Ports and Variations
The first version of the game used "Popcorn" as theme music and took a few moments to draw the maze at the beginning of each level. Pengo received ports to several home consoles and computers, including the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Commodore 64, and Sega Game Gear.
In 1982 and 1983 Bandai Electronics created two official SEGA licenced handheld games featuring Pengo. The first was an LCD pocket game, the second a VFD table top version.
In 1995 a brand new game called Pepenga Pengo was released for the Sega Mega Drive only in Japan.
As with many early arcade games there are numerous unofficial clones, such as Pengi for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Capcom's 1991 game Don't Pull (part of Three Wonders) is another Pengo clone.
In 2003 a 3D version of Pengo called Pengo 3D was released by *X2 Productions.
In 2010 a remake was announced in arcades which features eight player multiplay. That was delayed until 2012 where it was released as a part of the Love Arcade online release which was made available as an arcade download through Sega's new ALL.NET P-ras Multi game network for arcade game centers.
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