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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.

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].

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!

Great Little Collection...Why Is It Already OOP???

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: August 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The graphics seem good to me...I dunno, maybe they could have, and therefore should have, been better, but of course, this is the GBA SP we're talking about here, and the '80s at that...this lil' cart's got more '80s hits than the local oldies station! I really liked Rush 'n Attack, Frogger, and Gyruss...there's something here for most everyone, it seems -- I only wish they'd included that ultra-rare and super-cute gem, "Pooyan"!!!! Now why is this Konami cart so damned hard to find these days?? A really nice collection, highly recommended for retro gaming!

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!

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).

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!

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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