Line #26 VideoGame/SpinJam


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} Puzzled? You will be.]]]]
3	''Spin Jam'' is an {{Animesque}} BizarrePuzzleGame for the Platform/PlayStation, released in 2000 by Empire Interactive in both the US and Europe.
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5	You play as one of a RagtagBandOfMisfits on a [[ExcusePlot quest]] to kick the ass of [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne the others]] and earn the right to SaveTheWorld from the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter evil overlord from space]], [[FluffyTheTerrible Moolamb!]] [[SeriousBusiness By throwing bubbles at giant flowers.]]
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7	!!''Spin Jam'' Provides Examples Of:
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9	* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Gillybones the purple ankylosaur.
10	* {{Animesque}}: A European game that looks a lot like an {{Anime}}. It even had a promotional {{Manga}}!
11	* AnnouncerChatter: The most basic sort, but oddly endearing with the GreekChorus of children yelling it. "GET READY!" "YOU LOSE!" "YOU WIN!" You get a few more varied soundclips for EnemyChatter.
12	* AttractMode: A pretty neat [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_cAhHp4DK8 animated opening.]]
13	* BizarrePuzzleGame: A very loose variation of a MatchThreeGame. While Spin Jam has a match-three element, that ain't how you win levels. The three matched balls provide a force (of sorts) in a straight line that runs through the center spindle, which will cause affected balls to be shot away from the center and (hopefully) into matching-colored flower petals. Filling those petals is the ultimate goal.
14	** In a variant, 2 player mode makes all petals infinite and the goal is to [[ThatCameOutWrong ram as many balls into them as possible]], because after a few seconds they'll come back on the opponent's side, possibly [[OhCrap transformed into negative status effects.]] You can also unleash a LimitBreak when your gauge is full and have you character blast theirs for a temporary stun. The match is won when one side's field is so filled up it spills out of the flower-shaped playing field.
15	* BonusFeatureFailure: What do you get after toughing your way through the expert story mode? A Powerpoint-style slideshow of {{concept art\|Gallery}} set to the title theme music repeated 3 times, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYFmeYN1FwY here]].
16	** Double failure - those exact same pictures can ALSO be unlocked by beating the infinitely more brain-breakingly hard 100-round arcade mode with each character. [[SarcasmMode Yay, that was worthwhile.]]
17	* CallARabbitASmeerp / NonIndicativeName: Moolamb. Not a cow or a sheep, but a [[CartoonCreature red marshmallow]] that [[RuleOfCool rides around on a meteor.]]
18	* CharacterPortrait: Animated ones in the character select screen, taunting you compared to the [[OffModel sprites themselves...]]
19	* CriticalExistenceFailure: You can keep playing with a full field for hours as long as you keep blasting off bubbles before that very last grey one touches the center spindle, then BOOM! A character's defeat portrait can vary from merely [[InstantBandages being bandaged head to toe]] to [[DisproportionateRetribution having their robotic arms ripped off...]]
20	** Possibly justified, as the opening as well as the VersusCharacterSplash implies that the characters are actually fighting each other rather than popping petals. This can show that [[CuteBruiser they may be tougher than their innocent appearances let on.]]
21	* {{Cyborg}}: Wigsey. Even his hair is artificial!
22	** SwissArmyAppendage / PowerFist / RocketPunch
23	** BubbleGun: More useful version than usual- Wigsey's robot hands can create giant rubber bubbles that he rides around like space hoppers and tosses to crush foes.
24	* DefeatMeansPlayable: For [[FinalBoss Moolamb]]. And also, oddly enough, Baby, who's the starter character Babybot sans {{Mecha}} after you trashed it. [[OffModel And for some reason his face and skin color change slightly when he's a separate character.]]
25	* EternalEngine: Babybot's world.
26	* ExcusePlot: A red marshmallow is threatening the universe somehow. Throw colored balls at giant flowers to defeat him and beat up everyone that gets in your way!
27	* FloatingInABubble: Every character has a pic of them doing this and a random one appears on the title screen each time.
28	* FollowTheLeader: Interesting example in that it obviously jumped on the bandwagon of ''[[VideoGame/BubbleBobble Bust-A-Move]]'' by being a NintendoHard puzzle game with a cutesy cast and a 'bubble' theme but its gameplay is refreshingly unique. Nonetheless, this trope probably contributed to bad sales.
