Osawagase! Penguin (JPN) or Amazing Penguin (NA) is a really fun action puzzle game. Received my copy in the post today and I haven’t been able to put it down when I have a spare moment.
It’s like QIX but a lot more involved, and with clearly marked territory chunks that enemies run about. This changes the dynamic of the game where the number and shape of enemies/density of territory chunks/size of the overall play area determines how hectic things get.
Bit late on this, but finally picked up Totsugeki: Ponkotsu Tank last year, an action game that HAL Laboratory made for Game Boy.
The box art looks like this (foolishly paid 9800 for my copy a week before finding it in Matsue!)
The concept is novel: you pilot a tank that can only rotate its turret in a single direction.
But it doesn’t do enough with this conceit, ideally you’d be forced into moving your tank along one axis while your turret only points in another direction, but it’s just far too easy and I remember one power-up in particular trivialising the difficulty.
It’s an interesting curio but not a game I’d recommend rushing out to try.
