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I just watched a NintendoComplete video on YouTube, which runs through the whole game in one life, spending under 17 minutes on the effort. I was impressed by how good the game looks, by NES standards. A visual stunner, arguably. It includes a surprising number of key elements from the clearly superior SNES version, but the difficulty--particularly because of the pesky flying enemies--does look like it would kill any possible enjoyment.

Yeah, this game is more trouble than it's worth. There are a few good, difficult scenes, though, like the first pteranodon boss. All in all, it's almost as bad as Swamp Thing when it comes to ridiculous difficulty outweighing entertainment factor.

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Joe, did you ever play the arcade version? I remember liking it well enough, but then, I didn't know any better at the time. I ask, because I wonder how this holds up as a port.

Also, for dino goodness, just play Bonk's Adventure.

Thanks for reading, Marc! I've yet to play either the arcade version of Joe & Mac or any Bonk games (I think I may have tried one out, but it was ages ago and I don't remember anything about it). I have had the Bonk series on my list of games to check out, though.

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If you do play Bonk, play the first one, Bonk's Adventure, and for the TG16, not the NES or GB. Bonk's Revenge for the TG16 is also a lot of fun.

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Duly noted. :)

The TurboGrafx-16 version of Bonk's Adventure is available as a Virtual Console download on the Wii (but not the Wii U, though you can easily enough use a Wii U to play it in emulated mode) and is the version I play when I feel a hunger for Bonk. Which isn't often, admittedly. I don't like the series as much as most people seem to, for some reason.

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I suspect it might have something to do with the game playing pretty slow for a mascot platformer. Beside a Super Mario game, it might seem a slog, and beside Sonic? Bonk may as well be at a standstill.

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