Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose!

Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose!
North American cover art
Developer(s)Konami
Publisher(s)Konami
Composer(s)
  • Kazuhiko Uehara
  • Yukie Morimoto
Platform(s)Super NES
Release
  • JP: December 18, 1992
  • NA: February 1993
  • EU: June 24, 1993
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)Single-player

Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose! (released in Japan as Tiny Toon Adventures) is a video game for the Super NES console that is based on the animated TV series Tiny Toon Adventures. It was developed and published by Konami, released in 1992 in Japan and in 1993 in Europe and North America.

Gameplay

This game features Buster Bunny in a side-scrolling adventure. It has three difficulty level settings: easy, normal, and hard (in game they are known as "Children", "Normal" and "Challenge" modes respectively) (except the Japanese version which only has easy and normal). Levels are significantly smaller in easy mode, and Buster only has one health container in hard mode, although extra containers can be collected by exploring the levels. The number of containers are reset after each level. This is done to add more of a challenge in this mode.

There are a total of six levels in the game when played normally (the fifth level is removed in easy mode). Buster's objectives vary from level to level, ranging from feeding Dizzy Devil so he stops destroying the school kitchen to defeating "Duck Vader". As is common for the era, the full ending is only accessed by finishing the game on hard (or normal in the Japanese release). After completing each level, the player is given a chance to earn extra lives by playing a minigame, the type of which is determined by spinning a wheel based on the one seen in the episode, "The Wheel O'Comedy".

Reception

IGN ranked the game 99th in their "Top 100 SNES Games of All Time" praising the game as a "impressively varied hop-and-bop platformer".[9] In 2018, Complex placed the game 92nd on their "The Best Super Nintendo Games of All Time" describing the game as " Sheer platforming bliss".[10] Nintendo Power rated the game the tenth best SNES game of 1993.[11] In 1995, Total! listed the game 96th on its "Top 100 SNES Games."[12]

References

  1. ^ Anglin, Paul; Rand, Paul (March 1993). "Tiny Toon Adventures". Computer and Video Games. No. 136. pp. 54–55. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
  2. ^ Skid; Brody; Slick, Tom; The Enquirer (February 1993). "Viewpoint". GameFan. Vol. 1, no. 4. pp. 8–10. Retrieved August 18, 2021 – via Archive.org.
  3. ^ Andy Lowe (March 18, 1993). "GamesMaster Issue 4". GamesMaster (4): 50.
  4. ^ "Now Playing". Nintendo Power. Vol. 46. March 1993. pp. 102–107. Retrieved August 18, 2021 – via Archive.org.
  5. ^ "Buster Busts Loose". Super Play Gold. 1993. p. 29. Retrieved August 18, 2021 – via Archive.org.
  6. ^ Steve (June 1993). "Buster Busts Loose!". Total!. No. 18. pp. 36–37. Retrieved August 18, 2021 – via Archive.org.
  7. ^ "Tiny Toon Adventures". Video Games (in German). March 1993. pp. 40–41. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
  8. ^ "Super Tiny Toons". Power Play (in German). March 1993. pp. 96–97. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
  9. ^ "Top 100 SNES Games of All Time". IGN. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
  10. ^ Knight, Rich (April 30, 2018). "The Best Super Nintendo Games of All Time". Complex. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  11. ^ "The Top Titles of 1993". Nintendo Power. Vol. 56. January 1994. pp. 2–5. Retrieved January 23, 2022 – via Archive.org.
  12. ^ "Top 100 SNES Games". Total! (43): 48. July 1995. Retrieved February 21, 2022 – via Archive.org.