Talk:Liquid Kids

Amiga version now realised!
Not sure how long this has been out but the Amiga version (non-AGA) of this has now been realised as freeware and it looks pretty cool too! YourPTR! 19:25, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Hipopo: hippopotamus or platypus?
As the author of a guide for the games, and from my personal interpretation of the game, I always considered Hipopo and his friends to be platypuses, not hippopotamuses.

Some reasons for that belief of mine are:
 * They look furry and striped, not something you'd associate with a hippo.
 * They look like they have a bill.
 * Their size and scale compared to their surroundings
 * Judging from the games similarities with New Zealand Story, it would only make sense that TAITO chose another rare, iconic animal from the wider Oceania area as the protagonist.

Here's a link to the latest version of my Liquid Kids guide on GameFAQs: And a French page about the game which also seems to agree on the platypus theory, although I don't know if the authors were influenced by my guide (which has been around since 2000!).

Just my two cents, from years of dedication (also) to this game :-) EpiVictor (talk) 18:03, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


 * The official (looking) Japanese page ( http://vc-pce.com/jpn/j/title/mizubaku.html ) for a Virtual Console port of this game, refers to hippo (the Japanese work is "kaba") and hippoes (kabatachi). Japanese characters are often strange morphs of the originals, regardless of what they might look like, the things ARE hippoes. 27.33.20.63 (talk) 12:01, 1 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I think they're actually tapirs, since the japanese title is "Mizubaku Diabouken", or literally "Water-Tapir's Big Adventure"! "Baku" is the Japanese word for tapir, and baby tapirs are small, furry and striped. Unfortunately I can't find any evidence, other than the title! rococo roboto (talk) 04:32, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

screenshot / box art
The image in the infobox is a screenshot, if box art can be found it would be more relevant to have that in the infobox and the screenshot in the main body of the article. AirRaidPatrol 84 (talk) 13:52, 3 September 2009 (UTC)