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1* AdaptationDisplacement: The Amiga version is much more well known than the original Archimedes version, most likely due to the former being a more popular platform overall.
2* {{Anvilicious}}: The game's manual isn't at all subtle about its [[AnAesop Aesop]]; The environment is in danger, and we need to stop people from destroying it. That said, the game itself is the exact opposite, with very few hints towards its aesop.
3* BileFascination: The main reason people play this game is to check [[SensoryAbuse how long their eyes can handle its graphics]].
4* FridgeHorror: [[spoiler:The sound effect upon beating the game is the same EvilLaugh as when you die, implying that KT [[TheHeroDies dies at the end]]. Possibly from being murdered by the clown in the image]].
5* MemeticMutation: The game often gets treated as a BrownNote of a game that can kill people who play it, due to its seizure-inducing graphics and SurrealHorror tone throughout.
6* NightmareFuel: Where to even start? After each level, you receive messages like ''Beware Behave'', and Get Up Get Down. The graphics make the game's levels look like [[EldritchLocation Eldritch Locations]], the sound effect when picking up an item, getting damaged, and dying are a disturbing moan, a high-pitched demonic screech, and [[LaughingMad maniacal laughter]] respectively. The enemies and bosses look like awkwardly moving [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], and the game ends with [[spoiler: A still image of a creepy clown staring at you... and then [[JumpScare laughing at you like a psychopath]]]].
7-->'''WebVideo/StuartAshen:''' [[note]]An excerpt from an article on the game in his book ''Attack of the Flickering Skeletons: More Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of''.[[/note]] Frankly, [[spoiler:it's better to lose]].
8* NintendoHard: You can only take 5 hits before dying; and if you die, you have to start over from the beginning of the entire game, with no way to earn extra lives.
9* QuirkyWork: You shoot hearts at stock images in various corrupted-looking levels. The sound design, graphics and character sprites are borderline SurrealHorror.
10* SoBadItsGood:
11** The bizarre graphics and {{Anvilicious}} GreenAesop make this game utterly hilarious to some.
12** Of note is the opening song, which is extremely off-key, contains weird vocals, and sounds like something you'd hear in a weird dream. It also sets [[QuirkyWork the tone]] for the rest of the game.
13* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: As noted on the main page, the BGM sounds like the infamously creepy Cave of Winters theme from ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound|1994}}''.
14* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Often gets accused of being a VideoGame/RainbowIslands knockoff.
15* ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs: Going hand-in-hand with the above, reviewers often describe this game as ''Rainbow Islands'' on various hallucinogenic drugs... all taken in great quantities at once.

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