102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue is an action-platform video game based on the live-action Disney movie 102 Dalmatians. It made its debut in 2000 on Dreamcast, PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, and Game Boy Color.
Synopsis[]
The game itself follows the film's storyline loosely. The player can choose the role of one of two Dalmatians: Oddball or Domino, who are out in the backyard looking for treasure. It is not long before the player realizes that a toy found buried in a park was made at one of Cruella De Vil's toy factories; this alludes to the fact that Cruella's toy sales are down, which ultimately leads to the problem in the storyline. Facing financial ruin from lack of sales, Cruella sets an evil plan in motion - to reprogram her toys to capture any pets in sight. Oddball and Domino are the only puppies in their family who have not been captured when they return from the park. Their parents, Dottie and Dipstick, set out to rescue their puppies, commanding Oddball and Domino to stay home and "be good". The puppies do not listen, and are soon out on their biggest adventure yet - to save their brothers and sisters, and their parents who are captured along the way.
Throughout the game, the puppies have to rescue their siblings, fend off Cruella's henchmen, and Cruella herself several times, while navigating through all kinds of terrain, leading up to a final battle at Cruella's toy factory, during which Cruella (and her "dot-com darling", Dr. Farzboom) are encased in Farzboom's own creation, "supergloop". Ironically, considering Cruella's plan was to encase all the puppies in this heavy duty glue-like substance to create a line of realistic animal toys. The henchmen end up deserted on an island, and Cruella ends up in a jail cell, still glued to Farzboom.
Voice cast[]
- Frankie Muniz as Domino
- Molly Marlette as Oddball
- Susanne Blakeslee as Cruella De Vil and Female Voice on TV
- Jeff Bennett as Jasper, Dipstick, Waddlesworth, and Shelby
- Maurice LaMarche as Horace
- Corey Burton as Jean-Pierre Le Pelt and Storyteller
- John Short as Professor Farzboom
- Jess Harnell as Manny
- Barbara Dirickson as Dottie
- Melissa Disney as Fidget and Priscilla
- Michael Gough as Sgt. Tibbs and Chester
- Tress MacNeille as Yvonne
- Rob Paulsen as Fluffy
- Rebecca Wink as Fortune Teller
- Pat Fraley as Various
- Russi Taylor as Crystal
- Frank Welker as various Toys and animal sound effects
Gameplay[]
Over the course of the game, the player has several opportunities to collect "stickers" towards a virtual sticker book which can be accessed through the level menu. Various actions within the game will unlock stickers. Generally, there is a sticker for finding the first checkpoint and exiting every level, collecting 100 bones each level, and rescuing six puppies in each level. Each level has its own individual tasks—completing a chore, defeating a henchmen, solving a puzzle, etc., which will also grant stickers. There are six stickers per a level, excluding Cruella levels, which combine together with mini games for their own sticker image.
Puppies to the Rescue is a three-dimensional game with the ability to angle the camera in whichever direction will make it easiest to navigate for you. The player must bark at toys to short-circuit them, or roll into them to smash them.
Checkpoints within a level are places where the player will be sent back if you lose a life, and are marked by a parrot named Waddlesworth. If the player loses a life and have not reached a checkpoint, you will be sent back to the levels starting point. Unlike the Game Boy Color version of the game, toys the players break stay broken.
Each level has an "animal friend" who will tell the player how to get through the level, and sometimes assign Oddball or Domino specific tasks to do in return for their help. Completing each of the Cruella levels will unlock a mini game to play.
Levels[]
- Level 1: Regent's Park: You start your journey here. Meet a squirrel named Fidget and help her take down Jasper and find her lost acorn.
- Level 2: Toy Store: Sergeant Tibbs (from the first movie) helps you through a toy store. Hop on the store's train to find a "secret room."
- Level 3: Piccadilly Circus: You meet up with Fidget again. Turn the statues around in the circuit to get a surprise. Also, set up an easy trap for Horace.
- Level 4: Big Ben: Yvonne, a bat with allergies, helps you get to the top of London's famous clock tower.
- Level: Cruella I: Cruella is attempting to catch you and prevent you from starting the "Barking Chain." Use pineapples on catapults (and extra help from the tower's bell) to force her into submission.
