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Baku Baku

The player must line up falling blocks of animals and foodstuffs. When an animal is aligned adjacent to a tile of its favoured food, the animal eats the food. Larger groups of connected food of the same type…

70 1 April 1995 ESRB T

Baku Baku is an arcade developed by Sega AM3, released 1 April 1995 on Sega Saturn, Arcade and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Baku Baku is

Baku Baku is an arcade game developed by Sega AM3 and released in 1995. It was published by Sega Enterprises, Ltd.. It is available on Sega Saturn, Arcade and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The player must line up falling blocks of animals and foodstuffs. When an animal is aligned adjacent to a tile of its favoured food, the animal eats the food. Larger groups of connected food of the same type scores higher when eaten. When animals eat foodstuffs, they also make random blocks fall on the opponent's area, right after the currently falling blocks. The object of the game is to make one's opponent not be able to place more blocks.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Baku Baku holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 35% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 4 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Baku Baku launched on 1 April 1995, within three weeks of Chrono Trigger, Discworld, Mortal Kombat 3 and Gex. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Chrono Trigger, Discworld, Mortal Kombat 3, Gex.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Quick answers

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When did Baku Baku come out?
Baku Baku was released on 1 April 1995 for Sega Saturn, Arcade and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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