Bonk's Adventure

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Game only: the cartridge in a protective holder, no box or manual. For the specifics, look to the photos — they're of this exact cartridge. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.

Item Description

Bonk solves every problem the same way: with his enormous skull. The big-headed caveman was Hudson's answer to Mario and Sonic on the TurboGrafx-16, and this 1992 Game Boy outing from Red Company, the studio that created him, is not a shrunk-down port but a fresh adventure with its own levels, bosses and tricks, wrapped around the same story of King Drool and the kidnapped Moon Princess.

The head-butt is the whole toolkit, and it has more depth than it first appears. Bonk bonks enemies from below, flips through the air by hammering the attack button mid-jump to stretch his airtime, and bounces off foes to reach higher ledges, all while deciding whether he lands head-first or feet-first. He clings to walls with his teeth to climb them. Meat is the classic power-up: a small piece powers him up and gives his head-first landings real stopping power, while a big slab bumps him two levels at once into a temporarily invincible form. Springy flowers launch him skyward to gain altitude on enemies, and knocking heads with the nastier beasts becomes a test of timing.

Each round pushes Bonk deeper into Drool's savage dinosaur land, with monsters and traps that lean hard into cartoon absurdity, and the bosses are oversized prehistoric brutes that only make sense in a world where a caveman fights with his forehead. Beating them is a pattern-learning puzzle: find the opening, time the jump and bring the skull down at exactly the right moment.

Short, charming and easy to come back to, it sits comfortably beside Super Mario Land and Kirby's Dream Land as a pick-up-and-play handheld platformer. It is a fun way to see a rival console's mascot running around on Nintendo hardware, and since it is an original game rather than a port, its levels and bosses are its own rather than retreads of the TurboGrafx-16 adventure.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1992
Publisher
Hudson Soft
Developer
Red Company
Players
Single player
About the game

Join Bonk on his all new adventure as he travels through the savage dinosaur land in search of the beautiful Moon Princess! The slimy King Drool, has kidnapped her! Now Bonk has to use his head (literally), to save the princess and the kingdom! Use powerful head-butts to blast King Drool's fools off the map! Spring off the local flowers to gain altitude on your enemies. Knock heads with nasty beasts to prove who's king of the jungle! Explore an incredible realm filled with monsters, traps and the toughest kid from prehistoric times, BONK!

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