- Level 5: Royal Museum: Cruella's dog Fluffy asks for your help to retrieve several misplaced artifacts (plus a jelly donut) and give you a heads up about one of her henchman: Le Pelt.
- Level 6: Underground: A friendly rat named Chester helps you through underground sewage works (starting at a London Underground station).
- Level 7: Carnival: Enjoy the rides at a carnival. You also run into Jasper, meet a fortune teller and a turtle named Shelby, and discover the mysteries of a special caravan.
- Level 8: Lumber Mill: Chester shows up again (he is visiting a cousin named Nigel) and leads you through a dangerous lumber mill, filled with mean bulldozers, tanks, and many more of Cruella's toys.
- Level: Cruella II: You are trapped in a small pen with watermelons as you are terrorized by Cruella via boat. Use the watermelons to beat her.
- Level 9: Countryside: Ah, a peaceful terrain in the early morning. Meet a mole named Manny as he gives you tips on how to defeat the henchman, Horace, in this level (fun fact: Stonehenge appears).
- Level 10: Barnyard: Uh-oh, the gate is locked! But fear not: a pig named Priscilla has you do chores in exchange for the gate to be opened. Please do not forget that today is her birthday, though.
- Level 11: Ice Festival: Enjoy the winter wonderland as you meet a snow bunny named Crystal, shoot down toy biplanes, and have another run-in with Jasper.
- Level 12: Ancient Castle: Yvonne returns to help you out through a medieval castle.
- Level: Cruella III: Cruella is determined to stop you. Beat her using a catapult and pumpkins.
- Level 13: Spooky Forest: Crystal returns to help you through the forest. Watch out; Le Pelt is back!
- Level 14: Hedge Maze: Manny returns to give you tips on how to get through a hedge maze that stands in front of Cruella's mansion.
- Level 15: De Vil Manor: Sergeant Tibbs is back to help you take down Horace.
- Level 16: Toy Factory: Fluffy is there to get you through this crazy and dangerous place so you can get to Cruella.
- Level: Cruella IV: This is the final level; Cruella is now armed with her Supergloop cannon. Defeat her and you win the game.
List of Enemies[]
Cruella's Toys[]
- Airplane - Encountered in the Countryside and Ice Festival levels.
- Alligator - Lurks in the water, waiting to chomp you. Can only be defeated with a bark. Encountered in the Underground and Ancient Castle levels.
- Army Tank - Encountered in the Piccadilly Circus, Lumber Mill and Hedge Maze levels.
- Badun Punching Bag - A punching bag made to resemble Horace that rocks forward to fist-slam you. Must be attacked twice to deflate it. Encountered in the Toy Store, Big Ben, and Toy Factory levels.
- Blimp - With Cruella's face on it. Flies in the air and drops firecrackers. Encountered in the Big Ben and Hedge Maze levels.
- Bomb Car - Encountered in the Toy Store and Royal Museum levels. They will explode even if you don't bark or tumble into them, but don't be close to them when that happens.
- Bouncing Goblin - Exclusive to the Game Boy Color version.
- C-9 Robodog (Robodog) - Exclusive to the Game Boy Color version.
- Clapping Monkey (Monkey) - Encountered in the Regent's Park, Carnival and Hedge Maze levels.
- Devil - Rushes forward to poke you with it's pitchfork. Encountered in the Carnival, Countryside and De Vil Manor levels.
- Dozer - Encountered in the Lumber Mill and Barnyard levels. In order to destroy it, the player has to have their puppy tumble into the dozer, then bark when it's upside down.
- Drunk Clown - Encountered in the Piccadilly Circus and Carnival levels.
- Helicopter - Encountered in the Big Ben, Barnyard and Spooky Forest levels.
- Jack in the Box - Encountered in the Regent's Park, Lumber Mill and Toy Factory levels.
- Knight - Rushes into battle with a lance. Encountered in the Royal Museum and Ancient Castle levels.
- Radio-controlled Roadster (Cruella's car) - A mini-sized version of Cruella's car that drives at you at ramming speed upon sight. It also features Cruella's laugh from the 1961 animated film. Any attack can defeat it. Encountered in the Regent's Park and Piccadilly Circus levels. In Game Boy Color version, barking at it will overheat its engine and stun it, awarding 30 points.
