A Japan-only game where players control a group of endlessly running children, avoiding obstacles and completing dancing mini-games. The game focuses on the three brothers and their misadventure and has a large emphasis on the comedic animated sequences in between stages. The game is over if any of the characters in the group falls or gets caught in an obstacle and goes off the screen. The game is also over if the life gauge keeps decreasing (hunger) and becomes zero. Therefore, the player must continue to acquire food placed throughout the stage, but since Vladaa hates fish, his life gauge will decrease drastically if he takes a fish burger. Depending on the stage, the group will include his father, grandfather, and grocer, and up to four people must be controlled at the same time, making the game very challenging. It features Shiro Suzuki, an announcer affiliated with TBS (at the time) who was popular on Japanese television at the time, as the narrator, and his picture also appears on the package.
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This amazingly quirky Japanese exclusive game brings a lot of funny, Shin-Chan like comedy into a world full of mini-games. The game was developed by Tycoon and published in 2000 for the PlayStation by a collaboration between Asmik Ace Entertainment and TBS. "TBS" stands for the Tokyo Broadcasting System, by the way.
The gameplay is tons of fun, as you would expect, with totally crazy animated sequences and over-the-top, chaotic music (as it should be). Speaking of music, the song from the second running stage is a montage from several samba tunes. The spoken part says "Olha a Beija-Flor aí, gente!" (literally "Look at Beija-Flor, folks!,", in a sense of "Beija-Flor is now parading!" or "Beija-Flor is in the area!"). Beija-Flor de Nilópolis ("Nilópolis Hummingbird") is one of the most traditional samba schools in Rio de Janeiro. There goes some obscure video-game trivia to y'all.
If you are planning on having a fun, chill time playing games with your friends while drinking something, this game is a MUST.
Enjoy.