Penguin-kun Wars adapts the singular UPL bowling game on Japanese Aski/ASCII Famicom with its penguin throwing balls at enemies in a revisited ping pong table. The representation offers top view with timed strategic throws in an offbeat Japanese sport formula. Without western release, curiosity for atypical Famicom sport fans in the 8 bit ASCII production vein.
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Action2 players3+
Description
Single-screen action duel where two penguins hurl frozen fish to bury each other under the catch. Published by Asmik, released in 1985 in Japan. Simple controls and short, frantic two-player rounds. Japanese Famicom release.
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
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Collector interest
Published by ASCII in autumn 1985, this title belongs to the Famicom's very first months: a single-screen versus where two penguins bury each other under thrown projectiles. Its interest lies in being the template, the formula that would spawn the Penguin Wars line, here in its original Japanese form. An early 8-bit curiosity never localised in the West, it appeals to those tracing the roots of the Famicom library and the ASCII output of the era.
