Bumpy’s Arcade Fantasy is an animated puzzle and action hybrid game that was both developed and published by Loriciel in the early nineties. Bumpy’s Arcade Fantasy is a remake for the personal computer from the very early console gaming systems, and the conversion is fair, workable, and rather fun. It bears a reasonably close resemblance to Marble Madness.
The point of Bumpy’s Arcade Fantasy is to navigare a little red ball (Bumpy) through varieties of rooms to help him collect interesting treasures and coins to amass points.
Bumpy’s Arcade Fantasy is an animated puzzle and action hybrid game that was both developed and published by Loriciel in the early nineties. Bumpy’s Arcade Fantasy is a remake for the personal computer from the very early console gaming systems, and the conversion is fair, workable, and rather fun. It bears a reasonably close resemblance to Marble Madness.
The point of Bumpy’s Arcade Fantasy is to navigare a little red ball (Bumpy) through varieties of rooms to help him collect interesting treasures and coins to amass points. The items Bumpy has to collect have a very juvenile theme. They range from simple coins to ice cream sundaes, ice cream cones, teddy bears, dollies and so forth. The backgrounds of each individual level have combination childish and circus themes.
The backgrounds themselves are very bland, usually featuring only a single color, but having large and small figures drawn into the background. The backgrounds often feature bunches of balloons and stuffed animals.
The user begins on a maze filled with little manholes. Bumpy can select any of the manholes to begin his arcade fantasy. The holes closest to where Bumpy begins are the easiest, and it is virtually impossible to die in these first few levels. As Bumpy progresses through the manholes across the maze, they will get much more difficult. When Bumpy selects a manhole by hovering over it and striking the enter key, he is dropped into the level. In each level, Bumpy will have to collect all of the treasures available. After all of the items are collected, an exit will appear somewhere on the screen and Bumpy will have to maneuver toward it in order to get back to the maze and pick another manhole.
Of course, this can’t be all that easy or there would be no point to the game. Bumpy must navigate between little bumpers that knock him around, ramps, drop offs into nothingville, and spikes that pop out of the bouncing bumpers to kill him. Some of the barriers will spark fire instead of spikes and so forth. There are many obstacles in each of the more than one hundred levels that will hinder Bumpy’s progress.
While Bumpy is repetitive and offers many levels that all look similar, it is still a head scratcher at times and will be more than enough to challenge the user. Gamers will have to utilize both reflexes and brain power in order to make it to the end of this puzzler.
