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Butamaru Pants

Pig Mock is an action game where you, Pig Mock, must catch dropped eggs and transfer them to funnels at the side of the screen. The eggs are dropped by Thunder Pants who are some creatures living in the…

1 January 1983

Butamaru Pants is a video game, released 1 January 1983 on MSX.

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What Butamaru Pants is

Butamaru Pants was released in 1983. It was published by HAL Laboratory. It is available on MSX only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pig Mock is an action game where you, Pig Mock, must catch dropped eggs and transfer them to funnels at the side of the screen. The eggs are dropped by Thunder Pants who are some creatures living in the clouds. Pig Mock has a frying pan with which to collect the eggs, Pressing up allows the eggs to be thrown upwards, and any Thunder Pants hit by a red egg will fall from the cloud, before eventually being replaced. Dropped eggs will stay on the floor, until cleaned up by Uncle Dust-pan who periodically crosses the screen, eating the smashed eggs. After eating enough eggs, Uncle Dust-pan will grow in size and cannot be jumped. Each round of Pig Mock is concluded when 15 eggs have been…
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What it launched against

Butamaru Pants launched on 1 January 1983, within three weeks of Trashman and King Kong.

Released around the same time: Trashman, King Kong.

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When did Butamaru Pants come out?
Butamaru Pants was released on 1 January 1983 for MSX.