History VideoGame / SPISPOPD

* DropTheHammer: Bouapha's main weapon in all games is a ranged hammer shot. ''Dr. Lunatic'' and ''Supreme'' add [=MechaBouapha=] and Evil Clone, who also attack using ranged hammer shots.

** Bouapha and his [[DropTheHammer red hammers]], which are efficient for both melee and range combat.

* NoPlotNoProblem: ''Supreme''. The story is still there, but defeating the enemies is now an optional extra.

* FiveManBand: In ''Dr. Lunatic'', the following are also the game's bosses.
** BigBad: Dr. Lunatic (who [[spoiler:has a OneWingedAngel form he turns into when someone dares kill him]])
** TheBrute: Sphinxter
** TheDragon: The Thing (since it's Hamumu Software's take on ancient Lovecraftian beasts)
** DarkChick: Matilda, who is known as the Queen of Chaos.
*** SixthRanger: ''Supreme'' adds [[spoiler:Dozer the Dozerian as a BonusBoss]] in the same world where Matilda has to be fought.
** TerribleTrio: The Yeti Bros. Sven, Bjorn, and Olaf (who qualify as a sort of QuirkyMinibossSquad)

* NoPlotNoProblem: ''Supreme''. The story is still there, but defeating the FiveManBand is now an optional extra.

* ZeroEffortBoss: [[spoiler:Dr. Lunatic - the ''final boss'' -]] subverts this. As himself, he has no attack, very little life and runs from you if you get too close to him. However, [[spoiler:he is also [[ClassicVideoGameScrewYous hard-coded]] to revive as the [[ClimaxBoss Super Duper Zombie]]]] the moment you defeat him.

* WeaponOfChoice: Bouapha and his [[DropTheHammer red hammers]], which are efficient for both melee and range combat.

* EveryCarIsAPinto: Autozoids and Traffic. Both have [[ChainReactionDestruction a quite deadly explosion sequence]] when they are defeated.

* SphereOfDestruction: The Mines' Rage attack in ''Supreme''. An expanding ''[[ChainReactionDestruction ring chain]]'' of explosions from the player makes it one of the most powerful Rage attacks in the game.

The ''SPISPOPD'' series has played an important role in Hamumu Software culture. ''Dr. Lunatic'''s art style and game mechanics, in particular, influenced the look and feel of every Hamumu Software game released until ''Costume Party'' and, to a large extent, defined Hamumu Software as the company that it was until the game's programming code was retired in 2008.

Has nothing to do with ''Music/TheSmashingPumpkins''

On September 18, 2003, a complete overhaul of ''Dr. Lunatic'', titled ''Dr. Lunatic Supreme With Cheese'', was released. ''Supreme'' radically altered the user interface of ''Dr. Lunatic'', with its primary claims to fame being the over-1000 levels a standard install of it has, a ton of UnlockableContent and an extremely easy to use [[LevelEditor World Editor]] that allows players to create their own levels ([[YouHaveResearchedBreathing once they have unlocked it]]). Just like ''Dr. Lunatic'', ''Supreme'' received an UpdatedRerelease in May 2012. ''Supreme'' was released as a free game on October 13, 2017 on [[https://hamumu.itch.io/dr-lunatic-supreme-with-cheese itch.io]].

''SPISPOPD'' (or ''Smashing Pumpkins into Small Piles of Putrid Debris'') is an ActionAdventure PuzzleGame series developed and published by indie developer Creator/HamumuSoftware that started in 1993 with the game of the same name.

The first game of the series, ''SPISPOPD'', was made in 1993 in response to an old VideoGame/{{Doom}} joke revolving around how that game's title caused so much anticipation. ''SPISPOPD'' followed the story of Bouapha the Gourdslayer as he travelled around Pumpkinia to retrieve stolen candles and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin smash the pumpkins responsible for stealing them]].

See also the VideoGame/AdventuresOfBouapha games.

* ThreeQuartersView: ''Dr. Lunatic'' and ''Supreme''.

* MythologyGag: The very presence of pumpkins as monsters, usually in secret levels, in ''Dr. Lunatic'' and ''Supreme'', as well as candle collection being a secondary objective in the latter. In addition, one of the SPISPOPD keychains is a rocket, Bouapha's form of transport to the next level in the first game.

