Mischief Makers
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Mischief Makers (or Yuke Yuke! Troublemakers in Japan) is a side-scrolling 2D platform/puzzle video game developed by Treasure, and published by Enix (in Japan) and Nintendo (in America) for the N64 released in 1997. The games protagonist is the Ultra-Intergalactic-Cybot G Marina Liteyears who is a robotic maid of the absent-minded Professor Theo, a seemingly perverted old man. It hints on this throughout the game. Marina knows it too.
Story
While visiting the planet Clancer, Prof Theo gets kidnapped by "the empire" while Marina is out scouting. Upon realizing Theo's abduction she sets out to rescue him.
Marina procedes to travel through over 100 levels on Planet Clancer to find her master. Every person, animal, and even inanimate object on the planet has an identical face, and often a name that uses the word "Clancer" in it. Along the way Marina's attempts to rescue the professor are impeded by agents of the Empire.
Sales
The game was at its time (and is still?) Treasure's most sold game ever despite it having such a "Japanese" feel to it and the fact that it was released at the time when 3D graphics were replacing 2D completely -- at least outside of Japan.
External links
- Mischief Makers FAQs at Gamefaqs (http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/game/20154.html)