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Animaniacs was originally a cartoon series on TV but developed their own franchise of video games due to popularity. Unlike regular platform games, you would usually run from your enemies rather than fight. Characters included Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, Pinky and the Brain, most of the supporting cast, as well as the guard to the Warner Brothers lot. Animaniacs have had two games which bore no relation to each other in terms of gameplay, despite both being made by Konami. One was on the SNES, the other was on the Sega Genesis.

Other games were also on the Game Boy, and for the Nintendo GameCube.

Sega Genesis Animaniacs

The Animaniacs first begin the game by telling the player "welcome to our videogame", before arguing on the absurdity of how they can be in a videogame when they are cartoon characters, not videogame characters. The main story is that the Warner Brothers and Sister are attempting to try and be more closer to their favourite movie stars. Yakko forms a plan; they can open up a shop to sell movie memorabilia. So they must obtain four items from different movie sets to set it up. There are seven stages within the game. Each stage (except the starting one) has one object to obtain, that can only be obtained at the end after defeating the level's boss.

Like most videogames, the Animaniacs have health indicators and a number of lives. The lives can be increased by obtaining either 100 stars, or obtaining a small golden form of their faces. Their health is indicated by their faces on the top left of the screen. When they smile, they are healthy, but when they are looking either tired, unhappy, or weak, then they should find health soon (which is found in the forms of several forms of ice cream or sweets or other kinds of food). The levels are timed, so it is unwise to stay and wander aimlessly in one area.

Now to list the levels of the game.

Water Tower

This is merely a training level to allow the player to learn each of the character's abilities. Their abilities are listed below:

Yakko - Can attack using a paddle with ball attached. Also the strongest of the three, so he can move objects such as crates.
Wakko - Can attack with a mallet and also able to activate switches or light fuses with this.
Dot - Uses charm on certain characters to move them out of the way or to somehow progress through the game. She is also immune to the charm of Hello Nurse (who will incapacitate Yakko and Wakko for a time).

After the training level, you are taken to the main map, letting you choose one of four levels that can be taken in any order. They will be detailed in numerical order.

Adventure - Dirk The Rugged VIII (Bungle in the Jungle)
This level is based on the adventure movies, mainly those of similar vein to Indiana Jones. The main item to acquire here is the adventurous hat of Dirk the Rugged. The Animaniacs must traverse through jungles, waterfalls and caves before facing the boss, Ralph the security guard.

He has to be defeated by using Wakko's mallet to activate seesaws that hit rocks upwards at him. When he goes offstage, he came to you directly and Yakko had to be used to fend him off.

Science Fiction/Space Opera - Space Wars (Space Truckin)
This level is obviously inspired by Star Wars. The item to be obtained here was the helmet of the antagonist (an homage to Darth Vader). The sibling s had to head through space battles, droid factories and halls of fire before reaching the boss, who was once again Ralph.

To defeat him, you had to traverse upwards, past many traps, conveyor belts and other hazards before reaching him. When you did, the helmet fell on him automatically and knocked him unconscious. In this level, the Gradius's series stellar ship, Vic Viper, makes a cameo appearance.

Western - Swing 'em Low, Hang 'em High
The level takes its inspirations from the Western movies, and the main objective here was to collect the Sherriff's star. Yakko, Wakko and Dot must head through the town, the local bar, the Native American settlements and lastly, the train. Ralph would be the boss here for the final time.

This time, he attempts to catch up with you by cart while you are on the train's engine. The trick was to let him come near and make him miss his jump onto the train by hitting coal into the top pipe with Wakko's mallet (an additional problem here, was that the pipe opened and closed unpredictably). After he loses his cart, Ralph runs on foot, and here the trick was to keep feeding the engine coal until it was at the right of the screen, which would be too much for Ralph to keep up, as he collapses and drops the Sherriff's Star.

Horror - Bloodmask 28
This stage has the Mask of Janus as its main item, which pays an homage to Jason of The Friday the 13th movies. The Animaniacs had to pass through a cemetery, then the main mansion and its basement of poisonous water (or normal water, either being fatal to the siblings as they cannot swim in the game), before confronting the boss, Dracula.

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