One day soon after arriving on the moon, Bonk hears an incredible explosion. Oh, no! The Earth has split into two! The sinister King Drool has struck again. This is bad. Real bad. Bonk must return to the Earth immediately!
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The first Bonk’s Adventure on game boy is a pretty faithful port of the original. The level designs are simplified, but they’re spiritually similar enough. Bonk’s Revenge for game boy has nothing in common with the original Revenge. It’s a totally different design, and it’s far more bizarre.
It’s more difficult than Adventure, but still probably easier than any home version of Bonk. The power ups are totally new. When you eat meat 🍖 (this now happens every minute or so) you get to choose one of three power ups. The first makes you more powerful, and also makes you look like Venom. The second makes you a superhero; you jump higher and move faster. The third turns you into a burglar(!?), allowing you to open doors (with a Calvin-like grin).
The game is still a platformer, but these levels are more complicated and creative. This is aided by Bonk controlling smoother than previously. You can now cling to ceilings and floors along with walls, and the wall jump technique is easier to pull off. If I didn’t know better, Hudson started making a Spider-Man game here, then retrofitting the controls to Bonk.
This game contains a few fun bits of copyright infringement. There’s the Venom power up, the alien from Alien as a boss, and what seems to be a Robocop version of Bonk in special stages.
I grew up with the TG-16 Bonk games, but these game boy ports have been delightful surprises. They hold up as solid platformers, and the “grafx” remain first-rate.
Screenshots: https://parosilience.tumblr.com/tagged/Bonk%27s%20Revenge
It’s more difficult than Adventure, but still probably easier than any home version of Bonk. The power ups are totally new. When you eat meat 🍖 (this now happens every minute or so) you get to choose one of three power ups. The first makes you more powerful, and also makes you look like Venom. The second makes you a superhero; you jump higher and move faster. The third turns you into a burglar(!?), allowing you to open doors (with a Calvin-like grin).
The game is still a platformer, but these levels are more complicated and creative. This is aided by Bonk controlling smoother than previously. You can now cling to ceilings and floors along with walls, and the wall jump technique is easier to pull off. If I didn’t know better, Hudson started making a Spider-Man game here, then retrofitting the controls to Bonk.
This game contains a few fun bits of copyright infringement. There’s the Venom power up, the alien from Alien as a boss, and what seems to be a Robocop version of Bonk in special stages.
I grew up with the TG-16 Bonk games, but these game boy ports have been delightful surprises. They hold up as solid platformers, and the “grafx” remain first-rate.
Screenshots: https://parosilience.tumblr.com/tagged/Bonk%27s%20Revenge
I found this "port" curious because it looks more like a new game than a port itself, I like that you choose the transformations you want since in the original games you only had two transformations that you transformed from one to one. I'll admit that I really enjoyed the character's transformations, like one where he turns into a kind of demon and when you headbutt down, Bonk bites the enemy's head and as I'm a bit of an edgy bitch, I thought it was really cool, I like it. that the stages have a slightly different aesthetic to the originals, it's almost as if it were Super Mario Land 2 in the series, I haven't played it enough yet to rate it, but fuck it, I just wanted to comment on this guy, who knows, maybe one day I'll get it to play more seriously and do a detailed review.
Really really fucking glad I tried the Game Boy Bonk games. I was convinced they were just ports but they're completely new games.
And they're good ones! This one goes a step further from the first GB game and makes Bonk control even better. Everything else I said still applies to this game, as well. Except this game has slightly better boss fights and worse bonus levels (there's only one bonus level)
Play these games. They're short but very fun platformers.
And they're good ones! This one goes a step further from the first GB game and makes Bonk control even better. Everything else I said still applies to this game, as well. Except this game has slightly better boss fights and worse bonus levels (there's only one bonus level)
Play these games. They're short but very fun platformers.