Antarctic Adventure - Colecovision

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Antarctic Adventure (Colecovision)
Also for: MSX
Viewed: 2D Third-person, over the shoulder Genre:
Racing
Arcade origin:No
Publishers: Konami (US)
Released: 1984 (US)
Unknown (GB)
Contributors:matthew tingle

Summary

Antartic adventure is no ordinary over the shoulder third-person racer. It's set in the south pole and involves you taking control of a penguin racing down ice-covered tracks and whizzing passed snow-covered hills and mountains. The name of your little penguins game is to race towards wooden cabins owned by different countries as indicated by a flag. It is time based so you have to get to the cavern in the time indicated at the top of the screen, as the screens show. The timed courses become tricky due to the abundence of obstacles and features on the track.

There are two types of features, a gaping crack in the track into which your penguin falls also pot-holes litter the road which work in the same way. Although occassionaly, as soon as you jump a pot hole, a seal can pop out. Due to the fact that the jump controls stick while your character is in the air, the penguin crashes into the seal causing an loss of points, time and patience. Fish also occasionly pop-up which boost points for the high score screen.