Circus Lido [TG-16] – Chameleon, Flytrap / Arthropods

Media: video game: “Circus Lido”
Developer: Uni Post
Platform: TurboGrafx-16

Description: 

In this obscure puzzle game, the player takes control of a chameleon, who must clear the screen of all arthropods in order to progress to the next stage. In order to do so, the chameleon must grab one of the arthropods with their long tongue to engulf them, and then spit them out as a bubble towards a flytrap, feeding it to them. The flytrap will chew and swallow the arthropods and lick its lips afterwards.

Since the flytrap is not exactly a friendly entity, it will cause the chameleon to lose a life if it comes into contact with it, but will not actually eat the chameleon, only triggering a generic death animation.

Super Mario RPG [NS] – Yoshi / Enemies

Media: video game: “Super Mario RPG”
Developer: ArtePiazza
Platform: Nintendo Switch

Description: 

Yoshi can be summoned in battle by using a Yoshi Cookie, which are obtained from Yo’ster Isle, an optional area via the Pipe Vault. When used, Yoshi will appear on the field and attempt to grab an enemy with its tongue. If successful, the enemy will disappear in a cloud of smoke, and a bulge is seen going down Yoshi’s throat before Yoshi lays an egg, transforming the swallowed enemy into an item. If Yoshi fails to swallow an enemy, Yoshi instead gives the party a Yoshi Candy. Some enemies, such as bosses or large enemies are impossible for Yoshi to swallow.

Mario’s Game Gallery [PC] – Yoshi / Koopa, Bowser

Media: video game: “Mario’s Game Gallery”
Developer: Presage Software
Platform: Computer

Note: This game was also re-released under the name Mario’s FUNdamentals, co-developed by Brainstorm Entertainment.

Description:

One of the games featured is checkers. The player can choose to play as Yoshis or Koopas, with the pawns represented as Baby Yoshis and Koopa Troopas, and the kings represented as Yoshis and Bowsers (or King Koopas). Whenever a Koopa piece is taken, they will retreat into their shell and the Yoshi will grab them with their tongue and swallow them.

Super Mario Sunshine [GC, NS] – Yoshi / Various

Media: video game: “Super Mario Sunshine”
Developer: Nintendo EAD
Platform: Nintendo Gamecube, Nintendo Switch

Note: The remastered version of the game appears as a part of Super Mario 3D All-Stars.

Description: 

Yoshi can be found and used as a mount in select levels, unlocked after retrieving the Shine Sprite from Episode 4 of Pinna Park. This triggers an event in Delfino Plaza where Mario must rescue a Yoshi egg from Shadow Mario.

Once a Yoshi is coaxed out of its shell with fruit, Mario is able to ride and control it. Yoshi is able to grab enemies using its long tongue to swallow them, as well as other non-hostile creatures, such as birds and butterflies.

The Legend of Kyrandia: Book One [CA, PC] – Frog Creature / Brandon

Media: video game: “The Legend of Kyrandia: Book One”
Developer: Westwood Studios
Platform: Commodore Amiga, Computer

Description: 

In Chapter 4, after emerging from the opposite end of the the cave with Fireberries, Brandon is taken to Zanthia’s dwelling. Immediately outside of her home, on the left side of the screen, some green eyes can be seen poking out of the water on occasion. Upon clicking this area, a large frog-like creature will emerge, grab Brandon with its tongue and swallow him for a game over.

Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier [PC] – Tapeworm / Roger

Media: video game: “Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier”
Developer: Sierra On-Line
Platform: Computer

Description: 

In the final section of the game in Stellar’s body, there is a tapeworm inside the intestine. If Roger gets too close to its mouth without first giving it the Timed-Release Pills, it will wrap its tongue around him and swallow him for an instant game over.

Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers [CA, PC] – Sea Slug / Roger

Media: video game: “Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers”
Developer: Sierra On-Line
Platform: Commodore Amiga, Computer

Description: 

After time-traveling to the Space Quest X section of the game on Estros, Roger will eventually be held captive by three women, collectively referred to in-game as the Latex Babes, who have a grudge against Roger. After they strap him into a chair, a sea monster will appear from the water – referred to as a ‘Sea Slug’ by the girls, who run away in fear.

The Sea Slug reaches its two tongue-like appendages toward the bound Roger, undoing his straps. At this point, the player must input to use the red button on the chair, in order to utilize the chair’s lasers to zap the Sea Slug’s tongues, momentarily releasing him. Failure to do this will result in Roger being dragged, struggling towards the Sea Slug’s mouth to be chewed and eaten, resulting in a game over.

