Clu Clu Land

[Pete]

Clu Clu Land is a 1984 video game released by Nintendo for its NES game system. It‘s about a sea urchin that goes around stealing treasures. Do any of you remember it?

 

[Manny]

Clu Land was a great game.

In Clu Clu Land, the player is a female balloonfish named Bubbles, known as Gloopy in Japan, who swims around in a maze trying to uncover all the golden Ingots.

The story starts with a type of sea urchin, the Unira, stealing all of the treasures in the underwater kingdom of Clu Clu Land. Bubbles, the heroine, sets out to retrieve the treasure. The object of the game is to uncover all the gold ingots in each stage while avoiding the Unira and Black Holes. Ingots usually form a shape such as a heart or a mushroom. The only way Bubbles can turn around to change directions is by means of Turning Posts located throughout the stages. She can stun the Unira by using a Sound Wave. When they are stunned, she can push them into a wall to get rid of them and receive points. If Bubbles is hurt by the Unira, she will lose a life. A life is also lost if she falls into a Black Hole, or if time runs out. The game ends when Bubbles has lost all her lives.

In later levels, the player must pass over the ingots an odd number of times to uncover them, as they will alternate between their uncovered side and a dull side. Once you defeat all 42 stages you start from stage 22 onwards.

 

[Pete]

Clu Land was a great game.

In Clu Clu Land, the player is a female balloonfish named Bubbles, known as Gloopy in Japan, who swims around in a maze trying to uncover all the golden Ingots.

The story starts with a type of sea urchin, the Unira, stealing all of the treasures in the underwater kingdom of Clu Clu Land. Bubbles, the heroine, sets out to retrieve the treasure. The object of the game is to uncover all the gold ingots in each stage while avoiding the Unira and Black Holes. Ingots usually form a shape such as a heart or a mushroom. The only way Bubbles can turn around to change directions is by means of Turning Posts located throughout the stages. She can stun the Unira by using a Sound Wave. When they are stunned, she can push them into a wall to get rid of them and receive points. If Bubbles is hurt by the Unira, she will lose a life. A life is also lost if she falls into a Black Hole, or if time runs out. The game ends when Bubbles has lost all her lives.

In later levels, the player must pass over the ingots an odd number of times to uncover them, as they will alternate between their uncovered side and a dull side. Once you defeat all 42 stages you start from stage 22 onwards.

How many rounds did you go with this one Manny? I noticed when you write about a game it usually means you beat it.

 

[MagicMan]

Is that the sign that he beat the game? I don’t remember this one.

 

[Manny]

No i don’t believe the game ends. You just keep repeating the levels from 22-42 but much more difficult each time.