A playthrough of THQ's 1991 Super Nintendo license-based platformer, Home Alone.
The Super Nintendo version of Home Alone was one of the first games for the 16-bit console, releasing just in time for the 1991 holiday season.
You play as Kevin, a precocious brat whose family accidentally leaves him behind when they leave for their Christmas vacation in Paris. The Wet Bandits, a couple of small-time crooks, have set their sights on riches of the McCallister house, and it's up to Kevin to defend his home.
The game is split across levels, each set in one of four "wings" of the house. Kevin has to collect a certain number of items to deposit in the laundry chute to prevent the robbers from stealing them, and then he has to go to the basement to face off against some creature conjured up by his overactive imagination.
It's a simple search-and-collect style game, and though it doesn't do anything revolutionary, it works well enough. Imagineering's SNES effort fared far better than Bethesda's pathetic attempt on the NES ( • Home Alone (NES) Playt... ), that's for sure! The controls are reliable, the soundtrack is festive, and the graphics are colorful. I've certainly had some fun with it over the years.
(Does the basement remind anyone else of Maniac Mansion?)
The real selling point seemed to be the digitized stills from the film. Screenshots were regularly shown off in magazines, and they were super impressive by 1991 standards. The sampled scream that plays when Kevin gets caught is also pretty fun.
When all is said and done, it wasn't bad and it wasn't great, but Home Alone for the SNES got the job done. It made for a good weekend rental if you found yourself hankering for something to get you into the Christmas spirit, and it was by far the best game THQ had released to this point.
Merry Christmas, yuh filthy animals! :)
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