Hover Bovver - Sequel

Sequel

Minter himself later released a sequel, Hovver Bovver 2, for the PC and PocketPC platforms. This introduced a large number of new features, namely:

• The gardener's speed increased with the number of flowers mowed. If all flowers on the board were mowed, "the police" appeared to chase the player - five extremely fast enemies who were immune to the dog. Completing a level with the police active was nearly impossible but, if achieved, awarded an extremely large number of points.

• Dog Tolerance dropped much more slowly, and crashing into the dog with the mower no longer dropped Dog Tolerance to zero; instead, it caused "the vet" to appear, an enemy behaving as the others but immune to the dog's attacks.

• The player again had five lives instead of three: the mowers were provided by Jim, Tom, and Alf (as in the original game) followed by "The Ex-Queen Mother's Flunky" and Yak.

• The dog would occasionally relieve itself on the lawn. The player could prevent the dog from doing this by spending Loyalty. If allowed to proceed, the resulting dog mess would slow down the mower if the player collided with it, but it would also freeze any enemy colliding with it for a long period of time.

• A "dog toy" could be collected which, if collected and thrown to the dog, would increase remaining Loyalty and Tolerance at the cost of the player being unable to use the dog for a period of time.

• Some levels featured a "weed killer" which if collected, would gradually destroy all of the flowers on the level, thus inevitably leading to the gardener and police appearing. Levels featuring the weed killer tended to be extremely brief and frantic.

• Sheep would gradually appear to assist the player in mowing the lawn by eating grass.