If the Sea Slug’s tongues are successfully zapped, Roger will get up from the chair, and must pick up the pressurized oxygen tank before the tongues once again ensnare him. He will then be dragged towards the Sea Slug’s mouth, and the oxygen tank must be thrown into its mouth, to burst, and defeat the Sea Slug. If a few seconds have passed and no action is taken, Roger and the oxygen tank are eaten together, once again resulting in a game over.

Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon [AST, CA, PC] – Pod / Roger, Annihilator

Media: video game: “Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon”
Developer: Sierra On-Line
Platform: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Computer

Description: 

After landing on planet Phleebhut, if Roger walks to the screen immediately left from the landing site, he will encounter a small cave-like overhang, that houses barnacle-like pods on the underside. If Roger walks underneath them, they will grab him with a long tongue and slowly pull him in to eat him, with blood dripping out their mouth.

Later, when the Annihilator pursues Roger, one of the ways to dispose of him is to lure him underneath them. Once eaten, the pod will spit out his invisibility belt, which Roger must retrieve with a stick, else he gets devoured, too.

Biomutant [PC, PS4, PS5, XBO, XBXS] – Jumbo Puff / Player Character

Media: video game: “Biomutant”
Developer: Experiment 101
Platform: Computer, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S

Description: 

The Jumbo Puff is a large monstrous creature known as a Worldeater, and is the first main boss of the game. In its first phase, it will frequently try to grab the Mkton mechsuit that the protagonist is piloting, to pull it closer. During its second phase, it will try to inhale the Mkton, during which the player must shoot Sqvips, small creatures into its mouth to prevent it from doing so. (There is an achievement called Snack-Time, for feeding Jumbo Puff six Sqvips.) Should Mkton get too close while Jumbo Puff is inhaling, it will chew Mkton briefly before spitting it back out.

Once Jumbo Puff’s health is depleted to one third remaining, there will be a scene that interrupts the fight, where it once again chomps the Mkton, but this time, it pulls the protagonist out of the mechsuit, throws him into the air, and swallows him.

The final phase takes place inside Jumbo Puff’s belly, and the protagonist is seen swimming in stomach acid. If all stamina, or Ki, is depleted while swimming, this will cause a unique instant game over scene, where the protagonist will pass through Jumbo Puff’s gut, and be ejected out the other end, only to be sat on and wedged between its butt cheeks.

In order to defeat Jumbo Puff, the protagonist must climb the stomach walls and strike at its heart. Once all its health is depleted, Jumbo Puff will collapse, and the protagonist will escape the mouth.

Dragon Slayer [And, iOS] – Dragon / Slayer

Media: video game: “Dragon Slayer”
Developer: Glu Games
Platform: Android, Apple iOS

Note: This game has been delisted at the time of writing.

Description: 

The boss of the Mission 1 tutorial is a wingless dragon that vaguely resembles a real-life bearded dragon or perhaps an ankylosaur. It introduces the player to Mighty Attacks that cannot be dodged, which in this case, is a flame breath in the first instance. Once reduced to 50% HP, the dragon will then interrupt the fight with a brief stagger cutscene, and proceed to use its second Mighty Attack, which flicks out its tongue to wrap around the Slayer, pull him into its mouth, chew and then spit him out. If the Slayer’s HP is depleted by the attack, he will not be pulled into the mouth at all; simply knocked away. It is also capable of using its long tongue to strike at the Slayer throughout the fight, but this only deals contact damage and will not grab the Slayer. (This same dragon reappears as the third dragon of Ordeal 2 though with a modified moveset, and once again uses the same Mighty Attack after its stagger phase below 50% HP.)

There are other elemental variants of this same wingless chubby dragon that will try to grab the Slayer with its tongue:

• The boss of Mission 6 is ice-elemental. It uses the Mighty Attack after its 20% HP stagger animation. (Also reappears as Ordeal 3 Dragon #3, Mighty Attack after its 50% HP stagger animation.)
• The boss of Mission 8 is also ice-elemental but uses a slightly different design. It uses the Mighty Attack after its second stagger animation at 33% HP.
• The boss of Mission 10 is fire-elemental. It uses the Mighty Attack after its 50% HP stagger animation.

Note however, the smaller versions of these wingless portly-looking dragons will not pull the Slayer into its mouth, since they do not use Mighty Attacks, though will strike using their tongues. Certain other boss dragons (Bosses of Mission 4, 6, 12, Ordeal 4, third dragon of Ordeal 6 and second dragon of Ordeal 7) despite being big enough, seemingly will not grab the Slayer with their tongue, as it seems their movesets have changed so that they do not perform this Mighty Attack.