Software:Harley's Humongous Adventure

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Harley's Humongous Adventure
Harley's Humongous Adventure
North American box art
Developer(s)Visual Concepts
Publisher(s)
  • NA: Hi Tech Expressions
  • JP: Altron
Composer(s)Brian Schmidt
Platform(s)Super NES
Release
  • NA: February 1993
  • JP: October 28, 1994
Genre(s)Action
Mode(s)Single-player

Harley's Humongous Adventure is a side-scrolling 2D platform video game released in 1993 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It was originally developed by Visual Concepts, and funded by publisher Electronic Arts, but eventually published by Hi Tech Expressions.

Gameplay

Screenshot of a fly vomiting onto the player character.

The player controls Harley, a man in a green suit who has shrunk himself to the size of a bar of soap. Harley's mission is to gather the parts of his shrinking machine to return himself to normal size. Harley advances through the levels, picking up items such as tacks, rubberbands, and marbles. Harley adventures through his lab, where the initial incident occurs, his kitchen, his toy room, where the player pilots a toy tank by himself, his bathroom, and other stages.

Enemies include flies, bees, and ants. Players must avoid such enemy attacks as the flies vomiting overhead. The main boss is a deformed rat that tries to jump on Harley, and after each encounter utilizes a household item for the limb he had lost in the previous encounter.

Development

Visually, the game utilizes a mix of pixel art for the stage backgrounds, the menus and most objects, and digitized clay animation models for all characters. The clay animation was produced by A-OK Animation, who had also worked on Claymates, another Super NES game featuring a somewhat similar graphical style.

The game was programmed, and designed in part, by Brian Greenstone of Pangea Software. This programmer previously wrote games for the Apple IIGS computer, which happens to share the same 65C816 microprocessor as the Super NES.

The box art was created for EA by veteran gaming illustrator Marc Ericksen. It features Harley blasting out of the kitchen sink, holding a red plastic push pin for scale reference.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
GameRankings63.63% (4 reviews)[1]
Review scores
PublicationScore
AllGameStarStarStarHalf star[2]
CVG45/100[3]
EGM28/40[4]
Famitsu21/40[5]
GameFan72.75%[lower-alpha 1]
GamePro16.5/20[7]
Mega Fun58/100[8]
Nintendo Power14.1/20[9]
Total!45%[11]
Video Games (DE)77%[12]
Control60%[14]
Electronic Games83%[15]
Super Action89%[16]

Notes

  1. ↑ In GameFan's review, four critics scored Harley's Humongous Adventure differently: 80%, 77%, 69%, and 65%.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Harley's Humongous Adventure Review Score". https://www.gamerankings.com/snes/588369-harleys-humongous-adventure/index.html. 
  2. ↑ Weiss, Brett Alan. "Harley's Humongous Adventure – Review". Archived from the original on November 14, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141114145039/http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=14086&tab=review. Retrieved July 15, 2021. 
  3. ↑ "Harley's Humongous Adventure". Computer and Video Games (138): 96. May 1993. https://archive.org/details/Computer_and_Video_Games_Issue_0138/page/96/mode/2up?q=%22Harley%27s+Humongous+Adventure%22. Retrieved July 15, 2021. 
  4. ↑ Harris, Steve; Semrad, Ed; Alessi, Martin; Sushi-X (October 1992). "Humongous". Electronic Gaming Monthly 5 (10): 26. https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Gaming_Monthly_039/page/n25/mode/2up?q=%22Harley%27s+Humongous+Adventure%22. Retrieved July 15, 2021. 
  5. ↑ "NEW GAMES CROSS REVIEW: 科学者ハリーの波乱万丈. [sic]". Weekly Famicom Tsūshin (307): 38. November 4, 1994. 
  6. ↑ Skid; Sgt. Gamer; Slick, Tom; The Enquirer (April 1993). "Viewpoint". GameFan 1 (5): 14–16. https://archive.org/details/GamefanVolume1Issue05April1993ALT/page/n13/mode/2up?q=%22Harley%27s+Humongous+Adventure%22. Retrieved July 12, 2021. 
  7. ↑ Brother Buzz (October 1992). "Harley's Humongous Adventure". GamePro (39): 64. https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_039_October_1992/page/n65/mode/2up?q=%22Harley%27s+Humongous+Adventure%22. Retrieved July 15, 2021. 
  8. ↑ "Harley's Humongous Adventure" (in de). Mega Fun: 19. February 1993. https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File%3AMegaFun_DE_1993-02.pdf&page=19. Retrieved July 15, 2021. 
  9. ↑ "Now Playing". Nintendo Power 45: 102–106. February 1993. https://archive.org/details/nintendo-power-issue-127-december-1999/Nintendo%20Power%20Issue%20045%20February%201993/page/102/mode/2up?q=%22Harley%27s+Humongous+Adventure%22. Retrieved July 15, 2021. 
  10. ↑ Bielby, Matt (April 1993). "Harley's Humongous Adventure". Super Play (6): 69. 
  11. ↑ James (April 1993). "Harley's Humongous Adventure". Total! (16): 41. https://archive.org/details/total-16-april-1993/page/n37/mode/2up. Retrieved July 15, 2021. 
  12. ↑ "Humongous Adventure" (in de). Video Games: 44. March 1993. https://archive.org/details/video-games-de-1993-03/page/44/mode/2up?q=harley. Retrieved July 15, 2021. 
  13. ↑ Meston, Zach (December 1992). "Harley's Humongous Adventure". Video Games & Computer Entertainment (47): 58. https://archive.org/details/vgce_92-12/page/n59/mode/2up?q=%22Harley%27s+Humongous+Adventure%22. Retrieved July 15, 2021. 
  14. ↑ Allie (March 1993). "Harley's Humongous Adventure". Control (7): 22–23. https://archive.org/details/control-7/page/n21/mode/2up?q=%22Harley%27s+Humongous+Adventure%22. Retrieved July 15, 2021. 
  15. ↑ Kunkel, Bill (October 1992). "Harley's Humongous Adventure". Electronic Games 1 (1): 70. https://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1992-10/page/n69/mode/2up?q=%22Harley%27s+Humongous+Adventure%22. Retrieved July 15, 2021. 
  16. ↑ Kirrane, Simon (April 1993). "Harley's Humongous Adventure". Super Action (7): 16–19. https://archive.org/details/super-action-07/page/n15/mode/2up?q=%22Harley%27s+Humongous+Adventure%22. Retrieved July 15, 2021. 
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See also

