New Zealand Story

New Zealand Story is a platform game which was written by Taito. You are a kiwi, and a walrus has kiwi-napped all of your friends. At the end of each level, you find one of your friends in a cage. Like Bubble Bobble, you can collect letters to spell out "EXTEND" for a bonus. Unlike it, levels scroll rather than are fixed to one screen.

Your weaponry starts out as arrows, but pickups can change these to bombs or lasers. These act a little differently, and what's useful depends on where you are. You also get the oppertunity to hop on balloons and fly around.

You can emulate TNZS using MAME, Shark and Raine[?].