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The player controls an old wooden figure named "This Baggage." He is a hero who has lived in harmony with humans for many years. For This Baggage, the journey is to find the fairy who teaches people to get back to being friendly with wooden dolls. Enemies encountered through the game are stran...

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Developer
dB-SOFT

Released on
1987

Size
1 Player

Version
NES

Requirements
Nintendo Entertainment System

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Publisher
dB-Soft

ESRB Rating
Not Rated

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The player controls an old wooden figure named “This Baggage.”

He is a hero who has lived in harmony with humans for many years. For This Baggage, the journey is to find the fairy who teaches people to get back to being friendly with wooden dolls. Enemies encountered through the game are strange creatures and bothersome old men. The player attacks by using his fists at them. Players can steal the items in the store. But after stealing, the player’s appearance is changed to resemble that of a thief. Hotels and pawn shops can no longer admit the player for the remainder of the game after a theft has taken place.

Woody Poco

Overview & History

Released exclusively in Japan in 1988 by ASCII Corporation, *Woody Poco* is an eccentric and often overlooked action-platformer for the Family Computer (Famicom). The storyline casts players as Poco, a mischievous wooden puppet brought to life in a whimsical toy-block world. When a malevolent mechanical force kidnaps the princess of Toyland and disrupts the kingdom's clockwork equilibrium, Poco must journey across diverse, hazardous toy-themed realms to rescue her and restore harmony. Unlike standard linear platformers of the late 1980s, *Woody Poco* integrates unconventional resource management elements, requiring players to carefully balance their health, stamina, and weapon durability while navigating labyrinthine stages filled with eccentric enemies like wind-up soldiers and bouncing top-monsters.

Gameplay Features & Mechanics

The core gameplay loop of *Woody Poco* merges traditional 8-bit platforming with overhead exploration and inventory management. Players alternate between side-scrolling platform action and top-down exploratory phases. Poco’s primary moveset includes a standard jumping mechanic and melee attacks using specialized wooden mallets and boomerangs that degrade with use. Because Poco is made of wood, environmental hazards like fire pits pose an immediate, heightened threat to his integrity. Players must collect specific mechanical components scattered throughout stages to upgrade Poco's offensive capabilities and unlock blocked pathways. The game features a password system, allowing players to resume their arduous journey across the sprawling toy kingdom without losing their hard-earned gear progression.