Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs' Big Break

Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs' Big Break

Game Boy - USA - 1st edition

Developer Konami Publisher Konami Published 1992-02-01 Platforms Game Boy Genres Licensed, Platformer Themes Cartoon Series Tiny Toons Distribution Commercial

Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs' Big Break is a platformer video game based on the Tiny Toons cartoon developed and published by Konami for the Game Boy on 1992-02-01.

In the game, Babs has gone to the Acme Theatre to become an actress, but Montana Max plans on turning it into his own private vault. You play as Buster, Hampton, and Plucky who work together to defeat Montana Max's henchmen and foil his plans.

Personal

Own?	No.
Won?	Yes.
Finished	2015‎-01-24.

I played this game after seeing it highly ranked on lists of the best Game Boy games. I ended up beating it the very first time I played it.

Review

4	5	5	5	3

Best Version: Game Boy

— This section contains spoilers! —

Good

• The graphics are large, well-drawn, and thematic to the series.
• Konami really crammed a lot of Tiny Toons characters into the game.
• The mini games are fun and give nice breaks from the levels.
• The music is fitting, incorporating the show's theme song, jazzy numbers, and even classical songs common to the cartoon.

Bad

• Each of the three playable characters are very similar, only their weapon functions differently. It would have been nice to give each slightly different movement abilities.
• The game runs at a very low frame rate. It's like you're playing in slow motion.
• Despite giving each level its own graphics, the bulk of it felt too similar.
• It's pretty easy to farm lives in the mini games, especially the race game, and, as such, the game is very easy to beat.

Ugly

• Despite the game being called "Bab's Big Break" you never play as Babs; she merely acts as a plot device for the male characters.

Media

Box Art

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  USA.

Documentation

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  Manual - USA.

Maps

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  Stage 1.

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  Stage 2.

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  Stage 3.

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  Stage 4.

Videos

Longplay.

Play Online

Game Boy (Japan), Game Boy (USA)

Representation

Strong female character?	Pass	Although Babs isn't playable, she's still a strong character in the game.
Bechdel test?	Fail	No women talk to each other.
Strong person of color character?	Fail	There are no human characters.
Queer character?	Fail	There are no queer characters.

Titles

Language	Native	Transliteration	Translation
English	Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs' Big Break
Japanese	タイニートゥーンアドベンチャーズ	Taini Tooun Adobenchazu	Tiny Toon Adventures

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