Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure is a 2D

2D computer graphics

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 platform

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 video game created by Interplay Entertainment

Interplay Entertainment

Interplay Entertainment Corporation is an American video game developer and publisher, founded in 1983 as Interplay Productions by Brian Fargo. The company had been a quality developer until they started publishing their own games in 1988, like Neuromancer and Battle Chess. The company was renamed...

 and released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis in 1994 and later on the SNES

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 in 1995. The Genesis version was also released on the Wii

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 Virtual Console

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 in North America on November 24, 2008 and in Europe on December 12, 2008. The game's lead character also made a cameo appearance as a playable character and the rival of Earthworm Jim in Interplay’s ClayFighter 63⅓.

Summary

You will have an adventure in an unknown world as a caped hero who slings his own boogers

Dried nasal mucus

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 to vanquish his foes. The hero

Hero

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 of the game is a booger-tossing, noisily burping

Burping

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, fart

Fart

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-spewing man named Sam Leuck. While he lives his pathetic life as an eccentric turd, his natural "in-stinks" come in handy when he dons the mask of the smelly hero Boogerman.

Story

One dark and stormy evening, The civic-minded Professor Stinkbaum was working in his lab where he was secretly building a machine that would save the world from pollution by transporting it to a place he called Dimension X Crement. That same evening, overtly eccentric turd, Sam Leuck paid a visit to the lab to investigate this project and find out how such a thing was possible. He wasn't too sure about the machine's purpose. When the machine was activated, a cloud of pepper was inhaled through the nose by Stinkbaum, causing him to let out a mighty sneeze. The power of said sneeze broke the machine. As a result of it breaking, a portal opens from it. Just then, a mysterious giant arm pops out of the portal and steals the machine’s main power source. In response to this danger, Leuck rushes into the Men’s room to change into his alter ego, the mighty Boogerman! After doing so, he jumped into the portal to pursue the arm to learn the reason for the theft it had committed.

Gameplay

The gameplay of Boogerman operates as a simple side scroller, with burp/fart ammunition, as well as booger ammunition. There are 20+ different levels, as well as a final boss battle. Each level consists of a slight puzzle to finish to the end, and to accomplish this it is necessary to defeat foes, unique to each level. Following this boss battle is a fun "sandbox" playable credit scrolling, as you are able to "fly-fart" with unlimited fuel (something you are not able to do during normal gameplay).

Staff (Mega Drive version)

• President: Brian Fargo
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• Executive producer: Alan Pavlish
• Producer and programmer: Michael Stragey
• Designed: Chris Tremmel, Michael Stragey
• Level design: Chris Tremmel
• Sewer levels: Matt Findley
• Artwork: Eddie Rainwater, Scott Bieser
• Lead tester: Ryan Rucinski
• Testers: David Simon, Jason Suinn, Jim Boone

Reception

The main character of Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure was awarded Grossest Character of 1994 by Electronic Gaming Monthly

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External links

• Interplay - Official website
• Boogerman TV ad
• InXile Entertainment - Brian Fargo’s (Interplay founder) new company