Animaniacs

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Animaniacs
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Konami
Developer: Konami
Sound driver: Konami/Vampire Killer
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Official in-game languages: English Deutsch Français
Release Date RRP Code US 1994-11 $? T-95176 UK 1994-11 £49.99 T-95176-50 FR 1994-11 ?F T-95176-50 DE 199x 119,95 T-95176-50 ES 1994-11 ?Ptas T-95176-50 AU 1994 $109.95 ? BR 1997-12 R$? 048350
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Animaniacs is a series of games developed by Konami as tie-ins to the Animaniacs television show. Games in the series were released for the Mega Drive, Game Boy, and SNES (only the GB and SNES versions were released in Japan). The Mega Drive and Game Boy versions play identically; the SNES version is a different game. The Mega Drive and SNES versions were released in 1994 (1997 for Japan), the Game Boy version in 1995.

Gameplay

The Mega Drive/Game Boy versions are platformers. You control Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, the main characters of the TV show. You control only one at a time (switching with ); the others will follow you (or hide in the GB version). jumps. does a special move of the character: Yakko hits enemies with his paddleball, Wakko hits things with a mallet (which he can also use to spark bombs), and Dot shoots hearts from kisses. Yakko can also push objects by running into them. After getting through a level, you are taken to an overworld screen where you select a level by going in front of a building and hitting .

Trivia

Trivia sections are bad Try and incorporate this information into the main article. See the manual of style to find out why.

• The main ship of Konami's Gradius series, Vic Viper, can be seen in stage 2.

Versions

Unlike most other Konami releases, this games was partially PAL optimized. The music plays at the correct speed, the gameplay is slower. There is no known fix for this game.

Magazine articles

Main article: Animaniacs/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Play media

US TV Advert

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Print advert in GamesMaster (UK) #23: "November 1994" (1994-10-20)
also published in:

• Ultimate Future Games (UK) #1: "December 1994" (1994-11-01)
• Computer & Video Games (UK) #157: "December 1994" (1994-11-15)
• Ultimate Future Games (UK) #2: "January 1995" (1994-12-01)

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Print advert in Joypad (FR) #36: "Novembre 1994" (1994-xx-xx)

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Print advert in GamePro (DE) #1995-01: "Januar 1995" (1994-12-23)
also published in:

• MAN!AC (DE) #1995-03: "03/95" (1995-02-08)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication Score Source Consoles + (FR) 87 Computer & Video Games (UK) 89 №157, p65 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) 73 Game Players (US) 83 GamesMaster (UK) 78 №24, p78 Games World (UK) 85 №7, p14 Joypad (FR) 82 Mean Machines Sega (UK) 87 №26, p66-68 Next Generation (US) 60 №2, p99/100 Player One (FR) 80 №47, p132/133 Sega Magazine (UK) 80 №12, p86/87 Sega Power (UK) 76 №62, p64 Sega Pro (UK) 80 №39, p64/65 VideoGames (US) 60 №71, p105

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Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 86224d86 MD5 ce0a42a75a9e374cf5092f34bf6927b7 SHA-1 7e9d70b5172b4ea9e1b3f5b6009325fa39315a7c	1MB	1994-11	Cartridge (US)
✔	CRC32 92b6f255 MD5 85b4c7b4b839e5b3614ae7b218129e12 SHA-1 c474d13afb04bfdb291cfabe43ffc0931be42dbc	1MB	1994-11	Cartridge (EU)