Publisher:	Hudson Soft
Year:	1993
Style:	Platformer
Rarity:	B+ (Much rarer)
Initial Release Form:	TurboGrafx 16 cart
Licensed:	Yes
Added On:	May 6 21:41:02 GMT 2001

From the Crown Princes of bizarre videogames comes a port of their amazingly successful TurboGrafx 16 title, Bonk's Adventure. Released the same year as the third installment of the series for the TG16, the NES port came fairly late in the life of active commercial NES development.

The strange and wonderful Bonk franchise centres around a hydrocephalic caveman with meat digestion issues and a lust for destruction. Run right, smash dinosaurs with face. Eat meat, make head still larger. Punish.

Despite being whacked on floor polish most of the time, Hudson developers know platformers. As usual, this game has great control, nice graphics and ... interesting ... music. The game layout is the same as the original (as far as I can recall), complete with the bonus levels. Again, as with the original, the game doesn't present much of a challenge. On the other hand, the sheer quantity of secrets, bonus levels and cracked-out items keeps the replay value high.

A final note about this game is its rarity. Although listed by credible sources as being B+, I have never even seen a cart of Bonk's Adventure for the NES, much less found one for sale. This leads me to wonder if the North American distribution of this particular title was concentrated in a small geographical area, or somesuch. If anyone out there has more information, please feel free to enlighten me.