nintendo ds game reviews

7/28/2019 Nintendo DS Game Reviews

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Nintendo DS Video Games Review(180 Games in 1)Harry J. Chong

Ratings Legend5 and Below - Bad

6 - Maybe you'll like it. Probably not.7 - Some Fun, Give it a Chance8 and Up - Very Fun!

1.Title: MARIO KART DSGenre: Racing

What's it about?You race go-karts. With Mario and his friends.

Rating: 7.5 out of 10.

2.Title: NEW SUPER MARIO BROSGenre: Platformer, Adventure.

What's it about?You control a fat, Italian plumber, and guide through a world full of monsters and warp pipes.

Rating: 8 out of 10

3.Title: MARIO PARTY DSGenre: Party Game (Mini Games)

What's it about?It's a Super Mario board game, where to win you have to collect the most coins to win the game. Youwin coins by playing mini games or just by luck.

Rating: 7 out of 10.

4.Title: MARIO AND LUIGI - PARTNERS IN TIMEGenre: Adventure

What's it about?You control Mario and Luigi, at the same time, via top view. Then you engage in battles with enemiesand fight them RPG-style. Your mission is to rescue Princess Peach, who has gotten lost in time. Thegame is an admirable effort. Looks nice and everything, but there are better games than this. It mainlygets its value from the brand name characters.

Rating: 6.5 out of 10


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5.Title: MARIO VS DONKEY KONG 2 - MARCH OF THE MINISGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?You control these toy Marios, individually, and you have to get them through a door marked M. It'ssimilar to Lemmings, but it's much cuter.

Rating: 7 out of 10

6. Title: MARIO AND SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMESGenre: Sports

What's it about?You play Olympic sports, mini games, as either a Sonic the Hedgehog or Super Mario character. Thequality of the games vary...some are more fun than others. To me this seems like a cash grab, but it's notbad for an Olympic game.

Rating: 6.5

7. Title: SUPER MARIO 64Genre: Adventure?

What's it about?It's like Super Mario 64 for the N64, except there are a few new elements -- mainly in that you can playwith characters other than Mario. I know that people like this game, after all it's Super Mario Bros in3D, but I didn't think that it was meant to be on a hand held console. It loses some points there.

Rating: 6.5

8. Title: YOSHI'S ISLAND DSGenre: Adventure

What's it about?You control Yoshi and you are carrying a baby Mario with you. You have to protect him and take himthrough the Mushroom Kingdom. It was originally released on the SNES, but it is still a fun game.Nothing new though.

Rating: 7.5

9. Title: MARIO SLAM BASKETBALLGenre: Sports

What's it about?


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It's a basketball game with Super Mario characters -- except it's not a traditional basketball game. Youhave to make use of your stylus, and press symbols on the touch screen to score a basket. You don't getto move around your characters with the direction pad. It's an interesting concept, but in my opinionwasn't done right.


10. Title: YOSHI TOUCH & GOGenre: Strategy

What's it about?There are two games. One where Baby Mario drops from the sky, and you have to guide him down tosafety -- using bits of cloud -- and one where you control Yoshi, accompanied by Baby Mario, and youhave to take him through the Mushroom Kingdom. You can use clouds too, but you can also throw eggsto kill bad guys, and jump across chasms. All in all it was cute, but nothing substantial. It was likeplaying two really long mini games inspired by Yoshi's Island. The pace was pretty slow too. Kindaboring, but not necessarily terrible.


11. WARIO WARE TOUCHEDGenre: Mini Games

What's it about?You play one of three characters, including Wario. Each of which have a storyline. Then you playthrough their adventures and acquire mini games that require use of the stylus. It's kind of amusing, butoverall could not hold my attention long enough. The introduction is painfully long. I hated that youcouldn't skip the cut scenes.


12. WARIO - MASTER OF DISGUISEGenre: Adventure

What's it about?You play as Wario and you have to go around stealing stuff. You have to get inside treasure trunks,which require you play mini games with your stylus. Once again Nintendo is forcing you to make useof the touchscreen. To move around you use the d-pad, and you have to touch the screen with yourstylus to make Wario shoulder charge. Unnecessary. It gets tiresome holding your Nintendo DS in suchan awkward position.


13. POLARIUMGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?


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Use your stylus on the touch screen to get rid of tiles, flipping them from black to white, and white toblack. An ambitious game, but it's as boring as it sounds.


14. PEPPA PIG - FUN AND GAMES

Genre: Mini Games

What's it about?It's a game for babies/kids. You play cutesy, mini games with a pig. (Like picking apples and growingflowers). They are not challenging or fun at all. But might it be because I'm too old? I can see theappeal for little children. It sort of makes me feel warm inside. But I can only judge it for the fun itprovides to me.


