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SNES-A-Day: Animaniacs

Animaniacs

Time played: 3 minutes

Times laughed: 0

I think I remember renting and playing this game when I was an Animaniac maniac (ugh) back in the day. At the time I found it incomprehensible, and what do you know, it still is. Like the Aah! Real Monsters game I wrote about several weeks ago, this falls into that "multiple character cartoon platformer" genre that existed solely for crappy licensed games back on the SNES. You gotta use all the Warners (Yakko, Wakko, and Dot) to get around obstacles and shit. If one of them gets captured, you have to jump all the way to the top of the Warner Bros. water tower to rescue them. That alone is impossible and made me turn the game off.

I will hand it to this game that the sprites are well animated, and that each Warner reacts differently to NPC's and other events happening in the levels (for example, the boy Warners checking out that hot nurse).

I think I remember the Tiny Toons game being better, but I'm not sure. I'm certainly glad there was never a Freakazoid game because I still love that show.

About Paul

Paul has been playing games since he cut his teeth on an old Atari 2600 in the early 1990s. He has played every console generation since, and currently jams on Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and DSi. He proudly does not own a Wii, and goes back and forth on whether he'd want a gaming PC (he did his fair share of Mac gaming back in the day though). Games-wise, Paul came up in the world a pretty big JRPG nerd, but now he's mellowed plays mostly anything good or weird. He does maintain a pretty impressive collection Playstation 1-era RPGs.