Nuts & Milk

Both versions of Nuts & Milk involve the player moving through various levels while collecting an assortment of fruit scattered throughout each of them. By gathering all the fruit on a particular screen, the player will gain access to a previously unopened house door containing Milk's fiancée, Yogurt. When the player makes contact with the female blob, they are advanced to the next level to start the process anew. Movement through these levels is accomplished by using the directional pad or keyboard to move Milk across the stage while avoiding pitfalls and other obstacles, most notably the character's rival, Nuts.

If contact is made at any time during game play with Nuts or other harmful objects such as miniature blimps, the player will lose a life and have to restart the current level, with all fruit reset back to their initial positions. Once all three of Milk's lives are lost in this fashion, the game ends.

Set in a fantasy world, Nuts & Milk follows the story of a pink male blob named Milk, who must find his fiancée, Yogurt, a similar pink blob with a red hair bow, and rescue her from Nuts, a teal blob who also vies for her affection. The journey will take Milk through several levels where the process of finding and saving his love will repeat itself several times as Nuts mounts an ever-present resistance against his quest for romance.

Originally developed by Japanese software company Hudson Soft for several home computers in Japan, Nuts & Milk became one of the company's first Family Computer video games along with Lode Runner. The game itself borrows elements from Lode Runner, an earlier Hudson project, and other arcade-styled platformers such as Donkey Kong, and even emulates the title screen of Nintendo's early 1980s releases. While the game retains stylistic similarities to other games published at the time, it is unique in being an arcade-styled game that was never released on an actual arcade system.

Two different versions of the game were created: one for home computers, and one for the Famicom.

A version of Nuts & Milk resembling the Famicom release has since been ported to mobile phones as a download service beginning on September 1, 2003, in Japan by KG Telecom as part of their "GameMaster" compilation, which contains other Hudson Soft games from the 8-bit era. The service was later extended to other parts of the world in January 2004 by TF1 i-games.

In December 2005, Hudson included Nuts & Milk in Hudson Collection Vol. 4: Nazotoki Collection for the Game Boy Advance, released exclusively in Japan. Nintendo would release the Famicom version of the game on the Wii, 3DS and Wii U through the Virtual Console.