Pink Goes to Hollywood
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System(s): Sega Mega Drive | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: TecMagik | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: HeadGames[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Supporting companies: Nu Romantic Productions (audio) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distributor: Tec Toy (BR) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensor: The Mirisch Company, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound driver: GEMS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Action | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pink Goes to Hollywood is a side-scrolling action game for the Sega Mega Drive based on the Pink Panther cartoons.
Contents
Story
Pink Panther has traveled to MGM Studios in Hollywood, California to audition for a big role. However, Inspector Clouseau wants to foil Pink's chances at stardom and causes chaos on every movie set Pink visits.
Gameplay
The game is a platformer played as the Pink Panther cartoon character, who makes his way through several stages themed after movies. Inspector Clouseau occasionally appears to antagonize him.
Pink walks with or
and runs with
or
. He ducks with
, jumps with
, and jumps off thin platforms with
+
. He cannot attack enemies by jumping on them, but instead punches them with an extendable boxing glove with
. Some enemies take multiple hits to defeat, while some cannot be defeated at all and can only be knocked back or avoided. He enters doorways with
while standing in front of them (including hidden doorways, such as those hidden behind bookcases).
Pink can find items for his "Bag of Tricks": a stoplight that freezes enemies or a jackhammer that pulverizes them. When he has an item, he can use it with when standing still. Items are lost if not used on the current stage. He can also find "Toll Cards" that he can use in Toll Booths that appear in set places on some stages. There are three types, each with a different effect: Magic Carpet, Bridge/Stairs, and Umbrella. Once used, Toll Cards can be collected again from their original location if necessary. Using Toll Booths is often necessary to complete a stage.
Pink has a health bar that depletes as he is damaged by enemies or hazards. He loses a life if he runs out of health and loses the game if he runs out of lives. The options allow the player to set the difficulty level (Easy, Normal, Hard) or the starting lives (from 3 to 7).
Items
Toll cards
Movie sets
Most of the stages are themed after movies, with names that are parodies of movie titles.
Honey, I Shrunk the Pink | |
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This is a hub stage from which the other stages are accessed. When a stage is completed, it is marked by a barrier that reads "Set Closed." | |
Sound Stages | |
Before entering most stages, Pink must go through a short Sound Stage, which are filled with hazards such as falling sand bags and moving cameras and spotlights and increase in difficulty as the game goes on. The end of the Sound Stage is a door leading to the actual stage. | |
Refrigerator / Stuffing Battle / Pink Lemonade | |
This is the only stage that is not preceded by a Sound Stage. | |
Pinkin Hood | |
Cat on a Hot Pink Roof | |
Pinkbeard | |
Jungle Pink | |
Pink Ranger | |
Polter Pink / Pinkenstein | |
Production credits
- Produced by: Su-Moon Paik
- Programming by: Dan Rosenfeld, Jonathan Miller, Josha Singer
- Art by: Douglas Nishimura, Steven Ross
- Music and SFX by: Nu*Romantic Productions, Mark Steven Miller, Jason Scher, Ted Allen
- Additional Art by: Manley & Associates
- Testing by: Testing 1, 2, 3...
Magazine articles
- Main article: Pink Goes to Hollywood/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
Physical scans
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Technical information
- Main article: Pink Goes to Hollywood/Technical information.
References
- ↑ http://sxross.com/?page_id=239 (Wayback Machine: 2024-04-18 18:08)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 GamePro, "December 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 73
- ↑ Computer Trade Weekly, "" (UK; 1994-04-18), page 29
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "July 1994" (UK; 1994-06-15), page 81
- ↑ File:Pink Goes to Hollywood MD credits.pdf
- ↑ GamePro, "January 1994" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 17
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 176
- ↑ Consoles +, "Mars 1994" (FR; 1994-0x-xx), page 128
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 155
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "June 1994" (UK; 1994-05-15), page 100
- ↑ Digitiser (UK) (1994-05-03)
- ↑ Electronic Games (1992-1995), "December 1993" (US; 1993-11-23), page 117
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "November 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 44
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 347
- ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 1 January 1994" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 104
- ↑ Joypad, "Mars 1994" (FR; 1994-0x-xx), page 128
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "May 1994" (UK; 1994-xx-xx), page 38
- ↑ Mega, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-02-17), page 54
- ↑ MegaTech, "April 1994" (UK; 1994-03-18), page 14
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "May 1994" (UK; 1994-03-xx), page 77
- ↑ Player One, "Mars 1994" (FR; 1994-0x-xx), page 98
- ↑ Play Time, "8/94" (DE; 1994-07-16), page 144
- ↑ Power Unlimited, "Jaargang 2, Nummer 3, Maart 1994" (NL; 1994-02-23), page 39
- ↑ Sega Magazine, "May 1994" (UK; 1994-04-15), page 89
- ↑ Sega Power, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-02-03), page 52
- ↑ Sega Megazone, "September 1994" (AU; 1994-0x-xx), page 36
- ↑ Todo Sega, "Abril 1994" (ES; 1994-0x-xx), page 48
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 135
- ↑ Video Games, "1/94" (DE; 1993-12-19), page 87
- ↑ VideoGames, "April 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 81
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