I thought this was a bootleg because of how shitty the game is

Radical Entertainment also made hits like The Terminator, Wayne's World and Bébé's Kids. That's unfortunate.

@JonGandee THQ were the publishers and well let's put it in a nice way they aren't really known for good games at that time (most of their better games were from the 2000s/2010s), it would have also made it easier to submit to Nintendo of America as usually there wouldn't be any questionable content to censor as they would have seen the game for children. As THQ was a toy company hence the name. Also the license must have been pretty cheap at this point considering that the cartoon was a 1960s thing with a hybrid live action movie afterwards, it may have aired on US syndication on some channel at that point. Rocky and Bullwinkle aren't really popular outside of America.

@Rainbow Question Mark Who later on to make much better games such as Simpsons Hit and Run, Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction and the Prototype games. Their early days were pretty rough.

This is an actually licensed NES game developed by Radical Entertainment, the same developer behind Mario Is Missing and Mario's Time Machine.

How did this even get licensed then?

@JonGandee No it's a licensed game, and a crappy one

Thanks for these!

Umm, is this a bootleg.

YES