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The character Puggsy looks like a crudely shaped piece of plasticine with a crap antenna on top. We met with all the big names, and although they liked the Puggsy demo, none of them were convinced it would make a good game. Puggs in Space was to be an exploration adventure title, with players taking control of our hero and navigating around a strange alien world. Puggsy — as it was re-christened — first emerged as a Mega Drive and Mega-CD title in and was subsequently ported to the Amiga a year later by The Dome. In addition to this, mugs of booze can be thrown at enemies, balloons can be filled with air, matches can be lit and much more, all achieved with a press of this button.

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We face six end of level bosses in total, each gargantuan, each requiring a different approach to neutralise them. Instead, a tedious password system was put in place that required lengthy codes of 27 characters.

Archived from the original on aniga May Since the game employs a password systemgenuine cartridges do not contain an internal SRAM. There are also a variety of objects that have power-up effects, such as allowing Puggsy to be hit once or twice without dying, speeding him up or making him ammiga invincible, and objects that while not necessary, can be temporarily helpful, such as a variety of guns most of which have limited ammunition which can often not be refilled.

This led to me writing more music for Psygnosis, and the rest as they say is history! I quickly found a amigq pistol, but before the fire had been completely quenched the pistol ran out of water.

What is… PUGGSY: A retrospective of Traveller’s Tales hidden gem

Fine, you might think. We all remember Puggsyright?

Puggsy has a sort of mock physics engine, a rarity in two-dimensional platformers of the time. All of the bosses tower above Puggsy, and players will have to make use of objects in the environment to defeat them.

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So I had to troop off and look around for another way to fill the pistol up. What purpose does each item serve? These are a crucial power up as they not only give our hero another extra hit, but allow players to move more quickly.

Holy mother of God! Furthermore, a lot of the tracks for later levels are missing. Ian Hetheringtonthe then director of Psygnosis, had a large part in all of this.

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Users report that when running this game on the Amiga Aslowdown can occur quite frequently. Why anyone would subject themselves to the torture of playing this game unless they were getting paid to review it is beyond me.

I was a spotty teenager, I think I was 17, and I went down there with a bunch of guys and we called ourselves Dionysus, because that was dead cool and edgy. While carrying an object Puggsy can also raise and lower his arms to match the requirements of the task at hand.

This aside, what sets Puggsy apart from the crowd is that himself and the objects with which he interacts are subject to an authentic physics engine that allows you to predict their behaviour in accordance with your real world experiences. Good night, sweet alien prince! There are three different versions of Puggsy available, two of which are ports of the original. This was actually considered a normal, if not large sized team for an Amiga title. Interviewed by Sam Kennedy. For example, the Darkskull Castle world has a stage that is incredibly dark.

Documenting all the Easter eggs and secret areas alone could easily be spun off into a separate article. With an engine capable of replicating real world physics — albeit in a cartoon world — Puggsy certainly racks up kudos points for its technical prowess.

Well that was a wonderful example to illustrate the point. Cutscene animations are no longer animated, though. Along their travels, players will pick up items, such as guns and water pistols which can be fired with this interaction button. Psygnosis asked Traveller's Tales if they could develop a game using the character from the demo. You must be logged in to post a comment. The game features 57 levels in a variety of settings 16 of those levels being secret and 6 boss characters 9 boss characters in the Mega-CD versionalthough not all levels and bosses have to be finished to complete the game, and 5 training levels, accessed from the "Junior" option on the title screen.

Targeting a amifa audience was the aim right out of the amigaa according to Steve Riding, Product Manager at Psygnosis. Much to his dismay, he is ambushed by a band of villainous space pirates on his way through an asteroid field.