  • IGDB – game database used by Twitch for its search and discovery functions

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sheehan, Gavin (2023-02-22). "Atari Relaunches The Fully Rebuilt & Optimized MobyGames Website". https://bleedingcool.com/games/atari-relaunches-the-fully-rebuilt-optimized-mobygames-website/. 
  2. ↑ Litchfield, Ted (2021-11-26). "Zombie company Atari to devour MobyGames". https://www.pcgamer.com/zombie-company-atari-to-devour-mobygames/. 
  3. ↑ "MobyGames FAQ: Emails Answered § When will my submission be approved?". Blue Flame Labs. 30 March 2014. http://www.mobygames.com/info/faq7#g1. 
  4. ↑ "The MobyGames Standards and Practices". Blue Flame Labs. 6 January 2016. http://www.mobygames.com/info/standards. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Miller, Stanley A. (2003-04-22). "People's choice awards honor favorite Web sites". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 
  6. ↑ "20 Years of MobyGames" (in en). 2019-02-28. https://trixter.oldskool.org/2019/02/28/20-years-of-mobygames/. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Plunkett, Luke (2022-03-10). "Atari Buys MobyGames For $1.5 Million". https://kotaku.com/mobygames-retro-credits-database-imdb-atari-freyholtz-b-1848638521. 
  8. ↑ "Report: MobyGames Acquired By GameFly Media". Gamasutra. 2011-02-07. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/report-mobygames-acquired-by-gamefly-media. 
  9. ↑ Corriea, Alexa Ray (December 31, 2013). "MobyGames purchased from GameFly, improvements planned". http://www.polygon.com/2013/12/31/5261414/mobygames-purchased-from-gamefly-improvements-planned. 
  10. ↑ Wawro, Alex (31 December 2013). "Game dev database MobyGames getting some TLC under new owner". Gamasutra. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/game-dev-database-mobygames-getting-some-tlc-under-new-owner. 
  11. ↑ "Atari invests in Anstream, may buy MobyGames". November 24, 2021. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-11-24-atari-invests-in-anstream-may-buy-mobygames. 
  12. ↑ Rousseau, Jeffrey (2022-03-09). "Atari purchases Moby Games". https://www.gamesindustry.biz/atari-purchases-moby-games. 
  13. ↑ "Atari Completes MobyGames Acquisition, Details Plans for the Site's Continued Support". March 8, 2022. https://www.atari.com/atari-completes-mobygames-acquisition-details-plans-for-the-sites-continued-support/. 
  14. ↑ "Atari has acquired game database MobyGames for $1.5 million" (in en-GB). 2022-03-09. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/atari-has-acquired-game-database-mobygames-for-1-5-million/. 
  15. ↑ Stanton, Rich (2022-03-10). "Atari buys videogame database MobyGames for $1.5 million". https://www.pcgamer.com/atari-buys-videogame-database-mobygames-for-dollar15-million/. 
  16. ↑ Harris, John (2024-03-09). "MobyGames Offering “Pro” Membership". https://setsideb.com/mobygames-offering-pro-membership/. 
  17. ↑ "MobyGames on Patreon". http://www.patreon.com/mobygames. 
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