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Baraduke (Video Game)

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Baraduke (also known as Alien Sector) is a 1985 Shoot 'Em Up arcade game by Namco, featuring a spaceman with a jetpack and a ray gun who, after receiving a SOS signal, goes in the depths of planet Paccet to brave the titular underground fortress Baraduke built by the invading alien parasites named Octy.The game was one of Namco's most obscure titles and it would be more or less forgotten today, if not for its uncanny similarity to Metroid, though Metroid was released one year after Namco's game. Unlike Metroid, it is a pure action title (being a coin-op this is a given) based on reflexes and the memorization of the maze-like levels.There's another surprising similarity between the games: after having defeated the final boss, the end screen reveals that the player character, "Kissy", is in fact a woman under her helmet and bio-suit, thus depriving Samus of her "first videogame hero who's secretly a girl" title. The second player character, Takky, also happens to a woman.Baraduke was never ported anywhere until 10 years after, when it was released for the Sharp X68000 computer, and in 1998 when it became a part of the "Namco Museum" compilation for the original PlayStation (appearing in Volume 5). In 1988 it received an arcade-only sequel, Bakutotsu Kijuutei, now with Takky as the main protagonist alongside newcomer Hommy — and even more obscure than its predecessor, if that's possible.After those two games, Kissy disappeared for about a decade until Namco renamed her "Toby Masuyo" and "revealed" that she married the guy from Dig Dug and they had a baby, who became the protagonist of the Mr. Driller games. Kissy/Toby then appeared in a few of these titles and also in Namco × Capcom, but never starred in a game of her own again. The Paccets, meanwhile, made a cameo appearance in sprite form as one of many things Pac-Man can pull out for his neutral taunts in Super Smash Bros..
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Ash Face
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Ash Face: While in the original game the player character exploded upon death, the sequel only turns her face black and smoky, as a consequence of the Lighter and Softer tone adopted.
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A Winner Is You
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A Winner Is You: The ending revealing Kissy's gender is just a picture with a few lines of text (that still say "YOU ARE A BRAVE MAN", though — unless it's referring to the most likely male player).
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Check-Point Starvation
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Checkpoint Starvation: Baraduke II's stages feature no checkpoints- each death will send you right back to the beginning of a stage.
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Live Item: Paccets in the original. The sequel also features them as collectables, except they now orbit around your character.
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Eyes Are Unbreakable
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Eyes Are Unbreakable: In Baraduke II, whenever you shoot a friendly Paccet, they no longer just fall outside the screen, but explode, leaving behind their lone eyeball that can be picked up for a measly 1 point.
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Recurring Boss
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Recurring Boss: The Blue Worm and Turning Eye bosses are the only two in the first game, besides the Octy King at the end.
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Nintendo Hard
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Nintendo Hard: It's almost like they don't want you to progress in the game. By default, the arcade version of the original game doesn't let you continue playing should you lose your final life. As for the sequel, well... see the next trope entry.
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Punny Name
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Punny Name: Toby Masuyo sounds like the Japanese "tobimasu yo", meaning "let's fly!"
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Guide Dang It!
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Guide Dang It!: To destroy the Octy King, shooting it in the eye is not enough, you need to enter its mouth and then shoot at its eye again. This is explained exactly nowhere.
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DuelingGames
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Dueling Games: Not only with Metroid (that however came out one year after this one and for home systems), but also with Capcom's arcade shmup Section Z, similarly starring a guy with a jetpack.
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Stalked by the Bell
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Stalked by the Bell: If you take too long to finish a level when the gate is already open, an enemy called Blue Spark (looking like a blue peanut) appears. It moves in an erratic fashion but, unlike most examples of this trope, it can be killed in two hits. Baraduke II ups this by having a whole boss (the Turning Eye) creep on you until it obliterates you.
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Family-Unfriendly Death
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Family-Unfriendly Death: Kill a Paccet in Baraduke II and watch them erupt in Alien Blood. A lone Paccet also self-destructs on the title screen!
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Evil Counterpart
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Evil Counterpart: The Sniper enemies look like a blue version of Kissy, move in the same way and shoot fast bullets from their guns. Apparently they were other explorers who were infected and corrupted by the Octy. In the sequel they no longer look like the player character. The sequel adds Black Paccets, black versions of the friendly Paccets, to the enemy roster.
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Samus Is a Girl
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Samus Is a Girl: And one year before the Samus, to boot!
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Go for the Eye
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Go for the Eye: Obviously enough.
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King Mook
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King Mook: The Octy King, the final boss of the first game, is nothing more than a much bigger and uglier version of the regular one-eyed Octy mooks. The sequel has a monstrous Dark Paccet as the final boss.
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Eat Me
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Eat Me: The Octy King can only be killed by damaging its eye and then forcing yourself inside it's mouth to blast it away form the inside.
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Shout-Out: To Pac-Man. The Bagann enemies hiding in the capsules look like a monstrous version of the notorious pill-muncher, and one late level is shaped like the famous maze. A few secret bonuses are also lifted to previous Namco games.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: The sequel has a goofier, more cartoony aesthetic with some wacky touches; apparently Takky now flies with a jetpack and also a head propeller a la Doraemon. Also, the Paccets no longer have suicidal tendencies (see Suicide Attack below).
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Heartbeat Soundtrack
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Heartbeat Soundtrack: The original game has no BGM and no music outside of some brief jingles, just a creepy "thump-thump" beat that becomes a little faster when you are on your last shield.
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Bonus Stage: If you can bring at least one Paccet to the goal gate, you partake in a roulette for a chance of enhanced shielding; the more Paccets you save, the more likely you'll win a shield extension. If the roulette lands on an "N" tile, you can keep all the Paccets you've got; aim for a Paccet tile, and your shield power will be extended by 1 point-but their number will get reset to zero. Beware of Octy tiles-if the roulette lands on one of them, your shield power capacity will be reduced by 1 point!
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Game-Over Man
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Game-Over Man: Paccet Ojisan in the sequel.
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Press Start to Game Over: In Baraduke II, Takky is a One-Hit-Point Wonder (unless you can get the vehicle) with only one life on default settings (which can be upped to five by going into Service Mode and changing the settings), so it's perfectly possible to get a Game Over after mere seconds from the game's start.
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Dark Is Evil
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The sequel adds Black Paccets, black versions of the friendly Paccets, to the enemy roster.
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Every 10,000 Points
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Every 10,000 Points: By default, the arcade version of the original game gives you your first extra life at 10,000 points and then an extra life for every 20,000 points thereafter. But by changing a couple of DIP switch settings, you can gain all extra lives at 10,000 or 20,000-point score intervals… or be forced to clear the game with no score-based extra lives whatsoever!
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Suicide Attack
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Suicide Attack: A very rare "good" example. If you still have any Paccets with you when you enter the boss stage, they will appear one by one above Kissy and launch themselves at the enemy. They'll die but manage to stop the monster for a few seconds.
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Video Game Cruelty Potential
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Video Game Cruelty Potential: A secret bonus in the first game needs you to shoot the first 20 Paccets you come across, to make two precious items (actually caricatures of the two developers) appear.
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