- Snowman - Encountered only in the Ice Festival level.
- Teddy Bear - Armed with a water gun that fires at a wide range. Encountered in the Underground, Ancient Castle and De Vil Manor levels.
- Toastbot - A toaster that transforms into a robot and launches toast at you. Wait for it to reload before attacking it. Encountered in the Royal Museum and De Vil Manor levels.
- Toy Boat - Patrols the water and fires corks at you. You can only bark to sink them. Encountered in the Underground, Countryside and Spooky Forest levels.
- Toy Soldier - Armed with a firecracker launching bazooka. Encountered in the Toy Store, Barnyard and Spooky Forest levels.
- Wind-up Penguin - Encountered in the Ice Festival and Toy Factory levels.
- Zeppelin - Flies in the air and drops rocks. Exclusive to the Game Boy Color version.
Hazards[]
- Thorny Balls - featured only in the Hedge Maze level, you must learn their path in order to avoid running into them.
- Third Rail - located at the start of the Underground level, where jumping on top of them while they're on can injure your puppy. You must find the switch to turn them off.
- Crusher - in the Toy Factory level. According to Fluffy, it's meant to crush the metal used for the toys. Watch their pattern in order to avoid getting hurt.
Humans[]
Appearances[]
As the two main protagonists, Oddball and Domino appear throughout the entire game (depending on which the player chooses, of course). However, Little Dipper doesn't appear in the game, although in the live-action film 102 Dalmatians, he is always seen together with them. Cruella, as always, is the main antagonist of the game together with Horace, Jasper, and a new addition to his henchmen: Farzboom. Dottie and Dipstick also make a brief appearance in the beginning, telling the puppies not to follow them and stay out of trouble.
Demo Version[]
An early demo version of this game appeared on the "PlayStation Demo Disc Version 1.4". The game was shown to have numerous differences in its cutscene. In the demo version, the Dalmatians are referred to by different names: Domino is called Patches (despite having Domino's spot pattern, though lacking his domino tag), Oddball is called Dottie (with the tag on her collar missing as well), and Dipstick is called Pongo.
Based on this, as well as the mother Dalmatian (Dottie in the game, though possibly Perdita in the demo if Dipstick is Pongo) concerned about how their pups are missing again, it can be possible that the game was intended to have been set in the first generation of Dalmatians, rather than in the 102 Dalmatians time frame, but was changed during production to coincide with the release of the 102 Dalmatians film.
The demo also comes with the "Ice Festival" level, though Waddlesworth does not appear at the checkpoints.
With the exception of Domino (who is still referred to by his sister as Oddball in his dialogue) and Crystal the snow bunny, all the other characters are played by placeholder voices.
Trivia[]
- The video game was not completely based off the live-action film. In the film, although Domino and his brothers and sisters were dognapped, Oddball was not. In the video game, Domino and Oddball were the rescuers, whereas in the film, although Dottie was captured, Dipstick was not. The game features a different timeline and an entirely different plot.
- In the Carnival level, one of quotes that the fortune teller starts her speech with is: "In a galaxy far, far away...", which is where Star Wars is set (though this game came out before Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm).
- In the same level, the music in the PlayStation version is "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saëns, while in the Dreamcast version, the music that plays is "Carnival of the Animals".
- One of the supporting animals is a mole named Manny. In the 101 Dalmatians: The Series episode "Spot's Fairy God-Chicken", Spot encounters a mole called Manny who takes offense to her calling him a squirrel.
- On the cover of the PlayStation and Game Boy Color games, Domino's collar is red, like it is in the game and various merchandise. On the cover of the PC game, his collar is blue like it is in the film.
- Two stills from the original animated film are located in the De Vil Manor stage. The first is when the player barks or tumbles at the TV, it will briefly show a still of the "Dognapping" newspaper scene. The second is one of the paintings depicts the scene of the mansion / Hell Hall when the Colonel, Sergeant Tibbs and the Captain were discussing the whereabouts of the 15 puppies.
- The remote controlled roadster modeled after Cruella's car contains a soundbite of Cruella's laughter from the animated film.
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