1st June 2008, 2:14 PM
Picked up a couple things... nothing major, though. $8 for the three.
Star Wars: Episode I Racer (GBC) -- rumble cart... came with a working battery too, Decent top-down racing game... fast, but it gives you arrows for which direction to turn ahead so that you can make the turns (unlike the GB/C version of Micro Machines 2...). Worth getting.
Super Adventure Island (SNES)-- Platformer. so, so simple... I've never loved this series, but I think that the later NES ones are probably the best ones (though admittedly this did come out before Adventure Island II or III on NES, it came out just six months before the second NES game, so they could have made this have a bit more to it to...). At least there you get dinosaurs you can ride on. But here, it's got nothing... just the simplest platforming you can imagine, with standard Adventure Island style fruit collecting to keep the timer up. Decent, but quite underwhelming. I haven't beaten the first boss (end of level 1-3) yet, though, and it has limited continues... so not easy, but frustrating (because one touch with pretty much anything kills you) and simplistic. Graphics and music are good, though.
Tiger-Heli (NES) -- decent shmup. No ending (infinite loop), few or no real bosses. You move really slow, too... but once you get used to it it's fun. There are powerups and bonuses to find, and the challenge level is good. The music is somewhat grating... I like it, I think...
Star Wars: Episode I Racer (GBC) -- rumble cart... came with a working battery too, Decent top-down racing game... fast, but it gives you arrows for which direction to turn ahead so that you can make the turns (unlike the GB/C version of Micro Machines 2...). Worth getting.
Super Adventure Island (SNES)-- Platformer. so, so simple... I've never loved this series, but I think that the later NES ones are probably the best ones (though admittedly this did come out before Adventure Island II or III on NES, it came out just six months before the second NES game, so they could have made this have a bit more to it to...). At least there you get dinosaurs you can ride on. But here, it's got nothing... just the simplest platforming you can imagine, with standard Adventure Island style fruit collecting to keep the timer up. Decent, but quite underwhelming. I haven't beaten the first boss (end of level 1-3) yet, though, and it has limited continues... so not easy, but frustrating (because one touch with pretty much anything kills you) and simplistic. Graphics and music are good, though.
Tiger-Heli (NES) -- decent shmup. No ending (infinite loop), few or no real bosses. You move really slow, too... but once you get used to it it's fun. There are powerups and bonuses to find, and the challenge level is good. The music is somewhat grating... I like it, I think...