Software:Super Bonk

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Short description: 1994 video game

Super Bonk
Developer(s)A.I Co, Ltd.
Publisher(s)Hudson Soft
Director(s)Shoichi Yoshikawa
Artist(s)Kobuta Aoki
Composer(s)Kennosuke Suemura
SeriesBonk
Platform(s)Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Release
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)Single-player

Super Bonk (released in Europe as Super B.C. Kid and in Japan as Super Genjin) 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.

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 to creatures, such as the shooting Bonk Crab, a dinosaur form called Big Kronk, candies that change his size from tiny to huge 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 and release

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.[4][5][6]

Reception

Reception
Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
GameRankings71.50%[7]
Review scores
PublicationScore
AllGame4/5[8]
IGN5.5/10[9]
Nintendo Life8/10[10]
Nintendo Power3.05/5[11]
ONM83/100[3]
Total!(UK) 85/100[13]
(DE) 2[14]
Games Amusement Pleasure77%[15]
Nintendo Magazine System8/10[16]
Super Gamer85/100[17]
Ultimate Future Games91%[18]

Super Bonk garnered an average reception from critics, holding a rating of 71.50% based on four reviews according to review aggregator GameRankings.[7] 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.[19][20] 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.[21] 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".[22]

References

  1. ↑ "Super NES Games". Nintendo. http://www.nintendo.com:80/consumer/gameslist/manuals/snes_games.pdf. 
  2. ↑ Nakamura, Kyōko (August 1994). "スーパーファミコン" (in ja). Micom BASIC Magazine (ja). Super Soft Hot Information (The Dempa Shimbunsha Corporation (ja)) (146): 17–21. https://archive.org/details/micomBASIC_1994-08/page/n300/mode/1up. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Davies, Paul; McVittie, Andy (February 1995). "Review: Super B.C. Kid". Nintendo Magazine System (United Kingdom: EMAP) (29): 86–88. https://archive.org/details/nms-29/page/86/mode/2up. 
  4. ↑ "「バーチャルコンソール」「バーチャルコンソールアーケード」11月16日配信作品 | インサイド". https://www.inside-games.jp/article/2010/11/16/45668.html. 
  5. ↑ "Nintendo Download - 10th December 2010 (Europe) - Nintendo Life". https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2010/12/nintendo_download_10th_december_2010_europe. 
  6. ↑ "Nintendo Download: 4th April 2011 (North America) - Nintendo Life". https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2011/04/nintendo_download_4th_april_2011_north_america. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Super Bonk for Super Nintendo". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. 2013. http://www.gamerankings.com/snes/588722-super-bonk/index.html. 
  8. ↑ Thompson, Jon (1998). "Super Bonk - Review". AllGame. All Media Network. http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=7477&tab=review. 
  9. ↑ Thomas, Lucas M. (April 28, 2011). "Super Bonk Review - Wii Review at IGN". IGN. IGN Entertainment. http://wii.ign.com/articles/116/1164736p1.html. 
  10. ↑ Dillard, Corbie (December 11, 2010). "Super Bonk Review (SNES)". Nintendo Life. Nlife Ltd. http://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/2010/12/super_bonk_virtual_console. 
  11. ↑ "Now Playing: Super Bonk". Nintendo Power (Nintendo of America) 67: 103, 107. December 1994. 
  12. ↑ Mott, Tony (October 1994). "Import Review: Super PC Kid". Super Play (Future Publishing) (24): 52–53. 
  13. ↑ Atkins, Sean; Bilson, Josse (February 1995). "Total! SNES Review: Super BC Kid". Total! (Future Publishing) (38): 32–33. https://archive.org/details/total-38/page/n31/mode/2up. 
  14. ↑ Kalkuhl, Magnus (May 1995). "Test: Super B.C. Kid" (in de). Total! (MVL-Verlag) (24): 26–27. https://total.seppatoni.ch/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/snes_SuperBCKid.jpg. Retrieved 2025-03-25. 
  15. ↑ Lee, Onn (August 1994). "Reviews: Super PC Kid". Games Amusement Pleasure (2): 34. https://archive.org/details/1994-08-games-amusement-pleasure-02/page/35/mode/1up. 
  16. ↑ Lawler, Louise (January 1998). "Super Nintendo Review: Super BC Kid". Nintendo Magazine System (Australia: Catalyst Publishing) (58): 46–49. https://archive.org/details/nintendo_magazine_system-1998_01/page/n43/mode/2up. 
  17. ↑ Guttery, Miles; Smith, Mark (April 1995). "Super NES Review: BC Kid". Super Gamer (Paragon Publishing) (13): 34. https://archive.org/details/super-gamer-13/page/n33/mode/1up. 
  18. ↑ "Ultimate Review Sector: Super BC Kid". Ultimate Future Games (Future Publishing) (3): 94. February 1995. https://archive.org/details/ultimate-future-games-03_202007/page/n89/mode/1up. 
  19. ↑ Nakamura, Kyōko (October 1994). "スーパーファミコン" (in ja). Micom BASIC Magazine (ja). Super Soft Hot Information (The Dempa Shimbunsha Corporation (ja)) (148): 18–22. https://archive.org/details/micomBASIC_1994-10/page/n283/mode/1up. 
  20. ↑ "超絶 大技林 '98年春版" (in ja). PlayStation Magazine (Japan) (ja) (Special). 42. Tokuma Shoten Intermedia. April 15, 1998. p. 247. 
  21. ↑ Tommy Glide (February 1995). "ProReview: Super Bonk". GamePro (IDG) (67): 62. https://retrocdn.net/index.php?title=File%3AGamePro_US_067.pdf&page=64. 
  22. ↑ "Top 100 SNES Games". Total! (Future Publishing) (43): 38–48. July 1995. https://archive.org/details/total-43/page/n44/mode/1up. 




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