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''Puggsy'' is a puzzle/adventure game released in 1993, published by Creator/{{Psygnosis}} and developed by Creator/TravellersTales. It was released for the [[Platform/SegaGenesis Sega Mega Drive/Genesis]], Platform/SegaCD and Platform/{{Amiga}}. The game follows the story of the titular orange space-hopper alien who crashed his ship on The Planet, but the ship was stolen by the native raccoons.

Although the story is made of ExcusePlot at best, ''Puggsy'' is notable for using a clever physics engine to control the properties of objects - a feature that would be rarely seen until the success of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''.
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!!This game provides examples of:

* BossArenaIdiocy: Played straight with Polly Pirate and Flour Power. Subverted with The Emperor's Old Clothes, where the buttons necessary to make projectiles fall on the boss leave you open for the boss's attacks as well, and So Pharaoh, So Good, where the buttons that shoot arrows at the boss also shoot them at you if you don't dodge them.
* CutsceneBoss: Downplayed with the guardian of Racrock Forge in the CD version. The fight plays out as an FMV, and you can't actually attack it, but you do need to avoid its attacks until the room floods.
* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: When you start the level after your first boss fight, the system searches for SRAM (a 27-digit password is used to store all progress). If you're playing on an Genesis emulator that has SRAM constantly enabled, it prevents you from proceeding. Of course, some emulators allow you to disable SRAM.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Shellfish, monkeys, starfish, [[ImplacableMan witches]], [[BearsAreBadNews grizzly/mining bears]], fish, raccoons... all members of the animal kingdom hate you and want to kill you. Except [[WhatTheHellHero frogs]] and [[BonusDungeon cabaret dancers]]. And that doesn't even consider the ''non-living'' things.
* GiantEnemyCrab: Herman the Hermit, the first boss in the Sega CD version, is a giant hermit crab.
* HailfirePeaks: Triple-word score. Fire Heart is a SlippySlideyIceWorld set on an active volcano, [[LethalLavaLand which you]] [[ConvectionSchmonvection eventually enter.]]
* HauntedCastle: Darkskull Castle, haunted by actual ghosts on one level.
* TheLostWoods: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Darkblade Forest]], home of extremely tenacious witches and flying candles.
* MinecartMadness: A strange example. In the Diamond Mine levels, minecarts travel back and forth along arbitrary tracks. One is required to solve a puzzle and another helps you reach a secret level, but they mostly just help you get to places quicker. Just watch out for minecart-riding mice.
* MultipleEndings: Some endings require some [[GuideDangIt abstract thinking]], and another requires correctly solving a few complicated equations.
* NoobCave: The Beach is definitely this, despite not being a cave. The first level is literally walk right, pick up a shell if you feel like it, jump, jump again, continue walking.
* NoNameGiven: The Darkskull Castle and Racrock Forge bosses never got any official name.
* OneHitPointWonder: Puggsy, unless he's wearing [[SprintShoes sneakers]] and/or shades, or using a shield.
* PuzzleBoss: Some of the bosses operate as such. For instance, on the Flour Power fight, you have to use levers to control a claw so that you can bring bags of flower up to a conveyor belt and make them fall on the boss's head.
* RecycledSoundtrack: Six tracks in the Sega CD version[[note]]Star Fall Lake, Redwood Keep, the Light House, Badger Mill, Aztec Temple, Racantis Docks[[/note]] were reused from the cancelled Platform/SuperNES version due to lack of production time to make a full soundtrack.
* ShoutOut:
** To obscure Psygnosis platformer ''VideoGame/WizNLiz'' in the SecretLevel ''Wabbit's World''.
** And another SecretLevel, [[Series/TheMuppetShow Puggs In Space]]
* TennisBoss: You beat the final boss by making his ReflectingLaser EyeBeams hit the floor and back towards his own face.
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