Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular

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Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular
Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular!, known in Japan as Donald Duck (ドナルドダック) and based on the British home computer game, Alternative World Games,[1] is a child-oriented sports game that was released by Kemco for the Nintendo Entertainment System on September 22, 1988 (April 1990 in North America).

Summary

Snoopy and his brother Spike facing off against each in the sack race event.

This video game is a collection of six events that uses various characters from the Peanuts series (Donald Duck in the Japanese version) as opponents. Events include boot throwing (similar to hammer throwing), pizza balancing, and sack racing, among others.

In the background, landmarks unique to Italy are shown (i.e.,

Roman architecture (i.e., the Colosseum) are shown while the player competes at the six events. Playing the "River Jump" event requires impeccable timing; like in the long jump event in the Track & Field video game Dewey (in the Donald Duck version), always pushes the lagging player ahead of the leader, allowing them to catch up. A majority of the game seems to be ported from the Commodore 64 video game Alternative World Games by Gremlin Interactive
.

The graphics in the game tend to flicker while the color palette can be unusual for certain events in the game. For example, the Japanese version had Donald Duck developing green skin or his trademark blue hat suddenly becoming black.

Development

Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular is a loose port of

Gremlin Graphics for the console rights to several of their computer games (such as Monty on the Run
). However, this was the only title of theirs to be re-released back to the West.

Two songs in the game were previously used in the Japanese Famicom version of Spy vs. Spy II: The Island Caper, the most notable being the menu theme.

Licensing

After the release of the

Disney license in North America, Kemco decided to license Snoopy instead for the North American version.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Alternative World Games - C64-Wiki".
  2. ^ a b Donald Duck at Hardcore Gaming 101

External links

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