Teppodon
Posted by Derek Yu Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:20:00 GMT
It’s really interesting to see how Ikiki’s games influence one another. Teppodon is basically an upgrade to Teppoman, with some bits from Bimboman thrown in for good measure (like the mounted turrets and having to use explosions to propel yourself). The graphics are much more advanced than Teppoman and the controls are a bit more complex. Now, instead of only having one weapon at a time, you can switch between a knife and two guns of your choosing. Honestly, I have to say that I kind of prefer the simplicity of Teppoman – it’s a bit irritating to have to switch weapons all the time. It’s still pretty good, though, and I liked the boss fight at the end.
One of these days, it’d be fun to piece together a timeline for these games and examine how they influenced one another. Why? ‘Cause it’d be fun, that’s why! In the meantime, you’ll have to settle for this pictorial evolution of the Teppodon, from the primitive Bimboman.
Controls in the extended:
Left / Right – Move
Down – Free Hostage, Open Box
Shift – Jump
Control – Shoot
A – Switch Weapon
S – Drop Weapon
Z – Strafe
J – Suicide
I was waiting for this one. Just to ask, what’s the trick in getting over the second floor gap on level 5? Every time I shoot that barrel I get blown not quite to the other side - the character hits the celling and falls..
Yeah, that’s probably the toughest spot in the game! It took me a while to get it… I can’t remember exactly how I did it, although you should be as close to the barrel as possible when you shoot it. Then make sure you’re holding left as soon as you start moving.
When my weapons are out of ammo, I can’t pick up any other ones. Is there some sort of way to drop these weapons or something?
Use S to drop an empty weapon.
Type dungroom as a password, and you go to a secret level. To the right of your starting position and in the bottom left room, if you wade around in the brown muck at the foot of the ladder, you can pick up items that give you invincibility and unlimited ammo. Also, every weapon in the game is available there in the boxes. Personally, I find the game to be much more interesting to play without using these power-ups.
There are plenty of secret areas in the game, yeah. If you jump at your start position and keep up pressed in the level that starts you out in the bottom of an elevator shaft then you’ll grab on to the elevator line and get to a secret room with powerups. Think there’s stuff like this on most levels.
Home of the Underdogs has an older version of the game up for download… it used to, at least. I can’t check myself because for some reason, the download page won’t load.
But anyway, this download also includes the source file of the game that you can open with Multimedia Fusion. Should be useful for finding secrets, I suppose. Three more of Ikiki’s games can also be downloaded from HotU… those include the source files too, I think.
Should be useful for finding secrets
That’s lame dude …
Anyways, game is cool.