Teddy Boy Blues - Yohko Ishino (テディボーイ・ブルース / 石野陽子) is a 1985 arcade game made by Sega. It stars a young boy who is armed with a gun. Each level is an infinitely repeating maze with several dice. Each die is filled with monsters which hatch out and you must shoot to shrink, then collect them. If you don't collect each shrunken monster quickly, it turns into a time-eating bug which flies to the time limit bar and consumes a chunk of it. If you tou...
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Teddy Boy Blues - Yohko Ishino (テディボーイ・ブルース / 石野陽子) is a 1985 arcade game made by Sega. It stars a young boy who is armed with a gun. Each level is an infinitely repeating maze with several dice. Each die is filled with monsters which hatch out and you must shoot to shrink, then collect them. If you don't collect each shrunken monster quickly, it turns into a time-eating bug which flies to the time limit bar and consumes a chunk of it. If you touch one monster or run out of time then you lose a life. The game ends if all lives are lost. There are 50 distinct levels, called "rounds" in the game, even though the counter goes to 99 (the 100 level doesn't show). Play through the levels loops infinitely, with no apparent end. There are also "bonus rounds" every so often where you shoot colored die to reveal prizes and increase your score.
The name of the arcade version was a reference to a 1985 hit song entitled "Teddy Boy Blues" by then-popular Japanese pop star Yohko Ishino, an...
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