ZOOP MEGADRIVE

ZOOP MEGADRIVE - VNM-50015

Zoop is a puzzle game developed by Hookstone Productions and published by Viacom New Media. Some of its rules resemble those of the arcade game Plotting (known in some territories as Flipull), but unlike Plotting, Zoop runs in real time. Official Zoop games have been released for Game Boy, Game Gear, Mega Drive/Genesis, Super NES, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn (in Japan only), PlayStation, DOS, and Macintosh. To spark interest for the game, Blockbuster offered the game as a free rental for the Super NES for a limited time

The player controls a triangle in the center of the screen. Every second (or more often in advanced levels), a piece comes in from the side and possibly pushes other pieces forward. Two consecutive pieces will never come in from the same quadrant, and runs of consecutive identical pieces on one row are longer, statistically, than one might think. If a piece falls into the center square, the game is over.

If the player shoots a piece of the same color as their triangle, it will be "zooped" (cleared) by the Zoop Master 50 Cal, and points are earned. If the piece behind the target piece is also of the same color, it is also "zooped". The same goes for the next piece, and so on. If a piece of a color different from the player's current piece is shot, the player's piece will switch colors with it. This is also what happens when a piece of a different color is encountered after zooping one or more pieces of the same color.

When the quota of "zooped" pieces is met, the game speeds up, and (before level 10) the background changes.

Various special pieces do different things:

A proximity bomb (shaped like a lightning bolt) blows up pieces in a 3×3 area centered at the target piece.

A line bomb (often shaped like a gear) clears a whole target line of pieces.

A color bomb (often shaped like a paint splotch) clears all the pieces in a quadrant that match the target piece.

Collect five spring pieces to clear the whole screen.

If a piece is pushed right next to the center square, it immediately disappears. In this way, the player may not lose because of a powerup entering the middle square.

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