#Is Arcade Archives’ Toy Pop Namco’s cutest-ever launch?
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Is Arcade Archives’ Toy Pop Namco’s cutest-ever launch?
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This week’s Arcade Archives entry is coming to tug each your heartstrings and your marionette strings — Pulled out from Hamster Company’s huge bag of Namco classics, it’s cartoonish obscurity Toy Pop, now out there to obtain on PS4 and Nintendo Change.
Launched to Japanese arcades in 1986, earlier than later making its technique to the Sharp X1 residence pc, Toy Pop is a top-down, multi-directional shooter set inside a colourful toy-based kingdom. Our heroes, Pino and Acha, are two dolls who should rescue their mates from the spell of the depraved witch, Mayjo. The 2 puppets climb the 44 flooring of Mayjo’s fortress, releasing their mates and gathering meals, treasures, and hearts in jovial, single-screen motion.
Numerous particular talents might be discovered hidden inside present packing containers, and each few phases gamers are handled to an apple-catching bonus spherical to assist enhance that all-important rating. Save your pals, defeat Mayjo, gather the apples, and restore order to toybox city. It ain’t Lies of P, that’s for rattling certain.
Try the eye-watering, cute motion within the video beneath, courtesy of YouTuber Were1974.
Toy Pop was one thing of a rarity, not often seen outdoors of its native Japan, it was additionally one of many few mid-’80s arcades to not discover its manner onto the Nintendo Famicom platform. It’s, undeniably a really charming and irrepressibly cute title, with great little heroes, enjoyable enemies, and spritely visuals, designed by the dearly departed “Mr. Dotman” Hiroshi Ono. All of this motion is backed with a enjoyable ragtime rating composed by arcade veteran Junko Ozawa. It’s a really pleasant little package deal.
It’s fairly unhappy, on reflection, that the Toy Pop model didn’t evolve, as Pino and Acha look like loveable characters who might have turned their picket fingers to a wide range of totally different arcade genres. In case you’d like to take a look at their enjoyable little odyssey, then Toy Pop is out there to obtain now on PS4 and Nintendo Change, priced at round $8.
