Super Bonk

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Super Bonk
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Developer(s) A.I Co, Ltd.
Publisher(s) Hudson Soft
Director(s) Shoichi Yoshikawa
Artist(s) Kobuta Aoki
Composer(s) Kennosuke Suemura
Series Bonk
Platform(s) Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Release
Genre(s) Platform
Mode(s) Single-player

Super Bonk (released in Europe as Super B.C. Kid and in Japan as Super Genjin) is a 1994 platform video game developed by A.I. Co, Ltd. and published by Hudson Soft for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the fourth game in the Bonk series.

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Gameplay

The fourth game in the regular Bonk series, its gameplay is similar to Bonk 3. Super Bonk allows Bonk to travel through time from his prehistoric levels to the inside of a dinosaur, a version of modern Chinatown, and the moon. Along the way, Bonk can find power ups that can change his form to creatures, such as the shooting Bonk Crab, a dinosaur form called Big Kronk, candies that change his size from tiny to huge travel through transportation tubes and find multiple bonus levels. Additionally, Bonk uses his head to smash his enemies, propeller seeds allow Bonk to fly, and for the first time can carry flowers on his head in his continuing battle against his arch nemesis King Drool.

Development and release

The game was later re-released for the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on November 16, 2010, in Europe on December 10, and in North America on April 4, 2011. [4] [5] [6]

Reception

Super Bonk garnered an average reception from critics, holding a rating of 71.50% based on four reviews according to review aggregator GameRankings. [7] The Japanese publication Micom BASIC Magazine ranked the game ninth in popularity in its October 1994 issue, and it received a 22.2/30 score in a readers' poll conducted by Super Famicom Magazine. [18] [19] GamePro 's Tommy Glide praised the clever usage of Bonk's various forms, the crisp graphics, the easy controls, and the numerous bonus rounds, but nonetheless gave Super Bonk an overall negative assessment, concluding that platformer fans in general and Bonk fans in particular would find very little new content about the game. [20] In 1995, Total! ranked the game as number 44 on its list of the top 100 SNES games, writing: "Despite slightly awkward controls this is an amusing, well crafted and gripping platformer". [21]

References

  1. ↑ Nakamura, Kyōko (August 1994). "スーパーファミコン". Micom BASIC Magazine  [ ja ] (supplement). Super Soft Hot Information (in Japanese). No. 146. The Dempa Shimbunsha Corporation  [ ja ]. pp. 17–21.
  2. ↑ "Super NES Games" (PDF). Nintendo. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 20, 2008. Retrieved March 8, 2025.
  3. 1 2 Davies, Paul; McVittie, Andy (February 1995). "Review: Super B.C. Kid". Nintendo Magazine System . No. 29. United Kingdom: EMAP. pp. 86–88.
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101118013139/https://www.inside-games.jp/article/2010/11/16/45668.html
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101214071602/https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2010/12/nintendo_download_10th_december_2010_europe
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110407002305/https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2011/04/nintendo_download_4th_april_2011_north_america
  7. 1 2 "Super Bonk for Super Nintendo". GameRankings . CBS Interactive. 2013. Archived from the original on June 24, 2013. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  8. ↑ Thompson, Jon (1998). "Super Bonk - Review". AllGame . All Media Network. Archived from the original on November 17, 2014. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  9. ↑ Thomas, Lucas M. (April 28, 2011). "Super Bonk Review - Wii Review at IGN". IGN . IGN Entertainment. Archived from the original on May 1, 2011. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  10. ↑ Dillard, Corbie (December 11, 2010). "Super Bonk Review (SNES)". Nintendo Life . Nlife Ltd. Archived from the original on May 3, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Now Playing: Super Bonk". Nintendo Power . Vol. 67. Nintendo of America. December 1994. pp. 103, 107.
  12. ↑ Mott, Tony (October 1994). "Import Review: Super PC Kid". Super Play . No. 24. Future Publishing. pp. 52–53.
  13. ↑ Atkins, Sean; Bilson, Josse (February 1995). "Total! SNES Review: Super BC Kid". Total! . No. 38. Future Publishing. pp. 32–33.
  14. ↑ Kalkuhl, Magnus (May 1995). "Test: Super B.C. Kid". Total! (in German). No. 24. MVL-Verlag. pp. 26–27. Archived from the original on March 25, 2025. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  15. ↑ Lawler, Louise (January 1998). "Super Nintendo Review: Super BC Kid". Nintendo Magazine System . No. 58. Australia: Catalyst Publishing. pp. 46–49.
  16. ↑ Guttery, Miles; Smith, Mark (April 1995). "Super NES Review: BC Kid". Super Gamer. No. 13. Paragon Publishing. p. 34.
  17. ↑ "Ultimate Review Sector: Super BC Kid". Ultimate Future Games . No. 3. Future Publishing. February 1995. p. 94.
  18. ↑ Nakamura, Kyōko (October 1994). "スーパーファミコン". Micom BASIC Magazine  [ ja ] (supplement). Super Soft Hot Information (in Japanese). No. 148. The Dempa Shimbunsha Corporation  [ ja ]. pp. 18–22.
  19. ↑ "超絶 大技林 '98年春版". PlayStation Magazine  [ ja ] (Special) (in Japanese). Vol. 42. Tokuma Shoten Intermedia. April 15, 1998. p. 247.
  20. ↑ Tommy Glide (February 1995). "ProReview: Super Bonk". GamePro . No. 67. IDG. p. 62.
  21. ↑ "Top 100 SNES Games". Total! . No. 43. Future Publishing. July 1995. pp. 38–48.


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