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Spot: The Cool Adventure

1994 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ7580026 ↗
Source-derived summary

Spot: The Cool Adventure is a 1992 platform game developed by Visual Concepts and published by Virgin Games for the Game Boy. It is a port of the NES game, M.C. Kids. The Game Boy version was released outside of Europe and was localized with the 7 Up mascot Spot as Spot: The Cool Adventure.

The game structure is based on M.C. Kids, although the map screen closely resembles Super Mario Bros. 3. Getting hit causes players to lose health. In addition to avoiding enemies, Spot can jump or collect blocks to help him reach hearts in other locations.

Reception

Power Unlimited gave a score of 65%.

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The public source identifies “Spot: The Cool Adventure” as 1994 video game. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Spot, Cool and Adventure.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994-02-11. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Spot, Cool and Adventure providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7580026. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Spot: The Cool Adventure” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.