Puggsy

ixien 2019-03-01
(7/10)
Puggsy is one of the last efforts from Psygnosis to offer new games to Amiga players, just after the death of Commodore. The reality is that it's not a very good conversion of the original game on Megadrive with much less colors and lot of slow downs. Only because you are an amiga fan you will not prefer to play it on Megadrive or Mega CD with very nice musics and videos added.

On a Youtube longplay comments (from World Of Longplays), we can read some words from Francis Lillie himself that answers to people interrogations in 2016. Here is what he said:

'Unfortunately it was a stipulation of the conversion, to use dual playfields, so reduced the numbers of colours available. I didn't want to do it that way. The main scrolling backdrop is obviously a playfield in its own right, with an 8 colour palette. The objects and enemies within the level are the 2nd playfield with their own 8 colour palette. The problem was if there were two scrolling playfields there could only be 8 colours for main background and objects to share, which believe me, looked awful.'
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Dottor_Psycho 2016-07-30
(6/10)
I like puzzle platformers and the Amiga has quite a few very good titles in the genre. Sadly, Puggsy is not among the best: it's quite average and controls unnecessarily involve the space bar. Still worth a few plays (6/10).
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Chuckles 2010-06-15
(9/10)
Delightfullydifferent.
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Dan Locke 2009-09-07
(8/10)
I love this game, but it really needs a two-button joystick to be playable - otherwise, Puggsy can't raise his arms without jumping, which makes it next to impossible to pick up anything. There's also a Sega CD version, which has much better graphics and sound than the bizarrely low-color Amiga port.
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Scrawffler 2009-08-09
(9/10)
I first heard of Puggsy when the little guy made a couple of guest appearances on Wiz 'n' Liz. This is a platformer with some original twists. Great main character, wonderful graphics, lovely music and all round well-designed. Not fast-paced like many of the mainstream platformers, but then again it doesn't need to be. This game is quite unknown - it definitely deserves more attention.
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Predseda 2007-02-28
(7/10)
The main character reminds me a lot "Berk" from Trap Door. The game is one of the most underrated ones on Amiga.
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Little Monkey Lost 2006-03-26
I have only played the Megadrive version. If Amiga version is equally good, then it is better than Superfrog. This game has lots of funny ideas and puzzles. And it is challenging though not impossible to finnish. The character is taken from that old Amiga animation Puggs in space?
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Guybrush Threepwood 2006-01-10
(7/10)
Its OK, its got nice GFX & sound but wasn't the best platform game out there although the added fact it had a rather interesting character from a well known demo was intriguing & was all within the same group
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stooart 2005-11-29
(6/10)
I remember a hilarious rolling demo of this ages before it came out and wondered what kind of game it would be. Recently I found the actual game and played it on my A1200 and I thought it was awful! They should have stuck to the context of the demo, the game is just a mediocre platform game.
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bombola 2005-10-13
(8/10)
Arc/adv with interesting/fun physics. With an atmosphere of its own.
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