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20 em 1 FAQ v1.0
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by TIDQ (Email at the bottom)
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& Table of Contents &
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For ease, every part of the FAQ can be accessed by hitting Ctrl+F and searching
for the section number or section title.
1.0 Introduction
2.0 FAQ
3.0 The Main Menu
4.0 Game 01
5.0 Game 02
6.0 Game 03
7.0 Game 04
8.0 Game 05
9.0 Game 06
10.0 Game 07
11.0 Game 08
12.0 Game 09
13.0 Game 10
14.0 Game 11
15.0 Game 12
16.0 Game 13
17.0 Game 14
18.0 Game 15
19.0 Game 16
20.0 Game 17
21.0 Game 18
22.0 Game 19
23.0 Game 20
24.0 Miscellany
24.1 Legal Stuff
24.2 Emailing Me
24.3 Version History
24.4 Special Thanks
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& 1.0 Introduction &
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"20 em 1" is a game released in 1995 for the Sega Master System
in Brazil. The Master System has had a monstrously popular following in Brazil,
even many years after Sega stopped making Master System games. That is why a
title such as this that was released exclusively in South America towards the
end of the Genesis' life cycle was able to see the light of day. "20 em 1" is
an extremely simple collection of 20 mini-games that came bundled with later
editions of the Master System.
These mini-games are so simple, in fact, that there is no real point or reward
to playing any of the games longer than the 60 second time limit granted on
each stage. Each game is also so basic that there's not much to say about each
one. I will try to include as much information as I can, however.
If I had to pick a demographic for this game, I'd like to say "nobody," but
it's probably intended for kids maybe 5 years and younger who have never
touched a game in their life.
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& 2.0 FAQ &
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Q: Can I play this game if I don't understand the language?
A: Yes. There's very little dialogue in the game. Most of the game is fairly
self-explanatory. If you're still confused, well maybe this FAQ will be good
for something.
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Q: Is there any reward or point to beating the games?
A: Nope, no reward. The games are the reward in and of themselves. There's also
no end to the number of rounds that each game will go on. They could go on
forever potentially.
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Q: Is there anything I should know if I try to locate this game?
A: First realize that this game does not come in what collectors call a
"complete" form. That is, there's no copy of this game that you'll find boxed
by itself. The game originally came with an edition of the Master System that
was released in Brazil, so it has no packing of its own. Secondly, if you
really want to track down a copy, don't bother going to the store unless you
happen to live in Brazil. You might want to check eBay or with other online
collectors.
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Q: This guide is shallow.
A: This game is shallow. Also, that's not a question.
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Q: Where can I find the rom for this game?
A: Don't ask me. I'll ignore emails like these.
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& 3.0 The Main Menu &
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Controls
Button 1 - Go to game select screen, select game.
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Not used.
Up/Down/Left/Right - Move the finger cursor over the game to be selected.
When you first start up the game, you'll see the title screen that says
"20 em 1." Press button one, and you'll bring up the game select screen. Here,
you'll see twenty numbers. Each number represents a different mini-game.
Highlight the number of the mini-game you desire to play with the finger
cursor, and press button one to go to that game.
Everytime you lose a game or quit using the Pause button, you'll be brought
back to the title screen.
+=============================================================================+
& 4.0 Game 01 &
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Controls
Button 1 - Not used.
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up/Down - Not used.
Left/Right - Move your character.
In this game, you play a construction worker. The only thing you can do is run
back and forth across the I-Beam. For 60 seconds, tools will rain from the sky.
Your job is to catch those tools in your bucket by moving in the way of those
tools. Don't worry about getting the bucket itself directly under the falling
tools. You can run into the tools from the side or let them fall on your head.
It only matters that you touch the tools. Catch most of them to earn a trophy.
+=============================================================================+
& 5.0 Game 02 &
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Controls
Button 1 - Not used.
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up/Down/Left/Right - Move the buggy.
In this mini-game, you'll control a kind of moon buggy with a creepy smile on
its face. The goal here isn't to race, so there's no need to speed that much.
You can go either left or right, and things will randomly generate in your
path. The yellow balls and little bombs are bad. Cake and burgers are good.
If you collect lots of cake and burgers while avoiding a lot of obstacles,
you'll get the trophy. Hit detection is attrocious, so expect to hit some
obstacles at first. I find that I avoid more if I stick to the top of the
screen. You can also turn around and go in the other direction to avoid an
obstacle if you wish.
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& 6.0 Game 03 &
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Controls
Button 1 - Not used.
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up/Down - Steer skateboard.
Right - Move forward.
Left - Brake
This mini-game is cheaply and unfairly difficult. Here, instead of getting
points by picking up objects, you get points by going far. You will win the
trophy if you avoid most obstacles. These obstacles include yellow cone-like
things, yellow popiscle-shaped things, and manholes. You can brake if things
approach too fast, but it's usually not fast enough. By the time an obstacle
comes on screen, it's almost always too late to move out of the way. Just try
to get lucky if you really want the trophy.