15. ZOO KEEPERGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?It's a matching game. You have a bunch of animal faces on a grid and you have to change theirpositions (via rotation) to match them to each other, and get rid of them. It's a lot like Bejeweled. Nopoints for originality, but it does have its appeal.


16. BOMBERMAN (For the Nintendo DS)

Genre: Action, Strategy

What's it about?It's basically Bomberman, even with the fancy touchscreen. It's the same old game. Not that that'snecessarily a bad thing. However, it's not really that fun playing alone. Bomberman is boring withoutother players.


17. WHAC-A-MOLE

Genre: Minigames, Puzzle

What's it about?

It's Whac-a-mole...with a twist! You can play a puzzle mode, in which you have to find patterns, or youcan play a fancy version of Whac-a-mole which involves bombs, dynamite, and your stylus. However,despite the concept, this game fails to capture my imagination or attention. At its heart it's basically agame where you tap your touchscreen, and that's all. Not too challenging, and not too fun either.


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Rating: 5 out of 10

18. SEGA CASINOGenre: Casino games

What's it about?A collection of casino games. Win money to unlock more games. There's nothing new or innovativehere. Pretty boring.


19. Balloon PopGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Connect the balloons with your stylus to pop them! Make sure they don't fall too far, otherwise you'lllose. A simple concept, but a fun one. Can be addicting. A pretty decent game for a small, fledglingcompany.


20. Elf BowlingGenre: Sports, Bowling

What's it about?It's like bowling, except you're Santa Claus and you have to bowl down elves. A funny idea, but apoorly made game. I think it was originally a flash game from the internet. I wouldn't buy this. Thereare far better bowling games out there, despite its funniness.


21. BIG MUTHA TRUCKERSGenre: Racing, Car, Sim

What's it about?You have to drive a truck and deliver stuff. It can be fun at times, but you can only want to drive a bigrig so much. After a while it gets kinda boring.

Rating: 6 out 10.

22. FORD RACING 3Genre: Racing

What's it about?Race around! But this is no Gran Turismo. Besides the graphics, I found that driving to be a bit tedious.I didn't feel like I was driving a real vehicle.

Rating: 6 out of 10


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23. SNOOD 2 ON VACATIONGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?It's like Bust-a-Move but without the charm. Instead of marbles to shoot, which you have to match, you

shoot some weird looking heads. It's not a very good clone.


24. FRANKLING THE TURTLEGenre: Kids, Mini Games

What's it about?You're a turtle and you go around your community to play various challenges (mini games). It's kindaboring to be Frank. These are games designed for toddlers. Plus, a lot of things in it don't make sense.Why am I able to go into options and turn off both my screens? How come Frankling, a turtle, can'tswim?


26. BILLIARD ACTIONGenre: Sports

What's it about?It's pool/billiards! You can use traditional controls or the stylus. Not my thing, but it's a decent game, ifyou like this bar room sport.


27. JAMES POND - CODENAME ROBOCODGenre: Adventure

What's it about?Apparently you're a fish, and you have to go around collecting items, and jumping on bad guys' heads.It's a retro-video game, which I believe was made for the Sega Genesis. This version hasn't added muchnew. It's still a poor man's Super Mario.


28. BIG BRAIN ACADEMYGenre: Edutainment

What's it about?It's another brain training game. Not bad either. Simple enough to understand, though sometimes it canget annoying. I'm not sure whether these mini games actually increase your IQ or keep you sharp, but ifwe are to assume they do help, then I will have to give this game a decent score. Based not on itsfunness but rather educational value.


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29. MAGNETICAGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?

You have marbles going around in a circle, on a path to destruction (to be more specific a hole) and toprevent them from going in there you have to throw a marble, and match them to the other marbles bycolor. It requires use of your stylus. Simple but can be challenging.


30. SUDOKU MANIAGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?It's Sudoku, a Japanese game, where you fill in boxes to complete a numbers puzzle. Now, I'm not a fanof Sudoku, but I found the presentation lacking. It's not fresh at all. What makes this better than paperand pen?


31. SUDOKO GRIDMASTERGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?It's Sudoku by Hudson Soft! And once again it's just plain Sudoku. Although the presentation of it isdecent, and it has a much needed tutorial (if you're new)...but I'm annoyed that I must use my stylusonly when other cheaper games, like that of Sudoko Mania, allow me use of the d-pad. Yet this stillstands out as the better between the two.

Rating: 7 out of 10

32. PAC-PIXGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?You have to draw Pacman, on the your touch screen, and he comes to life and you have to guide himabout to eat ghosts. It's a lot harder than it sounds, especially if you suck at drawing. The concept iscool but is not my cup of tea.


