Tiny Toon Adventures (video game)

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Tiny Toon Adventures
Tiny Toon Adventures NES cover.jpg
North American cover art
Developer Konami
Publisher Konami
Director Kazuyuki Yamashita
Programmer Yūji Shibata
Artists
  • Kazumichi Ishihara
  • Hirotaka Fukuda
Composers
  • Jun Funahashi
  • Masae Nakashima
  • Satoko Miyawaki
Platform Nintendo Entertainment System
Release
  • JP: December 20, 1991
  • NA: December 1991
  • EU: October 22, 1992
Genre Platformer
Mode Single-player

Tiny Toon Adventures is a platform video game for the NES. It was developed and published by Konami and released in 1991. It is the first Tiny Toon Adventures video game to be released for a video game console. [1]

Contents

Gameplay

Player controlling Buster Tiny Toon Adventures NES screenshot.png
Player controlling Buster

The player initially controls Buster Bunny in the effort to rescue Babs Bunny from her kidnapper, Montana Max (aka Monty). Before each world, the player can select an alternate character that they can switch into if they find a star ball. The three alternate characters are Dizzy Devil, Furrball, and Plucky Duck. Dizzy, Furrball, and Plucky have unique abilities that Buster lacks: Plucky can briefly fly and swim better than others, Dizzy can destroy walls and most enemies with his spin mode, and Furrball can climb many vertical surfaces, slowly sliding down them rather than plunging down. However, Buster can jump higher than others.

The first four worlds (The Hills, The Wetlands, The Trees, and Downtown) have three levels each while the remaining two worlds (Wackyland and Monty's Mansion) only have one level. Aiding Buster is Hamton, who will give Buster an extra lives for 30 carrots each. The second level in each world concludes with an enclosed area where the player must avoid Elmyra and exit through the door; if the player is grabbed by Elmyra, they must start the world over. The third level in each world concludes with a boss battle.

Development and release

Reception

According to Famitsu , Tiny Toon Adventures sold 11,572 copies during its lifetime in Japan. [19] The game received generally favorable reviews from critics. [4] [6] [8] [20]

Nintendo Power had placed the game at 19th for March 1993 of their magazine regarding Top 20 NES games at that point. [21]

References

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