Line #11 VideoGame/DancingMonster

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1	[[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dancingmonster.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:260:Let's boogie.]]
3	''Dancing Monster'' is a 1983 game for Platform/Commodore64 created by Peter Dekany and Denes Baan. In it, you have to shoot at designated parts of the titular monster.
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5	You can see it and all its weirdness [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSl1Io_y6uw here]].
6	!!Game provides examples of:
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8	* [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation Amazing Technicolor Person]]: The Princess is still purple after being returned to her proper form.
9	* AttackItsWeakPoint: The top-left corner of the screen specifies a body part you must shoot. Hitting the monster anywhere else does nothing.
10	* CompilationRerelease: ''Fantasy Five'', which includes this game, ''VideoGame/BuffaloRoundup'', ''VideoGame/SaveMeBraveKnight'', ''VideoGame/PhotonReflection'', and ''VideoGame/SpatialBilliards''.
11	* {{Curse}}: The princess has two of them: to [[ForcedTransformation be an ugly monster]], and [[InvoluntaryDance dance forever.]]
12	* DifficultyByAcceleration: The game speed can be adjusted on the title screen. Since the whole point of the game is to hit a moving target, faster speed means a higher difficulty.
13	* ExcusePlot: A princess has been cursed to be a monsters that will dance for eternity, and you have to shoot at her body parts to change her back. You don't find out about it until you've shot all parts though, and even then there's little to go on.
14	* ForcedTransformation: The monster is a transformed princess.
15	* HealingFactor: The monster will regenerate its lost body parts if you miss too many shots.
16	* InvoluntaryDance: The monster is forced to dance, making it hard to hit its weak points.
17	* OurMonstersAreWeird: The titular monster is a purple, elephant-like monster with curved horns, a rat's tail, big ears and a trunk, and finally a long cyan tongue. [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Oh, and it wears pants with a belt]].
18	* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Edvard Grieg's ''In the Hall of the Mountain King'', albeit with a different rhythm.
19	* ShowsDamage: The monster's body parts disappear as you shoot them.

Context VideoGame / DancingMonster