History VideoGame / Bug1995

* DifficultyByRegion: The Japanese version not only does away with the SaveGameLimits (and resets the continues every time you reload a save), it also adds more health and lives to Bug himself, more checkpoints in the levels, gives him more ammo for his sub-weapons, and adjusts the camera to automatically move to where Bug is facing, avoiding CameraScrew.

* ChekhovsVolcano: The volcano in Arachnia's background. [[spoiler: Bug pushes the defeated Queen Cadavra into it. And yes, it erupts as soon as she falls in.]]

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** The ants in Reptilia drop via flower parachutes, wear soldier hats, and fire out bouncy grenades. They're [[spoiler: Army Ants]].
** Splot has [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Bug_lightning_bug_1071.jpg insects]] that fire out a stream of electricity from a plug-like butt. They're [[spoiler: lightning bugs, aka fireflies]].
** Quaria has fishes that have the head of a bulldog and make growling noises. [[spoiler: They're dogfishes]].
** Also in Quaria, there are [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Bug_diving_beetle_2446.jpg swimming beetles]] which sport scuba equipment. [[spoiler: Diving beetles]].
** The Burrubs have [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Bug_snow_flea_6012.jpg annoying white fleas]] that jump out of the snow and throw (or roll) snowballs at Bug. They're [[spoiler: snow fleas]]. (then again, the [[AllThereInTheManual manual does tell you that they're called by that name]]).
** In Arachnia, you face flame-breathing ants. [[spoiler: Fire Ants]], indeed (the [[AllThereInTheManual manual also calls them that]]).

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* ExcitedShowTitle

* {{Studiopolis}}: The entire game is a movie.

* NeverTrustATrailer: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0eRHC0DnDY THIS]].

* FourFingerHands: The majority of the characters have four fingers.

* {{Studiopolis}}: ''Bug Too!'' is set in a film studio with an ExcusePlot to film six movies in one day. The levels are given {{Pun Based Title}}s based on different movies.

* GunsAkimbo: Used by the snail boss if you get too far away from him. Taken UpToEleven with Queen Cadavra and her machineguns in each leg!

* NiceHat: Daddy-o-longlegs has one.
** The snake enemies in Reptilia wear cowboy hats, and some will throw them at Bug like a boomerang.
** Ice bugs from The Burr-ubs wear Literature/TheCatInTheHat's hat. Yes, that red-and-white striped one.

* IncrediblyDurableEnemies: Some of the levels, most notably Splot, Quaria, The Burr-ubs and Arachnia. You know that there is a DifficultySpike when the regular Mooks you fight take three hits instead of one. And especially the machine-gunning snails in Splot- they take ''nine'', more than any other Mook in the game.

* ChainReactionDestruction: The first and third bosses (the giant snail and swamp worm) die like this. The snail can be justified as its shell serves as a helicopter bomber, but the swamp worm has no excuse.
* CharacterTitle: In-game as well- the Movie that Bug is starring in is called "Bug!"

* ALoadOfBull: Bull enemies appear in Lawrence of Arachnia 4 and 5.

* AquaticMook: Pretty much everything in [[UnderTheSea Quaria]].

''Bug!'' is played like a traditional side-scrolling adventure title, including the way to [[GoombaStomp defeat enemies by jumping on them]]. What sets Bug! apart is the game's 3D levels, which take the side-view and tweak it- it allowed players to move in all directions, but it did not allow movement along more than one axis at once — the player could move left to right, or forward and backward, but not diagonally left and backward at the same time.

!!This game provides examples of:

[[folder:Bug]]

[[folder:BUG Too!]]

Players can pick up two powerups to give Bug new forms of attack- the [[ShockAndAwe Zap Cap]] and the [[SuperSpit Spit Wad]]. You also collect [[LawOfOneHundred blue crystalline sugar cubes]] which help you qualify for a "[[PassThroughTheRings Dragon Ring Chase]]" [[BonusLevel bonus round]].

