Let’s Play! Flicky

Let’s Play! Flicky

Ah, Flicky. One of Sega’s simplest and cutest arcade platformers, and one of the first games I ever played on a Master System. That version is hardly different from the arcade original, at least in gameplay, and the Mega Drive port is virtually identical even graphically.

The idea is simple, but after the first few levels becomes fiendishly difficult. You control Flicky, the blue bird (who is possibly a bluebird rather than just a bird who is blue?), who much guide all the chicks to the exit. You “collect” them in a line behind you as you run near them, and get maximum points for taking them all to the exit in one single line.

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However, if you’re not careful where or how you jump, some chicks may get left behind… and then there’s the cats that are out for birdsnacks. Best to avoid them, although you can kick some of the objects strewn around the platforms at them to knock them out for a while.

Here’s a fun fact too: Flicky reappeared as the flickies that pop out of Eggman’s badniks when you destroy them in the Sonic the Hedgehog games. They’re also in Sonic 3D, where you have to collect a number of them to progress. Sonic 3D is, actually, more like Flicky 3D with Sonic than Sonic in 3D.

Why not give it a go?

Controls are: 5 (insert coin), 1 (Start), left CTRL (jump), arrow keys (move).

Emulator provided is MAME via archive.org.

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