I played all the way through and beat Bonk's Adventure Sunday night and really enjoyed doing so. I didn't even use any continues! (I had played through and beaten the game long ago.)
So, Monday night, I decided that I would do the same for Bonk's Revenge, but after using all of my continues, I could only get about halfway through the game.
I guess that I'll need to start it again and play through more slowly, getting as many extra lives as possible. (Although I had played Bonk's Revenge some many years ago, I've never beaten the game.)
I'm in the same boat. I've beaten Bonk's Adventure numerous times, but have NEVER beaten the sequel. I think it's because I played the heck out of the first one when it was new. It was one of the few games I owned early on so I played it incessantly. But I didn't pick up Revenge until I got back into collecting for the system, in the late 90s. And by then I had a pretty big library of games so haven't really given it the same dedication the first one got.
Well, I spent another hour and a half or two tonight playing more Bonk's Revenge, and I got all the way to the spaceship where you can choose which one of 4 different levels to play. I beat one of the levels, and then I choose the water level. About halfway through the level, I encountered a game-stopping glitch.
I was bonking some bricks when all of a sudden, I forced up through the ceiling into the non-visible area above top of the screen. While I could walk/swim back and forth from the beginning of the level to the end, I couldn't find a way to get down or to kill myself, so I finally had to just turn the game off.
This game is actually somewhat difficult, in that, while I was able to save up 7-8 lives and had 5 hearts, I finally died on the flying rocket knight, and when I used my first continue, I only start out with 3 lives and 3 hearts, which was a major setback. I really don't want to look at a walkthrough to find all of the hidden hearts, but I may have to...
It almost seems that one needs to master the mini games so that he will have enough smiley faces to get extra lives to be able to more easily beat the game. Either that of I just haven't gotten the rhythm of the game yet...