** Insectia has the Bees
** Reptilia has Kamikaze Cicadas
** Splot has Swamp Flies, Lightning Bugs

** Mantises- "Hiiii-yah!" (probably due to mantis Kung Fu?)
** Snakes- "Shish Kebab!"
** Weak crabs- "Howdy Crabcakes!"
** Dogfish- "Fish bait!"

** GoombaSpringboard: Required to get past certain areas, such as multiple flying enemies over a chasm.
* GrievousHarmWithABody [=/=] ShamuFu: Used by the octopus boss- he grabs and throws dogfish at you. You counter by [[TennisBoss using a tennis racket to bat them back at his head]].

** LifeMeter: A can of Bug Juice. It gets its sections greyed out as Bug's health depletes, and melts into a puddle when Bug dies.

* [[KillStreak Hit Streak]]: Every successful jump on enemies will [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8boh2TsnG0 give additional points]] (1 jump- 50, 2 jumps- 100, 3 jumps- 200, 4 jumps- 500, 5 or more- 1000)

** He's probably supposed to act like a LargeHam, after all, he is a movie star.

* LevelGoal: Bug Stops.

* StockNessMonster [=/=] [[SandWorm Swamp Worm]]: The [[http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/413988-bug-sega-saturn-screenshot-splot-boss.png boss]] of Splot.

* TakingYouWithMe [=/=] SuicideAttack: Sign in Reptilia: "Warning! Kamikaze Cicadas". They appear every time you walk on a wall, or when those signs appear, and are ''[[GoddamnedBats very annoying]]''.

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!!'''Tropes used for BUG Too!:'''

* CraniumRide: You get to do this in Antennae Day 4 Scene 3. On an alien bug with super jumping skills. And {{dual|Wielding}} {{Arm Cannon}}s. And you get to control it while fighting other bugs like it. Awesome, indeed.
** The music for that stage is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsPzFPlofrc awesome]], if not already very fitting.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNoWhere: The first level is based on horror movies, complete with ghosts, zombies and traps. The final boss however is a huge dragon !?.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Superfly.

* StealthPun:
** Flea-Wee's Big Adventure contain lions that are actually a cross between a bug with huge mandibles and a lion. In other words, they're Antlions.
** Swatterworld is full of punny enemies- sea monkeys (cross between a monkey and a fish), hammerhead sharks (a shark with a hammer on its head), and saw-nosed sharks (sharks with a chainsaw attached to their face).
* SuperDrowningSkills: Justified in Lawrence Of Arachnia- the water is infested with hungry swamp worms from the first game. Falling in will get you eaten.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: In Swatterworld.
* TacticalSuicideBoss: The alien boss of Antennae Day 4. To defeat it, you have to make it shoot at the pillars, causing them to break and crush him.

->"''This is the character! This is the character that is going to do it for Saturn.''"
-->-- '''Creator/StevenSpielberg''' at CES Jan 1995, in a temporary fit of madness

* AllDesertsHaveCacti: Reptilia has saguaro cacti as part of the landscape. Then again, Reptilia IS set in an Arizona-like desert, not a Sahara-like desert, so this trope is {{averted}}.

** Arachnia, the final level of the game, has fire ants appear as enemies. Much like army ants, fire ants also feature a VisualPun in their design; they use [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrowers]] to breathe fire and wear fireman helmets.
* ApologeticAttacker: One of the enemies in [[SwampsAreEvil Splot]] is a swamp bug that attacks by [[{{Fartillery}} farting]] at Bug's face! It then apologizes to Bug, saying stuff like "Sorry, just ate".

* [[BullfightBoss Bullfight]] {{Mook}}: One of the enemies in [[GreenHillZone Insectia]] is a Stag Beetle that tries to charge at Bug (see picture), changing directions if Bug jumps over.
* {{Cameo}}: VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog appears in Reptilia, once in a bonus level, and the second in a secret hard-to-reach area. If you turn on the cheat that makes Bug able to move anywhere, you can actually [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments move up to him and]] [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential kill him for the lolz]].

