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YES!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 17
Date: November 28, 1999
Author: Amazon User

The classic Atari 2600 game, now available on Gameboy! This is an exact conversion (as I recall), with good colors. At last I can beat this game...

Just as I remembered it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This one's a classic, folks. I don't remember 'Yar's Revenge' being one of the "bigger name" games on Atari. It wasn't a 'Pac Man' or a 'Space Invaders', but it was definately a fun game. I loved it back then and I love it now. The Game Boy port of the title is excellent. The game is just as I remembered it. The only noticable difference is that the playing field is larger than the Game Boy's screen, meaning it will have to scroll in order to get to the other side. This is a minor footnote, however, and is an obstacle that will quickly be overcome. If you loved this game in the 80's and own a game boy, grab it up!

Great conversion of an old Atari game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a great conversion of the original Atari 2600 game from 1983. The graphics are better but the same addictive game play is there. And the price is good too for a new GameBoy Color cart. A password system lets you pick up a game where you left off previously rather than starting from scratch.

Fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I remember this game from my young teens....it still hasn't changed and is just as much fun as still addicting. The graphics are ok, but for those of us old timers from the Atari 2600 generation, this will feel like putting on a pair of old shoes! Its challenging on a small screen and takes some getting used too. I reccommend this to the 30 something crowd!

Great gameplay

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The gameplay in Yars Revenge is addicting, fast paced, and very fun. This Game Boy Color version is much better then the version bundled on the Game Boy Advange with Pong and Asteroids. I know this because I had originally bought Yars Revenge for Game Boy Color used for about 2 bucks. At first, I could't figure out what to do in the game and didn't understand the goal. After I got the hang of this game I was HOOKED!!! It was the best 2 bucks I ever spent. Then, one day I popped the cartrige into my system, and it wouldn't fire up. Attempt after attempt to boot the game up failed: the game had inexplicably stopped working! I had played the game without a problem earlier in the day, too. So, since it broke I thought I'd buy the GBA version....wow, what a rip-off. For 15 bucks I got a slow paced, lower-rez graphics (yes) and much worse version of the game. Don't get me wrong, Asteroids and Pong are allright, but with no high score saves this compilation is lacking. Since the GBA Yars was such a dissapointment I hopped onto Amazon and once again purchased one of the most fun arcade style games EVER: Yars Revenge.

The storyline and main character in this game are very odd and unique. I won't spoil them for you. If you haven't heared of this game already and like arcade games or addicting games, this is a MUST BUY!!! The only downfall is that it won't work on your DS, so you have to bust out a GBA, GBC or original Game Boy to play it! And yes, this Game Boy Color software is backwards compatible with the ORIGINAL Game Boy hardware! How cool is that? I'd love to play this game on an original GB, too bad mine is gone for good :(

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