33. SPACE INVADERS REVOLUTIONGenre: Action, Shooter

What's it about?It's Space Invaders. You shoot aliens to win. Nothing really, really new here, despite the name.


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34. BUBBLE BOBBLE REVOLUTION

What it about?You're a dinosaur and you have to put monsters into bubbles to kill them. Kinda boring. It was

annoying when I pressed start/pause and it wouldn't let me quit. You have two versions of the game, thenew one and the old one. The old one's better!


35. BRAIN AGEGenre: Education

What's it about?Train your brain! Play puzzles and increase your intelligence (somehow). You even get to scream into amicrophone to pass one test. However admirable this game is, I cannot say that it is incredibly fun norwill it increase your intelligence. It is just a bit amusing. But I give it points for effort. It's at least asgood, if not better than Big Brain Academy. It's more innovative and has real world applications (e.g.arithmetic). The biggest problem though is in recognition, both in hand writing and voice. Thetechnology's just not there and that makes it less appealing than it should be.


36. CLUB HOUSE GAMESGenre: Minigames, Mixed

What's it about?It's a bunch of games all under one roof! Including card games, dominoes, and even chess. This is amust have if you have a Nintendo DS. Has a fun chat feature!


37. ROARY THE RACING CARGenre: Racing, Minigames

What's it about?You are Roary the Racing Car! Apparently this is an English children's cartoon character. Anyway, youhave a bunch of mediocre mini games, like racing with your stylus, and pressing musical notes, andjunk. I wouldn't recommend this, unless you're a fan.


38. KonductraGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?You have to place down squares onto a grid, line them up, and destroy them. The idea is novel, but notexactly new (a lot of games involve matching colors), and I don't see the long term appeal. It's


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challenging, although there is a degree of frustration with the game mechanics, and what you can andcannot do.


39. MONSTER BOMBER

Genre: Action, Shooter

What's it about?There are monsters on the top screen of your Nintendo DS. They are either red, green, or blue, and youhave to destroy them with their specific colors, using the bottom screen, and throwing bombs at them.The bottom screen has four sections, of the four colors, and you have to swipe up with your stylus toshoot. It's like Space Invaders but harder, and not in a good way.


40. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALLGenre: Sports

What's it about?Baseball. Nothing new here, although the game does make good use of the dual screens, but the touchfeature was not used in the way I thought it would be. You move the ball around and tap it to pitch, butthe mechanics do not go beyond that. It was a missed opportunity at making a game like this moreinteractive. It's also kind of a pain switching between stylus and regular controls. Poor execution. But ifyou like baseball this would probably be okay for you.


41. UNO 52Genre: Card Game, Board Games

What's it about?It's UNO! A poker-style card game. I have no idea what is going on! So, I am going to have to judgefrom the presentation alone. It looks decent. It has all the features you might want. My only gripe isthat white is highlighting rather than yellow in the menu.


43. TRIONCUBEGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?It's like Tetris, except you have to make cubes, and there's a storyline. The more blocks/cubes you bustthe more fuel your earn for the birds to go home -- through outerspace. It's kind fun, especially whenmaking chains of blocks, and watching them explode. It's a decent alternative to the beloved Tetris. Ifyou like that you'll probably like this.



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44. MAHJONGGenre: Board Game, Puzzle

What's it about?It's Mahjong. I have no what the hell is going on, but to my understanding it's the Chinese version ofdominoes, and you have to match patterns. It's pretty complicated though I kind of get the idea. My two

complaints about this game, the first and most important, it's hard to play this because of depthperception problems. The screen is just too small for this sort of thing, and the graphics aren't there.Also I cannot use the d-pad. Another note is this does not have two player mode. Why? I think theycould have added it. However, this does have other nice features, like giving details about the "domino"you're taping. But this does not make good use of the two screens. The top screen really you be used forenlarging the pieces, and it would have been nice if they'd have a highlighting feature. All in all... Idon't get it. I'm sure people who play Mahjong would like this though.


45. JUNIOR BRAIN TRAINERGenre: Educational

What's it about?You play game and activities, with an orange squirrel, to make you smarter! It's incredibly elementary.Of course it's for kids. Though I don't think any kids would want to play this. The games aren't thatchallenging, nor are they fun. But! The concept is interesting. You play educational activities and arethen rewarded with games. It serves as a goal, which is really the only thing that made me want to keepgoing. I kind of feel like this could have been a lot better if it were more challenging, and had bettermini games, and score tracking.


46. SLINGO QUESTGenre: Puzzle, Strategy

What's it about?It's like slot machines. You do a spin, get a set of numbers, and then have to match them to a grid abovethat also contains numbers. It's not very challenging. It's a bit like Pachinko in that it's based on chancemainly. Not a lot of skill involved, if any. Also, the tutorial bubbles are annoying as heck. They don't goaway. The concept, though, isn't a bad one. It would be good for two or more players. A race to thefinish line, so to speak. Unfortunately this does not have that. It failed, where it could have succeeded.


