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^[1]		T-95176
US (Classics)	199x		T-95176
EU	1994-12^[2]		T-95176-50
DE	199x	DM 119.95119.95^[5]	T-95176-50
UK	1994-12^[2]	£49.9949.99^[3]	T-95176-50
AU	1994	$109.95109.95^[4]	FANI03SMC
BR	1997-12		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

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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.

Production credits

Director: Harry Nitta
System Programmer: Koji Komata
System Program Adviser: Kenichiro Horio
SFX & Characters Programmer: Shousuke "Mac" Harada
Demo Story & Characters Programmer: Tsuyoshi Uoya
Sound Design: Kiyoshi "K-Mu" Murai
Graphic Designers: Teisaku Seki, Koji Yamada, Reika Bando, Kazue Tachinami, Junichi Murakami
Demo Story Written by: Jeremy Blaustein
Package & Manual Design: Kay Wolf Jones, Kevin O'Donohue, Randy Severin
Licensing Manager: Kathie McCarthy
Special Adviser: Michael Gallo, Allen Richardson, Jon Sloan
Special Thanks to: Kenji Hiraoka, Jun Narita, Masahiro Ueno, Kazuhiro "David" Ueda, Masa Otani, Steve Johnson, Sino & Shiro
Special Thanks to Warner Bros.: Holly Stein, Catherine Sollecito, Laetitia May, John Crumlish
Supervisor: Yutaka Haruki
Producer: Tomikazu Kirita

Source: In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Animaniacs/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Play media

US TV Advert

PDF

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

Ultimate Future Games (UK) #1: "December 1994" (1994-11-01)^[6]
Computer & Video Games (UK) #157: "December 1994" (1994-11-15)^[7]
Ultimate Future Games (UK) #2: "January 1995" (1994-12-01)^[8]

PDF

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

PDF

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)^[5]

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication	Score	Source
Consoles + (FR)	87
Computer & Video Games (UK)	89	^[3]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)	73
Game Players (US)	83
GamesMaster (UK)	78	№24, p78
Games World: The Magazine (UK)	85	№7, p14
Joypad (FR)	82
Mean Machines Sega (UK)	87	^[9]
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	^[10]
Sega Pro (UK)	80	№39, p64/65
VideoGames (US)	60	^[11]

	79
Based on 14 reviews

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, US (Classics)
Cover

Mega Drive, US (cardboard)
Cover
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Mega Drive, EU
Cover
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Mega Drive, AU
Cover

Mega Drive, BR
Cover
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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)

References

Animaniacs

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0710.pdf_p11-1] Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 11

[:File:SegaMagazine_UK_08.pdf_p86-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Sega Magazine, "August 1994" (UK; 1994-07-15), page 86

[:File:CVG_UK_157.pdf_p65-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Computer & Video Games, "December 1994" (UK; 1994-11-15), page 65

[:File:Megazone_AU_46.pdf_p30-4] Sega Megazone, "December 1994" (AU; 1994-xx-xx), page 30

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_1995-03.pdf_p33-5] 5.0 ^5.1 MAN!AC, "03/95" (DE; 1995-02-08), page 33

[:File:UltimateFutureGames_UK_01.pdf_p132-6] Ultimate Future Games, "December 1994" (UK; 1994-11-01), page 132

[:File:CVG_UK_157.pdf_p148-7] Computer & Video Games, "December 1994" (UK; 1994-11-15), page 148

[:File:UltimateFutureGames_UK_02.pdf_p106-8] Ultimate Future Games, "January 1995" (UK; 1994-12-01), page 106

[:File:MeanMachinesSega26UK.pdf_p66_.2866-68.29-9] Mean Machines Sega, "December 1994" (UK; 1994-10-28), page 66-68 (66)

[:File:SegaPower_UK_62.pdf_p64-10] Sega Power, "January 1995" (UK; 1994-xx-xx), page 64

[:File:VideoGames_US_71.pdf_p105-11] VideoGames, "December 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 105

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Trivia

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Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

References