History VideoGame / HarmfulPark

''Harmful Park'' (also known as ''Harmful Park: High-Brow Gag Pure Shooting'') is a 1997 HorizontalScrollingShooter made by Sky Think System, and a CuteEmUp UsefulNotes/PlayStation game in the vein of ''VideoGame/{{Parodius}}'' and ''VideoGame/BoogieWings''.

* PandaingToTheAudience: Subverted - this game has ''robot'' pandas as enemies who takes plenty of hits to destroy. They are however quite adorable.

The game's story takes place at a newly-opened AmusementPark known as Heartful Park, where two days after its grand opening, it's suddenly hijacked by its own creator, a MadScientist named Dr. Tequila, whose loyal minions invaded the park en masse while taking the innocent visitors hostage in the process. In due time, Dr. Tequila declares Hearful Park an independent nation and vows to wage war against the mainland in his first step towards [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]].

* FaceShip: One of the game's MiniBoss, a Boeing CH-47 Chinook choppper with a dog's face as design motif. The projectiles, for some baffling reason, are fired from it's rear end.

* TropicalIslandAdventure: One of the stages is set on the park's tropical island zone, with it's introductory cutscene featuring [[MischiefMakingMonkey a monkey stealing the players' lunch]]. Giving chase on their cycles, the players battles assorted enemies in a jungle-themed environment before leading to the seas where they fight a whale mecha boss.

* WeddingSmashers: One of the boss battles is set in a church, where a ''wedding'' is happening in the background while you fight the boss (a gigantic purple heart). You're not doing the crashing though - the bride and groom exchanging their vows are suddenly interrupted by the bride's boyfriend crashing in and the bride running away, and it quickly turns int a MeaningfulBackgroundEvent because the groom's OcularGushers and the many {{Heart Symbol}}s from the bride's smooching with her ex turns into projectiles that ''can hurt you''.

From what little plot there is in its backstory, a newly-opened theme park is suddenly hijacked by a MadScientist called Dr. Tequila, whose minions invaded the park en-masse, sabotaged the park's ride and turns the whole place berserk.


Two sisters working as elite agents - the player protagonists - hops on their mother's prototype hover-cycles, armed to the teeth with assorted weapons, and makes their way to the theme park to kick ass and stop Dr. Tequila's minions, whose ranks includes a mechanical stuffed dinosaur, a gigantic hippie woman, sentient constellations, giant robots shaped like koi flags, and all kinds of nonsensical oddities.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The two playable characters appears to fall under this archetype; the elder sister has spiky BoyishShortHair and spends the whole game in shirt and slacks, while the younger has long, flowing hair and wears a blouse with short skirt.

''Harmful Park'' (also known as ''[[TheForeignSubtitle Harmful Park: High-brow Gag and Pure Shooting]]'' in certain international releases) is a 1997 HorizontalScrollingShooter made by Sky Think System, and a CuteEmUp arcade game in the vein of ''VideoGame/{{Parodius}}'' and ''VideoGame/BoogieWings''.

From what little plot there is in it's backstory; a newly-opened theme park is suddenly hijacked by a MadScientist called Dr. Tequila, whose minions invaded the park en-masse, sabotaged the park's ride and turns the whole place berserk.

This game was Sky Think System's last output before it folded at the end of 1997. A limited release was given to the original UsefulNotes/PlayStation, where nowadays it's somewhat a collector's item due to obscurity.

* CoversAlwaysLie: If you can deduce this game to be a shump based on the cover art, congratulations on being psychic. The game's Playstation release depicts the title... written in chocolate syrup, on a pancake, on a dinnerplate. It tells nothing on what the game is about and doesn't exactly scream "arcade shooter!" at a glance...

* HoverBike: Unlike similar arcade games at the time, this one have you riding weaponized sky-cycles to shoot at stuff.

* WeddingSmashers: One of the boss battles is set in a church, where a ''wedding'' is happening in the background while you fight the boss (a gigantic purple heart). You're not doing the crashing though - the bride and groom exchanging their vows are suddenly interrupted by the bride's boyfriend crashing in and the bride running away, and it quickly turns int a MeaningfulBackgroundEvent because the groom's OcularGushers and the many {{Heart Symbol}}s from the bride's smooching with her ex turns into projectiles than ''can hurt you''(!!!).

From what little plot there is in it's backstory; a newly-opened theme park is suddenly hijacked by a MadScientist called Dr. Tequila, whose minions invaded the park en-masse, sabotaged the park's ride and turns the whole place berserk. Two sisters whom are elite agents - the player protagonists - hops on their mothers' prototype hover-cycles, armed to the teeth with assorted weapons, and makes their way to the theme park to kick ass and stop Dr. Tequila's minions, whose ranks includes a mechanical stuffed dinosaur, a gigantic hippie woman, sentient constellations, giant robots shaped like koi flags, and all kinds of nonsensical oddities.

''Harmful Park'' (also known as ''[[TheForeignSubtitle Harmful Park: High-brow Gag and Pure Shooting]]'' in certain international releases) is a 1997 HorizontalScrollingShooter made by Sky Think System, and a CuteEmUp arcade game in the vein of ''VideoGame/{{Parodius}}'' and ''VideoGame/BoogieWings''. And yes, the game's absolutely ''insane''.

Besides the main game, three mini-games - Punch-Ball, Sky Cirsuit and Tank Battle - are available as well.