Pang

Description

Pang is a platform game which consists of 50 levels in total. It can be played with one or two players on the same screen, and the other player can join anytime within the game.

Your goal is to destroy the balloons which bounce around the playfield. To accomplish this, you can shoot hooks which travel upwards, and blow up any balloon they touch. Depending on their size, they either split on two smaller ones, or evaporate if they're at their minimum size. Apart from balloons, some levels also have barriers that have to be destroyed with your hooks, since they often block your access to balloons. There are also some barriers which cannot ever be destroyed. Your character has the ability to climb ladders, but cannot jump.

You can also pick up power-ups such as: the ability to fire two shots at once, at once, the hook that attaches to the ceiling and waits 'til something bumps into it, a gun which has a high rate of fire but cannot destroy barriers. Beside extra weapons, you can also pick certain things like clock (halting time for a small period), dynamite (reducing all balls to minimum size, thus making you able to reach more points), life, and such.

Alternate Titles

• "Pomping World" -- Japanese Title
• "Buster Bros." -- Alternative Title

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The Press Says

Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Amiga	Oct, 1990	96 out of 100	96
Your Sinclair	ZX Spectrum	Feb, 1991	94 out of 100	94
Mean Machines	Amstrad CPC	Dec, 1990	93 out of 100	93
The One	Amiga	Oct, 1990	90 out of 100	90
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Amiga	Nov, 1990	840 out of 1000	84
Zzap!	Amiga	Nov, 1990	82 out of 100	82
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Feb, 1991	80 out of 100	80
Power Play	Amiga	Mar, 1991	73 out of 100	73
Power Play	Commodore 64	Oct, 1991	71 out of 100	71
Power Play	Atari ST	Mar, 1991	69 out of 100	69

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Trivia

The game's basic idea of shooting balloons to split them into smaller ones came from an 1983 title (also by Hudson Soft) called Bubble Buster. As far as I know, the game only appeared on the Sinclair Spectrum system, marketed by Sinclair themselves.