47. MOORHUHN ATLANTISGenre: Adventure, Platformer

What's it about?A chicken Indian Jones. You have to shoot and punch your way (somehow) through ancient ruins, andcollect coins. The game is not terrible, but it's not something you'd want to play for more than a coupleseconds. It could have been better if the game had an actual goal, rather than just running around, andcollecting coins and shit. Why not make it so that the chicken has to collect a certain amount of coins?


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And why does a chicken punch? Just give him the gun, and let him blast things. It needs to be a littlemore fun.


48. COLOUR CROSS

Genre: Puzzle

What's it about?Numbers and colored squares. Use the numbers to form a rudimentary picture and/or pattern. A novelconcept, but not fast paced enough for me. Kind of tedious. It was more like painting by numbers. Inreminded me of Sudoku.


49. 1 vs 100Genre: Game show

What's it about?Based on the game show called 1 vs 100. Answer questions with and against the "mob" of 100 people.The concept is fine, but the presentation is lackluster. I do not see how this is better than any other quizgame. However, if you're a fan of the show you may like this.


50. M&M'S BREAK 'EMGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?You use an M&M (ball) to clear out colored blocks. Colors must match. Not a challenging game at all.So boring, but if you're fat you may like this.


51. PUZZLER COLLECTIONGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?There are you four games: Crossword, Fitword, Sudoko, and Wordsearch. You know what the othersare, so what's Fitword? It's like a crossword without any of the intellectualism. You put words onto agrid and make them fit together (matching). Not a bad idea actually, but the mechanics of it in thisparticular collection are not done too well. I'd rather open up a newspaper and play these games.


52. CRAZY MACHINESGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?


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Put the machines together, make a crazy machine, and make the objects reach their goals. This is aclassic game inspired by the Rube Golderberg machines. It's pretty fun once you get into it, butslogging through the menus, and the clunky interface make this game annoying. It loses points for that,but the main ideas are still all there.

Rating: 7 out of 10

53. ZOO QUESTGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?You're in a zoo. Lots of circle with pictures of animals inside. Match/connect them together to makethem disappear, and win points. Steve Irwin is in this! However, only his picture is shown, and thisgame kinda falls flat. It's not bad it's just not that enticing. Connecting circles that simply disappear (noexplosions or nothing) isn't all too much fun.


54. THE TIMES CROSSWORD CHALLENGEGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Crossword puzzles! I think playing in a newspaper is far, far easier than this, and I don't know whetherthis would be worth a purchase. There is a bit of learning curve. Although it does have its merit, andinteresting features, sometimes it can be a pain in the ass. For example, once you switch to thekeyboard it seems you can't go back. Also, there are a set amount of puzzles, aren't there? It's not likethe newspaper. You get new ones each day. This has limited play value. 450 puzzles represents a littleover a year of newspapers. I feel they should have rounded up to 1,000 or add a random element. Orperhaps have an easy mode where some letters are already filled in for you. There could have been somany things, but this is just plain crosswords.

Rating: 6 out of 10

55. MAHJONG QUEST - EXPEDITIONGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Mahjong. Match the pieces together to win. This version of Mahjong is a lot easier to play than otherversions I've played. Not that it's graphically superior, but the play is far more simple, and there is astory line to it. This would have benefited with some competition, either from a computer, or anotherplayer.


56. MY FUN FACTS COACHGenre: Educational

What's it about?Expand your level of pragmatic knowledge by answering a series of questions on different topics:


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Body, Social Life, Mind and Soul, Your World, and Modern Living. In this "game" your progress istracked, which is very handy. A good idea, however, a bit bare bones. It would have been nice if moreeffort had been put into it with visual aids. Some of the questions are ridiculous. For example, whocares about Feng Shui? There's no science behind it! Another point is they gloss over things which Ithink should have more details. Like CPR. The description is...mediocre. Something like that needsmore detail, including visuals, and even animation. All in all, I think this is a cute, little application, but

it needs more work.


57. USA TODAY PUZZLE CRAZYGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?A collection of four different word games: UP & DOWN WORDS (a Game Where All the Words YouFill in are Connected), WORD ROUND UP (A More Difficult Word Search), Quick Cross (A SimpleCrossword Puzzle), and Hidato (a Numbers Game). I liked Word Round Up, and Quick Cross. I'm surethat the other two are appealing to other types of people.


58. WINX CLUB SECRET DIARYGenre: Kids

What's it about?It's a little diary for girls. You can play dress up and enter information about yourself and your friends. Ican see the appeal to its target market, but it's not for me, even if I imagine myself as a girl.


