Samba de Amigo

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Title: Samba de Amigo
Release: Late '99
Previously: Project "Samba"
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   Break out the burritos and a pack o' Bean-o, it's a musical party south-of-the-border style! The Team's first crack at a coin-op, Samba de Amigo challenges players to grab a pair of maracas and shake along with progressively difficult beats. (Think PaRappa but with South American monkeys.)

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   The player shakes the maracas in accord with the six indicators on-screen: upper-left, upper-right, left, right, lower-left, and lower-right. When the on-screen notes turn red, it's your cue to throttle that maraca as much as possible for extra points. Once every few bars, you're prompted to "Take a Pose", where you hold the maracas in a certain position. The quality of your performance is graded on a letter scale (so it is a Sonic Team game), and two players can rock & rattle at once. If both players put on a good enough show, the background explodes into color, and the monkeys go bananas...

   It's doubtful this arcade will ever see a Western release, and even more doubtful any kind of a Dreamcast conversion is in the wings. (Although if one is, prepare to shell out for yet another peripheral controller...) Too bad, really...sounds pretty fun, and ANY game with dancing monkeys rules by default!

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