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Only good if your worthy....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

and by worthy I mean 35+ years of age....sorry SVGA kiddies, you won't be happy with this one...however, if your a gamer from the early 80's YOU'LL LOVE IT...

The games seem ALMOST like EXACT replications of those quarter games that we grandpas' played at the bowling allies... :)

Gyruss is a bit difficult to manuever as you fly around the screen (ala Tempest), same with Time Pilot...

This is a MUST have for your GBA...hours of fun as you climb from level to level.

Gotta love enchanced classics

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

At first when I was about to play this game, I thought it would just be an exact port of 6 arcade games. You do get that and more. Konami took a step further on this game and made some noticable enhancements that make the games much more fun to play. Also, use the Konami Code (^,^,v,v,<,>,<,>,B,A) at the title of any of the game screens to unlock more features. If you love classics, especially Konami classics, buy this game if you can (it's hard to find).

Going Retro is great but why can't they be perfect?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I always welcome the idea of going retro, remaking old arcade games into current console system. And this one was no exception especially when it has not just one or two, but six. And not to mention my favorite of all time, Yie Ar KUNG~FU and Rush'n Attack. Seriously, I still remember vividly going to local arcade, spending countless coins on these two classic of classics... ahhh.. just nostalgic factor itself is the worth the price.
However, I was disappointed with both games. For instance with Yie Ar KUNG~FU, the level of difficulty increases dramatically after you finish the first round. I mean, it's nice that they didn't transfer over the same easy difficulty from arcade, but I hope that they would increase the difficulty gradually and no option to choose your difficulty. For Rush'n Attack, they changed things ALOT, with special weapons and difficulty has been somehow altered to easier side,and the length has been changed as well. There was glitch in Yie Ar KUNG-FU with one move, where the main character suppose to stretch his punch while advancing in original arcade(and playstation version too), however, they somehow missed putting that, creating wrong move. And I found a bug in Gyruss, i got somehow stuck on a screen, not advancing to next level regardless of no enemy present. Time Pilot's difficulty has been set way too high to begin with in my opinion.

You know, it's really nice to have them in your palm, the idea itself is just too cool, too awesome- where I had to go to local arcade to play these classics, now I can play in my bed... wow.. however, I wish that they would've put more attention in transferring them over to GameBoyAdvance version because they are not arcade perfect somehow, they are not. It's good thing that they altered the difficulty to give more challenge, however, when they change gameplay itself in games like Rush'n Attack, I have no choice but to have this bit of bitter taste in my mouth. However, its fault is outweighted by its strength such as adding more levels in Rush'n Attack, or most of all, PLAYING THIS TOTALLY NEW GAMES WITH INFAMOUS KONAMI CODE. I just found out that if you put that up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right,B,A, on each game screen, you get totally new games, more lives, and, .... you just see what happens. Overall, you are getting more than you are paying for, so it's all good in the end. I hope that they would bring out games like this more in future.

Enjoy.

Best arcade compilation cartridge for the GBA

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

All of the arcade games converted for the GBA are nearly perfect representations. Sure, the music is a different one than the original in Frogger, but that is a very minor flaw. Maybe there was a version of Arcade Frogger that had this tune--who knows?

On top of that, you can get variants of these classic games by using the special Konami joystick code.

If you like this cartridge, I would highly recommend "Namco Museum" nad "Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits" (the latter contains imperfect arcade conversions but it is still good).

Buy it for Frogger and...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

be amazed by Gyruss and Time Pilot are two of the best arcade shooting games EVER!

The games were built ground up for the gba and run flawlessly.

Frogger 9/10
Gyruss 10/10
Time Pilot 10/10
Yi Aer kung fu 7/10
Scramble 8/10
Rush'n attack 8/10

What a great time to be a classic game fan

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: May 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Man, I just can't go anywhere without my Gameboy Advance these days. Twenty years ago when I was pumping quarters into these machines, you could never make me believe I could one day put them all in my pocket!

This Konami colleciton is a welcome addition to the other classic arcade compilations out there. All are very faithful translations, and most of them play very well on the small screen. The exceptions are Time Pilot and Gyruss, where you can often be killed by TINY unseen enemy fire. My personal fave is Scramble.

For accuracy and playability, this is probably the best-yet arcade collection for the GBA.

GREAT COMPLIMATION

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the great complimation of classic arcade games. Now that the Gameboy Advance SP is out, you can totally see everything that you couln't see on the original gameboy advance. The games are true to the originals. Brings back the old days of my childhood, and the games I used to play on my ColecoVision. Buy It!

Good, but not great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: April 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

What you get:
Frogger
Yie Ar Kung Fu
Gyruss
Time Pilot
Rush'N Attack
Scrammble

These titles are faithfully reproduced, and controls are solid and easy to use. With six high quality titles included, this is a great value for classic gamers. Unfortunately, a few small blemishes keep this from being really great. Frogger has a scrolling screen to fit it's vertical level design, with no option to play fullscreen (like Namco's Ms. Pacman) Gyruss seems scaled down, leaving it's smooth rotating graphics a little hard to see. Time Pilot's controls feel a little sluggish, and I say this only because it seems harder than the arcade version.

Great arcade game compilation

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoy this game. This is the first Konami arcade game and I have been waiting for this for years.
I like the multi player mode too.

At last , something new !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Midway,Atari and Williams have marketed the same old arcade classic games in almost every format know to man. Konami steps out of the dark by taking out of the box some new arcade titles like Time Pilot,Scramble and , of course, RUSH 'N' ATTACK, which is the newest addition.
Thanks to Konami !
Escellent value... :-)

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