Puggsy (Genesis)

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Description

Puggsy is a platform game with a combination of action and puzzle-solving elements. You control the creature Puggsy, who has crash landed on an alien planet and had his spaceship stolen. Your goal is to find the spaceship so you can get off the planet and return home. To do this, you will need to make your way from the start to the exit of numerous levels which take place in a variety of environments. Throughout each level are a variety of objects which you can pick up; on many of the levels you will need to figure out how to use the objects available to you in order to reach the exit. Some objects can be used (like a gun or keys), and objects may be thrown, moved around and stacked. Of course, each level will also have a variety of bad guys wandering about which will cost Puggsy one of his lives if he's caught. On your quest there will also be six evil guardians which will need to be defeated before you get your spaceship back!

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User Reviews

Weird, cute game with impressive music

Andrew Fisher (668)

Critic Reviews

Mean Machines	Oct, 1993	89 out of 100	89
Games Master	Sep, 1993	86 out of 100	86
Play Time	Dec, 1993	84 out of 100	84
Megablast	Dec, 1993	81 out of 100	81
Video Games	Nov, 1993	80 out of 100	80
Pixel-Heroes.de	Sep 23, 2010	8 out of 10	80
Retrogaming History	Apr 15, 2008	8 out of 10	80
Quebec Gamers	Aug 27, 2008	7.6 out of 10	76
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)	Dec, 1993	28 out of 40	70
Score	Jul, 1994	64 out of 100	64

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Development history

The Puggsy character originated in a series of demo animations made for the Amiga in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As you may gather from this, the game was originally planned for release several years earlier. In the animations Puggsy was silver rather than red; Nik Wild of Psygnosis claimed that the change was made to help people with black and white TVs.