HOME ALONE GAMEBOY

HOME ALONE GAMEBOY - DMG-HM-USA

Home Alone is the title of several tie-in video games based on the film of the same name written by John Hughes. Versions were released for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Master System, Sega Genesis, Game Gear, Amiga and MS-DOS platforms.

There are multiple versions of the game and each features a different style of gameplay, but all share the same plot and roughly the same objective from the film: Kevin McCallister is left home alone when his family goes on Christmas vacation to Paris. He must prevent Harry and Marv, the "Wet Bandits", from burgling his home, using various household objects as traps and/or weapons.

The Game Boy version of the game, similar to the SNES and NES versions, requires the player to evade confrontation with the Wet Bandits. Similar to the SNES version, the player has to gather up various items and then dump them into a laundry chute to deposit them into a safe. Sometimes, the player might resort to using the items the bandits planned to steal against them by dropping them on their heads, as well as instigate certain traps as in the movie (e.g. dropping a paint can on their heads). There are four levels in all, each taking place in a different area of the house, and each having a different item that the player must recover. The first level pertains to jewelry/gold/silver items, the second level has toys, the third level has various electronics, and the fourth level has various exotic pets that are both rare and expensive.

After collecting the minimum amount of items and dumping them into the chute, the player can access the basement, where the level's boss must be defeated before the player can access the safe and lock them in. The boss of the first level is a giant spider, the second level a giant rat, the third level a giant ghost, and the fourth level is the battle against Marv and Harry (whose weaknesses are foreshadowed by their opening lines: a BB shot to the head, and the shovel murderer's snow shovel being used from the window, respectively). After securing the fourth safe, the player also has to eliminate the furnace (referring to a point in the movie where Kevin has to conquer his fear of the basement furnace). The game also alludes to there being more members to the Wet Bandits than just Marv and Harry.

ENDAST KASSETT