Tony and Friends in Kellogg's Land/Gameplay

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Controls

  • Joystick: In the Amiga version (which requires an A1200 or higher to play), you must use the joystick to make your currently selected character walk left and right, crouch, and jump; in the MS-DOS version, this is replicated by the arrow keys (you can also use  Space  to make the character jump).
  • Button: In the Amiga version you must use the button on the joystick to activate your currently-selected character's special ability (Tony can run, Dig 'Em can blow bubbles at snorkeling ants while in water, Coco can climb and Sam can fly); in the MS-DOS version, this is replicated by the  Alt  key.

Characters

Tony, Dig 'Em, Coco and Sam

These four Kellogg Company mascots are the protagonists of the game; Tony the Tiger is the mascot for Frosted Flakes (known as "Frosties" in Germany, and other European countries), while Dig 'Em Frog is the mascot for Honey Smacks (which is why he is only referred to as Smacks, through the game), Coco the Monkey is the mascot for Cocoa Krispies (known as "Coco Pops" in Germany, and other European countries), and Toucan Sam is the mascot for Froot Loops. The game will automatically start out with Tony, but when he enters a door with a picture of his head on it, the German text "MIT WEM MÖCHTEST DU SPIELEN?" (which means "With whom do you want to play?") will appear at the top of the screen - and you can initially only switch to Dig 'Em, as Coco is imprisoned by the enormous crocodile on the seventh stage, and Sam is imprisoned by the enormous snake on the fourteenth one, so you shall have to free them before you can switch to them. The characters have ten minutes to collect as many of their respective cereal as possible (they change when you switch between them) and finish each stage; if they run out of time (or life-hearts, of which they start out with six), not only will this cost them a life (which are shared between them), and send them back to the start of the stage, but they will also lose any cereals they had collected and points they had earned on that stage before their death! However, they shall regain a lost life-heart every time they collect fifty cereals and will regain all of their lost life-hearts every time they collect a giant instance of their respective cereal (which does not count towards the total of regular ones collected) - and, they shall also receive an extra life every 10000 points (and when they collect every vitamin in a stage). Chocos the Bear also appears to give the characters advice (in German) when they jump up and hit their heads on the undersides of the Super Mario Bros.-like question blocks which are placed throughout each stage; however, this guide is not going to detail their locations, or what Chocos says whenever one is activated. Oddly enough, Snap, Crackle and Pop, Cornelius Chicken, Loopy the Bee and Captain Rik are not present in the game - but those first three did later appear in Mission Kellogg's in 1999.

Ants

All the regular enemies in this game are ants, and there are eight different types of them; Walking Ants, of which there are two types, simply walk back and forth in a given area (the spear-carrying ones take two jumps to kill), while Jumping Ants will jump up with their spears whenever Tony and friends approach them, Charging Ants shall charge at them with their spears, Spear-Throwing Ants (which look identical to the second kind of Walking ones) shall throw their spears at them, Acorn-Throwing Ants will throw acorns at them, Flying Ants fly back and forth in a given area, and Snorkeling Ants swim back and forth in a given area (and can only get killed with a bubble blown by Dig 'Em, for only he can go into water). They are all worth 50 points.

Reptiles

All three bosses in this game are reptiles; for the Crocodile on the seventh stage, the game will automatically switch back to Dig 'Em (as only he can go into water), while for the Snake on the fourteenth one, it will automatically switch back to Coco (as only he can climb up his body, and he had previously been held prisoner by the aforementioned Crocodile), and for the Dragon on the twenty-first stage, it shall automatically switch back to Sam (as only he can fly, and he had previously been held prisoner, by that aforementioned Snake). They all take eight jumps to kill (but the head of the Snake is his only vulnerable point, even though Coco can walk on, and climb up, his body without injury) - and they are all worth 100 points every time you jump on them.