40 Winks is a 1999 platform game developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software and published by GT Interactive for the PlayStation. A version was developed for the Nintendo 64, and reviewed in both Nintendo Official Magazine UK and Nintendo Power, but was cancelled before release.

The Story Behind 40 Winks

ZeeMan The Superhero was going to be one of the Jack-in-the-Box costumes, but his "massive build" looked too "adult" for the kid-friendly visual aesthetic. The PlayStation version was released on Steam on 22 October 2018. Changes made with their opinions include tweaks towards the controls and the help system.

A version was developed for the Nintendo 64, and reviewed in both Nintendo Official Magazine UK and Nintendo Power (whose January 2000 issue featured a strategy guide for the game), but was cancelled before release. The project spent six months in pre-production before 16 months of production began. GT Interactive bought the worldwide publishing rights in August 1998, after several other publishers vigorously competed for them, and the release date was set in late 1999.

How 40 Winks Plays

Robot increases the power of their standard attacks and equips them with missiles and jetpacks that enable them to double jump. The Nintendo 64 version has a two-player co-op mode where the players, although not able to directly harm, can propel each other's movements through kicks and punches. They can walk, run, jump, kick, butt-slam, swim, slide, and execute a combo move of punch, punch, kick, and their default projectile attack is a scream that turns into a lit-up ball, its energy fueled by obtaining Moons.

Ninja gives them the ability to pull themselves through ropes, and increases their agility and jumping height, and Superhero, which turns Ruff into a Clown and Tumble a Fairy, makes them invulnerable to enemies and drowning, and have greater jumping height. In each of the six worlds are three levels, a flying race, and a final boss. After a tutorial with a sentient clock named Wakey Wakey, Ruff and Tumble enter Dreamland to traverse six worlds: Nightmare which is a halloween-themed world, Underwater which is a Jules Verne and Atlantis-style world, Space which has aliens and spaceships, Prehistoric which has dinosaurs and ancient temples, Castle which is a medieval-themed world, and Pirate that is themed to the golden age of pirates.

Why Players Still Load It Up

His criticisms included the irritating camera and the fact that progress could only be saved after the completion of a world. He also considered the mini-games less "clever" than those in Donkey Kong 64 (1999). He was frustrated by the "hideous combat system", such as being still for a couple of seconds following a combo move and thus being vulnerable to enemy assaults.

Marc Nix of IGN noted its demographic towards young children; it is similar to games in the Super Mario, Crash Bandicoot and Sonic the Hedgehog franchises, in that it uses cute characters and comical settings to appeal to all ages. The PlayStation version received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. He generally found it all right and one of the better 3D platform games, exclaiming 40 Winks was "a thousand times more polished than Chameleon Twist 2, a million times better than Tonic 'The Chronic' Trouble.

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