Crazy Arcade

Crazy Arcade (Korean: 크레이지 아케이드) is a free Korean online multiplayer game developed by Nexon. It has offered up to five different game modes throughout its history: Bomb and Bubbles (BnB), Tetris, Hidden Catch, Dizzy Pang, and Bz. However, the latter four were eventually removed from the game. BnB, which takes on the classic Bomberman series, adds its own twist to the game by replacing Bomberman's bombs with water balloons. Crazy Arcade's success has spawned a franchise, having been followed by the release of the games CrazyRacing KartRider, CrazyShooting BubbleFighter, and CrazyRacing AirRider.

Crazy Arcade
Developer(s)Nexon Corporation
Publisher(s)NEXON Korea

Nexon America (North America)
Shanda (China)
DigiCell (Taiwan) -formerly Gamania (Taiwan)[1]
VNG (Vietnam)

INNOVA (Russia)
Designer(s)Nexon
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Release2001[2]
Genre(s)Maze, Strategy
Mode(s)Multiplayer

Nexon announced that they will be bringing Crazy Arcade, as well as Dragon Nest and Mabinogi Heroes to America in 2010 under their new game portal, Block Party. On December 7, 2009, Nexon America launched the official website for PopTag!, which is the North American name of Crazy Arcade. Nexon has decided to forgo the closed beta testing phase and jump right into an open beta. The open beta of PopTag! began on January 26 and ended a month later. PopTag! was closed by publishers Nexon America on July 14, 2011 due to "multiple factors including the [in]ability to deliver new content regularly due to the limited resources [...] available for the game".[3]

Gameplay

The objective of the game is players must kill their opponents by setting water balloons that pop and release water both vertically and horizontally. Being exposed to the water causes one to become trapped in a bubble. If a teammate makes contact with him or her, the player is released from the bubble. If an opponent does the same, however, or if the player doesn't make any contact within a short period of time, the player dies, putting him or her out of play (or not, depending on the mode of gameplay).

Up to eight people can battle in a room either by Manner or Free mode. But in other cases, there is a limit. For example, in Village 10, there can only be 6 people at a time, considering that there is no more room to spawn in that area. In Manner mode, teams are evenly divided by color. Free mode allows teams to be arranged in any way that suits the players.

Experience points are awarded for completing a match, more for a victory than a draw which gives more experience points than a loss, and gaining enough points will result in a level-up. Different channels are available for specific groups of levels.

Characters

There are eight default playable characters in Crazy Arcade. Two additional characters, Lodumani and Santa Claus, may also have a chance of being playable when a player selects Random on the character select screen. Furthermore, an upgraded version of Evie called "Luxury Marid" (Posh Evie in America) and a different version of Plunk called "Luxury Kephi" can be purchased at the game shop for cash. Currently, "Luxury Dao", the upgraded version of Dao is in Sale in Korea, too.

Each character possesses a different set of initial and maximum stats. Count refers to how many water balloons the character can carry at once. Power refers to his or her balloons' burst radius. Speed refers to how fast he or she moves. Normal denotes well-roundedness in all areas. The characters are listed along with their primary advantage, as specified on the game's official Korean website.

Character's Names(Hangul) Direct Translation Character's Names(English) Specialty
배찌 Bazzi Boz Speed
다오 Dao Dao Normal
디지니 Dizni Diz Normal
모스 Mos Moss Speed
우니 Uni Ike Power
에띠 Ethi Melvin Count
마리드 Marid Evie Count
케피 Kephi Plunk Power
산타 할아버지[Note 1] Santa Santa
로두마니[Note 1] Lodumani Lodumani
[Note 1] Shu Shu
Notes
  1. This character can only be accessed by selecting Random on the character select screen. This character also possess improved initial stats.

Ranking system

Crazy Arcade uses a level and exp-based ranking system. There are currently 720 distinct levels. Each level is represented by four elements of categorization. From the most general to most specific, these elements are: the medal's shape, the medal's color, the stripes' color, and the stripes' number. Specific shop items, maps, and channels can only be accessed by players of certain levels.

In addition to the medal system, there is a ladder system. Ladder ranks take precedence over levels.

