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At the same time, the [[MacGuffin|Crystal Balls]] that rested atop the spires of the tower flew from their positions. Glover freaked upon seeing this, and prevents them all from shattering and breaking by utilizing his magic power to [[Shapeshifter Weapon|turn all of them into rubber balls.]] They each bounce into warps surrounding the castle that lead to various, malevolent locations, and now it's up to our animated hand wear to retrieve the crystals, defeat Cross-Stitch, bring the wizard back to life, and restore peace to the land.
An obscure [[Nintendo 64]] title developed by Interactive Studios and published by Hasbro Interactive in 1998. It also had another version that was released for the [[
On that note, a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130315072400/http://www.retrocollect.com/News/unreleased-nintendo-64-sequel-to-glover-surfaces-online.html sequel] was planned to be released in 2000, but never got past the development stages. See the prototype [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV1QfIu8-Sg here.]
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* [[Big Boo's Haunt]]: The Fortress of Fear.
* [[Bonus Stage]]: Collecting every Garib in both levels of a world unlocks a bonus level, where the point is to collect... even more Garibs. But it's necessary for [[
* [[Character Title]]
* [[Easy Mode Mockery]]: You can't unlock or play the [[Bonus Stage|Bonus Stages]] on Easy.
* [[Escort Mission]]: As mentioned. In order to clear a stage, you have to bring the ball to the goal with you, which is of course always harder than simply walking there.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Even Worse
* [[Everything's Worse
* [[Frankenstein's Monster]]: Another boss who required you to perform some serious platforming in order to electrocute it without getting zapped yourself.
* [[Gasshole]]: In the overworld, there's a chicken on a swing that would either fart, hiccup, burp, or cluck. This makes up a series of cheat codes.▼
* [[Glove Slap]]: Not a textbook example, but Glover does this to hit the balls across pits and onto higher platforms.▼
* [[Gravity Screw]]: In Out Of This World, as expected, you can jump ''really'' high. Necessary in the first stage, at least, where bouncing on the rubber ball can give you some extra height.▼
* [[Hand Tropes]]: What did you expect?
** [[Badass Finger-Snap]]
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** [[Power Fist]]
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The final boss fight between you and Cross-Stitch involves two of these.
▲* [[Gasshole]]: In the overworld, there's a chicken on a swing that would either fart, hiccup, burp, or cluck. This makes up a series of cheat codes.
▲* [[Glove Slap]]: Not a textbook example, but Glover does this to hit the balls across pits and onto higher platforms.
▲* [[Gravity Screw]]: In Out Of This World, as expected, you can jump ''really'' high. Necessary in the first stage, at least, where bouncing on the rubber ball can give you some extra height.
* [[Last Lousy Point]]: I guarantee you, you ''will'' start ripping your hair out trying to find every last Garib.
* [[Monster Clown]]: The boss of Carnival. Humorously enough, you kill it with a [[Red Boxing Gloves|spring boxing glove]], a [[Pie in
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: It starts out fairly easy, but the difficulty ramps up ''very'' quickly.
* [[Plot Coupon]]: The Crystals
* [[Shapeshifter Weapon]]: The Crystal Balls. Their standard forms are the rubber balls, and they can be transformed into, sequentially, a bowling ball, a little metal ball, and the normal Crystal itself. A [[
* [[Space Zone]]: Out Of This World, the last level in the game.
* [[Take That]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gznnDV0nKkY The commercial for the game] featured blatant ersatzes of [[Final Fantasy VII|Cloud Strife]], [[Tomb Raider|Lara Croft]] and [[Duke Nukem]] getting knocked about by Glover's ball.
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