Bootsale Swag

I realise that most of the posts I've been making recently have been about my collection rather than reviews of Retro Games, admittedly I haven't had alot of time on the computer as I've been going out alot more but still..
Is it a bad thing?

Anyway, I've been to another boot sale and picked up quite a bit of stuff,
I got 2 series of anime and a few manga too, I also found some Retro Items



Managed to find a Gameboy Colour for only £1 and a copy of Mulan inside
 and Advance Wars for £1.50



and F-Zero X and Jet Force Gemini £4 for the 2 :D

Pretty happy with what I found yesterday and pretty pleased with today too!

Rented Super Monkey Ball 3D and Rayman 3D for the week for just a fiver!
played em for a little bit and think they're both great, the 3D effect is pretty awkward on SMB3D though..

Anyways, will get back into the habit of reviewing pretty soon I hope..

Toku-R

Mario & Yoshi

Mario & Yoshi...(also known as just Yoshi or Yoshi's Egg in some places)

Another Game Boy game I've had for a good 11-12 years.

It was originally a NES game but was ported to the Game Boy, which is the version I have

It's a puzzle game where you control Mario (Or Luigi in the NES version)

who contols 4 platforms on which objects and eggs fall on.

You have Goomba, Piranha Plants, Bloopers and Boos,

You also have a top and bottom half of an egg.

You can match up 2 of any of the objects (as long as they are the same type)

by moving the plates that Mario holds in his hands,

He holds on to 2 plates at a time and can switch them about to make sure the

object you want lands on the plate you want.

While you get points for matching the enemies up, the real objective lies with the egg shells,

You have to start off with the bottom half of an egg and then place the top half over it.

The egg with close, hatch and a Yoshi will pop out giving you +1 on the Yoshi score.

The more enemies you sandwich in between the two egg shells, the stronger the Yoshi will be.

You basically just have to try and get as high as you can, there's no real plot to this game.

Sandwiching 2 enemies between the eggs

The Game also has 2 modes,
In Game A you stack and match the objects while avoiding reaching the top, much like Tetris
and in Game B, there are 4 towers for you to match up and bring down, doing it as quick as possible.
You have 3 pieces of cheery music to listen to while you play as well, my favourite is Music C because it reminds me of Pokémon Red and Blue so much.

It's a good game, but it's nothing special really, it's not bad in anyway but it can get repetitive after awhile.
However, like Tetris, this can be an extremely addictive game too, it's well worth a try and it's good for killing 5-10 minutes

P.S. Sorry for the shoddy picture, it's almost impossible to find good screenies of this game.
and yes.. My GBA SP has been damaged as you can tell by the black ink leak on the bottom and sides,
Oh well..

Toku-R

Kirby's Dream Land

To kick off my Nintendo Game Boy Reviews, I thought I'd review not only the first Game Boy game I got, but one of the FIRST video games I got.

Kirby's Dream Land (which I got with my first Game Boy Colour and Pokémon Red), is still a game I pick up and play from time to time because of how it reminds me of my childhood, the music, the sound effects and the graphics are all very dear to me in that way and I pretty much love everything about this game save a few small points.

KDL, like all of the other Kirby games, is a simple, side-scrolling platformer.

You play as Kirby who sucks up enemies and either spits 'em out or swallows 'em,

one thing that did disappoint me about KDL was that it was slightly different from previous Kirby titles.

Normally you can find an enemy, swallow him and gain his powers but in this game you can't gain ANY powers from ANY enemies. Sure you can pick up the Microphone like last time, or even grab the Superspicy Curry or the Mint Leaf but it doesn't feel the same without the enemy powers and it also gives the swallow function no use what-so-ever. It may be disappointing but it's a small gripe and it doesn't affect the gameplay too much.

Playing through Kirby's Dream Land again brought back some serious memories,

The Green Greens level, the beach one, the cloud one, all remind me of when I was 3 again...

As I played through it for this review I tried to pick out my favourite piece of music and it was pretty hard but I settled for the Float Islands theme for it's tropical sound :D

I remembered all the bosses and how to beat them, all the tunes (I was whistling along to most of them)

and what I found interesting was the fact that Lolo from the NES game Adventure of Lolo made a cameo appearance with his girlfriend Lala as the 2nd stage's boss. When I was a child I hadn't known this as I had never played Adventures of Lolo but now noticing it for the first time was pretty cool.

If I had anything bad to say about this game other than the lack of abilities, would be that it is too short. This game can easily be beaten in 20 minutes if you know what you're doing and it's really a shame because it has so much charm and it seems like a waste because of it's length. There are only 4 stages with a boss ad mini boss each which still only takes 5 mins max to beat, You then have a stage which you have to replay small sections of previous levels and then beat their boss, after that you fight King Dedede and beat the game, so it is pretty short.

Either way, Kirby was a part of my child-hood and I still love it now,

It got me into gaming and for that I'm grateful to it

If you haven't played this game, try to pick it up somewhere you're sure to enjoy it

Toku-R

Nintendo Game Boy

This Generation would look at Nintendo and say that their handhold is the Nintendo DS,
they wouldn't be wrong but way back before I was born there was the Nintendo Game and Watch, the original Nintendo Hand-held. This, however, I did not have as it was way before my time, the first Nintendo hand-held console I ever got was the successor to the Game and Watch.
The Nintendo Game Boy, Developed by Gunpei Yokoi

The Nintendo Game Boy showing Tetris

This chunky console was about the same same as the original Nintendo DS and quite a bit thicker and the cartridges were roughly 4 times the size of a normal DS cartridge. It came out over here in Europe in 1990 and since then has sold 118.69 units worldwide and if you thought that the DS had lots of version and upgrades... you're wrong!
 The Game Boy actually went on to have a total of 7 different models and over 80 different colours and styles between them!
You had the:
Game Boy - The Original
Game Boy Pocket - Which was a smaller edition
Game Boy Light - An edition that had a backlight for the screen
And then you had the Game Boy Colour which came which new games that were in full colour.
The next upgrade was the jump from 8-bit to 32-bit with the Game Boy Advance which was capable of giving you Graphics akin to the SNES but portable!

Upgrades to the Game Boy Advance were:
Game Boy Advance SP - Which was a stylish Flip-top edition of the GBA
and the Game Boy Micro which was a MUCH smaller edition with a clearer and brighter screen.

As you can tell the Game Boy was massively popular and sold MILLIONS of each of the different versions of it, it was the console that started and lead portable gaming into where it is now

Toku-R