Noodle Fight (Game)



The Noodle Fight game was a platformer game from Phase One made to promote the "Clint Eastwood" single. It could be played directly or downloaded from the Gorillaz.com website until the end of Phase 2, at the Enhanced CD of the Brazilian version of the G-Sides album and on the Celebrity Take Down DVD. It was one of the three Phase 1 games, alongside the Geep Simulator and Cymbalism.

The backstory behind it was that Murdoc had been captured by the “Ghoulies” (the Zombie Gorillas), and it was up to Noodle to save him. Each level had something new about it. Level one you had to try and avoid the hands that popped out of the ground. Level two you had to try and not fall in the holes. Level three had to avoid the holes from last level, and there is also bats that run into you, messing you up. Level four is the holes again, but the platforms you jump on fall. It is believed that the game has a total of 10 levels. The game was developed by Zombie Games, the game developement team from the Zombie Flesh Eaters, Jamie Hewlett's former Gorillaz design studio.

Appearance
The game's interface is modeled off a Game and Watch console. The title of the game, "noodlefight" is present on the upper side of the console, above the screen. The Gorillaz website's link is on the lower side of it and a sticker of Noodle is also on the left side of it. The name of Zombie Games, the developers of this mini-game, are also present on the upper left side of the screen. The game has three main options: "Start", which starts the game, "Hi-Scores", which would connect to the game's leaderboards to show the name of the players with the highest scores. Unfortunately, those have been offline for over 12 years, and cannot be seen anymore. There are also two red buttons: one on the left side, named "Gorillaz Info", which just shows the message "visit the Gorillaz' website", and the right one named "Instructions", which shows or hides the instructions for the game.

Background and Description
"Gorillaz-guitar-guru Noodle stars in her very own game!

During the shoot for the Gorillaz' Clint Eastwood video, the co-star stunt ghoulies got carried away and decided to drag bassman Murdoc off to their lair... you play as Noodle and must track down Murdoc and return him to the safe confines of Gorillaz' KONG Studios!

Dodge the grasping hands of the ghoulies and those pesky flapping bats, evade the licking flames of the underground inferno and heed the warnings of Del Tha Funky Homosapien! Beware the Boss ghoul and you'll free Murdoc and return him to safety!"

Gameplay
You can control Noodle's movement using the keyboard arrows. The front arrow moves her forward, the back arrow moves her backwards and the upper arrow makes her jump. From level Eight and beyond, the Spacebar can be used to shoot. When you lose all your lives and revives or beats the game, you can enter your name and e-mail to the game's leaderboards, which do not work anymore. You could also choose to subscribe or not to the Gorillaz newsteller.

The game is very difficult to beat as whenever you let go of the control keys Noodle still moves slightly. There is also an issue when running the game on newer operating systems (on all released after Windows XP) where the game runs much faster than it should, which alongside lag spikes makes it almost impossible to beat. There is no known record of how many levels there are, since flash shut down, but we do know there is at least eight, although there are no photos os levels 5-8.

Trivia

 * It is the first Gorillaz game from Phase 1 made.
 * It can be played directly from the CD on the brazilian version of G-Sides, but only if both QuickTime 5 is installed and on older operational systems.