sustain being hit a number of times.
If the player manages to take out all of the enemies with kicking one snowball (this one snowball may be used to make others bounce around as well and increase the chances to pull this trick off), bonus money will fall from the sky.Įvery tenth level there is a boss. Any enemies the snowball rolls into are eliminated and other stationary snowballs start rolling when the rolling snowball touches them. The snowball will rebound off of walls until eventually shattering against a wall.
Once an enemy has been turned into a snowball, the player can roll it. An enemy partially covered in snow cannot move until it shakes it off. The player must throw snow at each enemy until it is completely covered and turns into a snowball. Each player can throw snow at the enemies. The game supports up to two players, with each player taking the part of one of two snowmen, Nick and Tom.
is similar to Bubble Bobble, released in 1986.
0 kommentar(er)
