I can figure how to rotate the tank, how to move the gun barrel up and down, and how to fire various weapons. I cannot figure out how to move the tank, no.
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What the heck is on this $10 Retro Game handheld? Let’s find out!
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FelixSH
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161. BATTLESHIP
This is the Battleship board game, officially licensed and everything. At first I thought that the AI inexplicably got multiple shots to your one, but there’s actually a variety of “shaped” missiles you can press Select and use once each. (Another case where the manual would be useful!)
This led to a discussion with my wife about how that would speed up the actual physical game and make it more fun, with her countering that the purpose of Battleship is for your kids to waste time and you don’t want to speed it up. (She played a lot of Travel Battleship with her brother growing up, mostly on car trips and in restaurants.) I didn’t have a good response to this, because while there must be people who play Battleship for fun, I don’t know any.
I think one of my sisters borrowed the Gameboy version of this game? I definitely remember playing a Battleship game while being in a car, and I had a horribly hard time getting through the menus (I probably was in kindergarten, back then, I think we got a Gameboy when I was 3). Was really happy, whenever I made it to an actual battle, and thought it was just some specific mode that was complicated to reach.
Kzinssie
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160. BATTLE BEASTS
This is a hack of Donkey Kong 3, but there’s a whole article about the hack to turn it into Battle Beasts.
edit: this article is good and real talk? that's some pretty solid sprite work for a hack this dumb
It being comedy website from the mid 2000s, I can only assume so
Yeah, i-mockery is kind of a mixed bag at best, but that particular article was shockingly solid, hence my linking to it.
muteKi
Geno Cidecity
My extremely limited understanding is that the NES game was a direct adaptation of the board game, but the GB game (this part I can say with some confidence) is a licensed adaptation of a Japanese game that was only inspired by Battleship that was given the branding on localization due to the inherent similarity. There was no NES equivalent to that GB game.
Radar Mission? I had that on GB and had a fair amount of fun with it.
There were a few Battleship inspired games on GB, but I don't think Radar Mission is the specific one in this instance. Parish covered it in Gameboy Works, though
We’re all about the hacks today.
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164. BLINK3
A hack of SMB, both graphics and level design. Dude with big green hair (or a helmet, I don’t know) has to fight aliens and flies and things. The fireballs seem to actually have been changed—they fly at a straighter arc and don’t seem to bounce. But the thing that got me here was that the enemy sprites are pasted on badly and don’t match their hitboxes, so some enemies look stompable but aren’t; and some enemies either are invisible or have invisible extensions to their bodies. I found gameplay footage on Youtube.
165. BERMUDA TRIP
Hey, it’s Super Mario 16 again! (#17, the Joe & Mac hack.) From the name, I would have guessed Adventure Island, but no!
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166. BLINK ULTRA HARD
Another SMB hack, though with different graphics from Blink3. This one adds in climbable ropes early on, which is an interesting innovation. (I think it’s repurposing the flagpoles?) This also has footage on Youtube for your enjoyment.
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167. BLOB BUSTER
This is a hack of Dig Dug 2. Starring blobs.
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168. BLOB MUNCHER
And this is a hack of Pac-Man. Also starring blobs!
164. BLINK3
A hack of SMB, both graphics and level design. Dude with big green hair (or a helmet, I don’t know) has to fight aliens and flies and things. The fireballs seem to actually have been changed—they fly at a straighter arc and don’t seem to bounce. But the thing that got me here was that the enemy sprites are pasted on badly and don’t match their hitboxes, so some enemies look stompable but aren’t; and some enemies either are invisible or have invisible extensions to their bodies. I found gameplay footage on Youtube.
165. BERMUDA TRIP
Hey, it’s Super Mario 16 again! (#17, the Joe & Mac hack.) From the name, I would have guessed Adventure Island, but no!
166. BLINK ULTRA HARD
Another SMB hack, though with different graphics from Blink3. This one adds in climbable ropes early on, which is an interesting innovation. (I think it’s repurposing the flagpoles?) This also has footage on Youtube for your enjoyment.
167. BLOB BUSTER
This is a hack of Dig Dug 2. Starring blobs.
168. BLOB MUNCHER
And this is a hack of Pac-Man. Also starring blobs!
