Libble Rabble

Article summary

is a 1983 puzzle video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. The player is tasked with using two colored arrows, Libble and Rabble, to wrap them around pegs and surround small creatures known as Mushlins to "harvest" them under a time limit. The player can also uncover treasure chests that will have the player searching the stage for items in order to access a special bonus stage. It ran on the Namco System 16 Universal (also called Libble Rabble) hardware, one of the only games to do so. Described by Namco as a "bashishi game", it was designed by Pac-Man creator Tōru Iwatani and composed by Nobuyuki Ohnogi. Iwatani came up with the idea for the game after an experience at a crowded disco hall, where he envisioned himself tying up people with ropes and throwing them out of the way. It was also inspired by a game he played during his childhood, where the objective was to tie ropes to short metal poles on the ground. The game was known as Potato in early development as Namco considered making the game a tie-in with a potato chip manufacturer in Japan, but these plans later fell through. Iwatani soon passed off development to Seiichi Sato due to being overwhelmed with other projects, who added additional ideas such as treasure chests as he felt the game was too simplistic. A North American release was planned by Midway Games but later cancelled.…

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1. release date: 1994 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. release date: 1983 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. release date: 1993 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
4. release date: 1997 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
5. release date: 2009 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
6. release date: 2011 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
7. release date: 2021-11-11 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373230659