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AstroPop (Video Game)
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AstroPop | |
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Astro Pop is a 2004 video game from PopCap Games, where players control a ship capable of moving from side to side. A barrier of colored blocks forms on the opposite end of the screen, which would destroy the ship should any column of them extend to the bottom of the screen. To prevent this, the player has to grab these colored blocks and place them back to form groups of at least four of the same color. The player's ship can grab up to six blocks of the same color. In addition, any gaps caused from clearing blocks will cause blocks up ahead to recede toward the main group, and any groups formed through such will earn bonus points.Each stage is cleared after the player clears a set amount of blocks to fill the Block-O-Meter.Players have choice between one of four pilots: Ace Pilot Vector, Vixx, a Damsel in Distress whom Vector rescues, Wrench Wench Sprocket, and Turbot, a robot under Sprocket’s maintenance. Both Vixx and Turbot have to be unlocked by progressing far enough on their respective pilots’ campaigns. | |
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Applied Phlebotinum | |
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Applied Phlebotinum: Quadrillium is a recurring material mentioned several times within intermissions, which is something that is needed to stabilize Protoxx's destructive cataclysms. | |
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Playing Sick | |
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Playing Sick: The excuse Vector gave to his boss to skip work in order to save Protoxx? A case of space flu. | |
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Cutscene | |
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Cutscenes: Effectively filler every four stages. None of them provide any justification of the core gameplay, nor do they explain how actions in-game ever relate to actions in these cutscenes. Though the ending implies you're actually extracting Quadrillium by making matches of blocks, and justifies the addition of the teal-colored block after you complete a pilot's story (32 levels) with it containing a rare Quadrillium isotope to power Protoxx's core stabilizer. | |
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Photoprotoneutron Torpedo | |
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Photoprotoneutron Torpedo: The game's story really loves to throw in random things that sound futuristic. (Antimatter ionization unit, anyone?) | |
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The Virus | |
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The Virus: Toxic Blocks, once they come into the playfield, have to be cleared by making a match directly adjacent to them, or else after a short time, they will convert other blocks into one. Even powerups. | |
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Hyperspace Is a Scary Place | |
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Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: The Dark Nebula that Vixx enters to evade the pirates causes her ship's navigation systems to freak out. | |
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Limit Break | |
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Limit Break: Each pilot has a unique SUPA Weapon which they can use after it fully charges, which either uses the ship's weapons to destroy bricks in a way not too dissimilar from a shump for a short time, or instantaneous like a Smart Bomb: Vector's Plasma Cannon fires a laser that destroys bricks at the bottom, but has the slowest recharge time. Vixx's Psychic Blast uses a crosshair that targets and removes clusters of bricks and has a moderate recharge time. Sprocket's Fusion Warhead destroys a large portion of bricks on the screen and has the fastest recharge time. Turbot's Neutron Pulse clears the screen of obstacles and prevents blocks from from entering the screen temporarily with a moderate recharge time. | |
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Character Select Forcing | |
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Character Select Forcing: Unlocking Vixx and Turbot requires you to respectively play as Vector or Sprocket, meaning you can't use Vector to unlock Turbot or use Sprocket to unlock Vixx. | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Sprocket is the Wrench Wench tomboy to Girly Girl Vixx. | |
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Space Pirates | |
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Space Pirates: Vixx comes across Spacebeard and his pirate crew (and his parrot, Toothbrush), with her only option to escape the pirates is to enter the Dark Nebula. An encounter with the pirates caused Vector and Sprocket to be separated from each other, though it wasn't stated if it was Spacebeard's doing. | |
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Power-Up | |
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Power-Up: Some blocks can be broken instantly to provide a positive effect on gameplay. Among those include blocks which detonate an entire row, another for columns, and one that freezes time, preventing new layers of blocks from coming on the screen. | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The Space Federation paints Turbot as a rogue robot. Though he was just following his main directive to reunite Sprocket with her long-lost twin brother, Vector. | |
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Unnecessarily Creepy Robot | |
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Unnecessarily Creepy Robot: The Space Authority portrays Turbot as this much to its dismay. This is Vector's point of view on Turbot until it explains that he has a long lost twin sister. | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise: The Space Police doesn't seem to realize the robot with the Groucho glasses just happens to have the suspiciously same frame as Turbot. Though the Space Authority soon realizes that the robot with many disguises is Turbot after all. | |
