Hanna Barbera's Turbo Toons (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
260A playthrough of Empire Interactive's 1994 license-based, PAL-exclusive racing game for the Super Nintendo, Hanna Barbera's Turbo Toons.
In this video I race through all circuits, coming in first in each race. Once the credits have rolled, I play Atom Ant's Challenge, which is basically this game's version of Mario Kart's battle mode.
Turbo Toons is like a G-rated love-child between Super Sprint/Off-Road and the battle mode from the original Super Mario Kart. There is very little of anything said about this on the internet, and I think that it's really unfortunate that the little that you do find tends to be all negative.
Some of it is deserved - the characters are a bit big for the pinball-style physics that they're subjected to when they hit a wall, and the menu screen is one of the most frustratingly counter-intuitive things I've seen in a game.
I really liked the graphics. They're colorful and simple and look exactly like the characters they represent. They aren't pushing any tech, but they do their job well. The music? Not so much.
The controls are just fine, but it does take a bit of adjustment after Off Road and Super Sprint (you push the arrow the direction you want to go, not the direction you want to rotate in), and there's a token amount of depth to be found with the diamond-collecting upgrade system.
My absolute favorite thing of this game is the character roster. This has all of my childhood favorites! My sister and I used to watch QuickDraw McGraw and Squiggly Diddly all the time as kids off of some worn out bootlegged VHS tape. It's also has Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Ricochet Rabbit, Top Cat, Atom Ant... and more, all of them good, as well as many that haven't otherwise appeared in a video game. Lots of memories there. The game also supports the multitap, which obviously means more fun with five players all battling it out. The single player mode can't compare with the sheer chaos of several humans beating each other down.
(I did post a video of this one several years ago, but it had the wrong aspect ratio and framerate. This new video has neither of those problems!)
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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