Category Archives: Atari

Video games on Atari’s line of consoles.

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

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 down from the landing site, he will encounter a giant snake. If the player does not input to run away, the snake will lunge at him. With his legs sticking out of its mouth, he is slowly sucked in and swallowed, with the snake belching afterwards.

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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.

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Space Quest II: Vohaul’s Revenge [AST, CA, PC] – Root Monster / Roger

Media: video game: “Space Quest II: Vohaul’s Revenge”
Developer: Sierra On-Line
Platform: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Computer

Description: 

After crashing on planet Labion, to the screen up, left and up of the crash site is the root monster, with its large network of roots forming a maze-like structure. If Roger steps onto the roots, he will be tangled, and the main body will slowly approach and devour him.

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Space Quest II: Vohaul’s Revenge [AST, CA, PC] – Mushroom / Roger

Media: video game: “Space Quest II: Vohaul’s Revenge”
Developer: Sierra On-Line
Platform: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Computer

Description: 

After crashing on planet Labion, to the screen immediately right of the crash site are a bunch of large purple mushrooms. If Roger walks up to one of them, the cap will close on him and swallow him.

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Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter [AST, CA, PC] – Grell / Roger

Media: video game: “Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter”
Developer: Sierra On-Line
Platform: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Computer

Description: 

After arriving on the planet Kerona, if Roger walks across the desert in the wrong direction, a giant sand worm (known as the Grell in the VGA remake) will emerge from underground to swallow him for a game over.

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Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter [AST, CA, PC] – Grate Monster / Roger

Media: video game: “Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter”
Developer: Sierra On-Line
Platform: Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Computer

Description: 

In the underground caves on planet Kerona, there will be a series of obstacles Roger must navigate, one of which is a grate with tentacles. If Roger does not walk past as close to the wall as possible, he will be dragged through the grate and devoured off-screen.

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Ghouls ‘n Ghosts [Arc] – Platform Monster / Arthur

Media: video game: “Ghouls ‘n Ghosts”
Developer: Capcom
Platform: Arcade, Android, Apple iOS, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, SuperGrafx

Description: 

At the end of the fourth level, there are platforms attached to toothy mouths resembling flytraps, that will descend when Arthur steps on them. If Arthur does not jump away in time and reaches a jaw, they will close on him, chew briefly, and then spit him out as a skeleton, as is his usual death animation, regardless of whether he has armor or not.

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Ghouls ‘n Ghosts [Arc] – Statue / Arthur

Media: video game: “Ghouls ‘n Ghosts”
Developer: Capcom
Platform: Arcade, Android, Apple iOS, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, SuperGrafx

Description: 

In the third level, after the auto-scrolling section, Arthur will eventually come across a platforming section, using the fleshy tongues of some demon statues. If a tongue manages to pull Arthur towards a mouth, it will close on him and he will be devoured, instantly losing a life regardless of whether he has armor or not.

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The NewZealand Story [Arc, AST, C64, CA, NES, SG, SMS, TG16, Wii] – Whale / Tiki

Media: video game: “The NewZealand Story”
Developer: Taito
Platform:
Arcade, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo Wii, Sega Genesis, Sega Master System, TurboGrafx-16

Note: The game also exists as a compilation of games; Taito Legends [PC, PS2, PSP, XB] and features the emulated arcade version of the game.

Description: 

The first boss of the game is fought in Round 1-4 and is a flying whale encased in ice, making it impervious to Tiki’s arrows. After a short while, the whale will approach Tiki to swallow him, where he must continue the boss fight within its belly. Its stomach lining is vulnerable to attack, however Tiki must do so while avoiding the drops of acid in the claustrophobic space.

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Another World [3DO, 3DS, Amiga, And, Atari ST, iOS, NS, PC, PS3, PS4, SG, SNES, Vita, Wii U, XBO] – Mouth / Lester, Bat

Media: video game: “Another World”
Developer: Eric Chahi, Delphine Software, et al.
Platform: 3DO, Amiga, Android, Apple iOS, Atari ST, Computer, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Xbox One

Note: The game is known as “Out of This World” in North America and “Outer World” in Japan.

Description: 

In the caves section of the game, there are toothed mouths that can be seen on the ground and tentacles overhead. If Lester fails to jump over the mouths, he will be pulled in, and a first-person perspective can be seen of a number of teeth closing on him, whereas if Lester fails to run past the tentacles, they will do the same, though the latter will cause him to bleed, whereas the former will not.

In order to get past a particular set of tentacles, Lester must shoot his gun so a nearby bat flies ands gets caught, allowing Lester to climb past safely.

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