Bonk: Difference between revisions

** It's unclear if this was the case with BOF or if it was just [[Art Evolution]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWxocTEU-LI&feature=related Leaked gameplay footage] showed the original Bonk sprite was used as a save icon , in addition to a map icon.

* [[Contemporary Caveman]]: Subverted in ''Super Bonk'', where King Drool uses a time machine to send Bonk into the future. Although he visits a city and a space station, they also have some structures made out of bone frames. This might be because the Hatchets have pretty much taken over the world.

* [[Deface of the Moon]]: King Drool takes over the moon and splits it in two. While Bonk liberates the half still in space, he has to retrieve the other half in ''Bonk's Revenge'' and ''Bonk 3''.

* [[Degraded Boss]]: Smaller versions of the bosses from ''Bonk's Revenge'' reappear in ''Bonk 3'' as enemies in the sixth stage.

* [[No Export for You]]: ''Chō Genjin 2'' (aka ''Super Bonk 2'') never left Japan. Considering it's the [[Oddball in The Series]], this might have been a good thing.

** Likewise, other then the Amiga port and ''Super B.C. Kid'' (Super Bonk), Europe didn't get any of the sequels to B.C Kid due to the [[Turbo Grafx]] being sold in VERY limited qualities. All the games in the series finally saw a release on the Wii's Virtual Console service (under the US names however).

** In ''Chō Genjin 2'', Bonk finds quite [[Extreme Omnivore|many things to eat]]: an [[Video Game Flight|egg which transforms him into a bird with the angry eyebrows]], a ''pink meat'' which again lets him turn into a girl with a tutu and ''very strong'' feet, ''weird green glasses'' that turn him into a [[Overly Long Tongue|pseudo-frog]] and a shovel which oddly enough gives him a [[This Is a Drill|DRILL on his head!]]

* [[Punny Name]]: Bonk's Japanese name, ''PC Genjin'' (which is referred to as PC Kid by Japan's [[Blind Idiot Translation|translation]]), is supposed to sound like PC Engine, the name of the system where the series began.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: A new Bonk game, titled Brink of Extinction, was being made as a downloadable title for the Wii, [[PS 3]], and 360. Bonk would have had new powerups that let him shoot fire and ice. Due to the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, in addition to Konami fully acquiring Hudson, it was cancelled.

** There were also plans for a role-playing game for the PC Engine (titled RPG Genjin, of course). It never got really far.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Bonk's meat-induced transformations come off as this.

* [[Your Size May Vary]]: King Drool is about four times as big as Bonk in the first game, and slightly smaller in ''Bonk's Revenge''. In ''Bonk 3'' and ''Super Bonk'', he frequently changes size, going from the size of a fly to an incredibly gigantic form in the final boss fight in the former and being large in-game yet small in the intro and ending in the latter. In the ''Super Bonk 2'', he's barely as big as Bonk himself.