Fun fact.. Beethoven Symphony #9 is also played in Binary Land. Another block maze type game involving penguin protagonists.

Always like pengo as a kid. Probably since it was one of the few games at the local pizza place.

Popcorn was the music in all the Pengo Arcade machines I saw in New Zealand back in the day.

@filipe.estima

8 күн бұрын

Also in Brazil. There were a lot of bootlegs around.

Thanks for making this :) Pengo is one of those childhood memories, the machine I played was located in a roadside tavern we stopped at every winter vacation and easter vacation going to the cabin, so I only got to play it twice every year - but the memories of that game in the basement of that tavern back in the eighties are burned into my brain :)

Never heard of the recent 7800 version until now, it looks like a great port. One detail about getting the 3 diamond blocks together is that if you get them together against a wall, you get 5K points instead of 10K.

Nebulus, Pengo, New Zealand Story, Dynamite Dux, and Radical Rex. There was just something about the 1980's and 1990's video games with puzzle solving anthropomorphic characters and orchestral music that sold well I guess.

Damn man. I haven't heard of Pengo for a long long time. Used to love that game. Thanks for the nostalgia.

@TheAnkMan

Жыл бұрын

This channel brings back a lot of (forgotten) nostalgia. I love it!

I would have loved to see Pengo as a playable character in Sonic the Fighters.

I heard the "Popcorn" version lots of times on the "Starcade" game show. My favorite clone of "Pengo" is "Hopper" for the TI 99/4A computer.

I'm a big fan of Pengo. What a fun concept for a game. The TI99/4A computer had a clone called Hopper where, instead of a penguin, it's a kangaroo pushing around crates.

The guy that used to run the Barrel of Fun in Warner Robins, Ga, Tim, loved this game.

I used to hate this game because it was super hard for me. Now that I can play it without feeding it quarters I've grown to appreciate it. Another great video as usual.

The 2600 port is surprisingly fun, not perfect by any means, but a pretty entertaining port nonetheless. Kickle Cubicle on the NES is actually a really interesting Pengo clone. It actually adds quite a few new and interesting mechanics, though, that really help distinguish it from its obvious inspiration.

This video brings back so much good memories, Pengo was in the movie theater back in the 80's and that was a theater where more rough crowd came and f*up you game while playing or trash the machines. But if you came early there whas almost nobody there in the long L shaped hallway, als Bomber Jack and Kung-Fu where there. I cant remember what i ate last week, but a arcade set up for almost 40 years ago...... Great video as always :)

I have never seen Pengo in the wild, but had the c64 version and played it a lot. I had no idea you could kick the walls though until about 10 years ago.

The Pengo Penguin game is a fun challenge, pushing the blocks quickly to smash the enemies. Swat looks fun. My Hero on SegaMSys was 10/10 for difficulty. Thanks for showing the ports, which are good to see too. That's something how Sonic is hidden with the Penguins.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

i THOUGHT IT WAS COOL AS WELL. Thanks

Nice video. I have always been Pengo fan❤ Pengo does also visit Up’n down arcade. If you finish first 4(?) levels fast enough you can see Pengo surfing at sea when play next level. There was also Pengo clone for Vic20 Blockbuster🎉

PatmanQC videos are gifts to the world.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

How nice of you to say, thanks

well done, thx for the upload. pengo was probably my first arcade game, as a child i put a lot of time and money into that machine but only found out this year that you can stun the snowbees if you kick the outer walls.

One of my favorite golden age arcade games. Never heard the Popcorn version until MAME years later, so the replacement jingle is the one I get stuck in my head at times.

I never knew Pengo was gonna be a guest character in Sonic The Fighters. Well, time to start modding so I can have him added

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

That would be cool to see

Well you've done it again Sir! 2 from 2 for me Dig Dug and now Pengo, another of my all time faves from when I was a kid! To this day I had no idea there were 2 versions! I grew up in South Africa and all we ever had were bootlegs so I never came across the 2nd revision, and once again my 52yr old brain has learnt something new 👍 Absolutely wonderful again! Thank you so much 👍 Dave

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed them. Glad I could provide you with some brand-new info :-)

Wow, after all these years, two things I never knew were that you can kick the walls to stun the sno-bees! AND you can run over stunned sno-bees! (I just walked around them! Oops!) Thank you for the gameplay tips, Pat! Another awesome video!! (REQUESTS: The History of Looping, The History of M.A.C.H. 3, and The History of Roc'n Rope!)

It's also very important that you limit your melting of snow bee eggs to 1 or 2 per stage. If you go over 2 eggs, the snow bees get super aggressive and hard to avoid.

