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Ruff 'N' Tumble

Ruff Rogers has lost his marbles - in the literal sense of the small round balls used to play a game on drains. He's been armed with a gun to retrieve them from 16 levels of side-scrolling platform shooting…

31 December 1994

Ruff 'N' Tumble is a platform developed by Wunderkind, released 31 December 1994 on Amiga.

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What Ruff 'N' Tumble is

Ruff 'N' Tumble is a platform game developed by Wunderkind and released in 1994. It was published by Renegade Software. It is available on Amiga only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Ruff Rogers has lost his marbles - in the literal sense of the small round balls used to play a game on drains. He's been armed with a gun to retrieve them from 16 levels of side-scrolling platform shooting. The gun you start with isn't especially powerful, but various machine guns and flamethrowers can be collected, which make much lighter work of the enemies. Your character can jump and duck responsively, and fire at all angles. There are 3 different colours of marbles, which a quota to recover from each level. Collecting enough of each particular colour sees all similar ones turned to coins, which can go towards extra lives and points bonuses. Switches are built into the levels; these…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Ruff 'N' Tumble launched on 31 December 1994, within three weeks of Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw and Mario Andretti Racing.

Released around the same time: Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw, Mario Andretti Racing.

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When did Ruff 'N' Tumble come out?
Ruff 'N' Tumble was released on 31 December 1994 for Amiga.

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