The player has one life and can take 5 hits before dying upon death all progress in the game is lost, and the player must start again from the beginning of the game. However, in Top Banana the water is not an instant kill, and instead deals 1 point of damage to the player, the water then resets to the bottom of the level, and continues to rise. Much like Rainbow Islands, water that damages the player rises from the bottom of the level to motivate the player to ascend to the top of the level quickly. The enemies include Corprats, Popstars, Chainsaws and Bulldozers. The heroine, KT, must travel through psychedelic levels while jumping across platforms and throwing lovehearts to convert planet-damaging enemies into energising fruit. Top Banana is a platformer with the goal of each level being to reach the top of the level. Warning: Clip contains bright flashing images. Consequently, you will be offered the opportunity to seek ultimate wisdom in the Mind-Scape and achieve the status of Top Banana."Ī clip from Top Banana's introductory music video, as shown in the Amiga version. If you succeed then you will have proved your skill and courage in the material world. You will be able to stem the tide of flood, neutralise the acid rain and release the hoarded fruits of the World's produce for all to share. By spreading Love your enemies will vanish, or even begin to help you. Use this power to repel the agents of destruction. To aid you in this task you are invested with a great power - that power is Love. Your task is to combat those forces which are worlds tilts into oblivion you must redress the balance through positive action. Every moment sees further demolition of the rainforest, more leaking nuclear waste, land floods caused by melting ice caps and much needed food rotting in locked warehouses. Plot "Our planet is under threat - not from slimy aliens or evil wizards but from direct consequences of our own greed and stupidity. The game's graphics and sound are left uncompressed, allowing the player to edit them, something that the README included alongside the game encourages. Reception for Top Banana was polarized some reviewers praised the game's techno soundtrack and 'original' environmental plot, while others heavily criticized the game due to its 'repetitive' and 'difficult' gameplay and 'difficult to parse' graphics. Top Banana is heavily influenced by techno and rave culture, and the game features a techno music video as an introduction. Top Banana's plot is about trying to save the environment from pollution using love. Top Banana was released using recycled cardboard packaging, furthermore being advertised as being the 'first video game with recycled packaging'. The chief artist and coder was Miles Visman, with supporting graphics and sound by Karel Dander, and supporting graphics by Sophie Smith, Robert Pepperell and Matt Black. Top Banana is an environmentally-themed platform game produced by Hex and Psycore for the Acorn Archimedes in 1991 and ported to the Amiga and Atari ST in 1992.