2001 · Visual Concepts · Action · Fighting

Ooga Booga

Sega exclusive

Ooga Booga takes place on a set of mystical islands in the tropics. Named after the Volcano Goddess, the Ooga Booga Island rises from the sea once every full moon and during this time, four tribes compete in a series of games. You take control of the witch doctor of your tribe where competing in various strategic games will power up your Island magic (called Mojo) thus appeasing Ooga Booga and sparing your tribe from her volcano wrath. Online matches have several modes of play including Capture the Flag, King of the Hill, Tiki Wars, Domination, and Deathmatch.

Released: 13 September 2001
Platforms: Dreamcast
Genres: Action Fighting Platformer
Developers: Visual Concepts
Publishers: —
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Action Comedy Party
Country: United States
Age ratings: ESRB E
Languages: English

About

Ooga Booga is a 2001 online party video game developed by Visual Concepts and published by Sega for the Dreamcast. It focuses on the combat of "Kahunas" using thrown shrunken heads, riding animals, staffs, or using spells. The game received positive reviews from video game critics.

Keywords

minigames
online
prehistoric
minigame collection

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

The storyline is that Ooga Booga is a volcano goddess that creates islands, and has leaders of tribes, the Kahunas, that battle for her favour. It has a distinct Polynesian style and tone, and has many multiplayer islands and characters which can be unlocked. It was one of the last online games for the Dreamcast. There are four basic Kahunas that the player can use: Hottie (balanced), Fatty (strong), Twitchy (fast), and Hoodoo (spells).

There are other unlockable Kahunas based on the main four. S. President Abraham Lincoln), Superguy (superhero), disco guy, a leprechaun, and a dwarf.

Development

Ooga Booga was developed by Visual Concepts and published by Sega. The game started out as a real time strategy game about a horse-man converting village tribes to your side through magic spells, It was later made into an arena fighter instead. The game was first announced during Sega Gamer's Day 2000. It previously had the tentative title of "Resurrection".

The game was showcased at Sega's E3 2001. The title included copy protection.

Reception

Ooga Booga received "generally favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. The Los Angeles Times compared the game to Ico for the PlayStation 2. Gary Whitta of NextGen called it "A tasty slice of lightweight party fun that proves there's life in Dreamcast yet." Star Dingo of GamePro said, "Ooga Booga's spell unleashes more chaos than strategy, yet the sheer cartoonish energy of it all could easily turn these island festivities into a regular tribal custom."