Les Schtroumpfs - Super Nintendo SNES

Les Schtroumpfs for Super Nintendo SNES

Les Schtroumpfs for Super Nintendo SNES is the platform game also known as The Smurfs. Gargamel has kidnapped Jokey Smurf, Brainy Smurf, Greedy Smurf and Smurfette. You begin as Hefty Smurf and travel through forests, marshes, mountains and a mine to find them. Along the way, you jump across gaps, dodge insects and seek a safe route among plants and other dangers. Each environment calls for a different approach to its obstacles.

A running start lets you make bigger jumps and reach higher platforms. You climb vines, crawl through narrow passages and move objects to get further. Jumping on enemies helps clear the way. The journey alternates ordinary platform sections with a minecart and a sled. In the minecart, you decide when to brake and change the points; on the sled, you must dodge obstacles in time.

You play alone with one standard controller. Hearts show how much damage you can still withstand, while raspberries restore lost energy. Collecting sarsaparilla leaves earns extra lives and stars open bonus sections, including a raft or stork journey. The time limit prevents you from looking around indefinitely. Passwords made from Smurf pictures let you resume at certain points; the cartridge does not keep separate save files for your adventure.

Region and language

Our Super Nintendo SNES games are PAL editions, unless stated otherwise. This product contains a loose cartridge for the European market. A box is only included if explicitly stated in the product details. We note any different region in the product details. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.

Manual

With Les Schtroumpfs for Super Nintendo SNES, you receive a loose cartridge. A box and manual are not included unless we explicitly state otherwise in the product details. This is the standard way we supply this copy.

The history of Les Schtroumpfs

Infogrames developed and published this Super Nintendo version of Les Schtroumpfs in 1994. The game uses characters created by Peyo, who introduced the Smurfs in 1958 in a Johan and Peewit adventure. They subsequently received their own stories and appeared in a television series from 1981. By the time of this SNES game, the village, Gargamel and the Smurfs' different personalities were therefore already part of a much larger comic-book and television universe.

The developers turned that world into a side-scrolling adventure with recognisable drawn characters and varied landscapes. The original game credits name Stéphane Baudet, Xavier Schon and Vincent Pourieux among the designers and Frédéric Mentzen for the music. Hefty Smurf carries most of the rescue mission. Other Smurfs have their own actions, such as throwing presents or cakes, so the characters also differ from one another during play.

The versions of The Smurfs on older computers and consoles are not all the same game. This description concerns the original 16-bit SNES version, including the minecart, sled and bonus journeys. The Smurfs Travel the World followed on the same platform in 1996. That sequel replaced Gargamel's kidnappings with a broken magic crystal and placed more emphasis on searching areas. The first game retains its own rescue story and sequence of obstacles.

Similar games for Super Nintendo SNES

The Smurfs Travel the World on Super Nintendo SNES uses the same comic-book world and likewise has you run and jump among drawn enemies. However, the sequel centres on collecting crystal fragments in larger areas and gives you a choice between Inquisitive Smurf and Smurfette. Les Schtroumpfs begins with Hefty Smurf's rescue mission and varies the route with a minecart and sled. Here you follow a kidnapping story rather than a search for all the required crystals.

Spirou for Super Nintendo SNES is another Infogrames platform game about a Belgian comic-book hero. In both games, you must judge distances, avoid enemies and use other movements between ordinary jumps. Spirou travels through a city and later uses a Micropulsor against opponents. Les Schtroumpfs stays with the small scale of Smurf country, where vines, mushrooms and insects shape the surroundings. The minecart and sled interrupt the journey differently from Spirou's urban adventure.

Astérix on Super Nintendo SNES shares its drawn presentation and the rescue of a familiar friend with Les Schtroumpfs. The Gaul mainly fights Romans with punches and uses objects to open his route. With the Smurfs, more attention goes to running starts, jumping, climbing and avoiding small animals. Both demand precise movement, but Astérix places fighting more firmly at the centre and takes its landscapes from a different comic-book world.

Disney's Aladdin for Super Nintendo SNES likewise links colourful animation with a fixed sequence of platform levels. Capcom has Aladdin hang from ledges, throw apples and use acrobatic movements to get past guards. Les Schtroumpfs uses movable objects, climbing vines and bigger jumps after a running start. The Smurfs' journey also includes separate vehicle sections. Aladdin follows locations from the film, while Hefty Smurf travels through the nature and dangers of Peyo's world to find missing villagers.

Super Mario World on Super Nintendo SNES, like Les Schtroumpfs, demands well-timed jumps and the recognition of safe landing places. However, Mario uses a world map with secret exits, Yoshi and changing powers such as the cape. Hefty Smurf works with a more limited set of movements and a rescue story that guides the route. Mario keeps progress in save files; in Les Schtroumpfs, you note down picture passwords to continue later at certain points.