Pingu: Sekai de 1ban Genki na Penguin
Nintendo Game Boy - Released - December 10, 1993
Based off of the original Pingu TV series, this game takes the player through four episodes. Throughout every episode, the player, or Pingu, can navigate through a side-scrolling world, which functions as a menu or map. Four landmarks are playable throughout the whole game and have nothing to do with the main goal of each episode; "Pingris" is a Tetris-like puzzle game, "Fish Catch!" involves capturing a set amount of fish within the time limit, "Hide and Seek" involves trying to find Pinga, Robby, and Pingo in different igloos, and "15 Puzzle" is a compilation of Pingu-related images with the activity of the same name. Completing all levels of any of these will allow the player to see Pingu do his signature dance from the TV show episode "Pingu Looks After the Egg."
The four video game episodes from start to finish are "Fishing with Pingu," "Pinga is Lost," "Pingu's Ice Hockey," and "Pingu's Snowball Fight." In the first episode, Pingu ate a whole fish and was told by his mother to go fishing for some more food. In the second, Pingu was asked to go outside with Pinga, only to accidentally lose her and to have to get her safe and sound again. In the third, Pingu accidentally broke a vase, and he must retrieve it by playing hockey with The Strikers. In the last episode, Pingu does a snowball fight with other penguins to cope with his mother solely giving her care and attention to Pinga. The minigames for each episode align with each respective plot; the first episode's main minigame involves fishing, the second has Pingu jump on floating platforms to Pinga, The third features Pingu playing one-on-one hockey, and the last involves the snowball fight.