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& 7.0 Game 04 &
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Controls
Button 1 - Jump
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up/Down/Left - Not used.
Right - Move forward.
This game is supremely, incredibly easy. Your goal is simply to hop along the
screen as it moves very slowly. Don't get caught on the left side of the
screen, or you'll lose. If you press right, then jump, you'll jump up and to
the right. If you press jump immediately after landing from a jump though,
you'll only jump straight up. So if you're trying to clear a hurdle, make sure
you remember to press forward before jumping, as obvious as that sounds. There
are no holes in the ground, or obstacles. Absolutely nothing that makes this
difficult in the slightest.
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& 8.0 Game 05 &
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Controls
Button 1 - Jump.
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up/Down - Not used.
Left/Right - Move left and right.
In this game, you'll play a mouse. The goal is to grab as much of the flying
cheese as possible. The cheese will come from the top right and top left of the
screen, and it will either fall slowly or shoot across the screen quickly. Also
make note that when you jump, you actually jump a little bit forward as well
as up. To win, stand directly in the middle of the screen. When the cheese
falls slowly, just walk towards it and let it fall on you, then move back to
the middle. When it shoots quickly, jump for it from the middle of the screen.
Then move back to the middle, and repeat until a minute is up.
+=============================================================================+
& 9.0 Game 06 &
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Controls
Button 1 - Not used.
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up/Down - Not used.
Left/Right - Move left and right.
This game is much like Game 1. You play a deep sea diver who's catching coins
falling in the ocean instead of the tools from before. There are two
differences in this game though. First, you move slower, but that's compensated
by the fact that the coins drop slower than the tools did. The other difference
is that sharks will pop out of the sides of the screen to try and hurt you.
Like other obstacles, hitting them too much will cost you the trophy. Just try
to stay in the middle when you can to stay away from the sharks and concentrate
on the coins.
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& 10.0 Game 07 &
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Controls
Button 1 - Not used.
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Down - Move forward.
Left/Right - Steer.
Another game that's too easy to possibly lose. Just steer the bike down the
path between the tires. The only thing to avoid are these grey things. There
are also blue blobs, but they don't hurt you. Survive for 60 seconds without
hitting too many things, and you get the trophy.
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& 11.0 Game 08 &
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Controls
Button 1 - Not used.
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up/Down/Left/Right - Maneuver the car.
From impossibly easy to impossibly hard. I cannot beat this game. I question
whether it's even possible to beat. Cars will zig zag from the top of the
screen, and they will try to lock onto you and hit you. They don't even really
have to hit you. They just have to come kinda sorta close, and it counts as a
hit. And once they're locked onto you, there's really no way of shaking them
without getting hit.
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& 12.0 Game 09 &
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Controls
Button 1 - Not used.
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up/Down - Steer canoe.
Left - Not used.
Right - Go faster.
This race and dodge game is much, much more fair than the evil skateboarding
one in Game 2. Even if you idle the control, you will still move forward, but
you can speed up temporarily if you hold down right. Even if you hold down
forward though, you should still see most of the obstacles with enough time to
steer out of the way, things like alligators and rocks. The only obstacle that
really becomes a danger when moving faster are the arrows, so be careful of
them. You don't have to hold down forward a ton to get the trophy, so speed in
moderation.
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& 13.0 Game 10 &
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Controls
Button 1 - FIRE ZE MISSLES!
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up/Down/Left/Right - Move the helicopter
This game is almost fun. Almost, because it's still not actually fun, like all
the other mini-games, but at least you get to have a dinky little shootout with
a computer-controlled helicopter. You can move diagonally in addition to the
four normal directions. Just shoot him before he shoots you. The computer will
go somewhat easy on you, as about half the time after he gets shot, he'll
stay still for a while so that you can shoot him again. Use those arcade skills
to hit him more than he hits you. Not that tough.
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& 14.0 Game 11 &
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Controls
Button 1 - Extend tongue.
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up/Down - Not used.
Left/Right - Jump to lily pad to the left/right.
In this game, you're a frog. Your goal is to eat lots of bugs. The catch is
that you can't simply run into the bugs. In fact, that HURTS you. No, you have
to eat the bugs by extending your tongue while in mid-air. You're not even
allowed to extend your tongue when you're on the ground. No problem though.
Just make sure you jump out of the way of all of the falling bugs. Then jump
back towards them with tongue outstretched. Pretty simple once you get the hang
of it.
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& 15.0 Game 12 &
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Controls
Button 1 - Fire
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up/Down/Left/Right - Maneuver spaceship.
This level is basically the same as the car level, except it's disguised as a
poor vertical shmup. You have a spaceship. Instead of cars zig-zagging at you,
now it's enemy spaceships zig-zagging at you. The difference is that now you
have a gun to kill them with. That makes it a whoooooole lot easier. So instead
of trying to move out of the way, try to get in front of everyone. Then kill
them. If you can't get in front of a few ships and they try to fly at you
sideways, move up the screen, because they're incapable of moving backwards.
