Thread 11951076

bonk? more like based

So is bonk supposed to fly through the levels in a ball like samus with turbo or is that a happy accident

>>11951093
always wondered this, the minigames even seem to lead you to discovering it

>>11951093
Probably a happy accident they chose to leave in. The TV ad shows it.
https://youtu.be/tghafdaODBM?t=15

>>11951076 (OP)
I like the music

>>11951093
It never even occurred to me that it wasn't intentional. Why wouldn't it be? Every TG16 controller had turbo so I sincerely doubt they somehow developed and tested a game where they never discovered what happens when you hold a button with turbo on, especially since there are only two fucking buttons.

Not to mention that emphasizing use of the built-in turbo on every controller (a feature unique to the TG16) would make sense for a game that was supposed to feature the console mascot. IIRC Bonk became the pack-in game for TG16s

>>11951206
Didn't the original controller like the one shown at the end of that video not have turbo yet?

>>11951228
As far as I know the turbo sliders were a day one thing, at least for the north amercian version of the console. And Bonk came out right after the TG16 launched so I imagine it wasn't some surprise that caught them off guard. Maybe the really early version of the PC engine didn't have it but I seem to remember turbo became standard on it at some point as well, probably no later than the TG16's release.

So I still say there's no way they didn't know what would happen. You wouldn't develop a game for a system where every console came with with built-in turbo and have no idea what happened when people used it. They'd have to account for it just so it didn't produce some crazy unexpected result or glitch or something. Not to mention its use in the game doesn't feel at all like something they just overlooked, it's more like a core mechanic. It may have been a happy accident but it's one that happened very early in the development and was incorporated into the design.

>>11951418
>>11951228
The original base PC Engine released in Japan shipped with one non turbo controller. However, official turbo controllers were available day 1 and only cost 200 yen more than a standard controller so everybody who bought another controller had a turbo pad. Bonk's Adventure also released alongside the Coregrafx which included the turbo pad so Hudson did expect players to have use it.

The best Bonk game you never played

>minigames where you get points based on how many times or how well you press the button
>spokesman of the company who made the game is known for his button mashing skills

>/vr/ thinks the game is designed for turbo controller

Holy cope

>>11952210
I’ll try mashing the button. Maybe thats why I always thought this game was slow and boring.

>>11952210
>>11952276
Okay I fired up GB Genjin and yeah, I didn’t even know this mechanic existed.

>>11952210
Read the thread, autismo.

>>11952194
its mid
the real answer is super bonk 2, an import only title. its what bonk 3 should have been

>>11951093
>>11951121
>>11951192
Not an accident. One of the bonus levels requires you to "fly" across a large gap like that. They just didn't plan on players using a turbo controller to abuse it.

>>11953560
All Bonk games are mid. People argue about Mario vs Sonic, but nobody argues about Bonk vs either of them, and that's for a reason.

>>11952210
>1987
>by 1991 every arcade had autofire circuits in every cab, every arcade port had autofire, every console shmup just used autofire by default, etc
I'm choosing to retroactively exist in 1996, you can enjoy 1987 without the PCE to begin with

>>11954270
Note: referring to 1991 in Japan because that is where this faggot's 1000-times-posted-gif is from, before some pedantic faggot implies I am saying this was true anywhere else

>>11954270
>you can enjoy 1987

That's actually one of my favourite years in vidya alongside 1996, so yeah I will

I was wondering why they'd reduce the flip rate starting with 2.

Because they realized how broken things were in the first game with the auto fire... turbofags ruined things for everyone else as usual and still have the gal to claim it's how it's intended to be played.

>>11953560
>the real answer is super bonk 2

You're correct, in that I hadn't played it and it appears to be one of the better ones

Yeah this was pretty good though I feel it's rather slow paced compared to the PC-E games. I liked how dying puts you back to a checkpoint for once which forces the player to get a little good especially against bosses. Fuck that one boss which flips the stage up side down though.

>That part where you have to get out of the dinosaur through destroying the poo blocks
Ludo
We need more poopformers

>>11954253
>but nobody argues about Bonk vs either of them, and that's for a reason.

yah, cuz no one owned a turobgrafx

>>11954954
yeah its pretty sweet. i still think bonk 2 is the best but its better than 3 and super

it brings some things back from bonk 2, like mini boss fights and also the level design is sorta similar

what did she have? a bonk hit transplant?

>>11956497
Thanks, nick

>>11956250
At this point I've played them except the GB mini game spin off, the arcade game and the GC remake (I'll get there) and I still think the first one is the best. I can't really put my finger on it but there is something about the first game that oozes soul that none of the others manage to replicate, the first one also has excellent pacing imo and a higher skill ceiling due to the head flips going as fast as you can possibly push the button before they slowed everything in the sequels to focus on side mechanics instead (come to think of it, it's kinda like Spyro and its sequels or Crash and its sequels).

>>11957161
>I can't really put my finger on it but there is something about the first game that oozes soul that none of the others manage to replicate,

i can think of a few
>the damn parallax moon
>the sound driver/design
>the only bonk thats purely prehistoric
>the hatchets are just like koopas, not really mascots yet

>>11951076 (OP)
I can't look at that cover art without thinking of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYBZrRCCrXE

>>11957161
Bonk 1 is raw.

>>11957161
>and the GC remake (I'll get there)

its good but the physics are fundamentally different and art style is weird

theres also a brand new level thats decent

Mom, can I have Mario?
We have Mario at home.
>the Mario at home

>>11959274
Haha, funny!!!!!! An upvote for you sir/ma'am/person!!

>>11954253
>muh ad populum
retard alert
super bonk 2 is kino and better than a lot of mario and sonic 2d platformers

>>11959312
>>11956248
You're not completely wrong. Because less people grew up with a Turbografx, less people have nostalgia for it, and less people feel compelled to play it. That said, a Bonk game did release on the SNES, and all the Turbografx Bonk games were available on the Wii VC. This, combined with emulation, means there's plenty of ways to play these games without needing the console. There's tons of games that originally didn't sell well back in the day that now have followings. Why isn't Bonk one of them?

Also, in general, the Bonk games simply did not review as well as Mario/Sonic did.

>>11959857
>There's tons of games that originally didn't sell well back in the day that now have followings.
That's because a lot of them were shilled by people, e.g. Earthbound
>There's tons of games that originally didn't sell well back in the day that now have followings. Why isn't Bonk one of them?
Probably because zoomies only play the popular stuff and maybe something that's a bit outside of that zone unless it's being shilled (look at how much sseeth's reviews influence which games people play)
How many SNES fans do you know who've played time trax, the adventure of hourai high, sutte hakun, wonder project j, the firemen etc.?
By your logic, plenty of great games are actually bad because they don't have a cult following - you're basically postulating something akin to a law where good games necessarily get a cult following years after their release

>>11952194
It's a stripped-down port of the TG16 game. Why bother?

>>11960779
Why do you make statements about games you never played nor know anything about?

>>11960819
My bad, I must be misinformed.

>>11951093
in the first one?
definitely
they nerfed it for the next two tho, and the lvl design reflects that