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*'''Advisor:''' [[Hideo Yamaguchi]], [[Nobuo Matsushima]] | *'''Advisor:''' [[Hideo Yamaguchi]], [[Nobuo Matsushima]] | ||
*'''Lead Tester:''' [[John Jansen]] | *'''Lead Tester:''' [[John Jansen]] | ||
− | *'''Assistant Lead Testers:''' George Sandoval, John James, Roger Deforest, Ward Farris | + | *'''Assistant Lead Testers:''' George Sandoval, John James, [[Roger Deforest]], Ward Farris |
*'''Testers:''' [[David Paniagua|Dave Paniagua]], Eddie Ramirez, Jack Amato, [[Janine Cook]], Joe Rousseu, [[Rick Greer]], Scott Crisostomo, Squidlo, [[Tony Lynch]] | *'''Testers:''' [[David Paniagua|Dave Paniagua]], Eddie Ramirez, Jack Amato, [[Janine Cook]], Joe Rousseu, [[Rick Greer]], Scott Crisostomo, Squidlo, [[Tony Lynch]] | ||
*'''Special Thanks:''' Akira Inoue, Akitatsu Saito, Atsuko Iwanaga, [[Bill Onderdonk]], Chizuka Goto, [[Cindy Hardgrave]], Kaori Hijiya, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Keiko Sueyoshi, Keiko Tamura, Masako Araki, Masayuki Ota, Michiya Kameda, Michiyo Morohoshi, Noriyuki Tabata, [[Osamu Shibamiya]], Steve Goodale, Syuichi Sekimoto, Takashi Ueshima, [[Vy Nong]], Yoko Yanagisawa, and You | *'''Special Thanks:''' Akira Inoue, Akitatsu Saito, Atsuko Iwanaga, [[Bill Onderdonk]], Chizuka Goto, [[Cindy Hardgrave]], Kaori Hijiya, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Keiko Sueyoshi, Keiko Tamura, Masako Araki, Masayuki Ota, Michiya Kameda, Michiyo Morohoshi, Noriyuki Tabata, [[Osamu Shibamiya]], Steve Goodale, Syuichi Sekimoto, Takashi Ueshima, [[Vy Nong]], Yoko Yanagisawa, and You |
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System(s): Sega Titan Video, Sega Game Gear, Sega Saturn, Windows PC, Sega Master System | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Sega Tec Toy Sega PC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Sega AM3[1] Minato Giken Sega PC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (22 tracks) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peripherals supported: Gear-to-Gear Cable Saturn Backup Memory | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Puzzle[2][3][4][5] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Baku Baku Animal (ばくばくアニマル), known only as Baku Baku in some regions, is a falling block puzzle game released for the Sega Titan Video arcade hardware. The phrase "Baku Baku" is Japanese onomatopoeia meaning roughly "Chomp Chomp".[16]
Baku Baku Animal was ported to the Sega Saturn and Windows PC in 1996. It was also one of the last titles released for the Sega Game Gear, released in the same year. In Brazil, Sega's distributor Tec Toy released a version for the Sega Master System in 1998, which is almost identical to the Game Gear version but with a reduced color palette and added borders. There was also a mobile phone release in 2002.
Curiously, artwork used in Baku Baku Animal was recycled in the PAL versions of Sonic CD (PC) and Sonic Jam.
Contents
Story
The King of a faraway land is seeking a Royal Zookeeper to tend to the many pets of the Princess. The King's Minister has arranged a contest to find the most capable person in the land for the job, and two young contenders, Polly and Gon, have entered.
Gameplay
Baku Baku Animal is a competitive two-player falling block puzzle game in which players compete to clear containers of blocks, similar in nature to Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo. The player must line up falling blocks of animals and foodstuffs. When an animal is aligned adjacent to a block of its favored food, the animal eats the food. All contiguous blocks of the food are consumed, along with corresponding animal blocks. Larger groups of connected food of the same type scores higher when eaten.
Blocks fall in pairs, which the player can position horizontally and rotate. Blocks are locked in place when they land on the bottom of the container or onto another block. Similar to Puyo Puyo, blocks are subject to gravity. A block falls to the block below it when it is placed over an empty space or when the block below it is eliminated. With correct positioning, it is possible to destroy two or more sets of food blocks in succession, thereby creating chains that send extra blocks to the opposing player to disrupt their play. When the container is filled with blocks, the player is defeated. The object of the game is to make one's opponent unable to place more blocks.
The game has a single-player mode where the player competes against computer-controlled opponents as well as a two-player mode where two players can challenge each other. Player one plays as Polly, and player two plays as Gon.
