Koala Lumpur: Journey To The Edge is software company Brøderbund's first comedy adventure video game developed by Media Concrete with association of Colossal Pictures, released for the PC in 1997. The name of the lead character is a pun on Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.
The story follows the misadventures of the titular Koala Lumpur, an aspiring buddhist seeking to become a Guru and reach total enlightment. Through the course of his endeavor he mistakenly utters a mystic incantation from a mysterious scroll accidentally opening a portal to the netherworld. In there a nigh-omnipotent malevolent entity is trapped which threatens to causa a comedy apocalypse to the entire universe. Worry not though, another benevolent nigh-omnipotent entity charges Koala with a mission to find all pieces of the lost scroll which will close portal and save the universe. Thus begins his goofy adventure.
Joining Koala on his journey is his trusty old pal Dr. Dingo Tu-far - a bumbling inventor and overenthusiastic Omnidisciplinary Scientist who is severely skeptical to anything spiritual as well as being rather hot-blooded and a fly familiar named Fly.
Which trope will we search at next?
- A Dog Named "Dog": Koala isn't very creative with names so when he conjures a familiar, which turns out to be a regular domestic fly, he simply names them Fly.
- Amusing Injuries: The protagonists go through a lot of slapstick for the sake of funny. Every other moment they're thrown face-first on the ground or blasted to ashes.
- Bag of Holding: Koala stores all items in his extra-dimensional fez.
- Check, Please!: Dingo exclaims this phrase as a reaction to the fortune teller automaton's Ice-Cream Koan.
- Child Prodigy: Annie Body singlehandedly built a massive space station chock full of advanced technology and flying drones.
- Cool Ship: Koala's ship looks like a comedic cross between an armadilo and aardwark with a big goofy grin.
- Dragged into Drag: For her twisted amusement Annie Body dresses up Dingo in a stereotypical girlish dress.
- Hot-Blooded: Dingo doesn't go tu-far to draw his sidearms on whover riles him up.
- Stock Sound Effects:
- Annie's rabbit drones fly around with the stereotypical whirring noise found in many Raygun Gothic Zeerust settings.
- Teleport Spam: Annie Body doesn't like walking around her space station too much. So she just teleports herself everywhere.
- Visual Pun: Dingo's brain requires literal marbles to work properly. Thus when he loses them...
- X-Ray Sparks: Annie Body's rabbit exosuit zaping Dingo briefly reveals his skeleton.
- Your Head Asplode: Dingo's head top blows every time he suffers a mental breakdown.
