Startropics (Video Game 1990)

A baseball player searches for his missing uncle, a scientist who disappeared while investigating strange celestial phenomenon in the tropics.

Directors:

M. Hatakeyama, Genyo Takeda,

Writer:

Genyo Takeda (screenwriter)

Storyline

Mike Jones flies to C-Island to visit his archaeologist uncle, but is dismayed to find that he's disappeared. With only a scant few clues, Mike begins his journey across a series of islands to locate his lost uncle, and in the process uncovers a devious plot concocted by the alien fiend, Zoda.

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Plot Keywords:

uncle | island | fly | alien | creature | 

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Taglines:

Modern-day adventure in an island paradise!

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Genres:

Action | Adventure

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Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 December 1990 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Nintendo

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Midway through the game, the player becomes stuck on an island, and the only way to coninue on is by entering a three digit code into the Sub-C's computer. However, in order to access the code, the player was required to lightly wetten a specific page in the game's instruction manual, revealing it. Naturally, if the instruction manual had been lost, damaged or otherwise rendered unusable, then the only way to continue was through frustrating experimentation until the proper code was input: 747.

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Goofs

There is a glitch in the game in which sentences that should end in a period, at the end of a speech, do not have one.

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Connections

Featured in Happy Video Game Nerd: Startropics (2007)

User Reviews

Greatest Game Ever

Startropics had it all. If you EVER played a NES game, this would have to be it. It expanded past the realm of any other game. From the begining of the story on C-Island to the fight of the Octopus to becoming a girl to the secret message on the letter (something no other game has EVER done) to the organ puzzle to EVERYTHING! And then to have the great epic climatic battle with Core Control and Zoda! And the ending. This is, by the way, the only video game where the music is so beautiful it makes you want to cry. This game is great! Play it!