Blocks
The Saturn version lets the player decide how many different animals to use (3, 4, or 5, with a default of 4).
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Pandas are green blocks and eat bamboo. | |
Dogs | |
Dogs are blue blocks and eat bones. | |
Rabbits | |
Rabbits are red blocks and eat carrots. | |
Monkeys | |
Monkeys are yellow blocks and eat bananas. | |
Mice | |
Mice are purple blocks and eat cheese. | |
BB Coins | |
When they are dropped on a block, all blocks of that type disappear from the player's container. If they fall on two different types of blocks, both types disappear. Animals and their foodstuffs are treated as different types of blocks. |
Stages
There are three difficulty levels (Beginner, Normal, and Expert), which feature different casts of opponents.
Normal
Production credits
- Main article: Baku Baku Animal/Production credits.
Arcade version
- Producer: Yoshirou Akata
- Director: Yasushi Watanabe
- Original Plan: Isao Matsumoto
- Programmer: Hirokazu Itou, Bungo Ishida, Kenichi Hokari
- Artwork: Megumi Matsuda, Kazuko Noguchi, Naoko Shimizu, Minori Hisamatsu
- Music/SFX: Tetsuya Kawauchi
- Special Thanks: Ryouji Ochi, Hiroyuki Izuno, Everyone at AM3
- Presented by: Sega
Saturn version
Japanese version
- プロデュースした人: あかた よしろう
- かんとく: わたなべ やすし, うさみ ゆり
- プログラマー: いとう ひろかず, いしだ ぶんご
- びじゅつ: まつだ めぐみ, のぐち かずこ, しみず なおこ, ひさまつ みのり
- おんがく こうかおん: ときわ なおき, まつむら せいいちろう
- せいさく きょうりょく: かわうち てつや, まつもと いさお
- ぎじゅつ きょうりょく: おかもと ひろふみ, はっとり やすゆき, くすのき まなぶ, あらい けんじ
- せいさく しんこう: おがわ ともあき
- マニュアル さくせい: まつい ひろゆき, たなか ひろや, たけばやし はやと
- スペシャル サンクス: さとう かつひさ, おおみぞ のりこ, みやぐち たかし, AM3研のみなさん
- どうぶつのなづけおや
- (ポチお): 石川 太一
- (ミミーさん): 秀島 慧
- (ウキータ): 島袋 文恵
- (パン太郎): 井上 純一
- 協力: Vジャンプ
Overseas version
- Producer: Kim Rogers
- Product Manager: Doria Sanchez
- Lead Tester: Rick Greer
- Asst. Leads: Kathleen Silkworth, Eugene Valenzuela, Alex Barreiro
- Special Thanks: Kristin Mallory, Cindy Hardgrave
- Super Dynamite Project Manager: Masanobu Tsukamoto
- Corpsified Overseas Coordinator: Ryoichi "Trueno" Hasegawa
- Bard of Unknown Nationality: Makoto "Mc" Nishino
- Directed by: Yasushi "Jackpot" Watanabe
- Programmed by: Hirokazu "Karaoke" Ito
- Hyper Special Digital Designer: Mayumi Moro
- Special Tempure Thanks: Mamoru "Sukiyaki" Sasaki
- Producer: Yoshiro Akata
- Director: Yasushi Watanabe
- Asst. Director: Yuri Usami
- Original Design: Isao Matsumoto
- Programmers: Hirokazu Ito, Bungo "Bingo" Ishida
- Digital Designers: Megumi Matsuda, Kazuko Noguchi, Naoko Shimizu, Minori Hisamatsu
- Sound/SE's: Tetsuya Kawauchi, Naoki Tokiwa, Seiichiro Muramatsu
- Special Thanks: Noriko Ichikawa, Ryuji Ochi, Hirofumi Okamoto, AM #3 Staff, and All the players
- Sega Enterprises, Ltd. 1996.
