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172 · The Adventures of Lolo

May 28, 2021 · 42 min

The lovely princess Lala was kidnapped by the Evil Demons of the Empire.  You are Lolo, a round ball-like creature (just like the princess  herself), and your mission is to sneak into the empire castle and to  liberate the princess.

SHOW NOTES

Lolo Longplay

Eggerland

Eggerland 95

Solomon's Key

Lolo and Lala in Kirby

Show notes

  • Overcome the challenges of each room in the Great Devil's castle.
  • Introductions
    • Quite possibly the first feel good game of the NES?
  • Overview
    • Adventures of Lolo is a Top down puzzle game. The goal in each room is to collect all the hearts, then collect the chest to make the exit appear. To collect the hearts, Lolo can move blocks and turn enemies into eggs to move of freeze them
  • Gameplay
    • All levels occur on just one screen
    • The Gameplay loop
    • Puzzle Difficulty
    • What would’ve been the twist on the format?
    • Washington Post - Fanning the Flames of Nintendo Fever
      • A Nintendo representative commented that Nintendo was "trying to stretch the kids' imaginations" with Lolo.
  • Sequels and Spinoffs
    • Adventures of Lolo is a combination of games from the Eggerland series
    • Adventures of Lolo 2 and 3 are coming
    • Lolo and Lala continued to make appearances in HAL other series KIRBY
    • Eggerland series continued with Eggerland for Windows 95
      • The game allows players to create their own "Eggerland" maps with a level creation program known as "Construct Mode".
  • EGL
  • Next week - Amagon
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