Tama: Adventurous Ball in Giddy Labyrinth

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Tama: Adventurous Ball in Giddy Labyrinth
Sega Saturn Tama - Adventurous Ball in Giddy Labyrinth cover art.jpg
Original Saturn cover art
Developer(s) Time Warner Interactive
Publisher(s) Time Warner Interactive
Designer(s) Jun Amanai
Mizuho Yoshioka
Programmer(s) Osamu Yamamoto
Artist(s) Kenichi Nemoto
Michio Okano
Satomi Yokose
Composer(s) Kenji Yokoyama
Platform(s) PlayStation
Sega Saturn
ReleaseSaturn
  • JP: 22 November 1994 [1]
PlayStation
  • JP: 3 December 1994 [2]
Genre(s) Platform, racing
Mode(s) Single-player

Tama: Adventurous Ball in Giddy Labyrinth [lower-alpha 1] is a video game developed and published under Tengen's new name: Time Warner Interactive for the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation in 1994. Tama was also a launch title for both consoles.

Contents

Gameplay

Tama is a game in which the player rolls a ball through a maze by moving the terrain. [3]

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "Unlikely to star big in Saturn's US line-up. And this is probably a Good Thing." [3]

Next Generation reviewed the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "On one hand it's encouraging to see the Saturn handling the demands of this game as nicely as it does, but in the end its power would be better applied elsewhere." [4]

Reviews

Notes

  1. ↑ Also known as TAMA (Japanese: たま, Hepburn: Tama) in Japan.

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References

  1. ↑ "SEGA SATURN Soft > 1994-1995" (in Japanese). GAME Data Room. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  2. ↑ "PlayStation Soft > 1994-1995" (in Japanese). GAME Data Room. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  3. 1 2 "Finals". Next Generation . No. 4. Imagine Media. April 1995. pp. 87–88.
  4. ↑ "Finals". Next Generation . No. 8. Imagine Media. August 1995. p. 70.
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