Pet Alien: An Intergalactic Puzzlepalooza is a puzzle game developed by Shin'en Multimedia and published by The Game Factory on July 30, 2007 in North America

North America

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 for the Nintendo DS

Nintendo DS

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. It is based on the computer animated

Computer animation

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 television series Pet Alien

Pet Alien

Pet Alien is an American computer-animated series produced by Mike Young Productions and Antefilms Productions in 2005. It was created by Jeff Muncy and the episodes are mainly written by Dan Danko and directed by Andrew Young. The series centres around the 13 year old boy, Tommy Cadle, whose light...

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Gameplay

In An Intergalactic Puzzlepalooza you control the five aliens Dinko, Gumpers, Flip, Swanky and Scruffy. They all have their special abilities, and the purpose of the game is to utilize these abilities in order to obtain certain gems that lie scattered around various levels. The player starts out controlling Gumpers, and as the player progresses throughout the game, the other aliens become unlocked.

The game centers around five aliens and their quest to save their Earthling

Earthling

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 friend Tommy Cadle. The aliens and Tommy Cadle are taken into space in Robotix's space ship, where the aliens have to overcome numerous obstacles in order to save their friend.

Reception

An Intergalactic Puzzlepaloozas reception was relatively mixed. It received an average score of 5.0/10 at IGN

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, while the video game magazine Nintendo Power

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gave it an 8/10 score. The game attained an average ratio of 56% at Game Rankings

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