Baku Baku Animal

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209K plays 1995 #Puzzle

Baku Baku, released in Japan as Baku Baku Animal, is a 1995 puzzle video game developed and published by Sega for Japanese arcades. It was later ported to the Sega Saturn, Game Gear, and Microsoft Windows, with the latter version being Sega's first network-compatible PC game. A Sega NetLink-compatible version of the game was also announced, but never released. The Japanese onomatopoeia "Baku Baku" roughly translates to "Chomp chomp".

From Wikipedia's article Baku Baku Animal, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Keyboard controls

Game GearPlayer 1
D-pad↑↓←→
Button 1Z
Button 2X
StartEnter

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

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Keyboard controls

Game GearPlayer 1
D-pad↑↓←→
Button 1Z
Button 2X
StartEnter

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Pixel Verdict

Baku Baku AnimalGame Gear

3.5 Good job

Critics 77 · 2 reviews

What the reviews talk about

Key wordsaccessibleengagingstrategiccuteaddictivefun

What the critics said

  • GamePro called it "undeniably the best puzzle game in the world so far."

    — GamePro, 1996

  • Electronic Gaming Monthly named the Game Gear version a runner-up for "Hand-Held Game of the Year" and the Saturn version a runner-up for "Puzzle Game of the Year" (beaten in both cases by Tetris Attack).

    — Electronic Gaming Monthly, 1997

From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Baku Baku Animal article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.

Scores

  • Electronic Gaming Monthly 7.375/10 (Game Gear)
  • GameSpot 1996 7.8/10 (Saturn) (other versions)
  • IGN 2003 8/10
  • Maximum 4/5 (Saturn) (other versions)
  • Next Generation 4/5 (Saturn) (other versions)
  • Sega Saturn Magazine 90% (Saturn) (other versions)

From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' archived average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.

Players' rating: 72/100 · 110 votes

Full reviews

Face key

  1. 1.00+
  2. 1.540+
  3. 2.050+
  4. 2.560+
  5. 3.068+
  6. 3.575+
  7. 4.080+
  8. 4.585+
  9. 5.090+

5.0 Outstanding! · 4.0 Great job! · 3.0 Good job · 2.0 Could be better · 1.0 Wake me up when it's over · A thumbs-up adds half a point. Our own drawings, in the spirit of the faces GamePro magazine used in the '90s.

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