Who would have thought that Capcom could make a great game out of a turn-of-the-20th century newspaper comic?
New York, 1905. Little Nemo has been invited to Slumberland to become the Princess's playmate. He also gets a bag of candy as a present from the Princess herself. Of course, despite being taken to Slumberland, he still has to make his way to the Princess for reasons never really explained...at least, not in the game.
The game was actually (loosely) based on the 1989 film "Little Nemo: Adventures of Slumberland," which would not see a US release until 1992. As a result, the game and movie are considered to be seperate when the game is actually based on the animated movie.
Dream 1
Mushroom Forest
The clown at the beginning is Flip, who would wake Nemo up after the Slumberland adventure that made up the film (and the early comic strips). Instead of telling you to wake up (and make the existance of the game anti-climactic and rather pointless), he'll tell you that you can ride on some of the animals here if you feed them candy. You can ride them as long as you want, and you can press Select to get off. He also says that there are locked doors that require keys to get through them.
The green frog can be fed three pieces of candy and then worn like a suit when you jump on it while it's asleep. Prepare to see this happen a lot. This frog allows you to jump higher, at the expense of a slower walking speed. The animal friends you'll be able to get assistance from will have longer life bars than Nemo, so take advantage of that when you can.
The enemies here are pretty basic, for the most part. The snails just move towards you, while the sinister-looking bees just fly back and forth. You have to have an animal to defeat them, but you can stun them with the candy if you need to.
The little bottles with liquid inside will restore one unit of health when you collect them.
The mole can also be used as a suit with the whole candy trick. The mole can dig through dirt, which can let you grab hidden keys that you wouldn't be able to get with Nemo alone. If you go down, then go all the way to the left, you can find a pit you can dig through. Inside is a blue lizard you can ride on as well as a 1-Up.
You're supposed to dig all the way to the right, but if you have the blue lizard, you can climb the walls by jumping into them and continue to go right. You'll be able to find another extra life rather easily.
There are six keys in this level, and you will have to find them all before you can open all the locks and continue to the next dream.
As expected, one of his parents have to wake him up at the end of every dream. Usually, his parents scold or comfort him (or it's Flip doing all the work).
Dream 2
Flower Garden
When you start the level, you'll meet one of the Boomps. He tells you that Oompi wants to meet you, and that he lives under the water.
Jump into the water at the start of the level and go all the way down. You'll enter an underground cave where you'll meet Oompi. Oompi tells you that you'll need the lizard's help to get through this area, and to look in the trees for it.
You can feed the gorilla three pieces of candy to take a ride on him. The gorilla can punch out any enemy in front of him, and you'll need him to get through the level and power through the worms, spiders and bees. You can also climb trees much like the lizard can walk up walls.
The worms are little flowers that you can barely see on the ground. When you get close to them, the worms will sprout up and move forwards.
The skulls on the dandelion seeds that fly down the screen are annoying. Even when you beat them up, they still come back with a vengeance from the top, flying back and forth a few times before they home in on you and go straight down.
The black birds will fly around and stop every couple of seconds to drop projectiles down at you.
The bee can help you fly into the air if you feed it candy, and can also attack with its stinger. Beware: if you enter the water with it, you'll lose the bee and go back to just being Nemo.
The second lake in the world leads to another underwater cave if you go all the way down.
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