Very easy trophy.
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& 16.0 Game 13 &
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Controls
Button 1 - Fire
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up/Down - Steer
Left - Not used.
Right - Go faster.
Yet another completely impossible game. Physically impossible. You control a
little biplane. Other planes will ram into you from the back. You have to shoot
balloons in front of you. The problem is that the balloons float away before
you can shoot them unless you go super fast the whole time, and even then,
you probably won't hit them if you're trying to dodge a plane. However, if
you're going super fast, you cannot avoid the planes behind you, period. They
will hit you about 95% of the time, no matter how good your steering is. If
you slow down, you can avoid maybe 50% of the planes if you're lucky, but like
I said, then you won't be able to hit any balloons. Good luck earning this
trophy.
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& 17.0 Game 14 &
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Controls
Button 1 - Not used.
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up/Down - Steer.
Left - Brake.
Right - Move forward.
Pretty much exactly the same as the skateboarding game, except a little bit
easier. Although it's not "easy." Just avoid everything you can like in the
previous game.
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& 18.0 Game 15 &
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Controls
Button 1 - Not used.
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up/Down - Move up and down.
Left/Right - Not used.
Here, you're a pizza maker, and you have to bounce two three-inch wide pizzas
into a Franklin stove, Pong-style. Just keep bouncing the little pizzas until
they land in the oven. You need two in 60 seconds. Might take a couple tries,
but it's pretty easy. More luck than skill.
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& 19.0 Game 16 &
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Controls
Button 1 - Unleash spray.
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up/Down - Not used.
Left/Right - Jump to the left and right.
The mechanics work the exact same as Game 11 with the frog. You can only spray
while jumping. The main difference here is that the flies you're trying to
spray descend the screen at an angle and so are harder to avoid. I suggest
standing off to the side so as to have a better chance to avoid the flies. Then
just jump towards them when they're flying low and spray 'em.
+=============================================================================+
& 20.0 Game 17 &
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Controls
Button 1 - Zap enemies.
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up - Jump
Down/Left - Not used.
Right - Move right.
This game works similarly to Game 4 where you jump across the level. Except
the screen doesn't scroll, and you don't have to go anywhere. The goal here is
simply to kill a lot of green guys without getting hit a lot. As soon as you
kill one green guy, another immediately takes his place. Fortunately or
unfortunately, this mini-game is broken and fairly impossible to lose. The
green guys will immediately come on the screen and get caught on a bump in the
road. You can stand right in front of where they get stuck, kill one, and
another will come right to you. They'll never even touch you. Just keep zapping
as many as you can before the time runs out.
+=============================================================================+
& 21.0 Game 18 &
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Controls
Button 1 - Not used.
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up - Not used.
Down/Left/Right - Slide downhill.
This game is yet another altered clone of a previous game, this time Game 7,
where you guided the dirt track car down the path. This time, you're a skier.
Instead of trees, this time there are tires. To make this one harder, the
controls aren't as tight, and you need to accumulate points by weaving through
the flags. You don't have to get all of the flags, but get as many as you can.
The controls are the only thing that make this one aggravating, but the trophy
is still easy to get.
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& 22.0 Game 19 &
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Controls
Button 1 - Not used.
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up/Down/Left/Right - Maneuver the car.
This level appears to be exactly the same as Game 8, the car game. And when
I say exactly the same, I mean only your car and the background seem to be
different. Actually, I did somehow find this a bit easier than the other awful
car level, but the enemy cars followed the same general zig-zag pattern.
+=============================================================================+
& 23.0 Game 20 &
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Controls
Button 1 - Serve the ball.
Button 2 - Not used.
Pause - Go back to the title screen.
Up/Down - Move up and down.
Left/Right - Not used.
Much like the pizza level, this is a pong-style level. Just serve the ball, and
it will bounce until it hits the back wall and then will come back toward you.
Obviously, you need to hit the ball back without missing, which is easy because
the ball travels at 1 mile per hour. Hit the back wall five times to win. That
easy.
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& 24.0 Miscellany &
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24.1 Legal Stuff
This FAQ is Copyright 2005 by me. Any publishing of this guide without my
explicit permission isn't allowed. Plagiarizers will be hunted down.
20 em 1 is the Copyright property of TecToy. I am in no way affiliated with
the company or its employees.
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24.2 Emailing Me
My email is
[email protected]
I would love to hear any feedback. If you have a question, please make sure it
isn't already answered in the guide. If you report something missing from the
guide and I decide to add it, I'll give full credit.
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24.3 Version History
12/6/05 - v1.0 The first and complete version of the FAQ is submitted to
GameFAQs.
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24.4 Special Thanks
Special thanks to TecToy for making this game, and to Sega for distributing it.
Thanks to GameFAQs for hosting the guide and being an overall great resource
on the internet.
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20 em 1 FAQ (c) 2005 John "TIDQ" Robertson
