History VideoGame / TastyPlanet

* WombLevel: During the tutorial levels of the first game, the grey goo bites one of the scientists and spends a level in his bloodstream.

''Tasty Planet'' is a 2006 video game developed by Dingo Games, which is similar to the ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'' line, but with GreyGoo instead of the Katamari ball. You begin as a micrometer-sized bit of experimental gooey grey bathroom cleaner created by a pair of scientists, eating tiny dust particles, but get free, and continue consuming, growing to eat mice, people, buildings, asteroids, [[PlanetEater the Earth]], ''stars'', a [[SerialEscalation black hole, the entire universe, and finally SPACE AND TIME ITSELF]].

* ProtectionMission: In the sequel, you ''allegedly'' have one of these in the "Fall of Rome" era, where you're supposed to protect five Ballistas from Roman Gladiators until you can eat them. But really, all you need is to maximize your meter. Even in you fail to protect them, it's still possible (though not easy) to win even in Timed Mode.

All games are available on [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, as well as on [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS]] and {{UsefulNotes/Android|Games}}.

* MarathonLevel: The 3 Endurance levels, the last of which requires 1 hour of concentration to beat.

* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: Lampshaded by the scientists.

** The first game starts with you eating specks of dirt, and ends with you eating the fabric of time itself. [[spoiler:Then you explode, becoming a new Big Bang and birthing a new universe]].

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The game spawned a series of sequels and [[spin-offs SpinOff]]:

''Tasty Planet'' is a 2006 video game developed by Dingo Games, which is similar to the ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'' line, but with GreyGoo instead of the Katamari ball. You begin as a micrometer-sized bit of experimental GreyGoo bathroom cleaner created by a pair of scientists, eating tiny dust particles, but get free, and continue consuming, growing to eat mice, people, buildings, asteroids, [[PlanetEater the Earth]], ''stars'', a [[SerialEscalation black hole, the entire universe, and finally SPACE AND TIME ITSELF]].

* AdaptationalJobChange: ''Forever'' features the scientists working at a restaurant in Paris, with the older one sending out the robotic Parsian Cat (the first character you play as) in the first world's opening cutscene.

** In ''Forever'', the scientists screw up once again with the experimental Parsian Cat, whom the older one had sent out with the intention of cleaning the restaurant they were working at in a similar manner to the Grey Goo. At least the Parsian Cat seems fine with only eating the entirety of Paris.

* GoneHorriblyRight: A pair of scientists create a GreyGoo designed to eat dirt for use as a bathroom cleaner. Indeed, it eats dirt. All kinds of dirt. [[PlanetEater You think they noticed the planet we live on is named "Earth"?]]

The game spawned a series of sequels and spin-offs:

* GoneHorriblyRight: A pair of scientists create a GreyGoo designed to eat dirt for use as a bathroom cleaner. Indeed, it eats dirt. All kinds of dirt. [[PlanetEater You think they noticed the planet we live on is named "Earth"...?]]

* GoneHorriblyRight

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The goo is supposed to be able to eat anything smaller than itself, but sometimes what it ''can'' eat makes little sense. For example, it can eat ''entire sharks'' when it's less than a meter in diameter.
** In the second game, the size you can eat something at is determined from what it looks like from the top down. Thus, you can eat humans at 35cm.

A condensed flash version of the first game can be found [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/dingogames/tasty-planet here]]. A flash version of ''Back in Seconds'', titled ''Tasty Planet: Dinotime'', can be found [[https://www.kongregate.com/games/dingogames/tasty-planet-dinotime here]].

* ClownCarBase: In some Japan levels in the sequel, Ninjas come out of a Cherry Blossom Tree.

* SparedByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Tasty Blue has the two scientists (who were eaten when the Grey Goo swallowed Earth in the first two games) being the only humans to survive the Nano-Shark's rampaging diet.]]

* AdaptationalJobChange: ''Forever'' features the scientists working at a restaurant in Paris, with the older one sending out the robotic cat in the first world's opening cutscene.

* AdaptationalJobChange: ''Forever'' features the scientists working at a restaurant in Paris, with the older one sending out the experimental cat in the first world's opening cutscene.

A condensed flash version of the first game can be found [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/dingogames/tasty-planet here]].

* ProtectionMission: In the sequel, you ''allegedly'' have one of these in the Roman era, where you're supposed to protect five Ballistas from Roman Gladiators until you can eat them. But really, all you need is to maximize your meter. Even in you fail to protect them, it's still possible (though not easy) to win even in Timed Mode.

* ResetButton: ''Back for Seconds'' starts off with the same scientists inventing the same GreyGoo, but this time it's just something the elderly scientist made out of boredom. [[spoiler: Presumably, this is in the new multiverse.]]

* TimedMission: In the sequel, providing more of a challenge.

* ProtectionMission: In the sequel, you ''allegedly'' have one of these in the Roman series of missions, where you're supposed to protect five Ballistas from Roman Gladiators until you can eat them. But really, all you need is to maximize your meter. Even in you fail to protect them, it's still possible (though not easy) to win even in Timed Mode.

''Tasty Planet'' is a 2006 video game by Dingo Games, which is similar to the ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'' line, but with GreyGoo instead of the Katamari ball. You begin as a micrometer-sized bit of experimental GreyGoo bathroom cleaner, eating tiny dust particles, but get free, and continue consuming, growing to eat mice, people, buildings, asteroids, [[PlanetEater the Earth]], ''stars'', a [[SerialEscalation black hole, the entire universe, and finally SPACE AND TIME ITSELF]].

In 2010, the sequel ''Tasty Planet: Back for Seconds'' has come out, in which our protagonist can time travel. It also features multipart levels, which means once you reach a certain size, the game zooms out to reveal a bigger scene, and you find yourself small again with new things to eat.

Then a spin-off is made in the name of ''Tasty Blue'' where you play as a fish, a dolphin, and a shark. The gameplay and features are still similar with the second game.

A demo version can be found [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/dingogames/tasty-planet here]]

More recently, another game in the series came out, called ''Tasty Planet Forever''. This one consists of multiple parts, each with its own protagonist (including the Goo). The parts are about ten levels each, plus a similar amount of bonus levels.

!!This game includes examples of:

* AllTheWorldsAreAStage: In ''Back for Seconds'', the last level in each time period is a concatenation of multiple levels from that period, with an added twist ending.
* AntiFrustrationFeatures: ''Back for Seconds,'' as well as the mobile version of the first game, made it so that getting actually eaten is extremely unlikely, and in the latter, any entities that ''could'' eat you were changed to simply make you shrink, whereas in the PC version of the first game, some entities that are larger than you can actually eat you and cause the level to fail.

* BrainInAJar: The Professor and assistant become these to survive until the blob appears in the future.

* SerialEscalation

* SparedByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Tasty Blue has the scientist and his assistant being the only humans to survive the shark's rampaging diet.]]

''Tasty Planet'' is a 2006 video game by Dingo Games, which is similar to the ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'' line, but with GreyGoo instead of the Katamari ball. You begin as a micrometer-sized bit of experimental GreyGoo bathroom cleaner, eating tiny dust particles, but get free, and continue consuming, growing to eat mice, people, buildings, asteroids, [[PlanetEater the Earth]], ''stars'', a [[SerialEscalation black hole, the entire universe, and finally SPACE AND TIME ITSELF]]. Though it pretty much TastesLikeDiabetes.

* WorldTurtle: The final level of ''Back for Seconds'' has the Grey Goo [[spoiler:devouring all the World Turtles holding up the universe before imploding into a new one.]]