History VideoGame / TinyToonAdventuresBusterBustsLoose

* HandcarPursuit: The climax of the "The Western Movie" level has Montana Max and Buster escaping from an oncoming train on a handcar... which reaches [[Film/BackToTheFuture 88 MPH]].

* BankRobbery: Montana Max does this in the second level. Buster then chases after him on a runaway train.

* BonusStage[=/=]GameplayRoulette: In between each level, the player is given a chance to win extra lives by playing a mini-game. The mini-game is determined by spinning the "Wheels O' Game", a wheel with faces of the show's characters on it, much like the Wheel O' Comedy from the episode of the same name. However, you can practice these mini-games by using the [[CheatCode Elmyra Duff-Shirley McLoon-Calamity Coyote]] password!

* ContinuingIsPainful: Every time you continue after running out of lives, you'll be pushed back to the beginning of the stage. {{Check Point}}s only work when you have lives available!

* DifficultyByRegion: The Japanese version has no Challenge mode, but allows you to use {{Password Save}}s and offers unlimited continuous plays even on Normal mode!

* PointOfNoContinues: Defied. The American and European versions only allow you to continue a limited number of times (up to 5 on Normal mode, 3 on Challenge mode) before your game is truly over; but if you use the [[CheatCode Plucky Duck-Babs Bunny-Bookworm password]], that limitation will be gone until you give up!

* ContinuingIsPainful: Every time you continue after running out of lives, you'll be pushed back to the beginnging of the stage. {{Check Point}}s only work when you have lives available!

* DifficultyByRegion: The Japanese version has no Challenge mode, but allows to use {{Password Save}}s and offers you unlimited continuous plays even on Normal mode!

* HeartsAreHealth: If played on Children or Normal mode, the player starts out with three hearts in their health bar, and can extend it up to five by finding Crystal Carrots. [[BagOfSpilling Completing a level]] or [[ContinuingIsPainful continuing after running out of lives]] will reset the health bar back to three, and playing on Challenge mode subtracts two hearts.

* OneHitPointWonder: Buster is downed in one hit if you play the game on Challenge mode, at least until you find Crystal Carrot power-ups.

* EasyModeMockery: The game skips parts of the levels, the entirety of the "Buster's Sky-Jinks" level, and even the ending if you happen to play the Children mode... and it's the only difficulty where you get passwords. Your moves are also altered; on the Children mode, your dash on its own will count as an attack, while in the Normal or Challenge modes, you have to do a dashing leap or slide to avoid damage.

* GameplayRoulette: In between each level, the player is given a chance to win extra lives by playing a mini-game. The mini-game is determined by spinning the "Wheels O' Game", a wheel with faces of the show's characters on it, much like the Wheel O' Comedy from the episode of the same name.

* HeartsAreHealth: If played on Children or Normal mode, the player starts out with three hearts in their health bar, and can extend it up to five by finding crystal carrot power-ups. Completing a level will reset the health bar back to three, and playing on Challenge mode subtracts two hearts.

* OneHitPointWonder: Buster becomes this if you play the game on the Challenge mode, at least until you find crystal carrot power-ups.
* PasswordSave: The game has a password system that consists of three spaces for pictures of faces of characters from the show. Unfortunately, the only mode that uses them is "Children", although there are some special passwords that give you infinte continues or let you choose a minigame to play directly instead of the roulette.

* TrashLanding: If Buster loses a life, he will sometimes fall into a dumpster.

* AutoScrollingLevel: There are several levels where the screen scrolls, and Buster has to keep up by dashing. These levels also require a lot of jumping, and given that the bottom of the screen is fatal, the timing of the jumps have to be just right, otherwise, Buster will lose a life.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Duck Vader doesn't talk with the [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome speech impediment]] that he did on the show. [[spoiler:It's a hint that it's not really him, but Plucky playing the role.]]

* ShoutOut:
** The introduction to the bonus rounds is based on "The Wheel O' Comedy".
** The "The Western Movie" level features the Coyote Kid and his henchmen from "High Toon" as enemies, as well as Silas Wonder from "Sawdust and Toonsil" as a mini-boss. The end of the same level has Buster and Montana Max riding on a handcar away from the runaway train. [[Film/BackToTheFuture Once you get up to 88 MPH, they disappear in a trail of flames]].
** In the "Spook Mansion" level, the enemies include ghosts (From the "Return to the Acme Acres Zone" short, "Boo Ha Ha"), two-headed monsters (from the wraparounds of "Stuff That Goes Bump in the Night"), evil cakes (From the "You Asked For It, Part II" short, "Little Cake of Horrors"), and a vampire mini-boss (from the "Stuff that Goes Bump in the Night" short, "Fang You Very Much). The bosses of the same level are Dr. Gene Splicer and Melvin the Monster from "Hare Raising Night."
** The "Acme Looniversity Football" level is based on "The Acme Bowl".
** The "Space Opera" level is based on "A Quack in the Quarks", and most of the enemies in that level are characters that appeared in that episode, such as the Stormtwoopers. Other enemies in the same level include the droids from the "Return to the Acme Acres Zone" short, "Real Kids Don't Eat Broccoli".

* GameBreakingBug: Halfway through the train area, Buster has to dash upwards to get to the engine portion of the train just before he gets scrolled off screen and loses a life. If the player has customized the controls so dash is anything other than R, this becomes impossible.

* WallCrawl: Buster doesn't so much climb walls as he does race up them.

* PasswordSave: The game has a password system that consists of three spaces for pictures of faces of characters from the show. Unfortunately, the only mode that uses them is "Children".

** During the final battle with Duck Vader, Duck Vader will attempt to zap Buster with a laser. Buster must snatch it from him and zap him with it several times to defeat him.

* ProsceniumReveal: The game is mostly set as a movie with the characters following a script, and after beating the final level, the characters are seen carrying the props away in the background.

* BigBoosHaunt: The third level takes place in Spook Mansion. The level begins with Buster seeking shelter from the rain in a haunted mansion. The enemies in the level consist of various monsters that appeared on the show, and the bosses are Dr. Gene Splicer Melvin the Monster from the episode, "Hare Raising Night" (who are simply refferred to as "The Mad Scientist" and "Babs' friend" in the game, respectively).

* CoversAlwaysLie: The American and European box art for the game depict Buster wearing yellow boxer shorts with carrots on them. He does not wear them at all in any point in the game. In fact, the only time he wears something other than his his red shirt in the game is in the fourth level, wherein he is dressed in his football uniform.

* RecycledSoundtrack: The game re-arranges many pieces of BGM from the series, including the theme song, the music during the cutscenes (lifted from one of the title cards), the boss fight against Dizzy Devil (used in many episodes, but most notably "Rock 'n Roar"), the bonus game intro music (lifted from "The Weirdest Stories Ever Told" short, "Robin Hare"), the "Spook Mansion" theme (lifted from "The ACME Home Shopping Show" short, "I Was a Teenage Bunnysitter"), the first half of the balloon level (lifted from "A Quack in the Quarks"), and the second half of the "Buster's Sky-Jinks" leel (lifted from the "How Sweetie It Is" short, "Let's Do Lunch").

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