1991 · Bits Laboratory · Puzzle · Strategy

Splash Lake

NEC exclusive

Splash Lake is an action-puzzle game for the TurboGrafx-CD and PC Engine CD-ROM. The player is an ostrich named Ozzie and must walk around a grid, pecking at certain lynchpin areas of the ground in order to collapse parts of the level into the ocean. The goal is to remove all enemies by dropping the ground they're walking on. It is structurally similar to Dig Dug 2.

Released: 28 June 1991
Platforms: TurboGrafx-16 Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD
Genres: Puzzle Strategy
Developers: Bits Laboratory
Publishers: —
Themes: Action
Country: Japan

About

Splash Lake is an action puzzle strategy game developed by Bits Laboratory and published by NEC Avenue for the PC Engine in 1991. Later the game was ported to the TurboGrafx-16 CD add-on unit by Turbo Technologies Inc. in 1992.

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Gameplay

In this game, the player takes control of an ostrich that is able to navigate tiles suspended over a lake. Each round consists of a single screen play area with differently arranged tiles and enemies. The player must entrap enemies onto an area of the tile grid and then crack the tiles to make the enemies fall into the water. If the player is hit by an enemy, the player loses a hit point.

If the player falls into the water or runs out of hit points, a life is lost and the level starts over. When all enemies are dumped into the lake, the player wins and moves on to the next level. Players can move in 4 directions and use the action buttons to crack a tile or jump over obstacles and enemies.