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VS. コレクション
1996 © Bottom Up
Release: 1996-11-29 (¥6980)
Cartridge SHVC-AU3J
Action / Versus game
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Vs Collection is an unusual multi-player versus/fighting game by Bottom Up.
It is rather difficult to categorize this title and it doesn't really fit into any
genre at all. In a nutshell, Vs Collection offers four different multi-player mini-games, all staring
some king of cute penguins (or weird looking chickens, hard to tell, let's assume they are penguins). The first
one is a Tetris-Like game called Tamago Baakun where up to three players
collect colored eggs and align them to send disastrous baskets
of egg yolk into their opponents' playfield. The second game is an intense snowball battle
called Yukidama Poi Poi - two teams of penguins (aligned like in a game of chess)
fight by throwing snowballs at each other.
And, of course, the last team standing wins. The third mini-game is a racing game called
Doki Doki Race, and is based on other titles such as the classic
Super Mario Kart - but things here are much simpler, and the penguins have to race
around a small track, and can occasionally jump over walls and take shortcuts.
The fourth and last game is a fighting game called
Toria Taaku where up to four penguins fight
one another in a way similar to Atari's classic Joust. The goal of this
last game is to kick the other players, and to throw them in a large pit located at the
bottom of the screen.
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Vs Collection is such a weird curiosity. I personally had never
heard about this game before I found this copy, and it
rarely comes up for auction or sale...
But I must warn you, Vs Collection is definitively a
party game and it quickly becomes boring in single player mode. However,
bring some friends over and the game will really reveal itself.
The fourth game is probably my favorite - the
developers have literally thrown tons
of stages in there and new features just keep appearing.
Vs Collection is far from being an impressive title, but
it is a great example of "party gaming", a genre
only recently 're-invented' by
Nintendo's Wii system.
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