Baku Baku Animal

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Baku Baku Animal
System(s): Sega Titan Video, Sega Game Gear, Sega Saturn, PC, Sega Master System
Publisher: Sega
Developer:
Genre: Puzzle

















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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 puzzle game released for the Sega Titan Video arcade hardware. It is very similar to Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo.

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.

Production Credits

Saturn Version

SOA Staff

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

SOJ Staff

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

Original Version Staff

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.

Game Gear and Master System 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

Physical Scans

Sega Titan Video Version

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Sega Titan Video, World

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Cart

Saturn Version

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
90 №171
Sega Saturn
90
Based on
1 review
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
CD Consoles (FR) PAL
40
[1]
Consoles + (FR)
90
[2]
Computer & Video Games (UK)
90
[3]
Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J
63
[4]
Fun Generation (DE)
70
[5]
Gambler (PL)
68
[6]
GameFan (US) NTSC-U
87
[7]
Game Players (US) NTSC-U
85
[8]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
83
[9]
Game Informer (US) NTSC-U
61
[10]
Intelligent Gamer's Fusion (US) NTSC-U
67
[11]
Joypad (FR)
95
[12]
MAN!AC (DE) PAL
74
[13]
Maximum (UK)
75
[14]
Mega Fun (DE) NTSC-J
74
[15]
Mean Machines Sega (UK) NTSC-J
84
[16]
Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL
90
[17]
neXt Level (DE)
70
[18]
Power Up! (UK)
88
[19]
Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J
73
[20]
Saturn+ (UK) NTSC-J
91
[21]
Sega Power (UK) NTSC-J
85
[22]
Sega Pro (UK) NTSC
92
[23]
Sega Saturn Magazine (UK) PAL
90
[24]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
63
[25]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
82
[26]
Total Saturn (UK) PAL
83
[27]
Video Games (DE) NTSC-U
67
[28]
VideoGames (US) NTSC-U
80
[29]
Sega Saturn
78
Based on
29 reviews

Baku Baku Animal

Saturn, US
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Cover
Saturn, EU
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Cover
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Disc
Saturn, JP
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Cover
Saturn, JP (Alt)
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Saturn, JP (Satakore)
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Cover

Master System Version

Master System, BR
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Cover
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Cart

Game Gear Version

Game Gear, US
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Cover
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Cart
Game Gear, EU
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Cover

PC Version

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
60 №178
Windows PC
60
Based on
1 review
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
Computer & Video Games (UK)
50
[30]
Hacker (HR)
74
[31]
LeveL (CZ)
86
[32]
PC Gamer (US)
83
[33]
Secret Service (PL)
85
[34]
Windows PC
76
Based on
5 reviews

Baku Baku Animal

PC, EU
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Cover

External Links

  • 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 Players, "Vol. 9 No. 8 August 1996" (US; 1996-07-09), page 69
  • GamePro, "June 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 68
  • 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
  • Mean Machines Sega, "July 1996" (UK; 1996-06-03), page 90
  • 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
  • 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