Thomas the Tank Engine Adventure Series (SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive) (Paul Young's Version)

Adventure Series is a SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive video game developed by Malibu Interactive and published by THQ in 1994. Players can pick between five engines to play with: Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gordon, James and Percy. They can also colour in the engines and give the engineer a name. The colour of the engineer in the colouring in effects the colour of his sprite in-game. It has three different skill levels for three modes; Game, Race and Explore. The game is narrated by American Software programmer Craig Ewert.

Playable Characters

 * Thomas
 * Edward
 * Henry
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Percy

Non-playable Characters

 * Sir Topham Hatt (voice-over)
 * Annie and Clarabel (not named; do not speak)

Music
The original Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends theme tune is played at the title screen. This game featured music from seasons Season 1, Season 2 and Season 3. Various sound effects include a whistle, puffing, braking, different tones of a selection (e.g. starting a race) "ding" and a "fill" effect while colouring the engines.

Most of the music however is unable to be looped except in the Race game

Starting the Game
The player must pick an engine from Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gordon, James or Percy. The player can colour-in any engine. In the colouring-in, they can choose what colour their engineer's clothes are by colouring them in on the picture.

There is an opportunity to name the engineer after the player's own name, or pick from some of the names provided. Some of these include: Amy, Bill, Carlos, Dan, Elizabeth, Jasmine, Kevin, Laura, Maria, Sam, Tim, etc.

You must also select a skill level of easy, medium or hard.

Game
To find the correct rolling stock and take them to the designated station (any station in easy mode). Once complete, Sir Topham Hatt will make a comment on speed and memory, and a score will be tallied.

The rolling stock are flat trucks (flatbeds), mine trucks (Troublesome Trucks), log trucks, gravel trucks (also Troublesome Trucks), passenger carriages (coaches; Annie and Clarabel) and flat trucks carrying a shape of varying quantity or colour.

The stations featured are Cronk, Barrow-in-Furness, Crewe, Knapford, Dryaw, Maron, Elsbridge, Shiloh, Brendam, etc.

If the job is finished in 0 or 1 minute, the player will be congratulated by Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gordon, James or Percy and told that Sir Topham Hatt wants to see them.

Race
To race to the finish line before the other engine reaches it, the player must keep up with their skills and speed. For example, pick up up-arrow hot air balloons and sweets but watch out for branches, down-arrow hot air balloons and other engines.

Regardless of which engine the player chooses at the start, the races go from small engine to big engine.

Winning against three engines will give the player a silver medal and winning against all five will give the player a gold medal and end the game.

Explore
The chance to explore the maps from 'Game' and 'Race' without a timer and points. Players can pick up loose trucks or coaches and take them anywhere.

Trivia

 * The picture for the Game mode is a modified Ertl Thomas pulling a Troublesome Truck to a station for the Fat Controller, the picture for Race is the scene where Edward is trying to rescue James from the second season episode, Old Iron, and the picture for Explore is simply a point-of-view of an engine coming out of a tunnel.
 * A few themes have been used:
 * During the Game mode intro, the busy station theme is played.
 * During the Game and Explore modes, part of Henry's theme is played.
 * During the Race mode, a modified version of James' theme is played.
 * During the Race mode intro, part of Gordon's theme is played.
 * When races are lost, part of Sir Topham Hatt's theme is played.

Goofs

 * Crewe, Shiloh and Barrow-in-Furness are depicted as stations on the North Western Railway, but Shiloh is a Culdee Fell Railway station and Crewe and Barrow-in-Furness are not even on Sodor.
 * In this game, Knapford, Brendam, Dryaw, Maron and Elsbridge stations look inaccurate to their true appearances in the TV series.
 * In the front view shots of the engines, Percy, Henry and Edward have the same front view sprites as Thomas, Gordon and James, but recolored and with different faces.
 * In the Race mode picture, James has Thomas' happy face.
 * On the "Pick an Engine" and "Colouring your Engine" screens, as well as the in-game sprites, all the engines share the same face.
 * Percy's colour-in picture shows him with a single coupling rod.
 * The sprite and sound effect for using the engines' whistles is exactly the same for all engines.
 * On the "Coloring your Engine" screens, Thomas, Gordon and James (excluding Edward, Henry and Percy) lack their coupling hooks.
 * None of the in-game sprites are fully animated.