The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System

Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987...

 in 1989 by Seta

Seta

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 and was based upon the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the Town of "St...

by Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...

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Gameplay

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a platformer similar to Super Mario Brothers, wherein one plays as Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer

Thomas "Tom" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . He appears in three other novels by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Tom Sawyer Abroad , and Tom Sawyer, Detective .Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, Huck and Tom...

. The game is not to be confused with Square's Tom Sawyer

Square's Tom Sawyer

is a console role-playing game for the Nintendo Family Computer game console. The game is directly based on Mark Twain's renowned novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and was developed in the role-playing game niche that made Square famous with its acclaimed Final Fantasy series of video games...

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Plot

Tom Sawyer is dreaming, and in this dream he must save Becky from Injun Joe, he must travel 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, God, and a dragon. He wakes up from the dream and finds himself in his Mississippi classroom. He finds a feather on his desk. The feather that belonged to Injun Joe. Was it a dream...?