Mr. Driller A: Fushigi na Pacteria

a.k.a. Mr. Driller Ace: Strange Bacteria

created and published by Namco in 2002-08-23, running on Game Boy Advance

type: puzzle
genre: Manga, Vertical platformer
series: Mr. Driller
perspective: side view
player options: single player, cable/nullmodem

languages: jpn

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Game description from Romhacking.net:

Ha hey, a Mr. Driller game. If you've played Mr. Driller before, you know what's up: drill multi-colored blocks in order to go further down, and when you reach the end you win. Whee. Mr. Driller Ace is a little different in that there's no timer. Your air supply doesn't slowly tick away; it only depletes when you drill through a block. Or when you get hit; then you lose a LOT of air. So, if you just drill down mindlessly like in the original game, you're going to die very quickly and get frustrated easily. So the point is to go about it slowly, and to think about what you do next. If thinking games make you start grunting and screaming and throwing things, this is not your game. Before you start the game, there's this weird little creature-raising Tamagotchi kind of game that you have to play for a bit. Pretty damn crazy.

Incomplete unofficial English translation available:
www.romhacking.net/