History VideoGame / TheNewzealandStory

* DifficultyByRegion: If playing in the arcade, there are three major versions. The original version starts easy, the newer version rearranges the initial stages to make them a bit more challenging (but still fair), and a harder version puts the player in immediate danger in 1-1, and scatters spikes throughout the maps. Most console ports are based on the original version, thus preventing any worry.

* DifficultyByRegion: If playing in the arcade, there are three major versions. The initial Japanese version starts easy, the newer World version rearranges the initial stages to make them a bit more challenging (but still fair), but the older World version puts the player in immediate danger in 1-1, and scatters spikes throughout the maps. Most console ports are based on the original Japanese version, thus preventing any worry.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Tiki looks ''nothing'' like a real kiwi bird. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d when in the background there are posters with the silhouette of a real kiwi.

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* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Not really. But they are purple and ride duck-shaped balloons.

* ClassicVideoGameScrewYous: Applies only to one arcade edition. In this one, there are many enemies in the starting area of 1-1, and you have massive arrays of spikes upto 1-4 (possibly further). It's also possible to jump into a small room where the only option is to look for a hidden warp gate.

* AmusingInjuries: If Tiki gets killed by an enemy projectile such as a rock or a hatchet, it will remain embedded in its head. Even when he goes to Heaven...
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Tiki looks ''nothing'' like a real kiwi bird. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when in the background there are posters with the silhouette of a real kiwi. RuleOfCute, perhaps?
** Or perhaps they mean "Kiwi" as in "Native person of New Zealand" and NOT "The bird that is one of the most famous things in the country".

* CartoonBomb: One of Tiki's weapons.

* DamselInDistress: Phee-Phee.

* EveryTenThousandPoints: One of the methods to gain an extra life. The other one is a shout out to VideoGame/BubbleBobble (see below).

* GiantSpider: One boss in the remake. How boring.
* HailfirePeaks: Mt. Cook, the last area of the game.

* InvincibilityPowerUp: The potion item.
* KillItThroughItsStomach: The ice whale boss.
* MarketBasedTitle: The American NES release of the game was titled ''Kiwi Kraze''

* MonstrousSeal: Wally the leopard seal.

* OneHitPointWonder
* OxygenMeter: Every time Tiki goes underwater.

* SmartBomb: The book item.

* TimeStandsStill: The pocketwatch item.

* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Wally the leopard seal is much bigger than the kiwis (and, ya know, a ''leopard seal''), and plans to keep Phee-Phee all for himself. [[{{Squick}} Shudder]].

* SpiritualSuccessor: Another Taito platformer named ''Liquid Kids'' (''Mizubaku Adventure'' in Japan). Both of them feature cutesy animals trying to rescue their many relatives in every level, enemies that pop up from randomly appearing portals, warps to other levels that appear if you shoot into empty corners of the levels,and so on. They both share the same font for in-game messages!

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: One enemy is a punk teddy bear with a mohawk that gives you the finger. Or is it picking its nose?!?
** In some copies of the Amiga version, the code for level skipping and unlimited lives was MOTHERFUCKENKIWIBASTARDS, meaning if kids wanted to cheat they'd need to ask an adult who knew the code to enter it for them. In other copies the code was FLUFFYKIWIS.

''The [=NewZealand=] Story'' is a 1988 UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame by Creator/{{Taito}}. The [[ExcusePlot story]] goes as such: Wally, a leopard seal, kidnapped all but one of the kiwis from UsefulNotes/{{Auckland}}'s Zoo, including Phee-Phee, the girlfriend of Tiki (the one who managed to escape). He's selling his friends to various zoos throughout the country. Armed only with a bow and arrows, Tiki goes to the rescue!

* AwesomeYetPractical: The UFO, one of the vehicles you can hijack and ride. Unaffected by gravity unlike the other vehicles, almost indestructible, very fast, and carries a mean laser gun whose beam is longer than the screen!