Released in 1990 by Red Company and Atlus. I'm pretty confident that I played this on a relative's TurboGrafx-16 at a family reunion. My only exposure to the console. I remember being hooked on it, captured by the large colorful characters. It looked like a real cartoon!
I think that on this same trip I remember playing a lot of Donkey Kong 94 on my Game Boy. But I originally had this down as “played in 1992” so I might have some timelines mixed up.