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title: "Collateral Thinking"
url: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/releases/nintendo-wii-u/collateral-thinking/"
description: "Collateral Thinking is an arcade-style action platformer for Wii U that’s all about beating up alien ghosts, recovering blueprints, and rescuing billionaires on a tight schedule (and budget)."
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2016-08-18 12:00:15"
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Collateral Thinking | Nintendo Wii U Releases | NintendoReporters

 [![Collateral Thinking](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/collateral-thinking.jpeg "Collateral Thinking")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/collateral-thinking.jpeg)![Preview Image](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/44f9d21ba5cd24e2756f15a654119a66.jpeg "Preview Image")

Collateral Thinking is an arcade-style action platformer for Wii U that’s all about beating up alien ghosts, recovering blueprints, and rescuing billionaires on a tight schedule (and budget).

Each level is a self-contained screen that gives you one of three specific tasks to complete in 30 short seconds – to “Avoid” all the hazards, to “Bust” all the enemies, or to “Collect” all the blueprints.

These quick-fire challenges force you to quickly survey your surroundings and then jump into action in order to progress through the 100+ floors and net as much cash as possible along the way. Collateral Thinking takes the single-screen management of yesterday’s classics and then cranks up the speed and the absurdity by 100 for unpredictable, impulsive action!

 With over 100 levels, three playable characters, and a ton of toe-tapping tunes, Collateral Thinking is more than ready to satisfy your arcade addiction!

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