Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose

Can anyone give me any tips on the football level? I've blasted through to this point, but I fear I won't make it a great deal further.

EDIT

Scratch that, I've managed to beat the whole game. That football chapter is definitely more of a case of luck over judgement, though. I can't see there being enough time to react, and the controls are a teeny bit sloppy.

If I remember rightly, the game lets you get away with just running it on all of the difficulty levels but hard, at which point you have to be able to catch it from a throw. Which was a tough task most of the time...

I've caught one throw once, and I've still no idea how. I'm guessing you've got to pass right over the X just as the ball touches your character's hitbox. I think the football bit is a blemish on an otherwise fine game. It's a good job I had a surfit of lives from Babs' Pac-Man-alike minigame to tide me through the unfamiliar bits towards the end of the game.

This really does feel like you're playing a half-hour episode of the show.

Stu, I'm trying to remember what I'd do (not in front of my SNES at the moment!) I think my advice would be: run past the X, then turn back on yourself and jump left once you're standing back on it; Buster jumps at a similar trajectory to the ball.

I'll give that a shot next time I fire the SNES up, Jimbob! Thank you. I'm guessing if you master passes you can gain ground much more efficiently than you can on foot.

Exactly - it's pretty much 10 yards each time, guaranteeing safety.

... Unless you're one of those showoffs on YouTube. Seriously! They have some mad luck/skills.