I’ve been waiting for this one. Always liked Pengo!

This was one of my favorite games growing up. I played it a bunch on our Atari 5200 (and I still have it). 🙂

I have couple of additional notes for you: Diamond Blocks are only worth 5,000 if lined up on the wall You can crush the Eggs before they hatch for 500 pts If you power the game on and and start it before the demo shows a maze you'll get the same maze when you start. As soon as the first maze is shown, mazes are random after that. There are patterns you can follow for some mazes. Not sure if all have a pattern, but I did develop one for at least one maze. Like many of the games of that time period you only get one extra life per game. I also made a modern Remake of Pengo called "FrostByte Freddie" in 2002 (20+ years ago!)

Another great video my friend. Thanks for including the unofficial versions, as the homebrew scene has become much more active over recent years.

The first game for my PC was Pango, the MS-DOS bootleg of the game, several years passed until I found out that it came from a Sega arcade game.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

That was a really good clone

Loved this game. Not sure why but the hours I put in especially in my old Atari. Great memories.

I had (and still have) a love/hate relationship with this game! When I was a youngster I thought it was difficult as hell still catchy because of JMJ music (in my country we were lucky enought to have that soundtrack) and because of the funny faces! Now that I'm.... Seasoned, I appreciate the whole and fondly remember those days! Thank you so much for another excellent documentary, good sir! You are one of the very few who are able to bring back the good memories of my youth! I wish you all the possible best!

I never saw or played Pengo in the Arcade in the 80’s because I guess none of the Arcades in my City had it.I played this on the Atari 5200 as a Kid & I loved Pengo! I wish Pengo was available on the Nintendo Switch!

Perfect start to the day! 🎉

I can testify that the Atari 8-bit version is essentially the same as the Atari 5200 version.

Pengo is addictive fun!!!

So weird hearing a licensed song in an older arcade game. Bomb Jack also does this with Lady Madonna by The Beatles, but the Arcade Archives rerelease had to replace the music with music from Mighty Bomb Jack on NES.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

Some companies tried it and got away with it others not so much

Interesting. Never heard of this one but I'll definitely try it out.

Wow I remember that one Years back

Love your posts, and really happy to see your channel keep growing. Liked & subscribed sir.

I love your content so wholesome and relaxing to watch. I have severe anxiety and when I’m having a very bad panic attack I put your videos on and it puts me in a much better mood. Thank you!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry to hear that. I'm glad my silly little videos can help you out. Thanks so much

@TheVioletBunny

Жыл бұрын

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries thank you great stuff !!!

One of my favorite arcade games.

When it comes to penguins in video games, I usually think of Piplup from Pokemon. I was a freshman in high school when the original Diamond/Pearl were on DS. A lot of people at my high school chose Piplup & nicknamed it HappyFeet, since that movie was relevant at the time

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome!

This is a new one.

At the beginning tease, I guessed Sonic the Fighters because it made sense (or Fighter's Megamix, maybe). But secretly, I really wanted to hear that Pengo almost got into Virtua Fighter 4 or something, lol. I love me some Pengo, though I don't know _where_ I played it. I was a Nintendo kid growing up without any Sega Consoles until the Dreamcast, and looking at the ports you compiled, none of them seem super familiar. I did have a cousin who was a Sega kid, so I suppose I just played the sh** out of this one something he had - that's why I have a love of Alex Kidd, Castle of Illusion and some other old Sega stuff. I know that I think the design holds up; there was even a great homage game, Polar Panic, that came out on the PS360 generation as a downloadable title and I played the heck out of that too. This is just a really fun, really solid, arcade puzzler and I love that genre. Bomberman, Kickle Cubicle, Puzzle Bobble, Zupapa... I don't think you can wrong with retro arcade puzzlers, honestly. Great vid as always, Patman!

Pengo itself was influenced by the sucess of Namco's Puck Man (later renamed Pac-Man) and Universal's Lady Bug, released in previous years. Sega knew they needed to have a maze game of their own to ride the wave of sucess this genre had.

Awww man, i loved playing My Hero! What a blast from the past 💪

A couple things here. The Atari 5200 version on the console actually uses several voices in the music which is better than the 8bit version. The 5200 joystick (that's working) actually plays well with this game and is not a "nightmare" as you describe some people say.

Somewhere on my hard drives I have a zip file, where some guy had recreated Pengo for windows. You could EASILY go in and change the sprite sheet (which I did) to make graphics and title to whatever and change the music (which I did as well) to change ALL the sounds and music. Great stuff.

