Bonkers is truly a baby game. From the moment you turn it on, and you play through the ridiculously easy early levels, you'll wonder if the settings accidentally got changed to "Super Easy Mode (For toddlers only)!"
When playing through this game for the first time, I noticed that after each level, you are given a Passcode - this can be typed in if you lose the game at that point or decide to quit playing. I was foolish enough to write a few of these down because I thought that there was a chance that the game might get harder - and also because I wanted to quit playing it as soon as possible. These however, they are not normal passwords with letters and numbers. No, Sega instead went totally... well, bonkers when they designed this game. All of the passcodes are blurry images of various objects that you should totally know from watching the Bonkers cartoon. Try drawing 8 objects you do not understand on a piece of paper, and you have Bonkers.
As for as the game goes, the plot is that Bonkers D. Bobcat wants to become a sargeant for the police force, and he has to work his way up to that by beating 4 criminals at what they do best.
it's a minigame collection with excercises in throwing objects (Such as doughnuts - cause he's a cop, get it?!), dodging objects, and driving fast. And as easy as it is to beat these games, it's mildly fun to lob doughnuts at racoon thieves and a purple octopus guy named Harry the Handbag (I don't understand it either). I wanted to check my facts before writing the review, and I forced myself to play it again for a few minutes, just to make sure that the bad guys were raccoons, and I found that it was mindless entertainment, and not a lot more.
Some video games are just mindless, but Bonkers is a goofy time-waster. Just don't expect to get your money's worth, because you'll be watching the credits screen in less than an hour, and wondering what just happened.
