Baku Baku Animal

Baku Baku Animal (ばくばくアニマル Baku Baku Animaru) is a falling block puzzle arcade game released by Sega in 1995.

Plot
In a distant kingdom, the Princess is demanding yet another new pet. The King and the Minister despair as she already has so many and the servants are struggling to keep up with feeding them all.

They decide to host a contest to employ a full time royal Zookeeper and send word out to the people of the land. Master Piggy sends his apprentice Polly for the role due to her love of animals.

Polly must now prove herself by defeating all of the competition including the Minister, the King, the Queen and the Princess herself to become the official royal Zookeeper.

Gameplay
Baku Baku Animal is similar in nature to Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo - it is a competitive two-player falling block puzzle game in which players compete to clear containers of blocks. Players need to link together one or more "food blocks" before removing each connected block in one go with an "animal block"

There are four types of food blocks:


 * Carrot blocks which can only be cleared by rabbits.
 * Bone blocks which can only be cleared by dogs.
 * Banana blocks which can only be cleared by monkeys.
 * Bamboo blocks which can only be cleared by pandas.

By clearing these blocks on their screen, the player will fill up the opponents screen. When a players screen is completely full of blocks, they will lose being eaten by the Princess' pet lion.

Trivia

 * The game is dedicated as Sega's first ever Network Compatible PC Game.
 * A Sega NetLink compatible version of the game was also announced, but never released.
 * Baku Baku roughly translates to 'Chomp Chomp'.