Thanks for these very interesting special "documentaries"grew up with Arcades in Europe and i use to go to almost every day in the 80's.I remember Pengo and that distinct music,ot was such a fun lovely and amazingly playable game,this was indeed for Everyone some were ok at it some were really good you could go for a lot of points and complex strategies or just try to end the Stage.

I remember staying for a week at an hotel with my family when I was 13 or 14 and spending 80$ in quarters on this game. I think around 1982 or 83. Man am I old.

One of my favorite arcade games. There was a version for the Mega Drive, but was never released in the U.S.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

Yes I talk about it in the video

The C64 had a bootleg version called Chilly Willy and was actually pretty good.

"Go Bear Go" on the ZX Spectrum was an excellent version of Pengo.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

Excellent

at one time i was 2nd place and 5th place at Pengo off of the twin galaxies scores, except i was playing the 60 in 1 jamma, so it doesnt count. i played this at the roller rink when it first came out, but it was to hard for me at the time. when i got my 60 in 1 arcade cabinet in 2009, I tried it again and got the hang of it and got really good at it. its one of my top 10 favorite classic (79' to 84') arcade titles now. thanks for the content😊

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

Fantastic, congratulations. Thanks for watching

Easter Egg: In the attract mode, push the two joys to up, press the two action buttons and one button of start game, and it will show the credits of the game. After a few seconds, the game will reset. The wait can be stopped pushing the 1P Start button.

Loved this game. Can't remember my best score but I did clock the 16 stages 3 times in one game. Good memories

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

That's fantastic

Really enjoyed this back in the day. Our local Aladdin’s Castle must have had a bootleg because l’ve always referred to the popcorn song as Pengo’s theme. Naughty naughty. But I never was that good at the game because I spent all my effort trying to get the diamond block bonus and didn’t pay enough attention to squishing the bad guys.

I recently bought the Bandai VFD Pengo tabletop. It works well for a portable game from that time.

I seriously think Sega (or at least hire either Digital Eclipse or Code Mystecs) should one day make a SEGA Arcade Collection which is a compilation of their arcade games such as Pengo, Congo Bongo, Zaxxon, Super Zaxxon, Astro Blasters, Eliminator, Space Furry, Zektor, Tac/Scan, Future Spy, Flicky, Bonanza Bros, Dynamite Dux, My Hero, Space Harrier 1&2, Choplifter, Outrun, Streets of Rage 2, Puyo Puyo 1&2, Columns 1-3, Time Scanner, Alien Storm, Alien Syndrome, Altered Beast, Wrestle War, Golden Axe, Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder, Shinobi, Shadow Dancer, Sega Sonic the Hedgehog, Alex Kid: The Lost Stars, Daytona USA, Rad Mobile, Crazy Taxi, Virtua Cop 1&2, Brave Firefighters, Virtua Fighter 1&2, Sonic the Fighters, Super Monkey Ball, Fighting Vipers 1&2, Let's Go Jungle!: Lost on the Island of Spice, and House of the Dead 1-4. 📺🕹🦔🦍🐧🐦

@VulcanSphere

Жыл бұрын

Yes, featuring the best of Sega/Gremlin, AM, and Modern Sega arcade!

Versions with the Popcorn music made it to the UK too. I remember playing one.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

2 ай бұрын

Such a classic

Nice job; thorough research!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much

We had a machine in the cantina of the swimming pool in my place in the early to late 80's. I found it an interesting game, but hardly played it.

I don't think I knew about the other games in the series! Thx for sharing!!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching

I had no idea you could stun the enemies by knocking the walls.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

You know, a lot of people didn't

You forgot to mention Hello Kitty Magical Blocks a Japanese only game on the Dreamcast as a side note or something because it's Pengo but with Hello Kitty or maybe a Reboot of Pengo. It basically plays just like Pengo, it even has an equivalent of the diamond blocks that if you line all 3 of them up in a row you get the bonus points. It's actually better than Pengo because it's way easier. So there is something good related to Hello Kitty.

I love Pengo. One of the first games I played on the 5200

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

4 ай бұрын

I love it as well

I was HORRIFIED the first time I played a cabinet of Pengo, and the cute music was replaced with "Hot Butter - Popcorn". I mean, that's a cool song, but my heart is for the song I first met with.

I've never seen this game before.

Popcorn Song 1969....thanks man...catchy tune

Awesome buddy

The most influential penguin-based game until Antarctic Adventure!

I Wonder What PENGO would Look Like on the NES

@c.bretmiller6148

Жыл бұрын

Probably a lot like Penta.