- Producer: Kim Rogers
- Product Managers: Seth Gerson, Doria Sanchez
- Marketing Manager: Anne Moellering
- Lead Tester: Rick Greer
- Assistant Leads: Kathleen Silkworth, Eugene R. Valenzuela, Alex Barreiro
- Testers: Pedro Ponce, Tim Spengler, Nicole Tatem, Janine Cook, Sam Maciel, Lloyd Kinoshita, Rolef Conlan, Abe Navarro, Don Carmichael, Cesar Lemus, John Jansen, Lou DiSimone, Tony Lynch, Marcus Montgomery, Leonard Sayers, James Shea, Ricki Tai, Lorne Asuncion, Darin Johnston, Dermot Lyons, Mark Subotnick
- The Baku Den: Neil Cohen, Tim Dunley, Laura Schadach, John Gillin
- Packaging Creative:
- Art Director: Bob Schonfisch
- Art Firm: James Masi Design
- Illustrator: Peter Bollinger
- Production Manager: Eileen Sacman
- Special Thanks: Kristin Mallory, Cindy Hardgrave, Frontline Marketing
- Manual: Wendy Dinsmore
Master System and Game Gear versions
- Producer: Kimberly Rogers
- Product Manager: Eric Dunstan
- Executive Director: Noboru Machida
- Director: Hideki Katagiri
- Planner: Tsutomu Morishita
- Designer: Hiroko Kato, Tsutomu Morishita
- Programmer: Kenichi Iwanaga, Noboru Honda
- Sound: Masahiro Ito
- Advisor: Hideo Yamaguchi, Nobuo Matsushima
- Lead Tester: John Jansen
- Assistant Lead Testers: George Sandoval, John James, Roger Deforest, Ward Farris
- Testers: Dave Paniagua, Eddie Ramirez, Jack Amato, Janine Cook, Joe Rousseu, Rick Greer, Scott Crisostomo, Squidlo, Tony Lynch
- Special Thanks: Akira Inoue, Akitatsu Saito, Atsuko Iwanaga, Bill Onderdonk, Chizuka Goto, Cindy Hardgrave, Kaori Hijiya, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Keiko Sueyoshi, Keiko Tamura, Masako Araki, Masayuki Ota, Michiya Kameda, Michiyo Morohoshi, Noriyuki Tabata, Osamu Shibamiya, Steve Goodale, Syuichi Sekimoto, Takashi Ueshima, Vy Nong, Yoko Yanagisawa, and You
Magazine articles
- Main article: Baku Baku Animal/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
- Sega Magazin (DE) #35: "Oktober 1996" (1996-09-11)[21]
- Sega Magazin (DE) #36: "November 1996" (1996-10-09)[22]
Physical scans
Sega Titan Video version
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Saturn version
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78 | |
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Based on 29 reviews |
Saturn, JP (Satakore) |
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Master System version
Game Gear version
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PC version
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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256kB | Cartridge (BR) | |||||||||||
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256kB | Cartridge (EU) | |||||||||||
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256kB | Cartridge (JP) | |||||||||||
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256kB | Cartridge (US) | |||||||||||
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594,576,192 | CD-ROM (EU) | MK81501-50 V1.001 | ||||||||||
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621,727,680 | 1995-11-10 | CD-ROM (JP) | GS-9040 V1.000 | |||||||||
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621,730,032 | 1995-11-10 | CD-ROM (JP) | GS-9144 V1.001 | |||||||||
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628,677,840 | CD-ROM (US) | 81501 V1.004 |
Track list
Saturn version
1. Data track |
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2. Osama to Daijin no Theme (2:31) |
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3. Yumemiru Ohimesama: Kawaii Pet (2:44) |
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4. Bipalium Dance (2:40) |
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5. Nettaisei Kyuka Shokogun: Genjitu Touhi no BGM (2:39) |
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6. Semarikuru Hirokazu (2:32) |
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7. Game Over (0:08) |
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8. Hurry Up! (0:47) |
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9. Semarikuru Shimekiri (1:02) |
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10. Yume No Hate Ha...?: Ending (1:56) |
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11. Erabimasho (2:36) |
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12. 3Pun Fanfare: Shimekiri Ha Kyou (0:07) |
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13. Sonoato Pori ha? (0:59) |
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14. Sekai Shiiku Senshuken no Theme (0:26) |
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15. Konchinu- (0:18) |
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16. Yumemiru Ohimesama: Kawaii Pet (Arrange) (2:11) |
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17. Semarikuru Hirokazu (Arrange) (2:39) |
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18. Bipalium Dance (Arrange) (2:39) |
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19. Sonoato Pori ha? (Arrange) (2:25) |
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20. Nettaisei Kyuka Shokogun: Genjitu Touhi no BGM (Arrange) (2:29) |
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21. Osama to Daijin no Theme (Arrange) (3:30) |
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22. Hello! M.H (2:21) |
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23. upstart (2:15) |
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Extra content
This game has extra content which can be viewed when accessing the disc on a PC.
