Ladybug and Twin Brats

Ladybug was an interesting maze chase game that added new wrinkles to the old pac-formula. While you still had to collect all the dots to progress to the next stage, you beat the enemies through more indirect methods. Using flipping doors which changed the path of the maze, you could redirect them into deadly skulls, and also box them in. While it's a little bit unwieldy, with practice the game is fun to play, unlike many of the other maze games.(I'm looking at you, Money Money!)




Many, many years later, a rightfully obscure company called Elettronica produced a risque rip-off called Twin Brats. The game remains virtually the same, except for a few glaring aesthetic changes. You control a baby, presumably one of the titular twin brats, through a series of ever-changing mazes, fending off enemies and yes, collecting dots. The enemies, instead of being other bugs, are random clipart monsters, such as evil mushroom people and purple blobs, and your baby dies with an annoying zoom and a crying sound effect almost as bad as baby mario's yowls. The music, being midis of random public domain tunes, isn't that great to start with, but it restarts every time you pick up a dot, creating a maddening, frustrating cacophony. Now, when I described the game as risque earlier on, I was not referring to disturbing pedophilic undertones related to the main heroes. Luckily, we get naked ladies instead of naked babies. Naked, mid-90s, vga graphics-filtered ladies, though, and only every second level. As seen below, in between we can only gaze through a highly censored screen, hoping to catch a glimpse of the poorly-blown up jpeg beneath.