Spy Bros. (Pipi & Bibi’s DX): trailer and details

Pipi & Bibi is a action platformer originally developed and released on Arcade by Toaplan back in 1991 in Japan. The game has quite the reputation due to it being an eroge, featuring sexually explicit content. For example, you could collect gold coins in order to get illustrations of naked girls as reward.

Unsurprisingly, all the lewd content has been removed in Spy Bros. (Pipi & Bibi’s DX), the remake coming soon to Nintendo Switch (price: $7.95). Development is said to be almost complete, and release is currently slated for this Winter.

Today, RAWR Lab (the developers) shared a trailer for the game:

For this remake, the developers didn’t just take out the lewd content, they also improved on some gameplay issues, including the extreme difficulty of the original which has been lowered. Also, new content has been added (new levels, new game modes, new endings, and more).

Here’s some more details and the list of key features, along with some screenshots:

Pipi & Bibi’s was a fun but unknown game. Few arcades dared to license it because of its erotic motif and high difficulty.

Spy Bros. is a remake of Pipi & Bibi’s (also known as Whoopee in Japan), an eroge arcade video game originally developed and published by TOAPLAN in 1991, being Tatsujin Co. Ltd, the current owner of the license.

“Spy Bros. (Pipi & Bibi’s DX)” is an single-screen action-platforming game reminiscent of Snow Bros and others of that time, where the players assume the role of Pipi and Bibi: two spies entering and bombing a series of six buildings protected by guards, scientists, divers, mob bosses, humanoid cats and other wacky individuals… and leaving the buildings just in time before they collapse from the explosions!

RAWRLAB Games, instead of just remaking the game with its 24 fun levels, is also improving a few gameplay issues, lowering its original extreme difficulty and adding new content, adding a lot of value to this new edition.

• Women are heroines, not prizes. Removed all erotic content.
• More responsive controls, zero input lag.
• Removed a few extremely difficult spots that made the original game almost impossible to complete.
• New fun bonus level after each zone.
• 3 new game modes:
  • Spy Sis. mode:
    • A totally different way to replay the game with fast-paced action mechanics starred by the “Spy Sisters”.
  • Versus mode:
    • Instead of just cooperating, players will compete against (and mess with!) each other to see who plants the most bombs!
  • Time trial mode:
    • Complete the levels against the clock and beat your times!
• New endings (2 of them!)
• Visual options:
  • Original pixel-art or AI upscaled graphics.
  • CRT effect.
  • 6 different bezels.
  • No stretched mode, of course. Please, love your pixels.

Spy Bros. (Pipi & Bibi’s DX) (Switch – eShop) does not have a release date yet, but is slated for a Winter release worldwide.

Source: RAWR Lab PR (01/11/2022) / RAWR Lab (Steam)