The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (video game)

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Box art of Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Developer(s) Seta
Publisher(s) Seta
Platform(s) Famicom/NES
Release date 1989
Genre(s) Platform game
Mode(s) Single player, multiplayer
Media 40 KB cartridge

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a video game created for the Nintendo Entertainment System & Famicom in August 1989 by Seta and was based upon the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.

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[edit] Plot

Tom Sawyer is dreaming, and in this dream he must save Becky from Injun Joe, he must travel through six stages to get to her. He encounters various creatures including a Giant Octopus, a Giant Aligator in the Mississippi River, Ghosts and Ghouls in a haunted house, God, and a dragon. He wakes up from the dream and finds himself in his Mississippi classroom. He finds a feather on his desk. The feather that belonged to Injun Joe. Was it a dream...?

[edit] Overview

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a platformer similar to Super Mario Brothers, wherein one plays as Tom Sawyer. The game is not to be confused with Square's Tom Sawyer.

[edit] Reception

Charlie Reneke of the True Classic Gaming blog rated the Adventures of Tom Sawyer one star out of five and noted the play control as being broken.

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