Pinocchio

Pinocchio is a platform puzzle adventure game from Virgin Interactive. It was released in 1996 for the Game Boy, Super NES, and Sega Genesis and is based on Walt Disney‘s animated feature film Pinocchio, originally released in 1940.

The game was published by Capcom in Japan for the Super Famicom on the same year.

A Sega 32X version of the game was made and completed, but was not released due to the add-on’s limited popularity.

Storyline – Pinocchio

See also: Pinocchio (1940 film) § Plot

The game uses intertitles between levels to convey the story, in the form of a children’s storybook. Pinocchio travels from home and must choose to go to School or Easy Street (though the choice does not affect the level order).

He then travels from Stromboli’s marionette show to Pleasure Island and then into the sea, where he saves Geppetto from inside Monstro and they escape.

Reception – Pinocchio

Reception

Coach Kyle of GamePro gave the Genesis version a negative review, commenting that both the gameplay design and controls are shallow and rudimentary, the character animations are stiff, and the graphics lack detail.

He concluded: “What a shame that such a long-awaited game, with such a famous story as a foundation, should turn out to be so disappointing”.^[3][a] 

The Feature Creature, however, gave the Game Boy version a mixed review, saying it simply translates the simplistic and easy levels from the Genesis version into portable form.^[2][b]

The Sega Genesis, known as the Mega Drive^[c] outside North America, is a 16-bit fourth generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega.

It was Sega’s third console and the successor to the Master System.

Sega released it in 1988 in Japan as the Mega Drive, and in 1989 in North America as the Genesis.

In 1990, it was distributed as the Mega Drive by Virgin Mastertronic in Europe, Ozisoft in Australasia, and Tectoy in Brazil.

In South Korea, it was distributed by Samsung Electronics as the Super Gam*Boy and later the Super Aladdin Boy.^[d]

Designed by an R&D team supervised by Hideki Sato and Masami Ishikawa, the Genesis was adapted from Sega’s System 16 arcade board, centered on a Motorola 68000 processor as the CPU, a Zilog Z80 as a sound controller, and a video system supporting hardware sprites, tiles, and scrolling.

It plays a library of more than 900 games on ROM-based cartridges. Several add-ons were released, including a Power Base Converter to play Master System games.

It was released in several different versions, some created by third parties. Sega created two network services to support the Genesis: Sega Meganet and Sega Channel.

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