Trog!
released on Feb 01, 1991
It's survival of the fastest in the prehistoric land of Og. That crazy, one-eyed caveman, the Trog, is hungry... and dinos Spike and Bloop know what that means: RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! Here's your chance to change the course of history and save the dinosaurs. Don't become Trog's Stone Age feast! Instead, use your reflexes and wits racing through 50 fun-filled islands, packed with dino-mite action and surprises. You'll witness the greatest inventions of all time: fire, the wheel, the pogo stick (the pogo stick?) - all invented by Trog to catch his dinner - you! Just watch out for the Tar Pits... sticky business. You've got special pick-ups to keep that carnivorous chow hound in check, like pineapples that turn you into a ferocious Trog-munching T-Rex. It's like this: either you save the Dinos... or you're extinct!
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Trog ended up being a bit of a hidden gem! It’s another entry in the maze chase/dot eat genre, originally an arcade game with claymation visuals. The NES version doesn’t retain those visuals, of course, but the whole game has this great, expressive, cartoonish style with a lot of flair in the animations. The goal is to collect a bunch of eggs before escaping to the exit, all while being chased by the caveman-like, cyclopean Trogs. Your character comes equipped with a surprisingly effective punch attack that renders the early stages trivial, but as time goes on, the Trogs get quicker and start throwing curveballs at you. They light fires, roll fast-moving stone wheels, and use these bizarre spring shoes that let them jump erratically all over the place. The amusing thing about the traps is that the Trogs will frequently fall victim to them as well. They’ll walk into fires, get squashed by the wheels, and you can easily bait them to walk right off the edge of the stage. Despite this, they start moving so quickly that they’ll surround you in a second if you’re not paying attention.
The game gives you just enough freedom in the movement and attacking that you don’t feel powerless, while also throwing enough at you to make the experience challenging. Once I learned how the warps work, it wasn’t too difficult to get to the final stage, 50. I had a good enough time with this that I’ll probably come back for a 1-credit clear someday.
The game gives you just enough freedom in the movement and attacking that you don’t feel powerless, while also throwing enough at you to make the experience challenging. Once I learned how the warps work, it wasn’t too difficult to get to the final stage, 50. I had a good enough time with this that I’ll probably come back for a 1-credit clear someday.
It's basically Pac-Man with some neat claymation-like visuals and a prehistoric theme.
Se eu fosse descrever esse jogo com palavras atuais eu diria que ele é um "pac-man-like". Se você gosta de jogos desse estilo você vai gostar desse. As animações são engraçadas e no geral é um bom jogo. Prepare seus dedos e sua bunda: são 50 fases.
Trog! Is the best "maze game" a la Pac Man besides Pac Man itself.
3 stars because watching your character get eaten absolutely made me cry multiple times as a young child.
3 stars because watching your character get eaten absolutely made me cry multiple times as a young child.
Trog! on NES is a port of the arcade game of the same title, unfortunately there was little hope in bringing the claymation graphics to NES, but it still looks pretty great here and I love how goofy Bloop looks dancing in the win screen. We're also down to two playable dinosaurs instead of four in the arcade game, which again I think is fine. It probably would've been troublesome getting four dinosaurs on screen with all the trogs too.
The game itself is a maze game akin to Pac-Man, but the stage design itself kinda reminds me of Bomberman without the destructible blocks. You gotta collect all the eggs and get to the exit while avoiding the titular Trogs, who won't hesitate to knock you out and eat you alive, pretty nightmarish. Over the course of the game the Trogs get smarter and start inventing new ways to try and catch you, like jumping and throwing wheels at you. You defend yourself via punching in your normal form or collecting powerups like pineapples to temporarily turn into a goddamned t-rex to chomp those fucking Trogs or grabbing a fire stick looking thing to be able to shoot fireballs.
The charm and simplicity of this game only served to make me love the shit out of it more. It even features one of my favorite tropes in video games which is enemies getting hurt by their own moves, Trogs get smarter but are also still dimwitted and get flattened by their own wheels or get roasted from walking into fires another one started.
I really didn't expect this one to get me addicted, I would've absolutely loved the shit out of this game as a kid and with a friend it would've been even more fun.
The game itself is a maze game akin to Pac-Man, but the stage design itself kinda reminds me of Bomberman without the destructible blocks. You gotta collect all the eggs and get to the exit while avoiding the titular Trogs, who won't hesitate to knock you out and eat you alive, pretty nightmarish. Over the course of the game the Trogs get smarter and start inventing new ways to try and catch you, like jumping and throwing wheels at you. You defend yourself via punching in your normal form or collecting powerups like pineapples to temporarily turn into a goddamned t-rex to chomp those fucking Trogs or grabbing a fire stick looking thing to be able to shoot fireballs.
The charm and simplicity of this game only served to make me love the shit out of it more. It even features one of my favorite tropes in video games which is enemies getting hurt by their own moves, Trogs get smarter but are also still dimwitted and get flattened by their own wheels or get roasted from walking into fires another one started.
I really didn't expect this one to get me addicted, I would've absolutely loved the shit out of this game as a kid and with a friend it would've been even more fun.
Pac-Man pero divertido