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Best package of classic games I've played.....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Honestly, this is my favorite game cartridge. All of the games are fun, challenging, and are accurate renditions of their arcade counterparts. If I owned one GBA or DS game, this would probably be it. These are hard games to master so there is a lot of gameplay, but they can be mastered so you don't feel cheated.

Admittedly, I like these classic game packages and have bought some others for this and other systems, but they almost always fall short. Usually, the game play stinks or some critical component of the game is missing. That isn't the case with this one.

Radical

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'll be honest, I only picked this up for Frogger. The other games are good though. Since getting back into video gaming, I've gotten decidedly retro in picking up games. So anything that was fairly new when I was young is fair game. Not that today's games aren't awesome, there's just a certain cool cheese factor in revisiting games from my youth. If, like me, you are just getting back into the video game race, or you have kids that you want a good decent set of games for, this is it.

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).

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).

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.

Great re-creations of the arcade originals...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Great re-creations of the arcade originals... with couple of caveats. As a hard core gamer from the 80s and a collector of the full sized original arcade games (none of which are on this cart) I have to give this a near perfect score. I will outline each of the games on the cart with brif commentary:

Frogger: A true classic. My only real complaint with this game is that it doesn't have the original music theere are subtle nuances of the original but it's just too different to be authentic. Gameplay is hindered IMO because of the verticle scrolling screen which some people may a better alternative to the micro-screen option of Gyruss (more on that later).

Scramble: I used to play this game at a grocery store across the street from my house back in the day. I was never very good at it but this is a faithfull reproduction of the original. All sounds and gameplay are exact. Again this is a screen scolling game just like Frogger but gameplay is not affected at all.

Yie are Kung Foo: I hate this game. It is a true reproduction but the game does nothing for me. Your milage may vary.

Gyruss: This also was one of my favorite games from back in the day. This game is perfect for me even if it is a little small. But even my 31 year old eyes work well enough to rack up some respectable scores (even for a full sized machine. Initially I was a little put out by the tiny size of the game field but I eventually got used to it this one of my favorite GBA games. The sounds and look of this game is an exact replica of the arcade original. The 4 direction joy pad was a little difficult to get used to but it's just fine now that I've gotten used to it. My only real complaint is that when a high score is reached you can put in your initials but they are not saved from one session to the next.

Time Pilot- This game was also a favorite back in the day but unfortunately I find it completely unplayable with the GBA joy pad.

Rus'n Attack- This is the "newest" game in the pack. I'm not crazy about this game but it's growing on me. Again a perfect port from the arcade original. Rush'n Attack is a primitive side scolling platform game in which you "kill the commies" popular in the platform scroller of the 80's.

Overview: Great product for a great price. Just a couple of annoyances for an old school gamer but overall veryy solid and great to play some of the classics on the go.

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

THIS PACK IS WORTH MORE THAN $9.99!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Trust me on this one. Amazon.com is giving this gamepack away! Well anyways many classics return, and I suspect that the only people that would remember them are us old timer gamers. All of these classics I enjoyed playing in the arcades in the 80's and early 90's. It's been 11 years since I last played Yie Ar Kung Fu, and the game is still the same as I remember it! I remember going to Togo's in 1989 with my mother and brothers and playing the Yie Ar Kung Fu and Popeye arcades. We had a blast! The games are small, dont eat up allot of RAM memory or hard disk space, but heck they're fun and thats all that matters!!! Unfortunately, many gamers today think that what makes a game a good seller, is the graphics, music, sound effects, and other multimedia catches. Unfortunately, many gaming companies have hired game designers that did not grow up in the 1980's and early 90's gaming days! Man its not the graphics, its all about the fun of the game! I can tell you that Yie Ar Kung Fu may be limited, and seem like a game a 2 year old would play, but its as fun as Street Fighter Alpha, and I mean it too!!!

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Kool Konami Kart! Retro Bliss!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: April 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Great package including the following games adapted for your GAMEBOY ADVANCE:
Frogger!
Yie Ar Kung Fu
Gyruss
Time Pilot
Rush'N Attack
Scramble
On the SP or Advance you can see them well -- they were all bright games! Sometimes it is hard to see bullets coming at you in Gyruss and Time Pilot when you are doing the handheld. But on the the Gameboy player for the Gamecube everything really seems solid!

This puts me back in an Aladin's Castle or Chuck E. Cheese in the 80s -- I can smell pizza and nachos while playing Frogger! And I want to check my pockets for gold tokens! The bright candy colors, easy to learn gameplay, and 80s video games make this a fun nostalgic cart that lives up to your retro expectations!

The Konami Cheat code -- up up down down left right left right B + A unlocks more lives and other variances on each game screen.

Konami does it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have all of the arcade collection games for the GBA except one(heard it was bad, The Midway one) and this is tied in my book with "Atari anniversary advance". I bought this konami cartridge for frogger, but time pilot turned out to be my favorite on the cart (An awesome addicting game, nothing is hard to see with the sp). All of the games are very playable, Kung fu bieng the hardest to control. Gyruss and scramble are very good ports, gyruss' controls take time to get used to though. If you ever played Gradius for snes, scramble is its predessesor. I never really liked rush'n attack with nes, but it is a decent side scroller beat em up. Frogger is just how you remember it, AWESOME! This cart rules!

Conclusion:
If you liked the "old school" games in the past, or you like quick simple addicting fun (very fun, very addicting), This game is for you!!! Also try Atari anniversary advance!

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