NES Game: Vs. Clu Clu Land (1984 Nintendo)
86A puzzle game takes place in the underwater kingdom of Clu Clu Land. There's this mean Sea Urchin who steals all the gold bars (which looks remarkably like Rupees from Zelda) In each of the levels, you play this Lolo-type person, who just floats through each screen. The character's actual name is 'Bubbles' (but he is known as 'Gloopy' in the Japanese version, and he is actually a 'she'). To change your direction, instead of pushing a direction on the controller, you need to grab poles and steer yourself to where you need to go. Any time you run over a hidden gold bar, it appears. Run over enough of them, and a picture develops (this is predetermined in each level). The sea urchins will try to stop you, but you can stun them and run them into the wall. Just don't fall into the pits that spawns urchins. That's it. Just finds all of the invisible gold bars and you've completed it all. Next level. The graphics are very plain. There's no scrolling, and the setting only changes slightly with each level.
Note: This VS arcade version contained twice as many puzzles, a new enemy (Boss Unira), different level themes, and some other adjustment in the games features. Like the NES version, The game seems to be endless. After level 23, the levels start repeating with increased difficulty by causing the gold coins to flip to its dull side when you run into it more than once than you have to run back to flip back to it's correct side. The later levels after stage 23 are just too difficult and too time consuming so I quit afterwards. Since this arcade version was played on an NES emulator, I marking it as an NES game.