ARCADE ACTION CLOSE-UP
Neat and nice and so precise, Sega's PENGO has a cool shot at the big time. With the surprisingly long-lived FROGGER and now PENGO, Sega has become the company of little critters with big appetites for quarters and tokens. Their high popularity indicates that someone has obviously found the soft spot in gamester's hearts.
ARCADE ACTION CLOSE-UP
Neat and nice and so precise, Sega's PENGO has a cool shot at the big time. With the surprisingly long-lived FROGGER and now PENGO, Sega has become the company of little critters with big appetites for quarters and tokens. Their high popularity indicates that someone has obviously found the soft spot in gamester's hearts.
Only the penguins and SnoBees have anything soft about them in PENGO. The landscape shown in the pre-game boards is a color-filled frozen terrain, lorded over by the endlessly shifting sky of reflected light. The penguins toboggan across the ice, coming up to greet the player in their gregarious fashion.
The penguins of PENGO try to move blocks of ice across the board, melting some and just shifting others. The board is a grid of 165 square spaces, most of which are filled by slippery blocks of hard ice. The random maze of blocks can be altered by pushing the blocks around. When two ice blocks are up against each Other, a push by the penguin's control button "melts" it, disintegiatmg it into little pieces.