Producer(s) Pola Ayllon Composer(s) Greg Hale Jones Publisher Brøderbund Software | Artist(s) James S. Baker Initial release date 3 February 1997 Genre Adventure game | |
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Programmer(s) Bob Arient, Dan Kelmenson Similar Brøderbund Software games, Adventure games | ||
Koala lumpur journey to the edge part 1 game walkthrough
Koala Lumpur: Journey To The Edge is software company Brøderbund's first comedy adventure video game released for the PC in 1997. The name of the lead character is a pun on Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.
Contents
- Koala lumpur journey to the edge part 1 game walkthrough
- Koala lumpur journey to the edge part 2 game walkthrough
- Development
- Plot
- Gameplay
- Critical reception
- References
Koala lumpur journey to the edge part 2 game walkthrough
Development
Colossal Pictures enployee James Baker originally worked on Koala Lumpur as a TV pitch for LA network executives. The project was about a mystical problem solver that was a mixture between Yoda and Mandrake the Magician, who had an Indiana Jones-esque sidekick named Dr Dingo. He ultimately failed in getting it off the ground. A couple of years later, Colossal's interactive unit led by Stuart Cudlitz found the old pitch materials and thought the "goofy investigative team" would make for a good video game. While Baker knew nothing about games, he figured its creation might make networks more open to a TV show down the track. The team pitched KOALA LUMPUR: MYSTIC MARSUPIAL to Broderbund, who greenlit the project. During the game's production, Colossal Pictures filed for bankruptcy, which made it difficult and stressful to complete the project.
Plot
The game centres around a Zen Master koala named Koala Lumpur (Phil Robinson) and his friend, a dingo named Dr. Dingo Tu-Far (John Stevenson) in their quest to prevent the apocalypse caused by Koala Lumpur's mistaken utterance of a mystic incantation. To perform this feat, Koala and Dr. Dingo must collect pieces of the lost scroll of cartoon prophesies spread out over four stages: Search for Dr. Dingo, Land of Lost Things, Stream of Consciousness, and Eye in the Sky.
Gameplay
The style of the game is wacky from start to finish. For example, Koala Lumpur stores any items picked up in his seemingly bottomless fez, and the character you play as (which takes the place of the mouse cursor) is a fly which at several points must be flown into Dr. Dingo's brain.
Critical reception
Rebecca Anderson of Gamespot praised the game for its silly and satirical tone, nothing that it demonstrates Broderbund's willingness to experiment beyond its earnest educational titles with a comedic video game . PC Power spoke highly of the game's "difficult and challenging" puzzles, and thought it had high replayability. The Computer Show reviewer Al Giovetti compliemented the voice cast on their vocal performance including accents and funny inflections. Game Revolution praised the game's wackiness thought thought it could become stale after a while. The Tap Repeatedly review was scathing; the site ultimately gave it the lowest rating of "double cornpoop". Similarly Jenny Guenther of Just Adventure offered a rating of F-, deeming it unrecommendable.
