Very obscure Game Boy game for a very obscure tie-in movie of the same name, that has no business in being a game.
Published by FCI in the US, with developer credit left up to interpretation but it's mostly an in-house developed game.
Tasmania Story plays like a terrible version of Namco's Mappy, but is actually a terrible old port of a mediocre MSX game, Fruit Panic. In essence, the gameplay consists of collecting all the items, plus bonus items for that sweet extra points (like that has any of value in 2023 let alone even in 1991), in a single screen level with a 5 level platform. It be a simple and very mind numbing game, but at least they had the courtesy of placing enemy obstacles in the level. Eliminating the roaming monsters is simply done by landing on top of them from a platform, or with the use of a limited number of bombs (The bombs don't really explode in time nor explode for that matter, that's a minus star in graphics already there). Ok sure, sounds simple enough, right? Well… the controls is where shit hits the fan, they are very unresponsive to the point where you are always ganged up by the monsters with little to no chance in deploying your bombs, because of how slow the control responds to your inputs, it doesn't help that the game is quite fast paced too.
Not much to say, it's a port of an old Mappy clone that doesn't spruce up the gameplay for 1990's Game Boy standards.
The graphics are just awful even for an early Game Boy game, with it's only saving grace is the impressive opening demo, but that isn't saying much. Items and bonus items try to tie itself to the Film, so they represent the Australian flora and fauna along with the wildlife as the bonus items, like generic cacti, generic triangle shaped trees, Koalas and Penguins as examples. Monsters are generic smiling cat-eared demons with no body, and the player is ablackfaced generic boy with a striped shirt, short and a ballcap hat. Yeah that totally did not age well
Music is only in the opening demo, not much to say again.
Story is non-existent, it tries it's darnest to tie-in with the Film, a drama-after-school special film, where a Japanese kid visites his Father in Australia and help him find the extinct Tasmania Tiger, that had it's last know appearance back in the 1960's.
This is no Kosuge, this is just shit.
Published by FCI in the US, with developer credit left up to interpretation but it's mostly an in-house developed game.
Tasmania Story plays like a terrible version of Namco's Mappy, but is actually a terrible old port of a mediocre MSX game, Fruit Panic. In essence, the gameplay consists of collecting all the items, plus bonus items for that sweet extra points (like that has any of value in 2023 let alone even in 1991), in a single screen level with a 5 level platform. It be a simple and very mind numbing game, but at least they had the courtesy of placing enemy obstacles in the level. Eliminating the roaming monsters is simply done by landing on top of them from a platform, or with the use of a limited number of bombs (The bombs don't really explode in time nor explode for that matter, that's a minus star in graphics already there). Ok sure, sounds simple enough, right? Well… the controls is where shit hits the fan, they are very unresponsive to the point where you are always ganged up by the monsters with little to no chance in deploying your bombs, because of how slow the control responds to your inputs, it doesn't help that the game is quite fast paced too.
Not much to say, it's a port of an old Mappy clone that doesn't spruce up the gameplay for 1990's Game Boy standards.
The graphics are just awful even for an early Game Boy game, with it's only saving grace is the impressive opening demo, but that isn't saying much. Items and bonus items try to tie itself to the Film, so they represent the Australian flora and fauna along with the wildlife as the bonus items, like generic cacti, generic triangle shaped trees, Koalas and Penguins as examples. Monsters are generic smiling cat-eared demons with no body, and the player is a
Music is only in the opening demo, not much to say again.
Story is non-existent, it tries it's darnest to tie-in with the Film, a drama-after-school special film, where a Japanese kid visites his Father in Australia and help him find the extinct Tasmania Tiger, that had it's last know appearance back in the 1960's.
This is no Kosuge, this is just shit.