Penguin War
Release type: Freeware
Release date: 1997
Levels: 4
Author: Brandon Enterprises
Related games: Seal Boarders, Seal Boarders 2, Peach the Lobster
Not to be mistaken for Joan Stone's Penguin Pete or PPP Team's Pengo Adventure.
Contents
Story
Once, there was a penguin who went by the name of I. Dont Know. He was a very well educated penguin, and a smart one at that.
For those who know their history, the great war between the penguins, and the lobsters. At the time when I. Know was inventing his INSTA-FLIP ray, the evil cave lobsters were preoccupied with taking over the great city of Penguinsburg.
Late one evening, as I. Dont Know was putting fresh polish on his ray gun, he was startled out of his menial task by a thumping at his door. "Who is it?" He called. Only a faint bubbling sound could be heard, the same sound, coincidentally, that a long-bearded-cave- -lobster made. He opened the door, shot the lobster, went back inside and ate a health-fish or two. Then, he leapt out the door, and locked it before he could change his mind. When he looked outside, he decided that he shouldn't have done that, and that it was a very, very bad idea. With very bad timing on his side, he found that he had lost his keys already. "This," he told himself,"is a quest through very dangerous land, in search of my keys???". He then agreed with himself on that point and started on his search for his keys.
Instructions
Okay, to move UP, DOWN, LEFT, or RIGHT, you should press the corresponding on the arrow keys.
The next step is shooting. To shoot your Flip ray, you should either press
- T For up,
- G For down,
- F For left, AND
- H For right.
/\/\OR/\/\
There is a special cheat mode that lets you fire faster, quicker, and with more power. I doubt that a person who didn't make this awesome game could find it out, so here it is....
/***\CTRL/***\ |===|ALT|====| (---)#Z#(----)
HAVE FUN *<:-)}
Credits
Designed by
- Robert Brandon
Engine and Tools by
- Recreational Software Designs
Edited by
- EJR Tairne
Background
John Brandon:
- You are a penguin and you shoot lasers at lobsters. The lobsters were inspired by Peach the Lobster, and a stuffed lobster I had as a kid, that I actually named "Peach" in reference to the Peach the Lobster character. I think the penguin graphics are ripped from another GM game.
Availability
Prior to this archive's online presence, this game is not known to be publicly available.
Archive history
On January 21st 2010, Rob Brandon pseudonymously responded to a Reddit thread with a passing comment about Game-Maker. When pressed about his history with the software, he replied that all of his games were stored on a couple of defunct computers, either inaccessible or destroyed.
Over 31 months later on August 23th 2012, John Brandon commented on a YouTube clip that he had found an archive of his and his brother's old games. The next day he composed a long e-mail describing the contents of a jumbled collection of gameware files, adding up to an ostensible sixteen games. All of the games were in pieces, many of them incomplete.
Over the next five months, through regular consultation, the games were all reassembled as well as the materials would permit. The games were reconstructed or otherwise recovered on the following dates:
- October 28th: Seal Boarders.
- October 31st: Seal Boarders 2.
- November 5th: Zarlor 2.
- November 7th: Skate Board.
- November 10th: Fox World.
- December 9th: Foxy Dimensions.
- December 16th: Fox Party.
- December 17th: Ulysses, Penguin War, and Raven.
- December 19th: Skatenig, Slot Car, and Anime.
- December 21st: Droid, Void Raiders, and Terra.
Links
Downloads
- Penguin War (102.7 kB)