The funny thing about Blob Buster and Blob Muncher is that those hacks were made by the creator of The Cutting Room Floor IIRC. When it started, it was just another page on their old website, rather than the giant wiki it is today.
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I was going to praise those two for having some surprisingly solid sprite work compared to most of the hacks on this thing
Vines were used to that end in Mario Maker, but I don’t think the SMB engine allowed anything that elaborate on its own
Consider me schooled
The best part of this project is all the cool stuff I'm learning from you guys.
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169. BLOCKS WORLD
Interesting puzzle game: You need to fit the tetrads into the holes by rotating and lining them up. The time limit seems a bit short given how slow-moving the pickup and drop mechanism is.
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170. BOKOSUKA WARS
I’d never heard of this game before and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a weird strategy/rpg thing. Apparently this was a big trailblazer game, and the basis for a lot of the tactical rpg genre in Japan, which is a fascinating thing. There’s a whole rock-paper-scissors setup with the three types of troops you can have being able to overcome certain kinds of obstacles.
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Also, it has the best Game Over screen ever.
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171. BOUNCE
You need to bounce off the trampolines and grab the various stolen sprites while avoiding the other dudes, or they’ll beat you up. The gimmick seems to be that they can’t grab you while you’re in the air. This is a hack of Mappy.
Apparently this, Trump Tank (#143) and a bunch of other hacks we might run into all appeared on a Famiclone device called the Gun Fighter.
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172. BREAST STROKE
This doesn’t seem different from #153 (“Back Stroke”). I suspect there are a couple more swimming games to come.
A milestone: I ran down the battery for only the second time when trying out this game. (The battery life of this thing is shockingly good!)
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173. BROTHER BALL
Okay, so: You’re a stack of three heads. Orange heads will pop out of the tubes above you, and you need to maneuver over and pop up to rescue them without them (or you) being snagged by the UFO. If you get there too late, they’ll turn black and destroy one of your heads instead of being saved. There are also pink heads, which are worth 500 points or give you back a head you’ve lost. (As far as I can tell, this is a Nice Code game.)
Violentvixen
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I love this so much.
Also, it has the best Game Over screen ever.
I promise you, I will never tire of the Bokosuka Wars game over screen
I don't think those are the same game, but #306 on my list is titled Wisdom Boy; I may have that also.
FelixSH
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169. BLOCKS WORLD
Interesting puzzle game: You need to fit the tetrads into the holes by rotating and lining them up. The time limit seems a bit short given how slow-moving the pickup and drop mechanism is.
I had a Gameboy game, which worked similar. Except that you had a "story" (I think some god wants you to do these puzzles, to help the world, or something), and you had to move manually from house to house (side-scrolling style), and find one puzzle in each house. No challenge in the side-scrolling part, just walking from house to house, which was only possible after you solved the puzzles before, which would create a bridge.
It was a fine game, but got way too hard, with way too many tetrads. I also never felt like I had a useful method for these puzzles, except for "Try different combinations at random, until it works out". Could have been fun, if I had an actual method to solve these puzzles.
FelixSH
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That's the one!
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174. BUG CATCHER
You’re a monster and bugs are falling from above. The ones that match your color give you points and health (…or whatever those dots are.) The ones that don’t match you take away health. The black ones (in the second stage, at least) kill you instantly. This is apparently a Nice Code game and there exists a full reskin of it called Blob Man.
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175. BUGGY POPPER
This is the Japanese release of Bump ‘n’ Jump. A top-down racing game that’s a cross between a race and bumper cars. You get bonus points for knocking other racers off the track, you need to collect fuel power-ups to keep going, and periodically you need to jump over rivers or bridges.
176. FLY DINOSAUR
Our fourth copy of Super Mario 16. Joy!
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177. BURAI FIGHTER
This is the first game that I recognized as a US release in a while. Side-scroller shoot-em-up featuring a flying dude who shoots an annoyingly linear collection of lasers and missiles.
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178. BUSY BAR
This seems to be a NES-ified version of Tapper. You need to match the correct one of four drinks to each patron and then slide it down the bar with just the right amount of force. (This appears to be another Nice Code game, from what I can find online.)
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179. BUTTERFLY STROKE
It’s that same swimming game again (see #153 and #172), just a different stroke as the style.
As surprising as Advebture Island 2 and 3 being repeated so often are, constant repeats of a hack of the nes Joe & Mac is even more surprising