59. DORA SAVES THE SNOW PRINCESSGenre: Kids

What's it about?It's just like the TV show! You have fat, little Dora, and you have to participate in her ridiculouslysimple activities using Spanish. Sure, I know this is for kids, but it could have been better. For example,when Dora is speaking, you see a picture of her and she doesn't even move her mouth. Move yourmouth!


60. PASS YOUR DRIVING THEORY TESTGenre: Education

What's it about?It's a quiz-type game to help you pass your driver's license test in the United Kingdom. It's hard tojudge the value of this, because it is what it claims to be. Nothing more, nothing less. Yet it leavessomething to be desired. I wonder if they could have made the game more fun by letting you drive andinteract with the road. Well, if you need to learn about driving to pass your written test, then I suppose


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this is just as good as a book. Obviously this isn't for me.


61. XG BLASTGenre: Space Shooter

What's it about?You control this little spaceship, and you have to shoot all the baddies. A variety of enemies andweapons. It is a lot like an updated Asteroids.

Rating: 7 out of 10

62. WONDER PETS! SAVE THE ANIMALS!Genre: Minigames

What's it about?An overly cute Nickelodeon collection of mini games. Play with a hamster, duck, or turtle. Drag, drop,match, etc. For children, so it's not challenging. It's not the worst game I've seen though.


63. GIANA SISTERSGenre: Adventure, Action, Platformer

What's it about?You control a blonde girl and have to get her through a world of madness. But really this is a SuperMario knock off. Not too bad actually.


64. SMILEY WORLD ISLAND CHALLENGEGenre: Boardgame

What's it about?You're a weird looking, smiley face character, and you have to jump around on a board, and play minigames. It's a lot like Mario Party, but not as fun. The games are not as original.


65. BARBIE IN THE 12 DANCING PRINCESSESGenre: Adventure, Platformer

What's it about?Play as Princess Barbie and walk around a forest and junk. Cute graphics and all, but pretty boring.


66. POLAR BOWLER


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Genre: Sports

What's it about?You have to launch a polar bear in a swim ring and make him knock down the pins... Would have beenfunnier with penguins. However, this isn't a bad game. It's not very challenging though. That is where itfails. The amount of fun you can have is limited.


67. EMMA - STUDENT NURSEGenre: Simulation

What's it about?It's a French game, where you have to deal with patients, and treat their simple wounds. The mechanicsjust don't work right for some reason, and even if they did this isn't that exciting. Also, I'm not surewhether it's medically accurate.


68. PUZZLE FLOWERS AND PATTERNSGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Put boring jigsaw puzzles together. Not that I have anything against them, but this game is not welldone. It's not really a game. It's more of an activity...which is difficult to do, even with two screens. Theproblem is they tried to make it simulate how a real jigsaw puzzle is, and that in my opinion wasn'tsmart. You can't just take an idea and try to transfer it verbatim. You have to consider where you'reputting it.


69. PUZZLE BABY ANIMALSGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Jigsaw puzzles. With baby animals. Not done well.


70. NEW TOUCH PARTY GAMEGenre: Minigames, Puzzle

What's it about?Someone has captured your sister/girlfriend (?). You enter a haunted house and challenge a bunch ofghouls and monsters to puzzles. Win them to win back your beloved. A bag of mini games, some good(e.g. Word Hunt), some not so good. This game fell short in that it did not give tutorials before playing.



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71. WHITAKER FAMILYGenre: Simulation

What's it about?Horses. You have to raise a horse and junk. It's like Nintendogs, but no dogs, just horses. I'm not intohorses, but if you are, hoo-hoo.


72. CATZ 2Genre: Simulation

What's it about?You can play with a cat. There's not much more than that. You feed it, give it water, buy toys, and rub itand stuff.


73. LEFT BRAIN, RIGHT BRAINGenre: Educational

What's it about?A game to help you become ambidextrous, meaning you can write or do other tasks with both your leftand right hand. A little bit of fun at first, but then you find it's a lot easier to do than you think, then thechallenge of it disappears. I got 100% ambidexterity within a few minutes. I'm not ambidextrous.However, I feel if you kept doing these exercises you might in fact gain the ability.


74. BUNNYZGenre: Pet, Simulation

What's it about?You own a bunny.


75. HOMIE ROLLERZGenre: Racing

What's it about?You're from the Ghetto and you have to participate in magical races. It's a bit like Mario Kart, exceptthis is really bad. Even if you ignore the crappy graphics, the controls are so crappy.


76. UNDERWATER ATTACKGenre: Shooter


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What's it about?You're a whale with a gun, and you have to shoot sea creatures, including sharks.


