Banana Prince?
I assure you, this is not a bad 80's porno. There's no feckless pizza delivery boy and no one's cable needs fixing. Banana Prince is a Famicom game developed by Kid Corp. and released by Takara in 1991-92. The best possible review of Banana Prince would be "Inferior Adventure Island clone," but four words doesn't make for much of a blog post.
Takara released two versions of the game, the superior Japanese Bananan Ouji no Daibouken in 1991, and the inferior German Banana Prince in 1992. To make the game more palatable for Hasselhoff/Kraftwerk drones, Kid Corp. slowed the German game and altered its sprites to make the prince a caveman.
German, however, being easier to translate than Japanese, leaves English-speaking players a conundrum: play a translation of the inferior Banana Prince, or blindly play the superior Bananan Ouji no Daibouken. Since certain levels involve quizzes, I chose the former.
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| Is that a banana in your loincloth or are you happy to see me? Oh... it actually is a banana? Yes, I know, they're rich in potassium... No, I don't want your banana. |
Takara released two versions of the game, the superior Japanese Bananan Ouji no Daibouken in 1991, and the inferior German Banana Prince in 1992. To make the game more palatable for Hasselhoff/Kraftwerk drones, Kid Corp. slowed the German game and altered its sprites to make the prince a caveman.
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| German=Bad Japanese=Good |
German, however, being easier to translate than Japanese, leaves English-speaking players a conundrum: play a translation of the inferior Banana Prince, or blindly play the superior Bananan Ouji no Daibouken. Since certain levels involve quizzes, I chose the former.