Folder / File | Type | Size | description |
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README.TXT | TXT | 8,659 | Messages from the developers. |
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sega Arcade History, Enterbrain, page 136
- ↑ File:Bakubaku sat jp backcover.jpg
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/segasaturn/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-03-04 08:13)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://sega.jp/pc/bakubaku/ (Wayback Machine: 2002-02-11 17:35)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/gamegear/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2018-12-07 04:57)
- ↑ http://sega-saturn.com/saturn/software/baku.htm (Wayback Machine: 1996-12-15 06:10)
- ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.video.sega/c/OTRAW2W9QSU/m/M1gZPQAU14MJ
- ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.video.sega/c/gKpB9z9Gm_8/m/yGqAFXPHmGgJ
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Game Players, "Vol. 9 No. 8 August 1996" (US; 1996-07-09), page 69
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "June 1996" (UK; 1996-05-09), page 61
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Mean Machines Sega, "July 1996" (UK; 1996-06-03), page 90
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Mean Machines Sega, "July 1996" (UK; 1996-06-03), page 78
- ↑ Press release: 1996-08-26: Sega Entertainment kicks off fall line-up with free PC games promotions
- ↑ http://www.sega.co.jp:80/sega/athome/pc/baku/baku.htm (Wayback Machine: 1996-12-24 11:33)
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "September 1996" (UK; 1996-08-05), page 91
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 GamePro, "June 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 68
- ↑ File:BakuBaku Saturn JP SSEnding.pdf
- ↑ File:Baku Baku Animal Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Bakubaku sat us manual.pdf, page 17
- ↑ File:Baku Baku Animal GG credits.pdf
- ↑ Sega Magazin, "Oktober 1996" (DE; 1996-09-11), page 100
- ↑ Sega Magazin, "November 1996" (DE; 1996-10-09), page 99
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "August 1995" (UK; 1995-07-12), page 72
- ↑ CD Consoles, "Juillet/Août 1996" (FR; 1996-xx-xx), page 132
- ↑ Consoles +, "Juin 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 106
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "February 1996" (UK; 1996-01-12), page 68
- ↑ Famitsu, "1995-11-10,17" (JP; 1995-10-27), page 31
- ↑ Fun Generation, "07/96" (DE; 1996-06-12), page 79
- ↑ Gambler, "5/1997" (PL; 1997-xx-xx), page 1
- ↑ GameFan, "Volume 4, Issue 5: May 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 14
- ↑ Game Informer, "August 1996" (US; 1996-0x-xx), page 51
- ↑ Intelligent Gamer's Fusion, "Volume 2, Number 8: May 1996" (US; 1996-0x-xx), page 1
- ↑ Joypad, "Juin 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 100
- ↑ MAN!AC, "07/96" (DE; 1996-06-12), page 65
- ↑ Maximum, "February 1996" (UK; 1996-xx-xx), page 139
- ↑ Mega Fun, "05/96" (DE; 1996-04-xx), page 68
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "February 1996" (UK; 1995-12-xx), page 74
- ↑ neXt Level, "Juni 1996" (DE; 1996-05-15), page 72
- ↑ Power Up!, "Saturday, July 13, 1996" (UK; 1996-07-13), page 1
- ↑ Saturn Fan, "1996 No. 3" (JP; 1996-01-19), page 78
- ↑ Saturn+, "Christmas 1995" (UK; 1995-12-14), page 14
- ↑ Sega Power, "March 1996" (UK; 1996-01-18), page 32
- ↑ Sega Pro, "February 1996" (UK; 1995-12-28), page 40
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "March 1996" (UK; 1996-02-24), page 74
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "December 1995" (JP; 1995-11-08), page 186
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "Readers rating final data" (JP; 2000-03), page 12
- ↑ Total Saturn, "Volume One Issue Four" (UK; 1996-12-29), page 11
- ↑ Video Games, "6/96" (DE; 1996-05-29), page 98
- ↑ VideoGames, "June 1996" (US; 1996-05-21), page 63
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "June 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 28
- ↑ Famitsu, "1996-02-02" (JP; 1996-01-19), page 34
- ↑ Joypad, "Septembre 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 81
- ↑ Sonic the Comic, "30 August 1996" (UK; 1996-08-21), page 11
- ↑ VideoGames, "September 1996" (US; 1996-08-20), page 69
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "September 1996" (UK; 1996-08-11), page 80
- ↑ Hacker, "10/1996" (HR; 1996-xx-xx), page 32
- ↑ LeveL, "Září 1996" (CZ; 1996-09-03), page 35
- ↑ PC Gamer, "Vol. 4, No. 1: January 1997" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 251
- ↑ Secret Service, "Listopad 1996" (PL; 1996-11-01), page 33
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