* CeilingCling: Bug can walk up vertical surfaces and walk on ceilings just fine. [[FridgeBrilliance Then again, so can most bugs in real life]].

* {{Fartillery}}: One of the enemies in [[SwampsAreEvil Splot]] will '''fart''' in Bug's face as an attack. It then [[ApologeticAttacker apologises to Bug for doing so]].

** Swamp bugs ''[[{{Fartillery}} fart]]'' at Bug's face.

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Regular death (Bug swoons and faints), getting squashed (by falling into a BottomlessPit or getting flattened), electrocuted (by a lightning bug), [[SuperDrowningSkills Drowning]] in swamp water, Frozen (by a bug with freezing breath), or burned (by lava or an ant's flamethrower). All of them come with the screen turning to black, leaving only Bug's death sequence.

** [[SwampsAreEvil Splot]] has snails that fire machine gun bullets at Bug.

* NonMammalMammaries: Bug's girlfriend (the one you rescue in Splot) is a clearly female bug with huge knockers. A sort of [[MultiArmedAndDangerous multi armed]] amazon enemy from the sequel also has these.

* SuperDrowningSkills: Played straight in the third level, [[SwampsAreEvil Splot]], where Bug dies if he even ''touches'' the water. And like lava in Arachnia, MercyInvincibility ''does not'' save you. Completely subverted in the following level, [[UnderTheSea Quaria]].

* SwampsAreEvil: Played Straight with Splot, the third [[ScrappyLevel level]]. The stages contain swamp water that [[SuperDrowningSkills kill Bug instantly if he falls into it]]. Enemies includec1 [[DemonicSpiders machinegun-toting snails]] that are MadeOfIron, swarms of [[GoddamnedBats mosquitoes]], [[PsychoElectro lightning]] [[DemonicSpiders bugs]] that fire a continuous stream of electricity (making it hard to jump on them), [[MookMaker bee-making flowers]], the above mentioned swamp bugs whose [[{{Fartillery}} flatulence]] home in on Bug, and of course, tons of frog enemies that will piss you off after a while. The boss, a [[SwampsAreEvil swamp]] [[SandWorm worm]], is ThatOneBoss.

* CraniumRide: You get to do this in Antennae Day 4 Scene 3. On an alien bug with super jumping skills. And [[DualWielding dual]] {{Arm Cannon}}s. And you get to control it while fighting other bugs like it. Awesome, indeed.

* BugBuzz: Certain grasshoppers in Insectia are capable of shooting sound waves from their legs, similar to how they make sounds in real life.

* CeilingCling [=/=] WallCrawl: Bug can walk up vertical surfaces and walk on ceilings just fine. [[FridgeBrilliance Then again, so can most bugs in real life]].

* TwoAndAHalfD: One of the most experimental takes.

** Insectia has the ever-annoying Bees

* VideoGameSettings:
** GreenHillZone: Insectia, the first level.
** ShiftingSandLand: Reptilia, the second level.
** BubblegloopSwamp [=/=] SwampsAreEvil: Splot, the third level.
** UnderTheSea: Quaria, the fourth level.
** SlippySlideyIceWorld: Burr-ubs, the fifth level.
** LethalLavaLand: The final level, Arachnia.
** BonusLevelOfHeaven [=/=] PassThroughTheRings: [[BonusLevel Dragonfly Bonus stage]].

* VideoGameSettings:
** BigBoosHaunt [=/=] BigFancyCastle: Weevil Dead 2
** {{Qurac}} [=/=] TempleOfDoom: Lawrence Of Arachnia
** SpaceZone [=/=] CoolStarship: Antennae Day 4
** CircusOfFear: Flea-Wee's Big Adventure
** UnderTheSea: Swatterworld
** {{Wackyland}} [=/=] MushroomSamba: Cicada Night Fever. The entire level is one big MindScrew, culminating with the smoking caterpillar from ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' as the boss. Only there's three of them this time.