Harley's Humongous Adventure
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Harley's Humongous Adventure (known in Japan as Kagakusha Harley no Haran Banjou 化学者ハリーの波乱万丈 which translates to: Harry the Chemist's Stormy Life) is a 1992
Super NES
(SNES) platform
video game.
, and funded by publisher
Electronic Arts
, but eventually published by Hi Tech Expressions
.
The player controls Harley, a man in a green suit who shrunk himself to size of a bar of soap
. The player's mission is to gather parts of Harley's (presumably) now destroyed shrinking machine to return him to normal size. As the player advances through levels, they pick items such as tacks, rubberbands and marbles. The many locations the player adventures through is Harley's lab where the initial incident occurs, Harley's Kitchen, Harley's toy room, where the player pilots a toy tank by himself, Harley's Bathroom, and other stages.
This is an old school 2D
platform game
. Enemies include flies, bees, ants, and the main boss is a deformed rat that tries to jump on the player, and after each encounter utilizes a household item for the limb he lost in the last encounter.
Visually, the game utilizes a mix of pixel art
for the stage backgrounds, the menus and most objects, and digitized clay animation
models for all characters. The clay animation
was produced by A-OK Animation, who had also worked on Claymates
, another Super Nintendo game featuring a somewhat similar graphical style.
The game was programmed, and designed in part, by Brian Greenstone of Pangea Software
. This programmer previously wrote games for the Apple IIgs
computer, which happens to share the same 65C816 microprocessor as the Super Nintendo.
1992 in video gaming
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Super NES
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia , and South America between 1990 and 1993. In Japan and Southeast Asia, the system is called the , or SFC for short...
(SNES) platform
Platform game
A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...
video game.
Summary
It was originally developed by Visual ConceptsVisual Concepts
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, and funded by publisher
Video game publisher
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Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts
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, but eventually published by Hi Tech Expressions
Hi Tech Expressions
Hi Tech Expressions was an American console game company headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City.Hi Tech existed during the early 1990s. During the course of its existence, the company made primarily juvenile-oriented games for young boys and girls...
.
The player controls Harley, a man in a green suit who shrunk himself to size of a bar of soap
Soap
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. The player's mission is to gather parts of Harley's (presumably) now destroyed shrinking machine to return him to normal size. As the player advances through levels, they pick items such as tacks, rubberbands and marbles. The many locations the player adventures through is Harley's lab where the initial incident occurs, Harley's Kitchen, Harley's toy room, where the player pilots a toy tank by himself, Harley's Bathroom, and other stages.
This is an old school 2D
2D computer graphics
2D computer graphics is the computer-based generation of digital images—mostly from two-dimensional models and by techniques specific to them...
platform game
Platform game
A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...
. Enemies include flies, bees, ants, and the main boss is a deformed rat that tries to jump on the player, and after each encounter utilizes a household item for the limb he lost in the last encounter.
Visually, the game utilizes a mix of pixel art
Pixel art
Pixel art is a form of digital art, created through the use of raster graphics software, where images are edited on the pixel level. Graphics in most old computer and video games, graphing calculator games, and many mobile phone games are mostly pixel art.- History :The term pixel art was first...
for the stage backgrounds, the menus and most objects, and digitized clay animation
Clay animation
Clay animation or claymation is one of many forms of stop motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable"—made of a malleable substance, usually Plasticine clay....
models for all characters. The clay animation
Clay animation
Clay animation or claymation is one of many forms of stop motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable"—made of a malleable substance, usually Plasticine clay....
was produced by A-OK Animation, who had also worked on Claymates
Claymates
Claymates is a video game for the Super NES. It is the first of Interplay's claymation titles which later included the ClayFighter series.-Overview:...
, another Super Nintendo game featuring a somewhat similar graphical style.
The game was programmed, and designed in part, by Brian Greenstone of Pangea Software
Pangea Software
Pangea Software is an Apple computer game company based in Austin, Texas that is owned and operated by Brian Greenstone. The company is a former developer of Macintosh and Apple IIGS games, the former of which they still currently sell, however have recently stated their intention to focus solely...
. This programmer previously wrote games for the Apple IIgs
Apple IIGS
The Apple , the fifth and most powerful model in the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer. The "GS" in the name stands for Graphics and Sound, referring to its enhanced graphics and sound capabilities, both of which greatly surpassed previous models of the line...
computer, which happens to share the same 65C816 microprocessor as the Super Nintendo.