F██KIN' LIBBLE RABBLE

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I love Qix. I love Namco. I have never played this game.

This is an arcade game that Toru Iwatani made after Pac-Man. Midway passed on ordering any boards. As far as I know, there are versions available for the Super Famicom, Playstation, Evercade, and Wii Virtual Console…Choose whichever you’ve got available; I’m not aware of any major differences.

Let us learn to Libble and Rabble together, shall we?

Score Libblers and Rabblers
80440 MintyJuffowup
69090 wourme
35300 aislesgrises
23050 DaleNixon
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No PlayStation release unfortunately…

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How many museums have to be built before Libble Rabble can find its home?

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Libble-Rabble is awesome. It was too weird and complex to ever be a hit like Pac-Man was. I like to think the control scheme inspired Namco’s own Katamari Damacy some 20yrs later.

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I don’t think I understand this game but here’s what I got.

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Libble Rabble
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I think I’m learning and I refuse to read anything about how this game works.

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IIRC this is the game @meauxdal and I mind melded over at the last meetup. We held on to one controller between us and co-oped it to surprisingly good results!

I’ll pick this up sometime this week

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This game is amazing

Rudie and I stumbled across a cab at Kawasaki Warehouse and I flipped out

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it may actually have been shovel knight! i dunno if i’ve played this one…

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Two great things that are great together.

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Oh yeah I forgot that! I might’ve played this with someone else

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Toru bigs up this game in an old 1986 interview. He said he thought it was better than Pac-Man. I guess you always think your most recent project is your best work.

From: “Programmers at Work”, 1986

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This game also gets like 15-20 minutes to shine in Tim’s Pac-Man review by the way

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This is probably why the game is fresh in my mind even if I was ultimately inspired by a thirst for more Namco.

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35300 points got. just surviving is really difficult
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23050

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the two players one controller thing is how i actaulyl thought you were supposed to play the game i dunno if we played together but im the one who rambled about it

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Libble Rabble
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A couple theories I'm working on
  • There are chests you can open by circling them, but big circles don’t count. Or maybe it’s that circles that close on the edge of the screen don’t count.
  • Sometimes these chests are filled with fuzzy friends who quickly roll off screen. If you capture them, you get a lot of points.
  • Clearing up mushrooms is like eating pellets in Pac-Man; it advances the game one season. Some seasons have fewer pegs to hook. There are also ghost-like enemies that chase you and go to jail when captured.
  • If you take too long to advance a season, a demon starts to chase you, kind of like Evil Otto (Berzerk would be a great suggestion for chasing scores, by the way).
  • Seeds pop up sometimes and can grow into flowers, but I don’t get it. Maybe they only grow on an area that you’ve circled numerous times?
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Just got around to reading some of this interview. This paragraph stood out to me:
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If Tim Rogers didn’t quote this somewhere in between reviewing Pac-Man and Tokimeki Memorial, then he must not have seen it.

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