77. FIFI AND THE FLOWERTOTS

Genre: Minigames, Children

What's it about?A collection of cheesy mini games involving Fifi and the Flowertots. Dress up, memory, spot thedifference, etc.


78, LABYRINTH: A RACE FOR TREASURES IN A MOVING HOUSEGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Tinker around with a maze/labyrinth to find treasure! You're a blue ball, and your rival is a green ball.Put tiles into place and guide them both. Hard to understand at first, but gets better when youunderstand it. A bit slow paced, and there was no tutorial as far as I knew. That was a mistake. Took mea while to figure out I was a blue ball.


79. MY LITTLE PONY: PINKIE PIE'S PARTYGenre: Children, Minigames

What's it about?You're a pink pony, you walk around, collecting presents, and playing games. Like watering a garden.Fun if you like the cartoon. I can't fault it for being overly cutesie.


80. GO DIEGO GO, GREAT DINOSAUR RESCUEGenre: Children, Minigames

What's it about?You're this kid Diego and you have to help out some dinosaurs when you travel back in time. You havegames like moving rocks, and screaming into the microphone. It's not too bad for a children's game.


81. TOTALLY SPIES 4Genre: Adventure, Puzzle

What's it about?Play as three slutty teenage spies. Go around the world solving crimes and junk. If Sierra made bad,licensed point and click games this would be it. For example, why do I have to find 14 pieces of ripped


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paper? Makes no sense.


82. PRINCESS NATASHAGenre: Action

What's it about?You're the slutty little white girl, and you have to cure people of their zombie -like disease. Kung-fukicks and jumps, and gadgets included, although that's enough to save this game.


83. Title: N +Genre: Action, Puzzle

What's it about?You control a little, black man, and through each level you have to find the exit. It's a lot morechallenging than it sounds. There are many things/enemies which can kill you. The character remindsme of Spiderman.

Rating: 7 out of 10

84. BANGAI-O SPIRITSGenre: Shooter

What's it about?You're a robot and you have to go around shooting shit. It's not as straight forward as it sounds.


85. GARFIELD'S FUN FESTGenre: Adventure

What's it about?Play as Garfield and Odie, a cat and dog, and do mundane tasks and shit. Also, mini games. Not bad fora licensed game though.


86. BAKUSHOWGenre: Party Game, Minigames

What's it about?I don't know. Didn't get to play. You need more than one DS to play.

87. SABBUTEOGenre: Sports


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What's it about?It's soccer (football), except not in the traditional manner. You have an overhead view of all yourplayers, or pieces rather, and you have to move the soccer ball around using your stylus. But it's not assimple as it sounds. You have to use a hand on the bottom right hand of your screen, and use that toflick the ball forward. It's a lot like common pool/billiard games.


88. SHINING STARS SUPER STARCADEGenre: Minigames

What's it about?You're a dog on a star, and you have to travel around fairgrounds and play mini games, like shootingducks and junk. Very mediocre.


89. RAIN DROPSGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?You have these weird, little, baby creatures floating around on flowers. You have to touch them to makethem drop to the ground and match them with other baby creatures of the same color. Then theydisappear. It's a really random concept, but it just didn't stick with me.


90. MAHJONG ANCIENT MAYASGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Mahjong. Also known as Chinese dominoes. Not bad, presentation-wise, but it could have been donebetter. Sucky graphics. It looks like something from the SNES.


91. SOKOBANGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?A gaming classic. Move boxes around to the appropriate targets. More fun than it sounds. Not a perfectgame, but you will enjoy it.


92. TENNIS ELBOWGenre: Sports, Tennis

What's it about?


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Tennis! You move around your player, and, oddly, he hits the ball on his own. The whole game isbasically running around and in addition to that the AI is lackluster. The computer keeps hitting"faults."


93. KORG DS-10 SYNTHESIZERGenre: Music

What's it about?Play the keyboards. Make use of a virtual synthesizer... I'm sure there are better ways to do this. If ithad a tutorial, and a better way to navigate around, it would be much more enjoyable.


94. MARGOT'S WORD BRAINGenre: Educational, Puzzle

What's it about?A collection of word games. In one game, you get a group of letters and you have to find as muchwords as possible. The games alone are good, concept-wise, but the presentation is pretty bad. Margotis so annoying.


95. MY SECRET DIARYGenre: Girls, Children, Simulation

What's it about?It's a diary. Note your mood, use a calendar, write down your contacts, fun and games, etc. Irecommend a physical diary. Much easier to use...although the mini games aren't too bad. I like thefortune cookies feature.


96. MY FARM AROUND THE WORLDGenre: Simulation

What's it about?You own an animal farm, which you have to manage. Feed them and clean their poop. Limited gameplay. Pretty boring.


