Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
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This is the game that started it all. It tells the tale of a baby crocodile that got washed up on Forest Island. King Rufus, King of the Gobbo Archipelago, adopted the orphan and raised him, teaching him the ways of the Gobbos. But one fateful day, the miserable magician Baron Dante invaded Gobbo Valley.