Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose

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Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose

Developer(s)	Konami
Publisher(s)	Konami
Release date(s)	^JPN December 1992 ^NA February 1993 ^EU 24 June 1993
Genre(s)	Platform game
Mode(s)	Single player
Platform(s)	Super NES

Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose (released in Japan as simply Tiny Toon Adventures) is a video game for the Super Nintendo console that is based on the animated TV series Tiny Toon Adventures. It was developed and released by Konami in 1993.

This game features Buster Bunny in a side-scrolling adventure that takes place in many different areas. The first level takes place in the school Acme Looniversity. The second level takes place in a Western movie set where Buster ends up facing Montana Max. The third level is a stereotypical haunted house called "Spook Mansion". The fourth level takes place on the football field where it is up to Buster Bunny to make the winning touchdown over Perfecto Prep's football team. The fifth stage (which is not accessible on the "Easy" mode) involves "sky jinks". And the sixth and final stage is a parody of the Star Wars movies.

[edit] The bonus games

In between stages, the player will be presented with a bonus stage format. It will feature Buster and Babs on a roulette called "Wheels 'O Game" (a.k.a. "Roulette"), much like the "Wheel o' Comedy" from the series. This portion of the game offers five mini-games in which you can play to win extra lives for the regular game. Landing on a specific character's face will result in that bonus game. They are:

Sweetie Pie: Mystery Weight Challenge (a.k.a. "Seesaw")

Game type: luck

Using the left side of the screen, the player will select Tiny Toons characters to randomly match up (and hopefully outweigh) the computer's selections on the right. Each character can only be used once for five rounds. In order from lightest to heaviest, the player gets Sweetie Pie (cannot win), Gogo Dodo (low chance of winning), Plucky Duck (fair chance of winning), Babs Bunny (good chance of winning) and Elmyra (cannot lose), while the computer gets Li'l Sneezer (cannot win), Li'l Beeper (low chance of winning), Shirley the Loon (fair chance of winning), Calamity Coyote (good chance of winning) and Montana Max (cannot lose). If the player's character ends up winning (ie. Plucky outweighing Li'l Beeper), the player will get an extra life, while nothing happens either if the computer wins (ie. Sweetie is outweighed by Shirley) or if the round ends in a tie (ie. choosing Elmyra against Montana Max). If the player has more wins than the computer (ie. 3 wins against 2, with no ties), they will win one extra life.

Hamton J. Pig: Hungry Boy Hamton (a.k.a. "Junction")

Game type: maze

A mini-game where Hamton is walking along a blue path towards apples. The player uses a hole in the ground to create the path for Hamton to follow (the control is a little confusing, as the player must press left for the hole to move right and vice versa). Each apple Hamton eats nets the player one extra life. The game ends when either time runs out, Hamton eats all the apples onscreen, hits either a blank spot on the floor or a path which goes against Hamton's path (causing Hamton to fall flat on his face) or falls through the hole in the floor.

Plucky Duck: Plucky Duck's Go-Go Bingo

Game type: luck

Plucky Duck hosts a bingo game where the player is trying to win extra lives. The player gets a bingo card featuring multiple pics of 10 different Tiny Toons characters; these pics include Babs Bunny, Plucky Duck, Shirley the Loon, Elmyra, Montana Max, Calamity Coyote, Li'l Beeper, Gogo Dodo, Sweetie Pie and Bookworm. When Plucky calls out a character's face, every picture of that character will be covered automatically. When a line is completed (either horizontally, vertically or diagonally), the player will win an extra life. The amount of balls Plucky will call depends on the difficulty. There are 8 in Children (Easy), 7 in Normal and 6 in Challenge (Hard). Ultimately, the player will win at least one life (except in the Hard difficulty, where it is possible to not win at all).

Furrball: Furrball's Championship Squash

Game type: sports

A mini-game where Furrball is playing squash against a wall while Hamton watches. Each time the ball is hit, it will speed up; and the ball must be hit 15 times in a row for the player to win an extra life. Periodically, one of three characters will run against the wall. Hitting them will reward the player differently. Hitting Calamity Coyote (the slowest) will grant the player more time. Hitting Concord Condor (the between speed character) will slow down the ball. Hitting Li'l Beeper (the quickest) will result in the player getting an automatic extra life. The game ends when the time is up.

Babs Bunny: Babs, find your friends! (a.k.a. "Maze")

Game type: maze

A mini-game where Babs Bunny has infiltrated Elmyra's house and must free her friends (Li'l Beeper, Calamity Coyote, Bookworm, Furrball, Concord Condor and Fifi La Fume) who are trapped behind locked doors. Patrolling the house is Elmyra (who walks around, and will speed up if Babs is in sight), Dizzy Devil (who stands in place unless tornado spinning, moves quickly) and Arnold the Pit Bull (walks around slowly, generally the least menacing). Touching the door will open it, resulting in that character being freed and the player is awarded an extra life. The game ends when Babs frees all her friends, time runs out or Babs comes in contact with either Elmyra, Dizzy or Arnold.

[edit] Notes

The player must have the L and R shoulder buttons set to command "Dash" for the player to advance beyond the train level in the second stage. Otherwise, Buster will walk off the train car before getting to the jump which will lead to the train to met up with Montana Max and the player will lose lives.
To have access to all the mini-games (and not need to spin the wheel, although it is an option) go to the password screen, and input Elmyra in the first box, Shirley the Loon in the second box and Calamity Coyote in the third box.