Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Virtual Console) Review

Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa

In this game, you control a little baby! The baby, called Upa, crawls through imaginary worlds, made of candy, chocolate, toys, and other things a baby would dream of. It has to traverse those platform levels to defeat or avoid various enemies. The way Upa deals with the enemies is quite unusual: he inflates them. When inflated, the enemies lose control and begin to float, until they finally explode.

Upa can use this to its advantage, riding the enemies while they are floating, kicking them to various directions, making them bounce off walls, using them as projectiles to hit other enemies, etc. Such strategies are necessary when dealing with the bosses you encounter. There are various items scattered through the levels, such as milk, which restores your health completely.

Status: OFLC rated

If you're familiar with Konami's Parodius series you might know Upa. He's one of Konami's more obscure characters - A baby that uses his rattle to attack enemies. The game was originally scheduled for release in at least the US - But Nintendo decided it "wasn't good enough" to see release.

Average reader rating: 5.00 (1 rating)

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1. KeeperBvK 03 Apr 2008, 18:07 GMT

Wow, there actually was a time when Nintendo really decided games weren't good enough? Where's that quality assurance nowadays with all teh Pop Corn Arcade games? ^^

Anyway: Technically it looks like crap (hate how the main character flashes so damn long, you can't see him for some seconds from time to time...), but it looks like it plays ok.

2. Drake 03 Apr 2008, 18:16 GMT

That's just a YouTube issue - The flickering stays, er, well, flickering in-game.

3. Dazza 03 Apr 2008, 22:49 GMT

This has to be one of the strangest games ever! I am looking forward to this coming to the VC :-)

4. DannyZ13 03 Apr 2008, 23:02 GMT

Wow. How much acid do you think the developers took when they came up with this?

5. kevenz 03 Apr 2008, 23:28 GMT

You guys are ignorant, this game is excellent, one of the better NES games ever..... it was actually released in the USA under the "Mario Baby" title. Of course this was a bootleg. I did beat that game many times back in the days..... I will surely buy it if it gets released in america.

6. Serpent 04 Apr 2008, 01:24 GMT

This looks weird but very fun at the same time.
Import tittles FTW!!

7. kevenz 04 Apr 2008, 03:30 GMT

here's the cart I played when I was young in Canada:

8. Bensei 04 Apr 2008, 08:12 GMT

LOL
It really gets the issue how a Baby would act as a main hero of a VC title, but I don't think I'd buy it

9. Charco 04 Apr 2008, 09:33 GMT

What an odd-looking game! Still, I will support any import games on the VC if it means quality titles we missed in the past will become available to us.

10. Inquisitor 04 Apr 2008, 15:03 GMT

game some how reminds me of Dug Dug but with a baby and not underground soil.

11. DEMON212 04 Apr 2008, 17:40 GMT

So hang on, those things are trying to kill babies? WTH?!

12. That Guy from Faxanadu 04 Apr 2008, 22:37 GMT

Odd plattformer without text= great import!

13. Kirby8 05 Apr 2008, 18:59 GMT

i have heard about a american hack version of this game called MARIO BABY

14. KeeperBvK 07 Apr 2008, 21:12 GMT

" have heard about a american hack version of this game called MARIO BABY"

Don't you say...me too! Wait...could be from comments #5 and 7.

15. Kevin 10 Apr 2008, 12:13 GMT

This doesn't sound that bad actually. I might get this.

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