Video Game Vintage Title: Kool-Aid Man

Kool-Aid Man

Kool-Aid Man is an Atari 2600 video game based upon the television commercial character Kool-Aid Man. A second, unique video game cartridge was also made for the Intellivision.

Kool-Aid Man Gameplay

The game made up of very simple 2D computer graphics. The setting of the game is a simple pool of water, and the object of the game is to quench the �thirsties�. Thirsties are round creatures that try to drink up all of the water in the pool.

Hitting a thirsty who is not drinking water causes the player to be bumped back and lose time. However, when a thirsty is drinking from the pool (an action indicated by a straw of variable length extending from the thirsty to the pool), he is vulnerable. Hitting him will supposedly use Kool-Aid to quench his thirst, and thus saving the pool. Winning a level usually requires quenching around 30 thirsties, which will take the player to a faster level. The game is lost either by running out of time, or by losing all of the water in the pool.

The Kool-Aid Man can obtain power-ups, giving him temporary invincibility.