Nexon Inc./ Crazy Arcade Inc. also selects/tests 'pro's each year and the first pro selected in 2012 was 'Luckycosta'

Map themes

BnB features at least twenty differently themed regions, each containing a number of playable maps. Winning conditions vary among each region; while in most maps a player can win by eliminating all opponents, some regions encourage players to win by clearing specific "missions" that are unique to each region.

A series of upgraded regions (indicated by an "Ex" prefix) can only be accessed by playing at a participating PC bang or purchasing a room upgrade from the game's online shop.

Types of play

In all the modes, teams are available, but each mode has different roles for teams.

Normal Type This game mode features a straightforward multiplayer bomberman game. The winner is determined by the team who "pops" the other teams' players after they are consumed by the water from the water bomb.

Hedgehog In this mode, once a player is "popped", he or she is transformed into a hedgehog which can pop water bombs upon contact. Once turned into a hedgehog, a player will not be traped in a bubble on contact with water, but will be unable to move for a while. They will also always save a player (in a bubble) it touches regardless of their color. Hedgehogs can also eliminate ghosts on the cemetery and tomb levels (but then disappear). Hedgehogs cannot use bombs.

Catch the Leader In this particular mode, one player of each team is given a Flag of their team color to indicate that they are the leader. Once the leader is defeated, every member of that person's team dies.

Combo Mode Combo Mode features the revival of defeated opponents. The team with the most kills within the time period gets the 'crown' and wins the match. If all teams have the same amount of kills, then the winner is the team who did not die as often.

Time Bomb In Time Bomb mode, one person is randomly chosen to carry a bomb on their head. That person must then touch another player, regardless of color, and then the person who got touched will carry the bomb. If a player doesn't touch another player before the five second time limit, water will burst around them and they will be trapped in a bubble and another person will be chosen again.

Monster All of the players are on one team and they have to work together to defeat monsters before the time runs out. There are three stages: the first two have monsters and the last one has the boss. If you defeat the boss, lots of lucci, money that you can spend afterwards at the shop, will appear as an award. Also, the one who popped the boss will be awarded extra lucci, the amount of which is determined by each map.

Zombie In Zombie mode, you battle zombies which are players that are controlled by Artificial Intelligence. Prior to battling, you can customize their levels for difficulty, and different zombies for different attributes. For example, the purple gorilla starts with a greater range, but only one balloon, compared to the green zombie, who starts with two balloons but smaller range. When victorious, certain amount of lucci is given to the player, and zombie points which can be used to unlock different zombies.

Boss Turtle This recently launched mode features 3 levels: the first two levels in which the player must "paralyze" all the stars with his/her bombs and the final Boss Mode, in which the player attempts to defeat the Boss Turtle by constantly laying bombs on it.

Items

There are several items in B&B, and they are used in games, or to create other special effects, or to raise their abilities. A more definitive list and explanation can be found on the website. Most come from the beginning of a map or from destroying a block. Items include these.

All Maps

Liquid - Increase the water stream by one space.

Water balloon - Increases the number of water balloons that can be operated by one.

Roller skates - increases the speed of the character by +1.

Ultra water balloon - Increase the stream to its maximum at a time.

Red Devils - The speed of the character goes up to its maximum. have the effect of eating shoes

Shoes - You can push the water balloon.

Gloves - You can throw a water balloon.

Magpies - The direction is reversed, or where the character is located, balloons are placed at will.

Green Devils - Spit out one of the items he ate, and the effect of the spitting items disappears as well.

Superman - For a moment, the character's ability rises to its maximum. When trapped in a water balloon, the effect disappears immediately.

Spacecraft - capable of travelling in a spaceship, and is 10 speeds. It can be carried on a breakable block without restriction.

Broken Spacecraft - The spaceship staggers and speeds are like turtles. If you use a spanner, you become a spaceship.

Turtle - can ride around and slow down. Canned items turn into 9-speed pirate turtles, and with low probability, pirate turtles come out immediately.

Pirate Turtle - A fast tortoise that rides.

Owl - Can ride and get 5 speed.

Ghost - You look so faint for the same team that you are indistinguishable from the naked eye to the other team.

