09.04.1993
Crayon Shin-Chan: Ora to Shiro ha Otomodachi Dayo is a platforming game
based off the Crayon Shin-Chan manga, mostly popular in Japan although
translated and published in a couple of other countries. The game is heavily
oriented towards platforming, with only a couple of blow bubbles-based weapons
littered throughout the game's short four levels.
Shin-chan can hop onto the heads of the enemy humans that are
interspersed around each stage, as well as use the bubbles to knock them out. He
can also hop onto hooks and branches, and scale telephone poles and trees.
There are also three mini-games in Crayon Shin-Chan along with a fourth
kind-of mini-game. Although all four mini-games are encountered in the course of
your playthrough, you can also access them from the title screen using the
second option presented to you.
Also of note is a timer in each of the level. For some weird reason, if
you try to collect everything in a level, there simply is not enough time, at
least in Level 2. Fortunately, you are given checkpoints throughout each of the
levels. Timing out will simply throw you back to one of the checkpoints.