19th March 2011, 8:26 PM
Genesis
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Fun & Games - $2, cart only - Such awesomely horrible early '90s artwork on this cartridge... I was expecting bad things from this, and it partially lived up to expectations. It's mostly a Mario Paint knockoff, with a couple of simple little '80s-ish arcade style games in it as well. The Mario Paint part has a painting part and a music creation part. It's not bad really, except for one thing... no saving. What's the point when it can't save anything? Sure Mario Paint had limited saving (one image only), but this has nothing... kind of makes that part of the game pointless.
as for the arcade games, one is a Pac-Man ish maze game. It's probably the best one, and is decent if quite simple. You're a mouse in a maze full of cat enemies, collect the items. Bones turn you into a dog, which lets you defeat the cats. The second game is a shooter-style game, where you have a sight on the screen and have to shoot enemy targets that are flying around. Shoot all the ones in a stage and they combine into a boss; defeat the boss and they scatter again in the next level pattern. The problem with this game is figuring out why you're taking damage -- so far as far as I can tell you just ... get hurt sometimes, and there aren't health powerups. It's kind of weird. I've managed to get to level 3, but unless I'm missing something I can't see getting much farther. The last is whack-a-mole, but with clowns. Controls are kind of annoying.
Overall, was it worth $2? Um, probably not, but maybe. I was expecting it to be worse, actually... it's just somewhat disappointing (considering what it is and tries to be), not utterly terrible.
Oh, I'm not sure if it has mouse support or not, I don't have a Mega Mouse. The arcade games section does show a "gamepad recommended" icon on the screen, though, which gives me a little hope that maybe it has Mega Mouse support. I wouldn't count on it though, I'll have to find that out.
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Fun & Games - $2, cart only - Such awesomely horrible early '90s artwork on this cartridge... I was expecting bad things from this, and it partially lived up to expectations. It's mostly a Mario Paint knockoff, with a couple of simple little '80s-ish arcade style games in it as well. The Mario Paint part has a painting part and a music creation part. It's not bad really, except for one thing... no saving. What's the point when it can't save anything? Sure Mario Paint had limited saving (one image only), but this has nothing... kind of makes that part of the game pointless.
as for the arcade games, one is a Pac-Man ish maze game. It's probably the best one, and is decent if quite simple. You're a mouse in a maze full of cat enemies, collect the items. Bones turn you into a dog, which lets you defeat the cats. The second game is a shooter-style game, where you have a sight on the screen and have to shoot enemy targets that are flying around. Shoot all the ones in a stage and they combine into a boss; defeat the boss and they scatter again in the next level pattern. The problem with this game is figuring out why you're taking damage -- so far as far as I can tell you just ... get hurt sometimes, and there aren't health powerups. It's kind of weird. I've managed to get to level 3, but unless I'm missing something I can't see getting much farther. The last is whack-a-mole, but with clowns. Controls are kind of annoying.
Overall, was it worth $2? Um, probably not, but maybe. I was expecting it to be worse, actually... it's just somewhat disappointing (considering what it is and tries to be), not utterly terrible.
Oh, I'm not sure if it has mouse support or not, I don't have a Mega Mouse. The arcade games section does show a "gamepad recommended" icon on the screen, though, which gives me a little hope that maybe it has Mega Mouse support. I wouldn't count on it though, I'll have to find that out.
Dark Jaguar Wrote:I suppose you could do the same with the SNES multitap (8 players I mean), though I really don't know if any SNES games made use of it.You'd think, but I'm pretty sure the SNES supports only one multitap, so the SNES is five player max (four on the tap, one in the other controller port). No game supports more than five players. Also odd is that you're supposed to plug the multitap into controller port two, not 1... the four ports on it are labelled 2 to 5.
Quote:I've seen the enforcer, but I don't have one. The one thing it has about the Super Scope is that if you take off the 2 extra parts, it's a perfectly manageable size (and neither part really added anything if I recall, no buttons or anything).I don't think I've even seen the Konami SNES gun, light guns aren't all that common (apart from NES Zappers) really. I've seen Super Scopes, some random third party Playstation gun, the Saturn gun (Sega Stunner), and I have a NES Zapper and a SMS light phaser (um, and a Wii Zapper, but that's different), and my cousins have a Genesis Justifier so I've used that a few times, but that's about it.
Quote:At any rate, most of those old light guns depended on specific timing that modern TVs aren't capable of, so if you want to use any of them, you'd need an old TV. Something that did the old line by line drawing to display lines and was very quick getting the image to the screen with no delays (something analog, in other words). Even CRT HDTVs have too big a timing delay to work with them.That at least isn't an issue for me, I don't have any TVs that it wouldn't work with.