Ludography
Cratermaze cover

1990 · Port · Nichibutsu · Strategy · Arcade

Cratermaze

Timed NEC exclusivePort

Hit them with your YOYO! Dig a hole so they'll fall in! Shoot them with your Freeze Beam! Kill them dead with your Bubble Gun!

Released
31 December 1990
Platforms
TurboGrafx-16Wii
Genres
StrategyArcade
Developers
Nichibutsu
Publishers
Hudson Soft
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
ActionScience fiction
Age ratings
ESRB E
Languages
English

About

Kid's Horehore Daisakusen is a 1987 action video game developed and published by Nichibutsu for arcades. A port for the Family Computer was released under the name Booby Kids. A port to the TurboGrafx-16 developed by Hudson Soft was released as Cratermaze, which was released outside Japan unlike the other versions.

A sequel named Booby Boys was released by Nichibutsu for the Game Boy in 1993.

›Story

The evil Kublai from Zenzombie Land, has kidnapped four of your friends as you time-travelled on a magic carpet. Now you must rescue them. But run for your life! You're in a maze of monsters!

Keywords

  • western published japanese games
  • wii virtual console

Media

Cratermaze screenshot 1

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

Booby Kids is a game played from an overhead perspective, with the player taking on the role of one of the titular Booby Kids, named for their ability to instantly dig booby traps in front of where they stand and bury hostile enemies that attempt to seek out and ultimately destroy the Booby Kids. Compared to Kid no Hore Hore Daisakusen, the levels in Booby Kids feature more of a reliance on puzzle-solving in addition to the maze like structures of the original game.

Levels range from the conventional prehistory setting of the first four levels to feudal Japan and even some futuristic levels inspired by science fiction. There are 21 levels in this game with five different bonus levels to gain extra points in. Objects to acquire in the other time zones include coconuts (in the prehistoric era), ancient Japanese scrolls (in feudal Japan), radios (in the World War II era), bags of money (in the modern era), and computer monitors (retrieved in the future era).

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
TurboGrafx-1631 December 1990North America
Wii13 August 2007North America · Europe 17 August 2007 · Australia 17 August 2007

Editions and related releases

Part of
Doraemon: Meikyuu Daisakusen
Port of
Doraemon: Meikyuu Daisakusen

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