ZuPaPa!

ZuPaPa!^[a] is a platform game developed by Face and published as an arcade video game by SNK on September 1, 2001. It stars the eponymous creature. Players are tasked with travelling through nine stages, throwing small creatures called Zooks, jumping on and off platforms to navigate level obstacles while dodging and defeating monsters.The game has been re-released through download services for various consoles.

ZuPaPa! is a platform game reminiscent of Bubble Bobble and Snow Bros. , where players assume the role of star-like creatures ZuPaPa (P1) and ZuPiPi (P2) through various stages, each with a boss at the end that must be fought before progressing any further.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Each player can throw small creatures called Zooks at enemies until each one is completely covered and turns into a star bomb, which defeats any enemy that comes into contact with it.^{[2] [3] [5]} The more Zooks are thrown against an enemy, the larger the attack range becomes.^{[2] [3] [5]} Defeated enemies may drop items or power-ups such as speed increasers and bonus points.^{[2] [3] [5]} Players have to complete every level within a specific period of time before exceeding an invisible timer. If the players do not manage to eliminate all the enemies in time, an angry alarm clock will ring loudly and a devil creature will appear.

Getting hit by enemy fire or if the devil manages to touch ZuPaPa or ZuPiPi before all enemies are eliminated will result in losing a life, as well as a penalty of decreasing the characters' firepower and speed to their original state. Once all lives are lost, the game is over unless the players insert more credits into the arcade machine to continue playing.

The hub select takes place in the fictional island called ZuPaPa Island. There are six different realms will start until the last two realms will appear along with the final realm that is the home to the nefarious scientist who sends his minions to stop ZuPaPa and ZuPiPi from foiling his evil plan.

• Amusement Park, the first world player will start. The enemies are ballerinas, male dancers, clowns, and jesters. The boss is an UFO catcher that drops a gift box.
• East Asian Island, the second world player will start. The enemies are shoguns, sumo wrestlers, daruma dolls, and ninjas. The boss is a Kabuki that throw sushis.
• Jungle Land, the third world player will start. The enemies are hippos, lions, vultures, and baboons. The boss is a giant, man-eating plant monster.
• Horror Land, the fourth world player will start. The enemies are Frankenstein's monsters, ghosts, Jason-like murderers, and skeletons. The boss is based on Count Dracula.
• Toy Land, the fifth world player will start. The enemies are toy trains, toy soldiers, cymbal monkeys, and walkers. The boss is a giant inflatable Teddy Bear.
• Jurassic Island, the sixth world player will start. The enemies are cave dwellers, Dilophosaurus, Pterodactyls, and Tyrannosaurus rexes. The boss is a great, woolly mammoth in the ice age part.
• Space Land, the seventh world player will start. The enemies are the various sci-fi creatures such as UFOs and robots. The boss is a giant robotic eyeball.
• Dark Ages, the eighth and penultimate world player will start. The enemies are knights, slimes, witches, and fake treasure chests. The miniboss is a sleeping dragon, then the boss is a sorcerer king who summons knights and slimes then the second phase, the king will ride a giant red dragon.
• Lab Realm, the final world player will start. The first stage is a clone machine room that summons various minions from the previous worlds, then the second stage, the evil scientist will turn into a mutant ZuPaPa as the final boss.

ZuPaPa! was developed by Face and was first showcased to the public at the 1994 AOU Show in addition to being previewed through various publications,^{[1] [6] [3] [4] [7]} but the game was never released until SNK published it in September 2001, just nearly a month before the bankruptcy of the company.^{[8] [9] [10] [11]} The title has since received a re-release by Hamster Corporation in recent years on digital distribution platforms such as the Nintendo eShop, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live.^{[12] [13] [14]}

IGN Italia 's Andrea Corritore regarded ZuPaPa! to be a "cult title".^[15] Chris Moyse of Destructoid praised the sprite work but noted the gameplay to be "anachronistic".^[13] Both Hobby Consolas and Meristation noted its similarity with Snow Bros.^{[16] [14]}

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