Tiki in Video Games - General Tiki

K9 Karasu 99 Member Edgewood, MD Joined: Mar 29, 2002 Posts: 14	K9 Karasu 99 Posted posted on Wed, May 21, 2003 10:30 AM Finally a topic that I can contribute to! Just a few additions to the list of games with Tikis: Konami LOVES the moai. Most if not all Gradius games (Gradius, Salamander, Gradius, 3, Gradius 4) include an entire Moai-themed stage. Likewise the Parodius series-- I think it's Oshaberi Parodius that has an entire crazy moai stage. Several of these are available for play on MAME, but I think Oshaberi Parodius was Sega Saturn/PSX only. Plus somebody already mentioned the Metal Gear Solid 2 moai. Both SSX games have the Hawaii stage with many tikis. In Freekstyle, the semi-sequel to SSX, one of the riders is Hawaiian and has a tiki-inspired bike. One interesting game that I'm sure nobody but me has played is Altered Beast for the Game Boy Advance (sequel the arcade great of yore). One of the stages (Vulcan) is fire-themed and has breakable Ku statues here and there. Pretty cool and surprising! This is a stretch, but in World Heroes 2, Jet, and Perfect for the Neo Geo, there's a Papua New Guinea-an fighter called Mudman who even had tiki-ish special attacks. That's all that comes to mind. Will discuss tonight with Mrs. Karasu 99 to see if I've forgotten any.

Finally a topic that I can contribute to!

Just a few additions to the list of games with Tikis:

Konami LOVES the moai. Most if not all Gradius games (Gradius, Salamander, Gradius, 3, Gradius 4) include an entire Moai-themed stage. Likewise the Parodius series-- I think it's Oshaberi Parodius that has an entire crazy moai stage. Several of these are available for play on MAME, but I think Oshaberi Parodius was Sega Saturn/PSX only. Plus somebody already mentioned the Metal Gear Solid 2 moai.

Both SSX games have the Hawaii stage with many tikis. In Freekstyle, the semi-sequel to SSX, one of the riders is Hawaiian and has a tiki-inspired bike.

One interesting game that I'm sure nobody but me has played is Altered Beast for the Game Boy Advance (sequel the arcade great of yore). One of the stages (Vulcan) is fire-themed and has breakable Ku statues here and there. Pretty cool and surprising!

This is a stretch, but in World Heroes 2, Jet, and Perfect for the Neo Geo, there's a Papua New Guinea-an fighter called Mudman who even had tiki-ish special attacks.

That's all that comes to mind. Will discuss tonight with Mrs. Karasu 99 to see if I've forgotten any.

Post #35195 by Karasu 99 on Wed, May 21, 2003 10:30 AM