203 · The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer's famous literary exploits come to life in this adventure where you play Tom Sawyer (or Huck Finn in a 2 player game). The adventure begins in Tom's dream while he sleeps in school.
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SHOW NOTES
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Longplay
Huckleberry Finn
Square's Tom Sawyer (warning racist depictions in this game)
Show notes
- Join Tom on a Journey of Action Packed Adventure
- NES Longplay
- Introductions
- The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for “style,” not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear
- The appeal of games like this and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Do they think they are fooling parents with acclaimed literature?
- Overview
- Platforming game (Tom is player 1 and Huck is player 2), travel through 6 levels
- Tom Sawyer is dreaming, and in this dream he must save Becky from Injun Joe, traveling through six stages to get to her.
- Gameplay
- Platforming
- What sets Tom Sawyer apart
- Sequels and Spinoffs
- Square's Tom Sawyer
- Players control Tom Sawyer and his friends as they join the party, such as Jim and Huck, and they each have RPG like stats but no experience level up system - it’s done similar to FF2 and SaGa games
- The game features an enemy that triggers the reset button on a players controller bringing them back to the title screen.
- In 2010, UGO ranked it as the #4 most racist video game in history.
- The blackface is bad
- Square's Tom Sawyer
- EGL
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