WANTED Fearless explorers for Antarctic Adventure! Must be willing to travel. High tolerance for cold a must. Salary: all the fish you can catch! Fringe benefits: high adventure and lots of fun! Apply Admiral Bird.
Join a polar expedition as you help a spunky penguin explorer speed through ten Antarctic ice stations. Race against the clock to help him be the first penguin to circle the South Pole!
As you travel around the South Pole, icy crevasses appear with surprising suddeness! Leap over them and continue your adventure. Hop over ice puddles or glide around them. Watch out - playful, curious seals may pop up at any moment to surprise you! Capture the flags scattered over the ice and snap up the flying fish for extra points.
Antarctic Adventure, known in Japan as Kekkyoku Nankyoku Daibōken is a video game developed by Konami. The gameplay is similar to Sega's Turbo, but plays at a much slower pace, and features platform game elements. The penguin, later named Penta, must reach the next station before time runs out while avoiding sea lions and breaks in the ice.
The penguin character Penta, and his son Pentarou became a mascot for Konami through the 1980s. They have made appearances in over 10 games.
The sequel of this game is Penguin Adventure released for the MSX by Konami in 1986. Opcode hacked the game to make it run on the Colecovision thanks to his SuperGame Module and released it in 2016.
Some screenshots from www.mobygames.com