A playthough of Konami's 1993 license-based platformer for the Super Nintendo, Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose. Played through on the "challenge" difficulty mode. Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose was one of several games Konami created based on the popular cartoon franchise, and it was very well received - so well, in fact, that Nintendo Power magazine awarded it the cover story of the March 1993 issue. The game is a fairly standard action-platformer with a few neat wrinkles to keep things interesting. Buster can blaze around stages, sometimes at near-Sonic speeds, as long as his dash gauge is charged. While dashing, he can also scale sheer vertical surfaces, which comes in handy for finding hidden power-ups and allowing for last minute saves after mistimed jumps. The stages have a surprising amount of variety to them (I absolutely loved the football stage!), and the bosses are pretty creatively designed - fights like the one where you have to feed Dizzy Devil until he passes out make for a big step up from bosses in the earlier Tiny Toon games. The graphics and sound are classic Konami all the way - the tunes are catchy and energetic, and the game pairs some excellent sprite-work with regular use of mode 7 effects for things like sprite rotation and scaling. As they did in Turtles in Time and The Legend of the Mystical Ninja, Konami's attention to detail manages to stitch the presentation together in a way that elevates the experience well beyond that of the typical SNES platformer. Despite the limitations of the SNES hardware, Buster Busts Loose effectively brings the cartoon to life. It's not a long or difficult game (I remember beating it on the hardest difficulty level over a weekend rental when it first came out, and I was only ten), but it really has stuck with me over the years. If you can appreciate a good license-based game, Buster Busts Loose is certainly one of the better ones that you'll find on the SNES. If you're interested, you can also find my video of the excellent follow-up game, Wacky Sports Challenge, here: And here is Buster's Hidden Treasure for the Genesis: _ No cheats were used during the recording of this video. NintendoComplete ( punches you in the face with in-depth reviews, screenshot archives, and music from classic 8-bit NES games!
