Saturday, June 4, 2011

Konami Collector's Series: Arcade Advance




This game is actually 6 games in one. You get near perfect arcade ports of Frogger, Gyruss, Time Pilot, Rush'n Attack, Scramble, and Yie Ar Kung-Fu. Frogger is basically moving a frog to the top of the screen while avoiding highway traffic and other obstacles. Very fun, very simple. Gyruss is a shooter where you move a spaceship in a circle motion to kill enemies spawning from the center. It is addictive and has very good music, a very fun game. Time Pilot lets you pilot a plane while shooting enemy planes, and you transport to different time periods like the future and 1940. It is fun and mostly challenging. Rush'n Attack is a lot like the NES game, you kill enemies with your baton while going from left to right. It's challenging and a very good game. Yie Ar Kung-Fu is one of the best games on this cartridge. It's a fighting game, but only one on one, where you challenge all of the best kung fu masters, and they get harder as you beat each one. However, the game is very challenging because you don't have very many lives, and it takes a lot of trial and error. This game saves your high scores, with one problem: when you turn the system off, the high scores are erased. Bummer. But the gameplay you get with this cartridge is unparralleled, and you will be playing Arcade Advance for hours on end. These are some of Konami's best arcade games, too. A great budget title, and one of my favorite GBA games. Go play it!

Graphics- 5.9 out of 10
Sound and Music- 9.0 out of 10 (near-perfect port!)
Presentation- 6.3 out of 10
Gameplay- 10 out of 10

Overall- 8.5 out of 10

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