One of my favorites. Played it a lot on the atari 2600.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

It was an excellent version

I have the 360 of Pengo its nice

Long live Pengo! I'm going to have to try and get a hold of the Atari 7800 port.

Happy Birthday Patrick! From your friend Mad crazy Eddie

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks! Nice to see you on here Eddie. How have you been?

@carlhubbard3053

Жыл бұрын

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries doing well buddy! Miss playing Xbox and chatting with you

I forgot all about this game. Was pretty decent game. Probably played it a dozen times.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

I always enjoyed it

I know that in the 80s there was a huge penguin boom in Japan because the main Tokyo zoo got a big penguin exhibit. I'm not sure if the timing lines up but if it does that's probably why

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

That could be, timeline definitely fits

Just checked out a Popcorn music video. Think I know where they got the idea for using penguins in the game. Dropping Acid in black&white. Far Out, Man.

Thanks pacmanqc

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching

Pengo is an amazing Sega arcade game and I will play it. 😀👍🐧🎮

Goof Troop on snes is similar to this.

@Tigerlord4835

Жыл бұрын

Not quite, Goof Troop was based on Capcom's other game, Pirate Ship Higemaru

Humm...Pengo. There are probably a lot of home versions. But any sequels?

Love this game, but it's quite challenging!!!

wish you would have included the MS-DOS version. I grew up on that game..

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

Typically I don't include clones unless they are really well done. Also, pengo had crazy amounts due to it not being available on most eight bit computers.

Despite being an Atari fanatic back in the day, I never saw this game before. I'll definitely look to give it a try some time.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

Is fun for an early game

When I saw the thumbnail I pictured the game ’Pooyan’ but that was a pig and foxes.

Interesting to hear that this game inspired Bomberman 😁 I'm also reminded of Don't Pull from Capcom's 3 Wonders, and the indie game Pushy & Pully In Blockland, which are more direct Pengo clones.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

There are so many it's unbelievable

@billcook4768

Жыл бұрын

I’ve always called the 3 Wonder’s game “Fake Pengo.”

Short queef is a quif 😂😂😂

you will only receive 5000-points for connecting the diamond blocks against a wall Pengo also appeared in the game "Up'N Down (my episode 067 at about 3:30)

I played the game at my pub earlier. I never played this Pac-Man clone before, and I had no idea how to play the game and what I was supposed to do. 🐧

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

3 ай бұрын

Well I'm glad I could help, love the EMoji By the way

@danielwilliamson6180

3 ай бұрын

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Thank you. I'm thinking about playing it online.

Thanks!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

Hello, thank you so much for the generous donation. I really appreciated. :-)

@Ticonderous1

Жыл бұрын

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries You are most welcome Brother... Your channel is right up my alley ..

So Bomberman was influenced by Pengo? I thought this game looked too familiar.

@filipe.estima

8 күн бұрын

Pengo itself was influenced by the sucess of Namco's Puck Man (later renamed Pac-Man) and Universal's Lady Bug, released in previous years. Sega knew they needed to have a maze game of their own to ride the wave of sucess this genre had.

My first game system was the Atari 5200 and Pengo was one of my first games. I thought it was amazing

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

It was really good

I scored a Pengo arcade game on Craigslist five or so years ago for a cool $100. Its a fun game.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

Holy cow that's fantastic

For some reason I always confused this game with Penguin wars. That was another fun game.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

Yes it was

Four-player pango sounds amazing but given that it says up to eight players at the bottom of the screen I think eight players would be more amazing 😂

I had to look up the song Popcorn cause I'd never heard of it before. Oddly, I've never heard or seen this one back in the day either. What I do remember seeing is a game called Kitten Kaboodle by Konami. That game seems to be a blatant rip-off of Pengo.

Played this down at my cricket club for years as a kid. Now have it in my man cave!

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

Excellent, love the music

By the way, if you want to see the credits screen: Hold Up and Button 1 for both players, then press 1P Start. Not sure if there needs to be an active game going or not.

@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries

Жыл бұрын

No you can do it while it is in attract mode

@JustWasted3HoursHere

Жыл бұрын

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Awesome. Reminds me of the trick with Q-Bert: During attract mode when Q-Bert is playing the game and about to trick the purple snake into jumping off the side if you put in your quarter and press the 1 player button just as the snake jumps and hold it down the falling sound of the snake will go on much much longer than usual. There are probably a lot more things you can do with games when they are in attract mode or have easter eggs, etc. Subject for a future video?