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Line 2: {{quote\|''[[Blind Idiot Translation\|Allen]]-chasing Mutant-busting Tumble-popping Action!!\|Quote from the game's [http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=1517ℑ=1 promotional flyer]}} '''[[Tumblepop']]'' was an [[Arcade Game]] made by [[Data East]] Corporation in 1991 which is now considered something of a [[Cult Classic]], since it received only one port for [[Game Boy]] and nothing else. It features a couple of kids armed with vacuum cleaners who travel around the world to defeat various creatures and monsters: they suck the monsters up into the canisters of their weapon and then release them at high speed to create big balls of creatures that ''tumble'' around the levels, knocking down everything in their path... It's a [[Widget Series\|Widget Game]] and therefore easier to play than to explain. {{tropelist}} ~~----~~ ~~=== The game contains examples of the following tropes: ===~~ * [[Batman Can Breathe in Space]]: After you complete the main map, the last two levels have you fighting in outer space and on the Moon. You don't need any equipment to breathe and walk around, and gravity is not an issue. * [[Circling Birdies]]: If you stun an enemy, that is, hit it with the beam of your vacuum cleaner but not actually suck it in, he'll have little stars circling its head. Line 30 ⟶ 29: The setting and enemies of the Australian stages are basically ripped off from ''[[Joe and Mac Caveman Ninja]]'', released by Data east that same year. That series would later "return the favor" with its last installment ''Joe & Mac Returns'', which plays exactly like ''Tumblepop''. Karnov once again makes a cameo appearance in a Data East game, this time, fittingly, as the Russian circus strongmen. The spacemen from the final series of stages are Chelnov a.k.a. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120316115655/http://www.gameplayer.it/abandonware/chelnov_-_atomic_runner Atomic Runner]''. The second-to-last boss is an alien robot that looks like the [http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/fw-code/ Flatwoods monster]. * [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World]]: Antarctica.