97. DEAL OR NO DEAL - THE BANKER IS BACKGenre: Gameshow

What's it about?Pick a suitcase and win money. Not real money sadly. I think this is the UK version. Either way it loses


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points for limited play value. The game itself isn't bad, but you play once or twice and that's the end ofit.


98. HELLO KITTY DAILY

Genre: Productivity

What's it about?A Hello Kitty themed organizer basically. You have a diary, pocket money log, alarm clock notepad,friend directory, time table, and calculator. Cute, but kind of pointless. This is just cashing in on theHello Kitty brand.


99. PEPPA PIG: THE GAMEGenre: Minigames, Children

What's it about?You play as a pig, and do "fun activities" and play games, like building a snow man, and flying akite...not very well. Cute but tedious.


100. FOOTBALL DIRECTORGenre: Sports

What's it about?You're a football manager/director... WHY?! Who wants to be a manager?


101. WORD MASTERGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Try to find out the mystery word by guessing letters. Not a bad necessarily game, but it is limited inwhat you can do.


102. SUPER FUN SUDOKUGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?It's Sudoku mania! This thing has a bunch of different Sudoku modes, including a puzzle solver. I can'tsay I'm a fan of Sudoku, but this is great if you like Sudoku. It's incredibly easy to use. There are only afew things missing: the ability to change music, a high score sheet, and an option for a time limitchallenge. However, if you like your games plain, and simple, then this is for you.


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103. THINK LOGIC TRAINERGenre: Educational

What's it about?Improve your intelligence in the area of language, memory, mathematics, spatial reasoning, grasp, andlogic through playing puzzles and games. Though, once again, I'm not sure how this will increase yourintelligence. Sometimes these just help you get better at doing specific tasks on paper. However, therecan be fun to had, if you are to believe you are getting smarter. I had some decent fun with the mazes.


104. ELEMENTS OF DESTRUCTIONGenre: Strategy

What's it about?You remember the Sims? How you could destroy the city with weather? Well, this is that. ONLYTHAT. While it's fun to do for a bit, it does get kind of boring after a while.


105. INDOOR SPORTS CLUBGenre: Sports

What's it about?Three games. Darts, bowling, and pool... All games you should play in real life. These games aren'tvery good substitutes. This games collection is just weird. You press "select" to pause and bring up themenu. That is enough said.


106. CRAYOLA TREASURE ADVENTURESGenre: Minigames

What's it about?Someone has stolen three color crystals which make all the colors in the world. Go on an adventure,playing mini games and solving puzzles to catch the thief. Jigsaw puzzles, colouring, connect the dots,etc.


107. THE SUN CROSSWORD CHALLENGEGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Crosswords! 510 of them! However, I find the interface to be clunky. Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't


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recognize my handwriting oftentimes. Add this to to how miniscule the words are, and how difficult itis to see the screen, and I recommend just playing traditional crosswords. If you pick this game up for$20.00 you can easily just buy a booklet full of crossword puzzles, with the answers.


108. JETIX PUZZLE BUZZLEGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?You're this cute little creature and you have to drop down blocks, and build them up to get to yourspaceship. Kinda fun, similar to Tetris, but not much too it.


109. CHESSGenre: Sports, Puzzle

What's it about?Chess. Not the spiffiest presentation I've seen, though this game does have interesting features. One,you can play against a local human being (meaning s/he doesn't need another Nintendo DS), and youcan do Chess puzzles. Also it's quite customizable. You can even watch historical matches. However, asfar as games go, this still lacks presentation-wise, and looks cheaply put together. It would be better tobuy Club House games, and get a bunch of other games as part of the package.


110. COMMAND AND DESTROYGenre: Strategy

What's it about?You are in a hostile land, and as aliens or humans, you must re-civilize it, and defend it from attackers.It's a lot like Command and Conquer, but not as good. Maybe it's because a game like this isn't meantfor a portable console. However, there are a lack of objectives and excitement.


111. SOLITAIREGenre: Card Games

What's it about?Solitaire and some other game whose name I don't know. It's not bad. You can tap on a lightbulb and itwill give you clues. However, they missed out on one big feature -- which is saving. Why can't I save?Why can't I use the d-pad? Why have I been dealt a set of cards that doesn't allow me to finish thegame?! Anyway, I've seen better.


112. MATCHSTICK PUZZLE


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Genre: Puzzle

What's it about?Move the matches to solve puzzles. For example, moving two match sticks to make the number eleven.Not a bad concept, even if old, but game play is extremely limited. No multiplayer, and the amount ofpuzzles is not as much as I would like.


113. DOUBLE SEQUENCE - THE Q VIRUS INVASIONGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Move around colored blocks to destroy a virus. Sounds exciting but this game is clunky and slowpaced.


