History VideoGame / FelixTheCat

The Game Boy version, which was released in 1993, is almost identical to the NES version gameplay wise, but it has fewer levels, simplified level layouts, and obviously inferior graphics and sound due to the lack of color, smaller screen and inferior hardware. An unauthorized UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis port of the NES version was developed in Russia.

The game is getting official rerelease for Platform/NintendoSwitch, Platform/PlayStation4 and Platform/PlayStation5 on March 28 by Creator/{{Konami}} due to Hudson Soft being long defunct.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Poindexter, who is usually on good terms with Felix in the TV cartoons, is fought as a boss twice in this game.

* CollisionDamage: Any contact with enemies that isnt an attack will rob Felix of a power-up, or straight up kill him if he so much as bumps into them--and Felix can't GoombaStomp enemies either.

** The Magic Bag of Tricks also goes through this. In the Joe Oriolo cartoons, it was an outright StoryBreakerPower that could turn into or create ''anything'' and could get Felix out of any situation. The NES game significantly nerfs its powers to where it can only do four different attacks, three of which need power ups and have a time limit, and occasionally turn into vehicles in certain contexts (i.e. canoes, a plane, a spaceship). Understandably, it would be impossible to properly transition the Bags limitless abilities into a video game, and giving the bag limits ensures that the gameplay still has challenge.

** The first power-up, the Magic Wand, doesnt have the range or damage of the Car or Tank power ups, but its attack goes out in all 8 directions and can be rapidly spammed, making it a very helpful item.

* OutOfContinues: The game just instantly sends you back to the title screen after running out of continues, which is way better than what the undermentioned bootleg has.

''Felix the Cat'' is a 1992 video game based on the classic cartoon series WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat (specifically, the [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatJoeOriolo Joe Oriolo incarnation of the series]]), developed by Creator/HudsonSoft and released for the UsefulNotes/{{NES}} and UsefulNotes/GameBoy.

* WarmUpBoss: Poindexter, the boss of the first world. He moves very slow and his only attack is launching a ball in an arc that is extremely easy to avoid. Even if Felix doesn't have any power-ups, you can mop the floor with him in seconds. The Game Boy version makes him even easier to fight due to how slowly he moves and how little he'll actually fire his attack.

* GameOver: The NES game had Felix being thrown into the streets and gets dizzy.

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!!The Sega Genesis bootleg provides the following:
* AWinnerisYou: Made FAR worse here (even more so than the Game Boy version), where it's just a still image of Kitty kissing Felix in the cheek, the only saving grace is that it sends you to the title screen instead of staying there indefinitely.
* AdaptedOut: The bosses are absent in this game, as well as the transition cutscene when you clear a level
* BloodierAndGorier: Double subverted, it's just like the NES and Gameboy versions, but when you refuse to continue [[OutOfContinues (or forced)]] [[SuprisinglyCreepyMoment to end the game however]]
* MooksButNoBosses: As the result of Adapted Out above
* OutOfContinues: You can only continue twice before you are forced to quit the game (indicated by the cursor being locked at the option that ends the game, the only way to save yourself from the creepy game over that awaits is to either turn the game off, or reset the game, this is true to the NES/Gameboy games, except it just sends you back to the title screen.
* TearOffYourFace: The game over screen, complete with [[Gorn]] enough said.

-->--'''The manual''', [[ExcusePlot summing up the game's entire story]].

* AWinnerIsYou: Your reward for beating Professor? You get to see Felix free the tied-up Kitty Kat, and get the message "Congratulations! At last FELIX! You rescued Kitty!" and Kitty saying "I love you, Felix!" and seeing Felix fly Kitty back home as THE END pops up--you don't even get to see any credits, and pressing start sends you back to the title screen. The Game Boy version is even worse--Felix just walks right up to Kitty, and the game cuts to a bland THE END screen that you can't exit out of, the Genesis bootleg, is FAR, '''FAR''' WORSE.

* BloodierAndGorier: Double subverted, it's just like the NES and Gameboy versions, [[SupriseCreepy but when you refuse to continue]] [[OutOfContinues (or forced)]] [[OhCrap! to end the game however]]

* TearOffYourFace: The game over screen, need to i say more?

* BloodierAndGorier: Double subverted, it's just like the NES and Gameboy versions, [[SupriseCreepy but when you refuse to continue however]]
* Mooks,butnoBosses: As the result of Adapted Out above
* OutOfContinues: You can only continue twice before you are forced to quit the game (indicated by the cursor being locked at the option that ends the game, the only way to save yourself from the creepy game over that awaits is to either turn the game off, or reset the game, this is true to the NES/Gameboy games, except it just sends you back to the title screen
* AWinnerisYou: Made FAR worse here (even more so than the Game Boy version), where it's just a still image of Kitty kissing Felix in the cheek, the only saving grace is that it sends you to the title screen instead of staying there indefinitely

* AWinnerIsYou: Your reward for beating Professor? You get to see Felix free the tied-up Kitty Kat, and get the message "Congratulations! At last FELIX! You rescued Kitty!" and Kitty saying "I love you, Felix!" and seeing Felix fly Kitty back home as THE END pops up--you don't even get to see any credits, and pressing start sends you back to the title screen. The Game Boy version is even worse--Felix just walks right up to Kitty, and the game cuts to a bland THE END screen that you can't exit out of.

* BloodierAndGorier: Double subverted, it's just like the NES and Gameboy versions, [[Suprise Creepy but when you refuse to continue however]]
* OutOfContinues: You can only continue twice before you are forced to quit the game, the only way to save yourself from the creepy game over that awaits is to either turn the game off, or reset the game.

!!This game provides examples of:

* WhenTreesAttack: In the first world, you face tiny walking trees that spit at you and take more hits to kill.