Hot Potato

by BAM! Entertainment

Product Features

• Clear platforms to earn extra bonus points, multipliers and other special power-ups.
• Maneuver through 14 levels of constant craziness as you attempt to match up the "space spuds" with their girlfriends.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005BZDM
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 5 x 1 inches ; 1.6 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 28, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,011 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Hot Potato! is a bizarre little puzzle-shooting game that defies easy description. The plot concerns a group of Martians who've crashed on earth in their stolen minibus. Their cargo, a horde of multicolored anthropomorphic spuds, is on the lam. Their goal is to collect all the errant sentient potatoes infesting the streets, avoid getting their minibus splattered, and return to their spaceship. They collect their starchy charges by hurling other potatoes at them (naturally), which makes it play sort of like a vertical shooting game.

Hit potatoes of the same color and you remove them from the screen; hit them with other colors and it adds to the obstacles and confusion. The obvious goal is to stay alive by keeping the streets clear and getting to the end of the course. The puzzle goal, however, is to collect spuds. There are plenty of missions, and each one presents different goals, such as collecting potatoes of a specific color. You can also collect pills that let you unleash humorous powers on the starchy obstacles, such as pills that make them fat or sleepy.

The graphics are bland, but the spud animations are fun and amusing. And the action is frantic and keeps getting more devious. It plays like a shooter, mainly because most of what you're doing is shooting things, but the game grows as strategic as a puzzler like Tetris, with the color coding providing the puzzle aspects. The sound effects are good, but the music is great, invigorating, and well suited to your bizarre tasks.

Sadly, the game doesn't support the multiplayer link cable. Even if the core gameplay isn't for multiple players, some two- or four-player variant should have been included given the game's retail price. On the other hand, games that are this fun, frantic, and unique rarely come along, and the Game Boy Advance is a perfect venue for it. --Andrew S. Bub

Pros:

• Bizarre and amusing plotline
• Great action, great puzzle gameplay

Cons:

• Bland graphics
• No multiplayer link cable support

Product Description

Hot Potato! is a bizarre little puzzle-shooting game that defies easy description. The plot concerns a group of Martians who've crashed on earth in their stolen minibus. Their cargo, a horde of multicolored anthropomorphic spuds, is on the lam. Their goal is to collect all the errant sentient potatoes infesting the streets, avoid getting their minibus splattered, and return to their spaceship. They collect their starchy charges by hurling other potatoes at them (naturally), which makes it play sort of like a vertical shooting game.

Hit potatoes of the same color and you remove them from the screen; hit them with other colors and it adds to the obstacles and confusion. The obvious goal is to stay alive by keeping the streets clear and getting to the end of the course. The puzzle goal, however, is to collect spuds. There are plenty of missions, and each one presents different goals, such as collecting potatoes of a specific color. You can also collect pills that let you unleash humorous powers on the starchy obstacles, such as pills that make them fat or sleepy.

The graphics are bland, but the spud animations are fun and amusing. And the action is frantic and keeps getting more devious. It plays like a shooter, mainly because most of what you're doing is shooting things, but the game grows as strategic as a puzzler like Tetris, with the color coding providing the puzzle aspects. The sound effects are good, but the music is great, invigorating, and well suited to your bizarre tasks.

Sadly, the game doesn't support the multiplayer link cable. Even if the core gameplay isn't for multiple players, some two- or four-player variant should have been included given the game's retail price. On the other hand, games that are this fun, frantic, and unique rarely come along, and the Game Boy Advance is a perfect venue for it. --Andrew S. Bub

Pros:

• Bizarre and amusing plotline
• Great action, great puz

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Originality, June 9, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Hot Potato (Video Game)

How original can you get? I am not much of a fan of puzzle games, but when I played this game at Toys R Us, I couldn't put the thing down and I spent 45min playing this game. This for me was a must have, so I pre-ordered it. First thing I did. I have 3 rules that make a game great. I grade them on the 3 rules Rule#1: Originality. How original is this, interstellar spuds, mathcing them up with their girlfriends, since when would you think that up?. rule#2 Gameplay. This is a prime example. It's basic gameplay, and not complex. Rule #3. Graphic. It depends for some people on graphics. Personnaly, since this is no N64, I think they done good. Buying this would be a smart idea if you are lookin for your kid to stretch their brains a little, it ain't no phonics game, but thats what makes this a great game P.S. Alex Trebeck doesn't know what the heck he's talkin' 'bout.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Nice Touch, August 3, 2001

By 

SIX (WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hot Potato (Video Game)

Ths Hot Potato game is not for everyone. It is simple in the pick up. The graphics are not Castlevania, and the sound isn't star wars. But what it lacks in these items it makes up for in shear fun. The little changes from most puzzlers like the forced moving and the changing enviorment make this worth the money for the game. Not only that but the little bonuses like freeing point spaces in order for more points and the occasional bat potato make the game a gem just to watch and laugh at. If your looking for graphics go else where, if your looking for fun this may be the game for you.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pass the potato please!, June 6, 2001

By 

"bobby22" (orange County, California.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hot Potato (Video Game)

I enjoyed this game very much. I think you will too. I like the concept of the game. This game is challenging but not impossible. It is one of those games you just can't put down! It has a lot of levels so you can't beat it in one day but not so many it gets borring. I like the maze part in this game. It makes you think.(but not to much)Overall this is my favorite gameboy advanced game so far.