Niz Chicoloco (video game)

Niz Chicoloco is a platform game developed by Glass Ball Interactive and published by Sony Computer Entertainment while being distributed by DreamWorks Interactive. It was released for the PlayStation on July 13, 1997. It was designed and directed by Geo G., the creator of Geo Universal and Geo the Creature. This was Geo G's first ever original video game that is not related to Geo Universal nor Geo the Creature. A sequel, Niz 2: The Journey of Nonsensical, was released for the PlayStation in 1999.

Gameplay
Niz Chicoloco is a platform game, in which the player controls the titular character Niz Chicoloco, a 12-year-old boy whose goal is to save his planet and rescue his girlfriend Kathy from the evil mastermind Heko. Niz had several moves which were running, jumping, attacking, picking up things (such as gears), swinging, and sliding.

In the game, the player must do many tasks for other characters, and when players do the max tasks for that species, they become their companions, and let players throw them at enemies as well. When players beat the game, they can play the mini-games.

Plot
Coming soon!

Characters
More coming soon!
 * Niz Chicoloco - The main protagonist of the game. He is a 12-year-old boy whose goal is to save his planet and rescue his girlfriend Kathy from the evil mastermind Heko. He is the only character with both a first and last name, with his first name, Niz, is the name of several rural localities in Russia, and his last name, Chicoloco, means "crazy boy" in Spanish. Billy West provided the voice of Niz.
 * Heko - The main antagonist of the game. He is an evil mastermind who threatens to destroy Niz's world and kidnap Kathy. Jim Cummings provided the voice of Heko.
 * Kathy - Niz's love interest. She was kidnapped by Heko and it's up to her boyfriend to save her. Debi Derryberry provided the voice of Kathy.
 * Gerry - Niz's helper during the first level. Danny Mann provided the voice of Gerry.
 * Big Mike - One of Heko's henchmen in the game's first boss. Carlos Alazraqui provided the voice of Big Mike.

Development
In 1994, the same year that Geo G. came up with an idea of Cland Ann, Geo G. came up with the idea of a video game that isn't related to Geo Universal and Geo the Creature and it is described as "Sonic the Hedgehog as a human." Later he started developing the idea into a video game in 1995 at his game company Glass Ball Interactive (a video game division of Glass Ball Productions).

Niz as a mascot
GameSpy suggests that Niz was proposed as a possible mascot for the PlayStation system, rivaling Nintendo's Mario, Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog, Namco's Pac-Man, and Capcom's Mega Man and following Crash Bandicoot. Due to the game's unpopularity, it never achieved the suggested goal and Crash Bandicoot is seen as the mascot, though Niz was in fact proposed as the mascot for DreamWorks for a while.

Adaptations
A feature-length animated film and a television series based on the game were in development in 1998, at DreamWorks Animation, but never got into production.

Reception
Coming soon!

Trivia
Coming soon!