** BigBad: Dr. Lunatic (who goes OneWingedAngel on any poor sap that [[WhoDares dares kill him]], preferably in the form of a Super Duper Zombie)

* ZeroEffortBoss: Dr. Lunatic subverts this. As himself, he has no attack, very little life and runs from you if you get too close to him. However, [[spoiler:he is also [[ClassicVideoGameScrewYous hard-coded]] to revive as the [[ClimaxBoss Super Duper Zombie]]]] the moment you defeat him.

** {{Subverted|Trope}} when [[spoiler:Dr. Lunatic]] pleas you to spare his life. "Please don't kill me!"

* NeverSayDie: The final world in ''SPISPOPD'', H***. In addition, whenever the player's health reaches 0 in ''Supreme'', the Record Book adds it to the number of ''"Defeats"'' for that profile.

* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:The eponymous Dr. Lunatic]], one of the very few characters to have voice acting, runs away and exclaims "Please don't kill me!" as his health drops. [[spoiler:[[OneWingedAngel Considering what happens when you do kill him, though...]]

* CarFu: Using a You-Go to run over various monsters ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' style in ''Supreme''.

* ZeroEffortBoss: Dr. Lunatic subverts this. As himself, he has no attack, very little life and runs from you if you get too close to him. However, he is also [[ClassicVideoGameScrewYous hard-coded]] to revive as [[spoiler:the [[ClimaxBoss Super Duper Zombie]]]] the moment you defeat him.

* TwoAndAHalfD: ''Dr. Lunatic'' and ''Supreme''. The monsters, characters and projectiles are full 3D models, but the floor textures and walls are made of 2D sprites, the game is played from a fixed overhead view, and Bouapha can only be controlled in the compass directions (although he can be bounced into the air in ''Supreme'' if he steps on tiles with the correct parameters).

* CarFu: Using your You-Go to run over various monsters ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' style in ''Supreme''.

* DeathCryEcho: The player character, of course, but many of the other monsters give off a unique sound when they are defeated. Boss monsters just [[DefeatEqualsExplosion explode a lot]].
* DeathRay: The Death Beam in ''Dr. Lunatic'' and ''Supreme'', which is used primarily by Richie Lich and Matilda. It is so strong, it can annihilate the player twice over with one shot.

* DoubleUnlock: After you unlock the Cheat Menu, it's revealed that you also have to unlock its individual cheats.
* DropTheHammer: '''Hammer Up!'''

* FiveBadBand: In ''Dr. Lunatic'', the following are also the game's bosses.

* GameBreakingBug: One version of the first game was missing a teleporter in one of the final stages. Because of that, the only path onward led to the only teleporter on a given level, which crashes the game via an infinite loop to find the destination.
* GameWithinAGame: The [=SpisMall=] in ''Supreme'' has a couple of arcade game machines that the player can spend coins to play with.
** These arcade games aren't just a fun distraction, they can also earn you some extra money if you're at all decent at them. Due to their simple, but addictive nature, and the fact that they can make you some money, you very well may end up SidetrackedByTheGoldSaucer.
** There's also the unlockable quiz show ''Who Doesn't Want to Be a Moron?'' It plays much like [=SPISPOPD=] Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire without lifelines or dramatic lighting.

* HarderThanHard: ''Supreme''. When cranked up to Lunatic difficulty, that is.

* HubLevel: The entire series' level structure. The original release of ''SPISPOPD'' featured a "hub world" where the player could choose which series of levels to play, and both ''Dr. Lunatic'' and ''Supreme'' start the player off on a "hub level" in any world, where they can enter other levels through doors/houses/openings/hollow trees/etc. Taking this to a T is that starting the player off on a hub level when they first enter a world is a ''requirement'' for any player-made world to be hosted on Hamumu's website.

* LethalLavaLand: Any cavern themed world/level is guaranteed to be this.

