"Dosh Eaters: Liquid Kids - Taito/50p a go". Your Sinclair (Future Publishing) (59): 70. "Slots Of Fun: Davey's Corky Coin-Op - Liquid Kids (Taito)". Sega Saturn Magazine (SoftBank Creative) (115): 191. "Tests De Jeux - Core G.: Parasol Stars II".
PC Engine Fan ( Tokuma Shoten) 6 (10): 31. ↑ Morisse, Jean-François (March 1992).↑ Demoly, Jean-Marc Morisse, Jean-François (March 1992).Amiga Power (Future Publishing) (18): 53. ↑ "The Ultimate Autumn Preview - Liquid Kids"."Under Wraps: A Drop In The Ocean - Liquid Kids". Micom BASIC Magazine (The Dempa Shimbunsha Corporation) (101): 215–217. Beep! MegaDrive (SoftBank Creative) (14): 128–129. The PC Engine conversion was met with positive reception from critics. The arcade original was also met with positive reception from critics since its initial release. In Japan, Game Machine listed Liquid Kids on their Novemissue as being the seventeenth most-successful table arcade unit of the month, outperforming titles such as Parodius! From Myth to Laughter and Magic Sword. Likewise, an Atari ST version was also in development but never released by Ocean.
An Amiga port was completed by Ocean France, but not released by Ocean Software. The original arcade version is planned to be included as part of the Taito Egret II mini console.
It was also included in the Taito Legends 2 ( Taito Memories 2 in Japan) for Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows in 2006. A near-arcade perfect port was developed and published by Ving for the Sega Saturn on October 22, 1998. This version would later be re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console in 2008. It is a faithful conversion that retains most of the gameplay elements from the arcade original but a number of graphical effects were removed such as the time transitions and parallax scrolling. The title was first ported to the PC Engine by Taito and released exclusively in Japan on January 17, 1992. On January 21, 1991, an album containing music from the game and Space Gun was co-published exclusively in Japan by Scitron and Pony Canyon. The soundtrack was composed by Kazuko "Karu" Umino. Liquid Kids was first released in arcades by Taito on August 1990, using the Taito F2 System board. Getting hit by enemies results in losing a live, as well as a penalty of lowering Hipopo's status to his original state and the game is over once all lives are lost, unless players insert more credits into the arcade machine to continue playing. He can also collect cakes and other items to gain more points. Small plants also appear on certain levels which can be "watered", causing them to grow and creating new platforms. Undefeated enemies will dry out and recover after a short time period. Once soaked, enemies can be kicked and destroyed completely.
Hipopo is armed with water bombs that can be thrown at enemies to soak and damage them. Liquid Kids is a platform game where players assume the role of Hipopo, a platypus (referred as a hippopotamus) who fight his way across various stages set in the land of Woody-Lake against enemies led by Fire Demon in search of his missing girlfriend Tamasun while rescuing other platypuses along the way. Liquid Kids enjoyed success in arcades among players, garnering positive reception from critics, while its home conversions were also met with similarly positive response from gaming magazines who reviewed it as an import title. Conversions for microcomputers were in development but none were officially released to the public. Although first launched in arcades, the game was later ported to other platforms, each one featuring several changes compared with the original version, in addition of being re-released through compilations and digital distribution services for various consoles. Starring the platypus Hipopo, players are tasked with travelling through the land of Woody-Lake throwing water bombs, jumping on and off platforms to navigate level obstacles while dodging and defeating monsters in order to rescue Tamasun from her captor, the Fire Demon. Liquid Kids is a 1990 platform arcade video game originally developed and published by Taito.