Head on: Hudson reviving Bonk's Adventure for Xbox 360/PS3/Wii

Despite Hudson's claims that the character stars in one of its "most widely requested platformers", 'Bonk' still remains (unfortunately) not exactly the most household of franchise names. Although he did make side-quests from his native home on the ill-fated TurboGrafx-16 to the Super NES, GameBoy, and later an import-only (and minorly excellent) revival on GameCube and PS2, he's still played the sixth-or-seventh prehistoric fiddle to Nintendo and Sega's more iconic figures.

But after the Virtual Console re-releases of his earliest adventures, the company's giving him a new push with Brink of Extinction, a new downloadable adventure for WiiWare, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live Arcade due in Spring of 2010.

Sporting a much more cohesive look than the last aforementioned paper-cut and textured revival, the company says the new version will include online co-op play in its story mode, and will see his traditional meat-eaten powerups take him into one of eight different yet-undetailed forms (though I'm guessing the West still isn't quite ready for his effete kiss-blowing transformation from the import version of Bonk 2 [see 1:45 or so of this YouTube]).

Hit the jump for a better look into his new lovingly recreated world.