Home Alone

While at least it has the Home Alone theme at the title screen, unlike the Genesis version, along with some songs from the movie (however bitcrushed), this game doesn't really follow the movie at all. It is incredibly short for a SNES game. After four levels, the game suddenly ends. The game itself is also lacking in challenge. You can be finished with it in approximately 20 minutes. It is one of the first SNES games with digitized voices. The soundtrack is even decent but it's probably one of the only good things going for this game. The sound effects on the other hand don't really fit well with the game. The graphics, while an improvement to the earlier releases, are not very good. Even Super Castlevania IV and Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts, which came out the exact same year as this game in 1991, had much superior graphics. There's a lack of boss fights, compared to the Game Boy port. Marv and Harry, originally bosses of the fourth level, are now enemies. The final boss from that port, the Furnace, is nowhere to be found. The bosses themselves aren't even mentioned in the movie, besides the tarantula. The final boss is a giant rat, of all things. Controls are a bit stiff and delayed, making avoiding enemies and obstacles a bit of a challenge. The enemies respawn if you leave/enter a room or vice versa. Weapons you obtain at one level cannot be carried over to the next. The Game Boy version allowed you to do that. In addition to this power-ups and items are found in the most unusual and nonsensical places, such as a full pizza pie being found inside a toilet. Even the actor himself who played the role of Kevin in the movie said something like this game ruined (By own words of the same) his legacy.