Hot Potato! is a puzzle developed by Pukka Games, released 29 June 2001 on Game Boy Advance.
What Hot Potato! is
Hot Potato! is a puzzle game developed by Pukka Games and released in 2001. It was published by BAM! Entertainment. It is available on Game Boy Advance only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Blending droll humor with classic matching-colors gameplay, Hot Potato! is a charming puzzler from BAM! Entertainment (makers of Powerpuff Girls GBC). The not-exactly-fresh backstory has alien spuds loitering in the streets of a quiet burg. You pilot a spud-cleaning vehicle that carries six spuds in two rows. Press A to flip the rows left and right and B to fire a row. If you shoot a spud at another of the same color, both will be eliminated, but if you don't, the spud you just fired will clog up the street until you eliminate it. If you crash into a spud, you'll lose one of your three lives.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Hot Potato! holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Hot Potato! launched on 29 June 2001, within three weeks of Final Fantasy X, Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, NBA Street and Sonic Adventure 2. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy X, Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, NBA Street, Sonic Adventure 2.
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