Pengo's appearance has changed a lot. In his arcade appearances, the artwork for the character included a big purple bow tie alongside a dicky to help him look like he was wearing a tuxedo, as well as yellow wings, feet and a beak.
In his game sprite, Pengo has his beak, wings and feet coloured green instead of yellow and he lacks his bow tie and buttons are missing.
Some artwork kept the green wings such as the Sega Game Gear's box art of the character, with the sprite being more widely known than the official artwork for the character, being featured on the Xbox's cover
In Pepenga Pengo the character wears a red bow tie, blue feathers, blue wings and yellow feet, being redesigned in this title to look far more like Overbite or Adelie from the Doki Doki Penguin Land series than the famous red Pengo appearance.
History[]
Pengo's home has been infested with Sno-Bees, a sort of strange blob like monster with cone like noses, and it's upto Pengo to defend it by crushing the invading creatures with blocks of ice, smashing unhatched Sno-Bee eggs and running away from the angry monsters. Once every Sno-Bee is destroyed, Pengo will move on to another level.
Trivia[]
Pengo is notable as one of the first big video game successes for Sega, partially due to the cuteness of the graphics and character of Pengo.
Pengo makes a cameo in Champion Boxing where he will walk across screen and hold up a sign saying KO if the player successful knocks out their opponent. Notably he has yellow wings, beak and feet here.
Pengo makes another cameo in Teddy Boy Blues during Teddy Boy's bonus game where he will appear as one of the many targets. Flicky also appears in this context alongside Pengo.
Pengo was due to make his first 3D appearance in Sonic the Fighters, appearing as a background element in Bark the Polar Bear's stage but was cut during production. His 3D model can be found within the game's files still however. [1]
In Sega Saturn de Hakken!! Tamagotchi Park, players can raise a Pengo tamagotchi known as Pengotchi. To obtain him they must raise a Cartritchi with above average care.
In Pengo! up to 8 players can play as Pengos of all colours with player 1 retaining the red and green colour scheme.
