Bonk was originally created as a comic character for a Japanese magazine based on the PC-Engine (the Japanese name for NEC’s Turbografx-16 console). Bonk’s Adventure, then, was originally a TurboGrafx exclusive, with Bonk considered NEC’s mascot. When NEC decided to pull out of the console market, Hudson Soft was allowed to port the game over to other systems, meaning NES owners finally go the chance to play this entertaining platformer, in which Bonk has to rescue the Moon Princess from the evil King Drool. He does this by headbutting enemies (or “bonkng” them if you will) with his oversized head, and climbing walls by clamping his teeth onto them and gnashing his way upwards.
In Japan, Bonk was called PC-Kid because the Turbografx-16 is called the PC-Engine there. When the game was ported to the Famicom and Game Boy it was renamed FC-Kid and GB-Kid respectively.
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