Mario vs Donkey Kong is the sequel (pretty much) to the original Game Boy game Donkey Kong, which in itself was a sort of huge expansion for the even older Donkey Kong arcade game. The GB game was actually the first non-Japanese game to take advantage of the SNES Super Game Boy add-on too. And it was ACES. Mario vs Donkey Kong is also ACES. Basically, you have to travel through puzzley-platformey levels, finding keys to open doors and rescuing …
Yes. Another new game. I also have this game for the Megadrive (albeit with the name “James Pond II – Codename: Robocod”), and sadly, the now 15 year-old version is a bit better. It isn’t that there’s anything specifically wrong with the DS game, it’s just it isn’t the same. You still have the big castle with doors to levels, and you still have the same level themes, but the levels themselves are different. In a way, this is good …
Picked up from World 3, Level 2 where I’d previously made it up to. It, like all good (and bad) Mario-derived games has, is a Ghost House type level, so there were Boos and dark bits and stuff. And an irritating pick-a-door puzzle bit on one of the levels. Shockingly (or rather, not), the end of level boss was King Boo. He was pretty easy though, and I killed him first go. World 4 was the obligatory lava world, and …
After waiting almost TWO MONTHS, and with Royal Mail losing the first delivery of this game, it finally arrived today. So I played it a bit. It’s pretty good. The graphics are a lot like Yoshi’s Island on the SNES, and it’s all cute and bouncy and everything. I’ve played through all of World 1 up to the boss, Petey Pihrana. Who you have to kill in an almost identical way to in Super Mario Sunshine. Didn’t manage to kill …
Wandered up towards the Rusturf Tunnel, defeating trainers left right and centre with my ubar-powerful Beautifly, and get my Zigzagoon up to level 10 on the way. Team Aqua had stolen some stuff from the Devon Corporation, so it fell down to me to get it back. You know, it’s one of them things kids are for. Anyway, went into the tunnel, found the “Team Aqua Grunt”, defeated him, and returned the moychendoyse to the Devon Corporation, who have now …
Hurrah for games for children! Except Pokémon is a game for MEN. Obviously. Or something. Just like all the other Pokeymang games, Sapphire starts with you meeting a tree-named Professor (Birch, in this case), the Professor’s kid, and your rival (May, in this game), and your own My First Pokémon (I picked a Torchic). And off I went, into the Magical World of Pokémon(TM). Walked through some grass, and got to the first Gym, to find my dad. Couldn’t fight …
Yes, just plain “Bomberman” – the DS version, mind, but it’s still simply called “Bomberman”. Keeping in with this simple name, the game itself has shed much of the excess baggage from over the years. There are no kangaroos and no minecarts. Most of the powerups are still here, but many of them are only “active” for the level you’re currently on. The levels are much more like those on the original Bomberman games too – blocks to blow up, …
I never had this game in either of its original incarnations on the PC Engine and the Megadrive, but remember wanting it when I saw a review of it. I think the UK version either never existed or was ub3r-l@@k-r@re. It’s Breakout with two bats and zombies, basically. And it is pretty good too, making use of the second screen to see further up the level as you progress. Graphics are pretty poor though – no improvement on the Megadrive …
It’s like Yoshi Touch & Go, but with actual proper levels! And Kirby! The levels I’ve done so far (the first two worlds) have been pretty good – varied, nice graphics, but very easy so far. I’m only “4.7%” complete though, it seems, so I’m sure things will get harder. The bosses are a bit different to your usual games too. You have three to pick at the end of each world (the same three each time), and you have …
Ludicrous name aside, this is actually a pretty good platformer. See – it is possible to make decent 2D platformers in this day and age. It’s a shame the tilt sensor is either “on” or “off”, however – there’s no analogueness to it. And my brain doesn’t work backwards well enough to work out I need to tilt left to move everything right, and vice versa. But anyway. Completed all of the first two “worlds”, which involved turning into a …
Having not enjoyed a single football game since Sensible World of Soccer, I was unsure as to what I would think of this. I mean, everyone says it’s the best football game ever (except chavs, who think FIFA is because it is made by EA), but it looked a bit more complicated than SWOS. Anyway, I did some free training to start to get a feel for the controls, and then went into a match between England (me) and Belgium …
After a hard think about which game I wanted to play-to-complete next, I settled on this. Don’t know how far in I am – not very I expect. Have done George’s first bit, then all of Nico’s bit, then back to George again. It’s pretty good so far, although some of the puzzles have been a little obvious (although this is noted by the game – George says “Oh, the old block-on-a-pressure pad trick, eh?” at one point). I was …