Game Classification

Pendulumania CANO-Lab (Japan), 2000  

Informations Analyses Serious Gaming
 

Classification

VIDEO GAME

Keywords

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:

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From Japan comes a unique game where you are given a ball on a string.

The object of the game is to swing your ball around like a pendulum and hit other balls that appear on the screen. Your ball is attached to a string and you need to avoid breaking the string by stretching it too far.

There are three kinds of balls that need to be hit. Yellow balls have no affect. Red balls increase the size and weight of your ball, making it easier to hit things, but also easier to break your string. Green balls make your string stronger so it will stretch farther before it breaks. The ball colors are random and you cannot choose to not hit a color in order to avoid the affects caused by the color.

There is a time limit on the game. You try to score as many points as possible in that time limit (or until you break your string). Points are based on how far your string is stretched out when you hit a ball and if you have a combo. The best scores come from having combos up over 100 while hitting the balls with the string stretched out far. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : PC (Windows)

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