Son Son (Game)

Son Son

GAME » on June 1984

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One of Capcom's earliest arcade games is an auto-scrolling action platformer loosely based on the Chinese classical novel Journey to the West. As either monkey boy SonSon or pig boy TonTon, venture forth while blasting away various baddies.

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Son Son is Capcom's tribute to a Chinese legend called Xiyou Ji, meaning 'Journey to the West', considered to be one of the four classic pieces of Chinese literature. The main character in Xiyou Ji is Sun Wukong (Character), or, when the words are pronounced as if they were Japanese kanji, Son Gokū. SonSon is said to be either the son or grandson of Son Gokū (hence the name SonSon).

All of SonSon's companions besidesTonTon (Character) (the equivalent of Zhū Bājiè) are snatched by a demon and it's up to the two of them to chase after the demon and rescue them. The game auto-scrolls with multiple platform "tiers" and the player must switch between them and attack incoming enemies with their weapon.

By switching tiers, the player can collect score food items. The food come in many varieties but two sizes; the higher scoring of the bigger foods will appear based on how many smaller food items were collected before it.

By collecting 8 big food items, a POW will appear, which will turn all enemies on-screen into large food.

Bamboo shoots also make an appearance as a collectable food item, but are unique in that they are uncovered by passing over specific patches of land, and there are only 64 of them in any given playthrough. The final collectable item is the Yashichi (Object), which is available after every fortress battle.

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