Camp Map

Tanks - can be carried around and speed up to 5 speeds. Fire the water balloon in the direction that Carrick is looking at. The number of water balloons that can be launched is the maximum for a character.

Moonwalk - the character turns back and moves.

Factory Map

Oxygen canisters - Use when trapped in a water balloon slows the bubble burst time.

Trap - can be installed between blocks that do not move or burst, and passers-by will be trapped in a water balloon.

ice map

Skate - The speed of the character goes up to its maximum.

sea map

Octopuses - have the same performance as turtles.

Pirate Octopus - Equal Performance with Pirate Turtles.

Labar Map (NOT Present)

Canned Sausage - When used, the surrounding lava gathers in can.

Kentucky Map

Chicken barrel - the performance is the same as the spaceship.

Mine Map

Drill - If used against a block, the block can be broken without using a water balloon.

An ore carrier - capable of carrying and having the same speed as a turtle. Only on the rails will speed up. Motor can run fast regardless of rail.

Cart Map

Joystick - Eating this will only give you a quick ride on the road and slow it down elsewhere.

Nitro - If used in a cart, speed can be achieved in a short period of time.

Oil to be crowded - available when the cart runs out of gas. Fill the cart with all the oil from your cart.

clover map

Clover - The more clover you eat, the more you score, and the more you score, the more you win.

zombie map

Life potions only come from zombie maps. They can be eaten while infected by zombies. This medicine will cure the infection and speed up soon after it is taken and make you invincible.

Aqua Map

Shark - Same performance as tank. However, he eats up to three water balloons and spits them out with the effect of gloves that are twice as fast as those he eats in the direction he sees.

stenosis battle mode

Super Star - only available in the airtight battle mode. AI doesn't work when you eat it, and it doesn't work when you eat it. I can achieve the highest level of ability for a while.(The effect is the same as that of Power Sansam and Superman, but Power Sansam will continue to work even if they are trapped in a water balloon, and Superman and Superstar end up being trapped in a water balloon.)

Yellow Devils - only available in narrow battle mode. AI doesn't work when you eat it, and it doesn't work when you eat it. For a short time, all AIs are in bond state (maximum speed degraded) and the effect ends when trapped in a water balloon.

Tone - If you kill AI, it comes out randomly, and one to four are used for quests.

Stoker's Box - If you kill a stalker that appears as a low probability during a hollow battle, you can randomly come up with a lurch, a needle, a shield, a perspective, a spring, etc.

Controversy

Bomberman, B&B the plagiarism charges similar to how they play with and Hudson twice in 2003 and 2007 case, copyright holders, Nexon and 2007. Had.[4][5]

Mobile Crazy Arcade(M)

On the mobile! Crazy arcade BnB M! It is similar with original Crazy Arcade but has more skills.[6]

Reception

GameZone's Michael Splechta gave the game an 8/10, saying "PopTag! is a fun game that doesn't require players to invest a ton of time into it to enjoy themselves. It has fun modes that let players enjoy the game on their own, and short VS. matches that can get extremely competitive."

See also

References

  1. Initially licensed to DigiCell known as "瘋狂阿給之"彈"水阿給 . (translation: Crazy Arcade of Bomb and Bubble). 阿給 is a Japanese pronunciation (油揚げ、abura-age) for the Taiwanese famous Tanshi's night market tofu. Due to arcade pronunciation coincide with the term, Digicell decide to use the playon-acronym Crazy Arcade of "彈"水 / "淡"水 (bomb / Tanshi)'s 阿給. Unfortunately Digicell became defunctional in 2006 and authority was transferred to Gamemania and renamed to 爆爆王 (lit: Boom Online).
  2. 크레이지아케이드 : 지식백과 (in Korean). 100.naver.com. Retrieved 2014-08-06.
  3. "PopTag! Service Closing". Nexon America. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
  4. 허드슨과 한국 온라인 게임 업체 넥슨이 봄버맨의 라이센스 계약에 합의 http://www.hudson.co.jp/corp/news/bn2003/030402.pdf Archived 2005-08-16 at the Wayback Machine
  5. 넥슨 비엔비, 허드슨 상대로 승소http://www.thisisgame.com/board/view.php?id=75044&category=102
  6. "BnB M - Apps on Google Play". play.google.com. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
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