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SHUFFLEPUCK CAFE CHARACTERS FULL

SHUFFLEPUCK CAFE CHARACTERS FULL

High Quality, Full Colour Print (both sides) Wrapped Around The Mug. Few things in life are as satisfying as smacking something with a mallet.Item: 182445267031 Commodore AMIGA GAME CHARACTERS Tribute Ceramic Mug Retro Arcade Tea Coffee Cup. Whether this occurs in a game of polo or a round of croquet, the excitement of sending an inanimate object hurtling into your opponent's face is a pleasure that can be enjoyed by anyone. Shufflepuck Cantina extends this simple pleasure to characters from a galaxy far, far away. Pucker upĪt its core, Shufflepuck Cantina is a homage to the 1989 Macintosh game Shufflepuck Café, in which you had to compete in a sci-fi version of Pong using an air hockey table as a battlefield. The basic gameplay of Shufflepuck Cantina will be immediately familiar to anyone who has dabbled in the game of air hockey before. Score enough points and you win the match.Įach opponent has a special 'strike', which will send the puck at you in a signature style - curved shots, corkscrews, and teleporting pucks are all possible.įor those who haven't, a tutorial presents the finer points of the game in an easy-to-follow fashion.Ī puck is placed in the middle of a table, and you strike it with your mallet to send it past your opponent's mallet to score a point. While annoying to deal with at first, these strikes help keep the game challenging, and break up the tedium of volleying a puck back and forth in what is ultimately a reprise of the first commercially successful video game. The gameplay of Shufflepuck Cantina - intuitive, fun, and fast-paced as it is - would prove relatively boring after awhile if it weren't for the excellent graphics, storyline, and missions that make up the game's fictional world.

SHUFFLEPUCK CAFE CHARACTERS MOVIE

Set in an intergalactic bar that looks strangely familiar to a cantina from a 1977 movie about wars that take place among the stars (with a riff on the iconic music to match), the game presents references to various works of science-fiction with its tongue planted firmly in its cheek.Įach opponent that you can challenge in the cantina is more than just someone that you face off against with pucks and mallets: each of them has a backstory that unfolds episodically. While you're rewarded with in-game loot (exclusive pucks and mallets) for delving into each character's backstory, those who like a bit of lore in the games will find that learning about the characters and their various motivations is rewarding enough in its own right. It's true that Shufflepuck Cantina presents a gorgeous 3D world from the outset, but it's the addition of interwoven backstories and plot that really makes it stand out. Win, and you'll their resentment.' odino lives in Japan with her three kids. The only thing that stands between you and the phone is eight galactic misfits, an obsolete droid and a few 'friendly' games of shufflepuck. In order to unlock chapters of a character's backstory or progress to higher levels of the cantina you have to spend a good amount of in-game currency (Credz). Several pairs of hostile eyes, and a few sets of three, challenge you to enter. You can earn these through standard matches of air hockey against NPCs or purchase them with your own money via IAPs. Thankfully, making purchases isn't necessary to progress through the game and unlock every feature, but it does speed up the process significantly. At last I am fulfilled, for Broderbund's Shufflepuck Cafe offers the. You're unlikely to resent sending money back to the developers for the time and polish that they put into this freemium title. A musical staff appears at the bottom of your screen, and you cast a draft by. If you're looking for a simple game to play on the go and have ever owned a mock lightsaber you'll have a ball with Shufflepuck Cantina.On August 31, 2012, the Sirtaki Dance Guinness World Record was broken by 5,614 people dancing sirtaki for five minutes by the sea, starting from the port of the city of Volos in Greece.

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