Editing Penguin Wars (section)

== Gameplay ==
[[Image:King of the Zoo (1).png|framed|The bat and the cow battle (Game Boy)]]
[[Image:King of the Zoo (2).png|framed|The bat is declared King of the Zoo (Game Boy)]]
The player participates in a sport called {{nihongo|"Dojiball"|ドジボール|dojibōru}}, a pun on the Japanese pronunciation of "[[Dodgeball]]". In the arcade and [[Famicom]] editions of the game, the five animals featured are the penguin, [[bear]], [[panda]], [[koala]] and [[beaver]], with the penguin being controlled by the player. In the [[Game Boy]] version, the player can choose as any one of the five animals, which, in addition to the penguin, are a [[cow]], rabbit, [[bat]], and [[rat]]. In all versions of the game, the player plays against all the other animals. In each game, the participating animals find each other on opposite sides of a square table with five balls on each side. The object of the game is to roll those balls over the table. As soon as all ten balls are on one player's side, that player loses the game. Each game also has a time limit of 60 seconds; if that is reached, the player with the fewest balls on their side wins.

If a player is hit by one of the balls, they are knocked unconscious for a certain amount of time. Thus, it could also be said that part of the object of the game is to hit the opponent, as otherwise it would not be possible to get all ten balls to the other side (the opponent can just roll them back before all of them have arrived).

The different animals have different strengths and weaknesses which are a trade-off with each other. For example, the rat is the one that can move left and right the fastest, but in return he can roll the balls only very slowly. The cow, on the other hand, is a very slow walker, but in return she regains consciousness more quickly.

After thirty seconds of playing, a [[jellybean]]-like obstacle appears in the middle of the table which moves left and right. Later levels have different kinds of these obstacles cause varying effects on the trajectory of the balls; some deflect them so they start rolling diagonally, whereas others simply have the ball bounce straight back.