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''[[Boppin']]'' is a [[Puzzle Game]] made in 1994 by a company named Accursed Toys, which consisted of a few people, including Jennifer Diane Reitz of ''[[Unicorn Jelly]]'' fame. It was originally released for [[Amiga]], but sold very poorly: a DOS version was later made, featuring more overall levels, a slightly different plot, a better color palette (as opposed to the 32 colors of the Amiga version) and some enhancements.
'''The story''': Boik and Yeet are two videogame heroes from the dimension of Arcapaedia. They soon learn that every villain in their favourite games are disappearing, and are confronted by a number of former game heroes, worried that, without any enemy to fight, they will become useless. Boik and Yeet discover that every enemy character was kidnapped and trapped by Sweety Hunnibunz, a creature who wants everything to become clean and wholesome by removing every trace of "bad things", beginning with games. Boik and Yeet then must fight him and, in later episodes, his [[No Name Given|unnamed wife]] and Oops, their son.
'''The gameplay''': ''Boppin{{'}}'' is divided into single-screen levels full of destroyable blocks and bonuses. There are spots on the ground where blocks spontaneously form (usually where Boik or Yeet appear): the heroes must pick them up and throw them to the other blocks to match them and make them disappear. Boik and Yeet can only shoot them with an angle of 45°, so the player should pay attention to the rebounds of blocks against walls and floors: if a block collides with another block that doesn't match, or against a lethal floor (
The blocks disappear if two or more of them are matched, but if the player completes a pattern of blocks (usually cross- or square-shaped), one of the creatures captured by Hunnibunz will be freed, granting the player many additional points.
The game can be found as [[Freeware Games|freeware]] [http://jenniverse.com/boppin%20main.html here], with full Win XP compatibility, and with the original Amiga sounds and music added.
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* [[Alliterative Name]] - Pete Pixelhead and Victor Vector, that are also references to videogame graphics.▼
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: At the end of the game, Hunnibunz returns to the game he originally came from, while Yeet provides Boik with some [[Belated Backstory]].
* [[And the Adventure Continues]]▼
▲* [[Alliterative Name]]
* [[Art Shift]] - There are lots of different tilesets for the various elements of the game, therefore many levels have unique graphics that look like, for example, scribbles on paper, blueprints or fake old-style vector graphics; some of them emulate the looks of other games (see [[Shout Out]] below).▼
▲* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]
▲* [[Art Shift]]
* [[Balance Between Good and Evil]]: "Without darkness there can be no light!"
* [[Catch Phrase]]
* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]
* [[Color
* [[Cool Shades]]
* [[Crush! Kill! Destroy!]]
* [[Driven to Suicide]]
* [[Easter Egg]]:
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]
** Maybe this means that his parents didn't want him to be born...
* [[Evil Laugh]]
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Sweety Hunnibunz's child is named 'Oops'. Ostensibly because he was an accident.
* [[Knight Templar]]
* [[Lawyer
* [[Level Editor]]
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: Losing to Hunnibunz prompts a different, longer Game Over that isn't as bad as losing beforehand.▼
* [[Match Three Game|Match Two Game]]
* [[Moral Guardians]]
* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]] - The Hunnibunz family. Oops quite literally went mad after witnessing his parents' defeat at the hands of Boik and Yeet.▼
* [[The Nineties]]
▲* [[The Multiverse]] - It was developed by Jennifer Diane Reitz, so it's a given.
▲* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: Losing to Hunnibunz prompts a different, longer Game Over that isn't as bad as losing beforehand.
▲* [[The Nineties]] - Some references that date the game to this period, such as one of the heroes using a virtual reality device in one of the intros.
▲* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]
* [[Scoring Points]]
* [[Shout
* [[Trial and Error Gameplay]]
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]
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[[Category:Commodore 64]]
[[Category:Puzzle Game]]
[[Category:Boppin']]
[[Category:Video Game]]
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