Pepper II, 1983 Coleco Ind. Inc. (20 From Colecovision #4)

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Pepper II (1982)
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Cool little knockoff of Konami's classic AMIDAR, in which you similarly surround boxes to fill them in, but here you are a guy named Pepper with 2 identities (this isn't a sequel)--- an angel (your normal form) and a devil (whenever you surround a box with a trident). As a devil you can turn the tables on your pursuers, which are ghostly pairs of eyes. Eating the eyes (eww) nets you few points, so it's best to just focus on clearing the boxes. Some boxes have items which give you bonus points in multiples of 910 points for each item you've thus far surrounded. Not only can you accidentally "unzip" your own hard work by going the wrong way (apart from boxes you've already completed) but so can another enemy-- the Unzipper (who isn't present in Skill Setting #1, but he was in the arcade original). The eyes and the Unzipper are deadly to touch when not in devil form and speed up after a spell in one maze. You have to complete a total of 4 mazes and you can go between the mazes via the 4 exits. I recommend not only sticking with one maze until you complete it, but saving the trident boxes until you've completed a few boxes (unless you're really in a bind). The Exidy original from 1982 was great fun (though you can fly around the maze way too easily), and this-- big surprise-- is a terrific port on the Colecovision. See you soon with the final 3 games in our series!







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Pepper II
1983
Colecovision
Coleco Industries
arcade to home port
Exidy
angel
devil
surrounding boxes
trident
ghost eyes
unzipper
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super bonus
bonus multiplier
bonus items
eating enemies
dual personality