Cool World (handheld video game)

For other uses, see Cool World (disambiguation).

Cool World
Box art
Developer(s)	Ocean[1]
Publisher(s)	Ocean[1]
Version	DMG-WL[1]
Platform(s)	Game Boy[1]
Release date(s)	NA June 1993[1]
Genre(s)	2D action platformer[1]
Mode(s)	Single-player[2]
Rating(s)	ESRB: n/a (not rated)
Media/distribution	Game Boy cartridge

Cool World is a video game for the Nintendo Game Boy that was released in 1993 for an exclusively North American audience.

Summary

The player has to prevents the Doodles (evil cartoons) from reaching the Interworld Matrix that separates Cool World from the "real world."^[3]

The player plays the role as Frank Harris, the chief of the Cool World Police Department, arch-rival to Jack Deebs (who is neither mentioned nor seen in the game).^[3] By collecting coins and shooting Doodles, the player achieves his goal.^[3] There are four worlds; each containing four individual levels (depicted in the game as successive waves of Doodles).^[3]

This video game is based on graphics found in underground cartoons and comic books; identical in concept to the movie of the same title;^[3] which had Jack Deebs as the main protagonist and Frank Harris as a minor antagonist. NintendoAge has verified that box, cartridge, and instruction manual are of average scarcity.^[4]

See also

• Cool World (NES video game)
• Cool World (Super NES video game)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "Release information". GameFAQs. http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gameboy/data/585672.html. Retrieved 2009-01-27. 
2. ^ "# of players information". The Game Boy Database. http://www.gbdb.org/games.php?title=Cool_World. Retrieved 2011-03-31. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Basic game overview". MobyGames. http://www.mobygames.com/game/gameboy/cool-world. Retrieved 2011-03-31. 
4. ^ "Rarity of the game cart, box, and instruction manual". Nintendo Age. http://www.nintendoage.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Element.View&egID=32663&lgID=32663&sID=32663. Retrieved 2011-04-01.