WHEN is it?

Dollar Store wheel gives me the 2nd and final Putt-Putt game in The Winter Jackpot. This time, we're travelling through time!

Putt-Putt is headed to visit Mr. Firebird. Not before taking his history report, calculator, and Smokey fire engine lunch box. Oh and Pep too. Who is tired to hell until Putt-Putt gives him a bone. I also have Putt-Putt take a nickel before heading on their way. We catch Mr. Firebird just finishing up his time portal. Which... I guess is a decoratory piece. But it can power on... as soon as a coin is put into the washing machine. But uh-oh. Something goes horribly wrong and the time machine actually works? That's not good. Not only that but the massive portal it let out sucks up Putt-Putt's items and Pep as well. How dare it? And until we get the items back, the portal must stay. Heading inside, looks like there's 4 times I can enter. And also get a little musical note from... the time... band... group... thing... long story short, time goes on forever. First up, the pre-historic times. There's a massive ass tail blocking my path to the rest of the area. I am greeted by Ms. Brachiosaurus. Who is very willing to move her tail to let me move on. Nice! I also pick up a circular rock afterwards. Moving onward, this dude named Wheel is trying to make a bridge to move across a black tar pit but isn't strong enough to knock the rocks over. Thankfully Putt-Putt can help. Albeit while a bridge is made, there's a very convenient circle shaped hole. Well I just happen to have a circle shaped rock! And ta-da! Bridge complete! That opens up 2 more paths for me. The left one heads to an Apatosaurus... one dealing with... a very VERY severe itch. And needs me to help it. So I do and... uh... well I am very sorry but the sounds coming out of Apatosaurus don't sound like very children's game to me. When I can finally get the fuck away, on the other side of him is a family of Pterodactyls. Though doesn't seem like there's anything I can do here. So I meet back with Wheel. There's also 3 paths I can go down. The left most one takes me to Compic and Triceratops. And let me tell you, Triceratops is the very hungry boy. So hungry, he doesn't notice Putt-Putt. Down the middle path is a Simon Says mini-game. With the colors represented by volcanoes. I do well for like... a couple rounds before I already forget a pattern. No matter, it was a mini-game anyway. I have better shit to do.

On the right most path is a Tyrannosaurus Rex that shits itself when he sees me. But when he knows I'm not a threat, we play... another mini-game. This time we move the 4 stone pillars around in the correct order to make the picture look correct. Wow so 2 paths lead to mini-games. And here i have not collected any of Putt-Putt's missing items. So as I see that there's not anything more I can do here, I head to the next time. The medieval times. Where Princess Chassis and Woodward have gotten quite into a pickle after a violent storm hit and knocked off one of Woodward's wheels. But with my help, we can get it back on. But the problems don't stop as the rain was enough to rust up the lever gears which would open the castle gate. OKAY to the wild western times I go! I check out the stable and meet Virgil Clyde. Oh yeah he is a pure western animal folk. I can also pick up some hay here. Surely that must come in handy. After that I meet up with Lurlene in the general store. Those fruity wagon wheels look tasty! Too bad I need a nickel to get one. Sounds cheap but then again back in ye ol times, 5 cents was like 2 million dollars today. Last place I can check out here is the train station. Tobias T. Train has had a better day. Not only is he looking for a conductor but his wheels are also rusted up and need to be oiled. I know where I can get some oil! I pick up the can and head back to prehistoric times. I recalled seeing a black lake just FILLED with oil and... wait what do you mean I can't take any? I have an oil can! Let me do something with it!... oh... it was already filled and I just wasted my fucking time. Cool. Regardless, I get his wheels oiled and I get my moolah. Now that he's oiled, now he wants me to help him reach a water spigot 2 inches away from him. Looks like I need something to help with that. That something I do not have yet. Oh yeah I hope that nickel wasn't too important. I guess when you buy a wagon wheel, you eat it straight up. You can't save it. Either way, I head back to the medieval times because now that I have an oil can, I can use that to de-rust the lever gears and get the gate opened! 4 more paths await me. The left most one takes me to Sir Poundalot the blacksmith. Looks like I have caught him making a shield. No I can't take it. Not really a whole lot I can do here besides talk to Sir Poundalot. Okay moving on.

The next path is where I finally find Pep. Poor guy somehow got stuck high on a wall. I can't reach him from down there. So maybe I am like... okay well I have hay. I can use that as a cushion for Pep when he drops. But alas, no that's not what I can do. Oh well. To the king's quarters I go. King Chariot is quite the jokester. It also tells me that this game is brainrotted. Am I sure this game came out in 1997? Maybe the developers were also time travelers. Well get me the fuck away from King Brainrot and let me visit the wizard. No not the one of Oz. Just... the wizard. He already knows Putt-Putt is from the future. Wow... Merlin really is a wizard! BURN HIM! XD! Alas just like all the other places here in the castle, I can't really do much of anything here. It's more so a point and click and fuck around area. Alright so now I am headed to the future having not found a single one of Putt-Putt's shits. My confidence is real high. Albeit I know where Pep is, I just need to know how to get him down. Once I figure out the conveyor belt, there's 5 places I can visit. The one furthest left is run by Ms. Electra. Unlike the castle, there's shit I can do here such as collect a balloon maker, color up Putt-Putt's body, and make a battery. So this place was actually useful. The fun zone was... not. After figuring my way out to the arcade machine... boy was it just the most "futuristic" game I ever played. A nice classic game of bounce the ball to the wall and reveal the picture holy fuck this shit is boring get me the hell out of here. The museum in the center of this future plaza holds Putt-Putt's lunchbox. Oh but it's not as easy as taking it because Arthur T. Fact can't confirm it's his. Given how many of that lunchbox were produced. But if I find another ancient food container, I can trade it for the lunchbox. The library on the upper right, run by Darian explains that you don't need a physical book no more. Now you can find what you want to read right on the computer. Huh... that's one thing the developers predicted. Digital book checking out. Though the computers print out the books physically too. Unfortunately, they're out of paper. Ain't that spiffy? One more place. The pet food maker. Well it is what it says it does. It makes food for pets. I figure I'd make some cat food since there's a kitty right next to me. Which is then no longer a cat after I feed it... okay...

Welp I have explored all 4 times and... no key items in my inventory. No Pep, No history report, no calculator, no lunchbox... now what do? Well I can try some of Wheel's primordial soup which in return gets me a stone bowl. Along with that, headed back to the medieval times, I can make a balloon with the balloon maker to safely get Pep down. Hey! I got a key item! It only took me 50 fucking minutes! HUZZAH! And then I can trade the stone bowl for the lunchbox in the futuristic museum of past relics. And after that... I... had no fucking clue what I was doing. Or where I was going. And I was not about to spend 30 fucking hours trying to figure out how to get the last few items. I an contempt with where I am now and will finish this game at a later time.

AH? GET IT? TIME! AHAHAHAHAHAHA SO FUNNY ME YES!