Together Retro: Zoop

[YoshiEgg25]

and hope it doesn't destroy my PS2.

???

'Twas a crappy joke. Move along, nothing to see...

[dsheinem]

meh. 71,300 was the best I could muster in the second go round. I may try again later tonight.

[noiseredux]

updated high scores in first post.

[sevin0seven]

never played this game before, but i have it. so i'll try to play it somewhere this week..

[samsonlonghair]

I love zoop! I am absolutely psyched to see one of my favorite puzzle games on together retro. This game gets compared to Tetris a lot simply because it's a puzzle game. I think it has more in common with board games like backgammon or mancala .

I picked this game up on a whim at a yard sale two years ago. I had no idea what the hell "zoop" meant; I just figured I'd risk spending one dollar on a it. The art on the cartridge gave me no idea what the game was about. It just shows the word "Zoop" in crazy 1990s lettering. It's maybe the second worst SNES cartridge label after Phalanx.

Once I get home from class, I'm going to pop in my SNES cartridge and whoop all your butts. Yeah, I said it.

[Betamax001]

Hmmm I had no idea what this game was only that i see copies all the time. Like every game store has a copy of Zoop. I had no idea it was anything cool. I may pick up a copy before i leave chicago.

[noiseredux]

Interesting clicking via wikipedia:

Hookstone was a UK video game development group, active from 1994 until ~1998.

The group members were Jason McGann, Peter Tattersall, Cliff Davies, Ian Bowden, Dave Box, Justin Johnson, Gordon Hall and Chris White.

Gordon Hall, Jason McGann, Ian Bowden, Dave Box and Justin Johnson left to form Mobius Entertainment in 1997

* Alfred Chicken (Super Game Boy 1994, Sunsoft)
* Zoop (1995, Viacom)
* Sentinel Returns (1998, Psygnosis)

Rockstar Leeds (formerly Mobius Entertainment) is an English video game developer. Based in the eponymous city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, Rockstar Leeds has primarily published handheld games for Game Boy Color (GBC) and Game Boy Advance (GBA), as well as Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition and the Grand Theft Auto Stories series for the PlayStation Portable (PSP). Founded in 1997 by Gordon Hall (president), Jason McGann, Dave Box, Ian Bowden and Justin Johnson. The company consists of 75 game designers and game programmers. In April 2004, the company was acquired by Rockstar Games and renamed Rockstar Leeds. The offices of Rockstar Leeds were once located in a converted 18th century church.[1] After the release of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories in late 2005, the studio relocated to the City West office park.

as Mobius Entertainment

* Alfred's Adventure (2000) (GBC)
* Alfred Chicken (2002) (PS1)
* Drome Racers (2002) (GBA)
* High Heat Major League Baseball 2002 (2002) (GBA)
* Army Men: Turf Wars (2002) (GBA)
* High Heat Major League Baseball 2003 (2003) (GBA)
* Bionicle: The Game (2003) (GBA)
* Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue (2003) (GBA)
* American Idol (2003) (GBA)
* Max Payne (2003) (GBA)
* A Sound of Thunder (2004) (GBA)

as Rockstar Leeds

* Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition (2005) (PSP) (with Rockstar San Diego)
* Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (2005) (PSP, PS2) (with Rockstar North)
* Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006) (PSP, PS2) (with Rockstar North)
* The Warriors (2007) (PSP) (with Rockstar Toronto)
* Manhunt 2 (2007) (PSP) (with Rockstar London and Rockstar North)
* Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis (2007) (Wii) (with Rockstar San Diego)
* Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (2009) (DS, PSP, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) (with Rockstar North)
* Beaterator (2009) (PSP, iPhone, iPod Touch)

obviously fast touched on this in his article, but interesting to see the progression.

[dsheinem]

96,700

[sevin0seven]

....played the game. i'm starting to like it more and more as i play it. i'm playing the gamegear version.

[noiseredux]

updated scores.

@sevin, interesting that you went with GG version. Fast said that both handheld games were bad. Though I'd imagine that the GG would be much better than GB. Don't know what they were thinking putting a color-based game on a black & white system. Anyway, interested to hear yr thoughts, especially if you have any other version to compare it to.