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Zapper: One Wicked Cricket!

Zapper is a top-down hopping adventure featuring a cricket with the power to zap enemies. As Zapper, you traverse levels with the ultimate goal of saving your brother Zipper from the clutches of the thieving…

5 November 2002

Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! is an adventure, released 5 November 2002 on Game Boy Advance.

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What Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! is

Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! was released in 2002. It was published by Infogrames. It is available on Game Boy Advance only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

During a squabble over television, Zapper tries to use his brother Zipper (a grub) as a substitute TV antenna. Zipper is snatched away by an infamous thieving magpie, Maggie, who leaves an egg at the scene of the crime. Unfortunately, much to his dismay, Zapper sets off and determines to rescue his brother and turn Maggie into a jailbird. At the end of the game, Zapper gets Zipper back after defeating Maggie, and finally sets him up as a substitute TV antenna, just in time to watch TV by himself.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! launched on 5 November 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Metroid Fusion.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Metroid Fusion.

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When did Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! come out?
Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! was released on 5 November 2002 for Game Boy Advance.

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