Bonk's Adventure

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Bonk's Adventure

Developer(s)	Red Company Hudson Soft
Publisher(s)	Hudson Soft Famicom NES Game Boy NEC PC-Engine TurboGrafx 16
Release date	PC-Engine: December 16, 1989 (JP) TurboGrafx 16: 1990 (NA) Game Boy: December 1992 (NA) Famicom: July 30, 1993 (JP) NES: 1993 (NA) Virtual Console: November 21, 2006 (NA) December 2, 2006 (JP) December 8, 2006 (EU)
Genre	2D platformer
Mode(s)	Single player
Age rating(s)	N/A NES Game Boy PC-Engine TurboGrafx 16 ESRB: E Virtual Console
Platform(s)	Nintendo Entertainment System Game Boy PC-Engine TurboGrafx 16 Virtual Console
Media	Cartridge NES HuCard PC-Engine TurboGrafx 16
Input	NES Controller Turbo Pad Gamecube Controller Wii Remote Classic Controller
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Bonk's Adventure is a game released for the TurboGrafx-16, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and the Gameboy. It is the first game of the series released for the TurboGrafx-16 that features the main character Bonk, who according to Hudson Soft was originally created as a comic book character called PC Genjin for their PC Engine magazine. So many people liked the character that there were talks held on giving him a game of his own. Despite his origin, Bonk was elevated to being a mascot game character for that system as Mario became that for the Nintendo systems and Sonic for the Sega systems.

[edit] Gameplay

You play Bonk, the hard-headed cave child who battles anthropomorphic dinosaurs and other prehistoric themed enemies. Bonk's mission is to rescue Princess Za (a small pink Pleisiosaur-type reptile) who has been kidnapped by the evil King Drool (a large, green, Tyrannosaurus-type dinosaur). In the Arcade version, he is also assisted by a female version of himself.

Bonk uses his head (quite literally) to defeat his enemies by bonking them. Besides running and jumping, he can use his teeth to climb up cliff walls in the levels he encounters on his journey. He can swallow meat, which powers him up temporarily and incrementally; the second meat he eats after the first will allow him to stun his enemies by pounding the ground with his head, and the third meat after that will give him temporary invulnerability.