* MetalSlime: Mad Millennium Bug in ''Supreme''.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: The Death Turret in ''Supreme''. Anything that gets within half a screen's range to just one of these is unlikely to survive the barrage of missiles it unloads relentlessly. The Missile Pack's Rage attack also qualifies, and the player can do this with a Missile Pack just by holding down the secondary fire button.
* MadeOfIron: The Roly Poly. WordOfGod states that this rolling dirt ball is virtually immune to conventional weapons due to it having 2000 life.

* MadeOfExplodium: The Boomkin is the living embodiment of this trope. It has 1 HP, and when it sees the player, it will relentlessly charge them and attempt a TakingYouWithMe collision. If it is defeated by getting hit from weapons fire, it will still explode and damage the player if they are too close to it.

* MoreDakka: The AK-8087 in ''Dr. Lunatic'' and ''Supreme''. 99 rounds of energy slugs that do one HP damage each, completely expended after holding down the secondary fire button for about five seconds. Have fun.

** ''Supreme'' plays this straight with its Cheat Menu. Apart from spending 500 coins just to unlock it, the menu starts off completely empty; you need to spend additional coins to unlock each individual cheat in the menu. In addition, once you use a cheat in a level, the results screen that appears upon completing it has a few subtle changes [[YouBastard calling you out]] for cheating through a level, as well as awarding you no coins or points for completing it. The trope then gets downplayed because the game still considers the level to be completed and does not stop the player from retrying the entire level without cheating.
* NoPlotNoProblem: ''Supreme''. The story is still there, but defeating the FiveBadBand is now an optional extra.

* OneHitPointWonder: Ludicrous Mode in ''Supreme'', which causes the player character to die from ''any'' hit, even from an Eensy Weensy's ScratchDamage.
* OneHitPolykill: The Toaster in ''Dr. Lunatic'' and ''Supreme''. When the secondary fire button is held down, it releases a stream of napalm that will burn through every enemy within its short range. Coupling it with an Ammo Crate in ''Supreme'' makes it one of the most dangerous short-ranged weapons the player can get in the games.
* OutsideTheBoxTactic: The Dark Vampire in ''Dr. Lunatic'' and ''Supreme'' can only be damaged [[spoiler:if you coax it onto tiles with a light setting higher than or equal a specific amount or via telefragging]]. It is otherwise impervious to everything.

* PurelyAestheticGender: Averted in ''Supreme'' with Lunachick, Dr. Lunatic, Shtupid Shroom and Happy Stick Man.

* ScratchDamage: The Eensy Weensy only has one attack, which does 1 HP damage.
* SetAMookToKillAMook: The Mind Control Ray in ''Supreme''. It only has one round of ammunition, but for a full minute or until it dies, an enemy that is hit by it will be invulnerable to the player's attacks and will go to town on other enemies it sees.

** SuperNotDrowningSkills: However, in ''Supreme'', the player character can also survive underwater for about 45 seconds without air and stay underwater ''indefinitely'' if they are standing near [[OxygenatedUnderwaterBubbles air bubbles]]. In addition, if the player runs out of air underwater, they don't die immediately, but their health bar will go down ''very'' fast.

* TurnsRed: Matilda in both ''Dr. Lunatic'' and ''Supreme''. [[spoiler:Her head must be destroyed three times. On the second round, her head's protective hide falls off, allowing her to fire her Death Beam faster; at the same time, her tail projectiles have a slightly increased effective range. On the final round, her skull and mouth are blasted away, rendering her unable to fire her Death Beam, but causing her tail projectiles to have an ''insane'' range that makes close-up attacks near-suicidal.]] In ''Supreme'', Dozer the Dozerian's front grille gets blown off when it is down to half of its maximum health, [[spoiler:revealing a gigantic WaveMotionGun]].

* ViolationOfCommonSense: Some of the Gallery Goals require the player to do this. [[spoiler:Drowning with an Energy Barrier active, for instance, or walking unarmed into a crowded animal enclosure to touch a star at the far end.]]

* ZeroEffortBoss: A villainous example in the form of the eponymous character in ''Dr. Lunatic'' and ''Supreme''. He has no attacks, very little life and runs from the player.
** [[spoiler:OneWingedAngel: He is also [[ClassicVideoGameScrewYous hard-coded]] to revive as the [[ClimaxBoss Super Duper Zombie]] the moment you defeat him.]]