New Zealand Story, The

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Manufacturer: Taito
Year: 1988
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Platform
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: JAMMA
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 2

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

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Description

Overly cute platform game in which you are a kiwi bird in New Zealand trying to save your fellow Kiwi's from an evil Walrus. Very nice graphics and very addictive gameplay. Access levels with jumping, swimming and balloon flying.

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Miscellaneous

The Japanese version of this game carries the same title but has a different looking title screen. A few of the enemies are also different.

This game was released for the NES under the title of "Kiwi Kraze."

Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)

Common - There are 37 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 0 of them are original dedicated machines, 1 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards have been placed in another game cabinet, and 36 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 42,694 video games (3,154 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 26 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - There are 2 VAPS members currently looking for this game.

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