What a shock! There was an Ice World, a Lava World and a Castle World! I must be psychic or something. And then there was a Crystal World, with the most irritating baddies in the world EVAR in it – giant bomb creatures that explode themselves (but don’t die). On the one hand, they’re great as they wipe out some of the other baddies by themselves. On the other hand, they tend to sit next to the exit and blow …
World 5-5 now. Looks as though all the game stereotypical stages are in this one – Desert World, Grass World, Forest World, etc. Ice World is up next, I think, and then Lava World. There’s bound to be a castle at some point too. I have racked up so many powerups now that it is just silly. I have over 60 bombs I can activate, should I die, but I’m sticking to four at a time for the moment. I …
More playage, and I’m up to World 4-5 now. It’s still fun, but there isn’t much difference between all the levels. They do occasionally throw in a single screen, filled with blocks, and you have to clear the baddies in under 90 seconds, which breaks it up a bit. Not much else though.
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, …
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Not Your Usual Lazy Catchup Post
The night before Switchmas
And all through the house
Fingernails were bitten
And downed Famous Grouse
I’ve not posted in a while, aside from to mention Yakuza 3 and Old World Blues, but I have still been playing games. Here’s a round-up of what’s been going down over the last few weeks: Professor Layton and the Lost Future (DS) I actually completed this at the start of the year, but as I did with the previous two games once the story was done I left the remaining puzzles until near the release of the following game. …
<< Previous (The Gameking) Gameking Games Readers without short-term memory problems will recall that I bought 13 games to go with my Gameking. Each and every one is special in its own special way. Special as in “special needs”, naturally. Firstly, a few points about Gameking games. The cartridges are strikingly familiar to anyone who has ever played on a Game Boy, since they’re exactly the same as Game Boy cartridges. Almost, anyway – instead of “Game Boy” they say …
On the 10th November 2004, I ordered a Gameking handheld, and 13 games, from www.gbax.com. A couple of days later, the whole lot arrived. And what a truly fantastic bit of kit it is. As you can see from the picture, the Gameking is very similar to a standard Game Boy Advance. Very similar. In fact, aside from the words and start/select button locations, almost identical. Don’t be fooled, however, as there are some quite major differences. Firstly, there’s a …
I got given an MSX this morning. Not only that, but it works! Not only that, but it came with some games! What an amazing day. First up was Pairs. It’s a pelmanism-style matching pairs game, but you have a little man you have to guide to the cards to flip them, while avoiding the baddies. It was fun for a bit. Then I played Eric and the Floaters. The original Bomberman game. Coincidentally, I’d actually blogged about this very …
You know that there Bomberman? Of course you do. There have been over seventeenhundredbillionandfive Bomberman games. Remember the first one? On the NES. WRONG! The very first Bomberman game was older than that. And was, in fact, a Spectrum (and MSX) game called Eric and the Floaters. Yeah, that’s right folks – Bomberman’s first name is Eric. Eric Bomberman. Mind… Blown. And here it is, in all it’s primitive glory. Barely indistinguishable from the newer titles in the series, right?
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