1990 [60fps] Snow Bros. 2Players ALL

Описание: スノーブラザーズ - Nick & Tom - / Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (set 1)　Toaplan 1990　2 Player Co-op ALL Clear / Difficulty: Normal AutoFire: On　Player Babyhead & Staticsphere　収録Ver EKMAME64 0.222
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スノーブラザーズ - Nick & Tom -

発売年：1990
開発／発売元：東亜プラン
ジャンル：アクション
コントローラ：8方向レバー+2ボタン
システムボード：専用基板
CPU構成[68000, Z80]　音源チップ[YM3812]

シューティングゲームメーカーとして、当時名を知らしめていた東亜プランより登場した、固定画面タイプのコミカルアクションゲーム。タイトーの人気作品「バブルボブル」を目指して開発されたのが一目瞭然である。精一杯かわいらしいキャラクターにしたのだろうが、東亜プランが作るとなぜかグロテスクになるのは気のせいではないはずだ。また、ボーナスフードにもタコやイカなどのお寿司が登場するのが渋いところ。ショットで攻撃して敵が雪だるまになったところを蹴飛ばしてやっつける。

ストーリー：
平和なスノーランドを乗っとり、双子の王女プリプリ姫とプチプチ姫をさらって行ったホットダ王国のアチッチ王！ このままだと、スノーランドは全てとけて消えてしまう･････ 平和な日々をとり戻すために行け行け、スノーブラザーズ!!
[出典：スノーブラザーズ 業務用販促チラシ（東亜プラン）]

Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (c) 1990 Toaplan.

One or two players take on the roles of snowmen Nick and Tom as they battle a variety of monsters over fifty platform-based, single screen levels. The snowmen must throw snowballs at the enemies, eventually encasing them completely in snow. The encased enemies must them be kicked in order to destroy them. This is achieved by standing next to the snowball and pressing the "kick out" button, which sends the giant snowball flying around the screen, killing any enemies that lay in its path. During every 10th level, the players must face and defeat an end-of-level boss.

A number of power-ups are available, in the form of coloured potions. The power-ups are as follows :
Yellow = Long shot
Red = Speed up
Blue = Bigger snowballs (encases monsters quicker)
Green = Inflates the players like a balloon and lets them fly around the screen, killing any monsters they touch.

TECHNICAL -

Game ID : MIN16-02

Main CPU : 68000 (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 6 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM3812 (@ 3 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 57.50 Hz
Palette colors : 256

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2

TRIVIA -

Released in April 1990.

Like Taito's "Liquid Kids", Snow Bros. was licensed to Manchester's Ocean Software for conversion to both the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga home computers but, again like "Liquid Kids", Ocean decided that the game wouldn't perform well at retail and the game was cancelled. It has since been released, in its entirety, to the emulation community and is a fine conversion.

This game was released as a conversion kit only (often factory installed in a generic cabinet), so any such machine could be converted into a proper Snow Bros. machine. This title is JAMMA compatible (the circuit board for it is one of the smallest ever made, it is barely larger than a Nintendo Famicom cartridge). The marquee for this title shows a 'Snow Bros.' logo, with two snowmen, and a couple of cartoon enemies in the background - in keeping with the game's 'cute' theme.

Licensed to Romstar for USA distribution.

A bootleg of this game is known as "The Winter Bobble".

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Out Zone, Snow Bros. - PCCB-00044) on 21/10/1990.

TIPS AND TRICKS -

Killing all the monsters on a level with a single snowball causes money bonuses, worth 10,000 points, to fall down, but sometimes a glowing cake bonus will appear instead. When the cake is collected, the game stops and four blue snowball creatures appear for a short time. If these enemies are killed, they each provide a letter : S,N,O or W. Collect all four of these letters for an extra life. The glowing cake can also appear at other times during the game.

Hidden Functions : If the 'Invulnerability dip switch' is enabled, you are invulnerable but you may also 'Pause' the game with P2 Start and restart with P1 Start.

SERIES -

1. Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (1990)
2. Snow Bros. 2 - With New Elves (1994)
3. Snow Brothers 3 - Magical Adventure (2002)

STAFF -

Music composed by : Osamu Ohta

SOURCES -

Game's rom.
Machine's picture.