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Checkpoint | |
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Checkpoint: Clear every fourth level to obtain. | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
| AstroPop (Video Game) / int_5beef860 | comment |
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Vector is said to be deathly afraid of robots. Naturally he is freaked out by Turbot's impeding presence. | |
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Death World | |
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Death World: Vixx's home planet, Protoxx, is considered this. | |
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Honest John's Dealership | |
| AstroPop (Video Game) / int_70bdac19 | comment |
Honest John's Dealership: Crazy Murray is implied to be this, as he cheaped out on the Space Authority-certified control circuits on the logic chip he sold for cheap to Sprocket. | |
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Excuse Plot | |
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Excuse Plot: Subverted. You wouldn't expect a game about matching four blocks in space to have a plot that involves helping an alien to get back to her home planet in time before it explodes and a subplot involving a robot's mission to reunite long lost twins, do you? Though it's kind of played straight to justify making the game harder by introducing a sixth, teal-colored block with the block containing some sort of Unobtanium that is in high demand by said alien planet. | |
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Small Role, Big Impact | |
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Small Role, Big Impact: Crazy Murray selling a cheaped-out logic chip is what reactivates Turbot's main directive to locate Sprocket's long lost twin brother. | |
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Songs in the Key of Panic | |
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Songs in the Key of Panic: The music becomes frantic when the blocks are about to reach the bottom of the screen. If you complete a level when this is happening, a completely different track plays on the level complete screen instead of the main gameplay track. | |
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One-Hit-Point Wonder | |
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One-Hit-Point Wonder: No ifs, ands, or buts: if any column of the wall of blocks hits the bottom of the screen or the ship, the game is immediately over. | |
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Greater-Scope Villain | |
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Greater-Scope Villain: The Space Pirates are the reason the twin siblings Vector and Sprocket got separated. | |
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Interface Spoiler | |
| AstroPop (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e | comment |
Interface Spoiler / Spoiler Title: During intermissions, the game lists the title of the next intermission in the pilot's campaign. Oftentimes, this title can make it blatant on a pilot's fate later in the story. | |
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Space Police | |
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Space Police: Apparently we'll still have cops with donuts in the future according to this game. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Vector’s boss is implied to be this, as he views Vector giving Quadrillium supplies he was tasked to deliver on a detour to save Protoxx's atmospheric shield generators as nothing more than a publicity stunt. | |
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Connected All Along | |
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Connected All Along: It turns out at the end of the story, Turbot had been charged to take care of twin siblings after their parents died, but an incident involving Space Pirates caused him to lose the male twin, and the Space Authority's meddling didn't make it easier for him to get the male twin back. Who were these twins? Vector and Sprocket. | |
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Bonus Stage | |
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Bonus Stage: After you clear level 3 and every 4 levels afterwards. Clear all the blocks until time runs out (if that occurs or no more moves are possible, points are deducted). | |
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Company Cross References | |
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Company Cross References: Vector's boss is actually Mr. Moneybags, the man from another PopCap game, Big Money. | |
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Unobtanium | |
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Though it's kind of played straight to justify making the game harder by introducing a sixth, teal-colored block with the block containing some sort of Unobtanium that is in high demand by said alien planet. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: Nothing will stop Turbot from reaching Vector, even if it's the Space Federation hunting him down for allegedly going on a rampage. | |
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Advancing Wall of Doom | |
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Advancing Wall of Doom: The wall of blocks the player clears to advance. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: Completing Vixx's story reveals Vector's Quadrillium supplies managed to save Protoxx's atmospheric shield generators before the planet goes kaput. | |
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You Get What You Pay For | |
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You Get What You Pay For: Logic chip for cheap is enough to get a robot running. But it may not come with the authorized control circuits that can reprogram a robot, which Sprocket found out the hard way on installing such a logic chip onto Turbot. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: How the planetary database describes Protoxx. | |
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