The New Zealand Story

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58K plays 1989 #Action#Platform

The NewZealand Story is a 1988 platform video game developed and published by Taito for arcades. The concept and setting were inspired by a holiday trip in New Zealand by one of the Taito programmers. The player controls Tiki, a kiwi who must save his girlfriend and several of his other kiwi chick friends who have been kidnapped by a large blue leopard seal. While avoiding enemies, the player has to navigate a scrolling maze-like level, at the end of which they release one of Tiki's kiwi chick friends trapped in a cage. It was followed by two remakes.

From Wikipedia's article The NewZealand Story, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Keyboard controls

SMSPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
Button 1ZN
Button 2XM
PauseEnter

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

SMSPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
Button 1ZN
Button 2XM
PauseEnter

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

The New Zealand StorySMS

4.0 Great job!

Critics 84 · 6 reviews (other versions)

From reviews of other versions of the game (none of this one found).

What the reviews talk about

Key wordsdisappointingawkwardchallengingaddictivefun

Scores

  • ACE 1989 87.5%; 87.5% (other versions)
  • Computer and Video Games 1988 Positive
  • Crash 91% (other versions)
  • Sinclair User 1989 82% (other versions)
  • The Games Machine (UK) 1988 Positive
  • Famitsu 6/10, 7/10, 7/10, 4/10 (other versions)
  • Total! 1992 93% (other versions)
  • Your Sinclair 93% (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: 68/100 · 204 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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