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Nostalgic six-pack for old school gamers

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: March 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

A nifty collection of six classic arcade games which were originally released between 1981 - 1985. As it is often the case with this kind of retro collection, some of the classics age better than others. The simple action of Rush'n Attack and the cutesy hopping charms of Frogger are still remarkable enjoyable. The bomb & shoot action of Scramble is strangely engrossing and Yie Ar Kung-Fu (the grandfather of modern fighting games) has its simple charms. But Gyruss and Time Pilot are hardly playable on the small screen, it's quite easy to overlook a tiny bullet which instantly costs you a life. Arcade Advanced is an interesting collection for old school gamers who grew up wasting quarters in the early 80's. Itýs just a shame that Konami did not include the action classic Contra. Other players beware, the authentic old-fashioned gameplay is a bit too simplistic (and tough) for the tastes of the younger crowd.

Hit and Miss, but worth a look...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: April 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Anyone who grew up in an Aladdin's Castle or similiar arcade will be a fan of this cartridge. Frogger is classic and translates well onto the GBA. The same goes for Scramble and even Time Pilot is enjoyable up to a point. Although if you ever played Time Pilot you'll definitely miss the joystick. Gyruss is okay, it's difficult to see the attacking ships and that makes for easy kills on you. I never liked Yi-ar Kung Fu in the arcade and that feeling hasn't changed. Winning any match feels random at best and controlling your character is mostly about button-mashing. Rush'n Attack is kind of fun if somewhat repetitive. The cold war theme is amusing and nostalgic. So it's 3, possibly 4 out of 6. That's not bad. It's not a homerun, but it's not bad.

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... :-)

Great, but favorites missing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: May 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is one fun game. Rush'n attack, one of my fave arcade games is excellent on the mini screen of a handheld. Of course, frogger is as supurb as 15 years ago. Time Pilot and the others are great as well. The one thing is, I miss the NES games. WHere's CONTRA and CONTRA 2? What about track and field? those could be the next compilation. THe inclusion of one of those hits would have made me give the collection seven stars. Overall, this commpilation of arcade games is definately worth the [money].

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.

Time Pilot at last!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love this. As a kid, I was a Time Pilot junkie. You know the classic tale of the kid slamming quarter after quarter into the machine? That was me. I guess everyone had their favorite game as a kid, for me it was Time Pilot. I could never get my hands on a version of Time Pilot, not anywhere. So I was thrilled to finally have it here. All the other games provided are faithfully reproduced here, I remember playing all of these in the arcade, and they're exactly as I remember them. If you're an 80's arcade fanatic, you might want to consider this. A great package!

Recommended

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 19 / 20
Date: July 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

In general the games are well done and I recommend the package. However I've found these games especially hard to see, so make sure you have a good light - I just bought a Flood Light and it works a lot better than my old Trap Light. This pack also doesn't save high scores when you turn the machine off.

Frogger This is much better done than the regular Game Boy version and seems to be fairly accurate graphically. The graphics scroll up when you cross the highway, however this doesn't really affect game play like it does in Pac-Mac. The music is still light and bouncy like I remember from the original, however the tunes are not the same. This is especially noticeable in the tune that plays when you start a new game. (Maybe this is a licensing issue or something?)

Scramble This is just like I remember it. I have spent more time playing this than any of the other games.

Time Pilot seems to be a little harder on the this pack than on MAME. I don't know if this is because the ships are relatively a little bigger or if it is the controls? The bullets are hard to see maybe? Also this version gives you 5 ships to start so obviously the developers thought it was a little hard also.

Gyruss Seems well done including the memorable music. I am not a fanatic about this game however.

The things that keep this game from 5 stars are:

No high score saving
Screen is dark
Time Pilot is harder than the arcade version
Frogger music is off

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!

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.

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