Anticipation is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System developed by Rare that was released in 1988. It is playable as a single player with computer-controlled players or multiplayer with support for up to four players.
The gameplay is similar to that of a board game, such as Pictionary. The player is represented by one of four game pieces: a pair of women's shoes, a horn, an ice cream cone, or a Teddy bear. As the game slowly draws a picture, the first person to buzz in and guess the correct answer moves forward on the game board. The number of spaces the player moves depends upon the number on the die, which counts down from 6 as the picture is drawn. Once a player correctly identifies a drawing for each of the four categories on a level, that player rises to the next-higher level. On the Easy and Medium difficulty levels, the first player to complete the third level wins the game. On the Hard and Very Hard difficulty levels, the first player to complete all four levels wins. The fourth level is identical to the third, except that some of the spaces are removed, and if a player lands on one of the removed spaces, he falls back down to the third level (but the player retains credit for whatever categories the player answered while on the fourth level, and can climb back to the fourth level by correctly answering a puzzle from the remaining categories).
[edit] Color Puzzles
There are four color puzzles (sometimes five color puzzles on Level 3) that are in the game:
- Yellow Puzzle
- Green Puzzle
- Blue Puzzle
- Pink Puzzle
- Grey Puzzle (AKA Feature Square. There is no background Music, and it is only used on level 3 and 4)
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