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1994 · Red Entertainment · Adventure · Platformer

Super Bonk

Nintendo exclusive

The fourth game in the regular "Bonk" caveman series, Bonk is back on his first Super Nintendo outing.

Released
22 July 1994
Platforms
SNESWii
Genres
AdventurePlatformer
Developers
Red Entertainment
Publishers
Hudson Soft
Series
Bonk
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Side view
Themes
FantasyComedyKids
Country
Japan
Age ratings
ESRB ECERO APEGI 3
Languages
English, Japanese

About

Super Bonk (released in Europe as Super B.C. Kid and in Japan as Super Genjin (超原人)) is a 1994 platform video game developed by A.I. Co, Ltd. and published by Hudson Soft for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the fourth game in the Bonk series.

Keywords

  • dinosaurs
  • time travel
  • wii virtual console
  • nintendo gateway system

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

The fourth game in the regular Bonk series, its gameplay is similar to Bonk 3. Super Bonk allows Bonk to travel through time from his prehistoric levels to the inside of a dinosaur, a version of modern Chinatown, and the moon. Along the way, Bonk can find power-ups that can change his form into creatures, such as the shooting Bonk Crab, a dinosaur form called Big Kronk, and candies that change his size from tiny to huge. He can also travel through transportation tubes and find multiple bonus levels. Additionally, Bonk uses his head to smash his enemies, propeller seeds allow Bonk to fly, and for the first time can carry flowers on his head in his continuing battle against his arch nemesis King Drool.

Development

Super Bonk was released for the Super Famicom in Japan on July 22, 1994.

The game was later re-released for the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on November 16, 2010, in Europe on December 10, and in North America on April 4, 2011.

Reception

Super Bonk garnered an average reception from critics, holding a rating of 71.50% based on four reviews according to review aggregator GameRankings. The Japanese publication Micom BASIC Magazine ranked the game ninth in popularity in its October 1994 issue, and it received a 22.2/30 score in a readers' poll conducted by Super Famicom Magazine. GamePro's Tommy Glide praised the clever usage of Bonk's various forms, the crisp graphics, the easy controls, and the numerous bonus rounds, but nonetheless gave Super Bonk an overall negative assessment, concluding that platformer fans in general and Bonk fans in particular would find very little new content about the game. In 1995, Total! ranked the game as number 44 on its list of the top 100 SNES games, writing: "Despite slightly awkward controls this is an amusing, well crafted and gripping platformer".

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
SNES22 July 1994Japan · North America 31 December 1994
Wii16 November 2010Japan · Australia 10 December 2010 · Europe 10 December 2010 · North America 4 April 2011

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