''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' is a

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for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989 by

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and was based upon the 1876 book ''

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the no ...

'' by Mark Twain.

Gameplay

''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' is a platformer similar to '' The Goonies 1 or 2'', wherein one plays as

Tom Sawyer Thomas Sawyer () is the titular character of the Mark Twain novel ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: '' Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884), '' Tom Sawyer Abroad'' (1894), and '' Tom Sawyer, ...

. The game is not to be confused with '' Square's Tom Sawyer''. Inexplicably, the level order is changed in the English version (perhaps so as not to confuse players by starting with the rafting stage). The Japanese original's level 5, the pirate ship, is the English version's level 1, both making the beginning of the game much more difficult, and making the plot noncohesive.

Plot

Tom Sawyer is dreaming, and in this dream he must save Becky from Injun Joe, travelling through six stages to get to her. He encounters various creatures, including a giant octopus, a giant alligator in the Mississippi River, ghosts and ghouls in a haunted house, and a dragon. He wakes up from the dream and finds himself in his Missouri classroom, where he finds one feather on his desk that had belonged to Injun Joe. It is never made clear whether or not the events of the game were real.

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* 1989 video games Nintendo Entertainment System games Nintendo Entertainment System-only games SETA Corporation games Video games set in the 19th century Video games set in the United States Works based on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Video games developed in Japan Winkysoft games Multiplayer and single-player video games Podu kha {{platform-videogame-stub