is an

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video game for the Nintendo Family Computer. This video game is the home conversion of Nichibutsu's arcade game, , that was originally supposed to be named ''Booby Kids''. In 1993, Nichibutsu released for the Game Boy a similar game entitled ''Booby Boys''.

Gameplay

''Booby Kids'' is a game played from an overhead perspective, with the player taking on the role of one of the titular Booby Kids, named for their ability to instantly dig booby traps in front of where they stand and bury hostile enemies that attempt to seek out and ultimately destroy the Booby Kids. Compared to ''Kid no Hore Hore Daisakusen'', the levels in ''Booby Kids'' feature more of a reliance on puzzle-solving in addition to the maze like structures of the original game. Levels range from the conventional

prehistory Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use ...

setting of the first four levels to

feudal Japan The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to prehistoric times around 30,000 BC. The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inve ...

and even some

futuristic The future is the time after the past and present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. Due to the apparent nature of reality and the unavoidability of the future, everything that currently ...

levels inspired by

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...

. There are 21 levels in this game with five different bonus levels to gain extra points in. Objects to acquire in the other time zones include coconuts (in the prehistoric era), ancient Japanese scrolls (in feudal Japan), radios (in the

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

era), bags of money (in the modern era), and computer monitors (retrieved in the future era).Advanced overview of ''Booby Kids''
at Something Awful

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