The NewZealand Story

The NewZealand Story
Arcade flyer
Developer(s)Taito
Software Creations (NES)
Publisher(s)Taito
Composer(s)
  • Yasuko Yamada
  • Yasuhisa Watanabe (Arcade)
  • Tim Follin
  • Geoff Follin (NES port)
Platform(s)Arcade
Commodore 64
Amstrad CPC
ZX Spectrum
Amiga
Atari ST
FM Towns
X68000
Mega Drive
PC Engine
Nintendo Entertainment System
Master System
Nintendo DS
Virtual Console
PlayStation 4
Nintendo Switch
ReleaseArcade:

PC Engine:
  • JP: February 23, 1990

Mega Drive:
  • JP: March 3, 1990

NES:
  • EU: March 1991
  • NA: 1991

Master System:

Nintendo DS:
  • AU: January 25, 2007
  • EU: February 2, 2007
  • JP: May 31, 2007
  • NA: February 13, 2008

Virtual Console (PC Engine version):
  • JP: October 14, 2008

PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch (Arcade version
  • WW: January 26, 2023
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

The NewZealand Story (ニュージーランドストーリー, Nyū Jīrando Sutōrī) is a platform game developed and released in arcades by Taito in 1988. The concept and setting were inspired by a holiday trip in New Zealand by one of the Taito programmers. The player controls Tiki (ティキ), a kiwi who must save his girlfriend Phee Phee (ピューピュー) and several of his other kiwi chick friends who have been kidnapped by a large blue leopard seal. While avoiding enemies, the player has to navigate a scrolling maze-like level, at the end of which they release one of Tiki's kiwi chick friends trapped in a cage.[3] In 2007, the arcade game received a remake for the Nintendo DS under the title New Zealand Story Revolution.

  1. ^ Akagi, Masumi (13 October 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. pp. 43, 137. ISBN 978-4990251215.
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  3. ^ The New Zealand Story for Amiga (1989) - MobyGames