History VideoGame / AttackOfTheMutantPenguins

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''VideoGame/ToejamAndEarl''.

Developed by Sunrise Games and released for the UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar in 1995, ''Attack of the Mutant Penguins'' is one of the strangest video games on any system. (There was also a PC version simply titled ''Mutant Penguins''.)

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: The game has both good penguins and evil alien penguins.

[[caption-width-right:350:We've got aliens here, but not the [[VideoGame/ToejamAndEarl supremely funky homeboy]] type.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Because kids ''really'' like games that make no sense whatsoever...]]

* DoomsdayDevice/SelfDestructMechanism: The Doomscale, a giant scale for balancing penguins on. If it becomes unbalanced to the right, the game ends with an EarthShatteringKaboom.

* DoomsdayDevice: The Doomscale, a giant scale for balancing penguins on.

The game's premise is that evil green aliens from the distant galaxy of "Bleurgggh" have decide to invade the Earth having disguised themselves as penguins, since [[AliensStealCable watching wildlife documentaries]] left them with the impression that penguins were obviously the dominant species on Earth. Two Earth boys named Bernard and Rodney have to save the world from the alien penguins, by obtaining and wielding various weapons and building penguin-killing machines. Meanwhile, the mutant penguins are trying to trigger the Doomscale and destroy the Earth.

* {{Mutants}}: The mutant penguins of the title. They are heavier than the alien penguins and so make the Doomscale overload faster.

The game's premise is that evil green aliens from the distant galaxy of "Bleurgggh" have decide to invade the Earth having disguised themselves as penguins, since [[AliensStealCable watching wildlife documentaries]] left them with the impression that penguins were obviously the dominant species on Earth. Two Earth boys named Bernard and Rodney have to save the world from the alien penguins, by obtaining and wielding various weapons and building penguin-killing machines.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Some of the machines the players can use have names like "the Spike Shafter," "the Crusher," and the "Grabandsling."

* LiveItem: Gremlins.

Developed by Sunrise Games and released for the AtariJaguar in 1995, ''Attack of the Mutant Penguins'' is one of the strangest video games on any system. (There was also a PC version simply titled ''Mutant Penguins''.)

Interestingly, ''Mutant Penguins'' constitutes one of the first entries in the TowerDefense genre, long before the concept was popularized by StarCraft and WarCraft maps.

Developed by Sunrise Games and released for the AtariJaguar in 1995, ''Attack of the Mutant Penguins'' is one of the strangest video games on any system. Two Earth boys named Bernard and Rodney have to save the world from alien invaders from the distant galaxy of "Bleurgggh" disguised as penguins, by obtaining and wielding various weapons and building penguin-killing machines.

Developed by Sunrise Games and released for the AtariJaguar in 1995, ''Attack of the Mutant Penguins'' is one of the strangest video games on any system. Two Earth boys named Bernard and Rodney have to save the world from alien invaders from the galaxy of "Bleurrrgh" disguised as penguins, by obtaining and wielding various weapons and building penguin-killing machines.