Gadfly2317
03-18-2005, 10:20 PM
To me, this one was worth the $29 just for Missile Command with touch screen targetting. The arcade track-ball ruled, but every console version since has been unresponsive, slow, and nearly unplayable. Not anymore.
You really have to love missile command though, because much of the rest of the games didn't make the translation nearly so well. Centipede's ship controls very sloppy with the touch control, but with the D-pad, it plays about as well as any other adaptation.
Tempest, unfortunately, I haven't been able to make this one work well either, which is a shame, because its also one of my favorite classics.
Pong, Breakout and Warlords all make the translation with flying colors. I especially enjoy Warlords, which is like breakout, except for its four corner combat-based breakout. Multiplayer on this would be great. . . but you have to have three other people EACH with their own copy of the game.
There are some "skins" to color up the original games, but its kind of a gimmick..
Full list of games: Centipede, Tempest, Pong, Warlords, Missile Command, Breakout, Sprint, Gravitar, Asteroids, and Lunar Landar.
Moderate value, not all games translated to this system well; can really only recommend to DS fanatics who also really like Missile Command.
You really have to love missile command though, because much of the rest of the games didn't make the translation nearly so well. Centipede's ship controls very sloppy with the touch control, but with the D-pad, it plays about as well as any other adaptation.
Tempest, unfortunately, I haven't been able to make this one work well either, which is a shame, because its also one of my favorite classics.
Pong, Breakout and Warlords all make the translation with flying colors. I especially enjoy Warlords, which is like breakout, except for its four corner combat-based breakout. Multiplayer on this would be great. . . but you have to have three other people EACH with their own copy of the game.
There are some "skins" to color up the original games, but its kind of a gimmick..
Full list of games: Centipede, Tempest, Pong, Warlords, Missile Command, Breakout, Sprint, Gravitar, Asteroids, and Lunar Landar.
Moderate value, not all games translated to this system well; can really only recommend to DS fanatics who also really like Missile Command.