29	* GainaxEnding: Moolamb gets into a spaceship [[BiggerOnTheInside smaller than himself]]/[[TomatoSurprise was a hologram all along?]] Just roll with it, in any case you just unlocked him as a character.
30	* GoingThroughTheMotions: In the pre-fight mini scenes each character has one animation, combined with one of three IncrediblyLamePun BondOneLiner snippets of voice acting. In game they have a couple of idles, a panic animation and a super move- varied enough not to get grating even as you grind through the hundred level arcade mode.
31	* HurricaneOfPuns: Several examples, but [[PunnyName Lemondrop]] stands out:
32	-->''Here's a bitter taste of defeat for you!''
33	* ImprobableAge: Babybot, who's a baby in a mecha.
34	** TheEngineer
35	** GadgeteerGenius
36	* ImprobableWeaponUser: Poppy and lollipops. She can also ride one around like a witch's broom!
37	** SweetTooth: Poppy again. The manual says she wears boxing gloves to keep herself from eating her home planet.
38	** Lemondrop tosses the lemon tutu around her waist as her personal LimitBreak.
39	** Booger's own LimitBreak is to throw his carrots at his opponent.
40	* LethalLavaLand: Gilly's world.
41	* LevelAte: Lemondrop's world, which is filled with nothing but citrus fruit.
42	* MadLibsDialogue: As a result of the abovementioned EnemyChatter snippets- it's two random lines stuck together based on the character matchup and if you're lucky it'll half sound like a conversation.
43	* MegaNeko: [[FunnyAnimal Nips the cat.]]
44	* PinballScoring
45	* PiranhaProblem: Aqualad's adorable fish friends [[KillerRabbit turn out to be these]] when he summons them for his LimitBreak.
46	* PlantPerson: An unusual variation in Lemondrop, who's part human, part lemon.
47	* PowerUp: Quite a mixed bag!
48	** Color Bubble- Turns the bubbles it touches into the same color.
49	** [[StuffBlowingUp Grenade]] - Blows up a few bubbles.
50	** Rocket - Blows up all bubbles in a straight line down to the spindle.
51	** [[LimitBreak Grenade Spray]] - Your super move in single player mode: a huge storm of grenades all at once.
52	** Multiplier - One bubble that counts as many.
53	* PoisonMushroom: [[NintendoHard You'll see these more often.]]
54	** [[DiscardAndDraw Randomise]] - Changes color of every bubble on screen.
55	** [[InterfaceScrew Reverse]]: Reverses directional controls.
56	** Death Bubble: Turns nearby bubbles grey, thus setting off a virus-esque spread. You lose if they hit the center spindle.
57	** Bubble Bomb - A timer ticks down and at the end if you haven't go rid of it it pops open into a huge amount of extra bubbles.
58	** Freeze Bubble - [[StatusEffects Slows down]] the interface until dispelled.
59	** X-Bubble: A bubble that can't be launched into flower petals, only destroyed via Grenade/Rocket/Etc.
60	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Aqualad's fish [[KillerRabbit when they're not biting]], and the small lemon creature on Lemondrop's planet.
61	* SecretCharacter: FinalBoss Moolamb, Baby without [[PoweredArmor the bot]] and Innet, a [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Giant Butterfly Schoolgirl From Nowhere]].
62	* SpeakingSimlish: Booger.
63	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Lemondrop seems to be all over the place with this. The opening sequence calls her just that, while the manual turns the "drop" into a surname (Lemon Drop). Selecting her within the game itself simply calls her "Lemon".
64	* SugarBowl: Poppy's world is one with lollipops that are as tall as trees, to which she restrains herself from eating up by wearing boxing gloves.
65	* TakeThat: See the hard-to-reach ending video above. Can you spot Nips the cat eating [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu?]]
66	%%* UnderTheSea: Aqualad's world.
67	* VersusCharacterSplash: Which gives off the impression of a FightingGame as the characters look like they're about to beat the crap out of each other. This is more evident when the loser of match is shown in a portrait with bruises and bandages.
68	* VictoryPose: Done not only when a character wins, but also when they successfully pop a petal.
69	%%* VictoryQuote
70	%%* WingedHumanoid: Innet

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