Tiny Toon Adventures: ACME All-Stars (Sega Genesis)

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Tiny Toon Adventures: ACME All-Stars is a multi-sport title released on the Sega Genesis that featured characters from the Tiny Toon Adventures animated series. This game was released by Konami in late 1994. The sports featured include basketball, soccer, bowling, baseball, and an obstacle course race as well as a whack-a-mole style game called "Montana Hitting". While there was a similar game for the Super NES, it featured a different set of sports.


As you can probably imagine, these sports were more like mini-games, not full sports simulations. For instance, the basketball game was a two-on-two match-up. Each sport features both the basic moves you would expect along with special moves. Whichever sports you choose, you get to select the players from a roster of characters from the show including the likes of Buster Bunny, Babs Bunny, Plucky Duck, etc. There were a dozen characters to select from.


As far as difficulty level, it really depends on the sport. Some are pretty simple while others require more precise control to be able to do well. Your computer component gives uneven performances, sometimes being too hard and sometimes not hard enough. However, most are fairly fun as long as you aren't expecting a realistic sports simulation experience. There is also a nice multiplayer feature.


ACME All-Stars also makes great use of the 16-bit graphics of the Genesis. It really looks like you are playing the cartoon. There is tons of detail and lots of references and gags that are throwbacks to the show. There is also plenty of humor injected with interactions between the characters.


If you are a fan of Tiny Toons and/or mini-games, then this is definitely a game to try. I think it stands out more as a multiplayer style game but provides some fun in single player mode as well, especially if you are a fan of the show. As a licensed game, this has never been re-released and probably never will. Your best bet is to pick up an original cartridge or try it via emulation. As mentioned above, there is also a Super NES version of the game but it is somewhat different. It is similar in that it features a series of sports mini-games but it features Olympic style games. However if you like the Genesis game then this one is probably worth a try too.

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Never knew this animation now has a game, soccer is my thing though maybe that is it looks exciting

I spent countless hours of my childhood playing this game, reminiscing about simpler times.

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That is interesting, the fact that the Genesis and SNES versions feature different games. That is what I call a true multiplatform release. Most of the time companies skimp out and simply use as much as possible between ports, kind of taking the fun out of arguing which console is better.

Seriously though, that is a cool fact and a good reason to pick up both releases. I would not have thought Konami would have done that.

They were both released at the same time too so they had to have been developed simultaneously. I wonder if the reason they did it the way they did is because it was in some way a requirement that was part of the terms of the license...

That could definitely be part of it. Maybe the license reqiured so many mini games or something, or required each licensed character to be featured in a game that was beneficial to their image/abilities. If so, the number of games was probably too big for one cartridge on either platform at the time (Konami was known for skimping on memory on the SNES).

I like to think they had competing development teams working on this license, one for each platform, and they got to pick back and forth what mini games they wanted. Competing development teams internally is, or was, big in Japanese companies. Look at how close we came to not getting the Game Boy because of internal development teams fighting each other to push their work over another team's efforts.