Tiny Toon Adventures was a Warner Bros cartoon that started in 1990 and ran for several seasons. During its run, Konami held the licence to make games based on the series and one of its better offerings was Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster’s Hidden Treasure for Sega’s Mega Drive. Many of the enemies, locations and additional characters are based on actual episodes or scenes from the series and there are several Easter eggs for fans of the cartoon to spot.
The story surrounds the search for secret treasure described on an old map discovered while the Toons are cleaning ACME University. The show’s villain, Max Montana, steals the map and hunts the treasure for himself. Buster decides to go after Max and heads to the strange island. In the meantime, Max has also kidnapped Buster’s friends and uses mind control to turn them into his henchmen. To round out the classic platforming story, once Buster rescues each friend and takes the treasure for himself Max kidnaps Buster’s girlfriend Babs Bunny. He then holds her ransom which sets up the final showdown in his lair.
Buster navigates the treasure island via a world map with stars representing each stage. He starts on a beach, then heads into a woodland before entering a volcano. Towards the end, players visit a pirate ship, a snow-topped mountain and Max’s industrial factory. There are 39 stages in total including eight boss battles, six secret stages and six bonus rounds.
