Home Alone is a video game based on the popular Home Alone movie. In my opinion, the movie is one of the best holiday movies of all time. Unfortunately, the same thing cannot be said about the game. The movie was released in late 1990 to coincide with the holiday season while the game came out in late 1990 or early 1991 depending on the system.
Home Alone was developed by a few different developers for several different systems. The Sega Genesis version (along with the Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear versions) were developed by Sega of America. Again, depending on the system the games have slightly different plots though they all are based on the concept of stopping or evading the Wet Bandits (the antagonists from the movie). In the Sega Genesis version the player (as Kevin) must actually protect multiple houses in the neighborhood, fighting them off with a BB gun or other weapons that he finds. If he does this for the allotted time then the game is won. If all the houses are successfully robbed by The Wet Bandits then the game is over.
However, while the Genesis may have slightly better graphics than, for example, the NES version, all versions of the game are pretty terrible. This was clearly a quickly thrown together game to cash in on the immense popularity of the movie. It seems to be rare that you find a quality game that is based on a movie and this one is not an exception.
In addition to the Sega Genesis, this game was also available for the Game Gear, Sega Master System, NES, Game Boy and Super NES. There was also an obscure remake for the PS2 in 2006 that was released only in Europe and was even more terrible than this one.
