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Kids Station: Barbapapa

Overview

Barbapapa is both the title character, and name of the "species" of said character, of a series of children's books written in the 1970s by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor, who resided in Paris, France.The books were originally written in French and were later translated into over 30 languages. As short cartoons of a length of only five minutes, they reached a broader audience via TV. Also a comic book version was created. Both the cartoons and comics sometimes show concerns about the environment and contains environmental messages. Barbapapa is now one of the popular characters that is made into merchandise in some Asian countries, such as Japan.

Box set which includes a Kids Station controller. Barbapapa himself is a generally pear-shaped, pink shapeshifting blob-like creature who stumbles upon the human world and tries to fit in.

The game features 7 different minigames:

- Catch apple minigame: In these minigame you must catch the apples and jump or crunch to dodge the different enemies

- Destroy ballons minigame: Destroy all the balloons meanwhile dodge the enemies

- Throw snowballs minigame: Throw snowballs to the barbapapa characters only.

Developers
Sunsoft
Publishers
Sunsoft
Alternate Names
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Wikipedia
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Media

Advertisement Flyer - Front

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Box - 3D

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Box - Back

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Box - Front

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Box - Front - Reconstructed

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Clear Logo

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Disc

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Fanart - Background

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Japan -  1920 x 1080

Screenshot - Game Title

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Screenshot - Gameplay

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