114. THE ALY AND AJ ADVENTUREGenre: Minigames

What's it about?Two slutty, musical sisters have to work together and play crappy mini games for their musical tour. Goaround town and select locations to do these activities, which basically just consist of pointing andtapping.


115. LUXOR - PHARAOH'S CHALLENGEGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?You're in Egypt and there are these balls rolling around town. You have to shoot your balls at them andmatch colors to make them disappear. Very similar to Magnetica. but this is easier, and has goals. It'salmost like an action-puzzle game.


116. HURRY UP HEDGEHOGGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Move around these creepy-ass hedgehogs, on a grid/matrix, and get them home. Seemingly random.Not much fun.


117. FAB 5 SOCCERGenre: Sports


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What's it about?It's a soccer game. As far as soccer games go this one is alright. Not the greatest nor the worst. Maybesome music would have helped.


118. AQUARIUMGenre: Simulation

What's it about?It's a virtual aquarium. You have to maintain it. Really boring stuff!


119. FANTASY AQUARIUMGenre: Simulation

What's it about?A fantasy aquarium! Run an aquarium with sea turtles, sea horses, whales, penguins, manta rays, etc.Fun for a couple seconds.


120. TOP TRUMPS: DOCTOR WHOGenre: Card Game

What's it about?A Doctor Who card game. Go head to head with an opponent, and choose a characteristic on yourcharacter card that you think is superior in order to to win. Win by knowing facts about differentcharacters from the TV show. It's pretty much a memory game.


121. SUPER DODGE BALLGenre: Sports

What's it about?Dodge ball with punching and kicking!


122. EMMA IN THE MOUNTAINSGenre: Children, Minigames

What's it about?You play as a little whore named Emma, and you must go to a mountain, and do some meanderingchallenges, such as guiding a Saint Bernard and rubbing frost off a window.



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123. USA TODAY CROSSWORD CHALLENGEGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Crosswords, once again. Kind of a clunky design, and the screen is a bit hard to see. I'd rather use anewspaper.


124. KAMELEONGenre: PuzzlePlay as two Japanese sluts, or two children, and go head to head in a tile capturing game. Pick the rightcolored tile to fill up your bar and acquire pieces. Not exactly mind boggling nor is it exciting.


125. CRADLE OF ROMEGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Match the pieces and make them disappear to score points. A lot like Bejeweled, but not as fun. Youcan't move around pieces in the same manner. They either go up, or side to side. However, there is aneat feature in this game; you can collect gold, wood, and meat, and use them to buy things. What youget depends on the tiles you choose to eliminate.


126. HARLEM GLOBE TROTTERSGenre: Sports

What's it about?2 on 2 basketball with the Harlem Globetrotters. Greatly reminds me of NBA Jam, although lackingcertain charms. It's okay. Not great, not exactly bad. Basketball fans might like this.


127. PROFESSOR BRAINMANIACGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?A collection of brain teasing minigames: Switch and swap (switch and match tiles), Sudoku, Karuro,Go, Mahjong, and Mind Jam. None of them are particularly good however. They're all pretty mediocreby today's standards.


128. MYSTERY MANSIONGenre: Puzzle, Minigames


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What's it about?Get through a haunted house, inhabited by ghosts and monsters, by solving puzzles and junk. Exampleof a game, moving around jewels on an old timey scale, and making them balance. A jigsaw puzzle.Selecting a mirror that is reflecting incorrectly. Etc. I have a major problem with this game though.While playing you can't go back to the main menu.


129. ROCK BLASTGenre: Puzzle

It's basically Bust-a-Move in reverse. Instead of shooting colored balls up, you shoot down, and try tomatch them to make them disappear.


130. HANDS ON! TANGRAMS!Genre: Puzzle

What's it about?Tangrams. Ancient Chinese puzzle. Like jigsaws except you put together rudimentary pieces. I foundthis easier to use than the highly acclaimed Neves, although somehow not as exciting.


131. HERACLES - BATTLE WITH THE GODSGenre: Action

What's it about?You're Hercules -- sorry, I mean Heracles, and you have to go around beating up giant rats by throwingpellets at them. Not a good game at all.


132. DR. SEUS - HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMASGenre: Action, Adventure

What's it about?You're the Grinch and you have to steal presents.


133. WORDJONGGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?It has the appearance of Mahjong -- but it's not! Rather you have to match the "dominoes" and put themtogether to form words. It is an interesting way to play what is essentially word search. Still quite fun.


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134. SOLITAIRE OVERLOADGenre: Card Games

What's it about?

A collection of solitaire/single person card games. There is a crap load of selection. I'm not into cardgames, but this is well put together. Not perfect, but if you like card games this will please you verymuch:


135. CLUE, PERFECTION, AGGRAVATION, MOUSE TRAPGenre: Board Games

What's it about?Your favorite board games. Find a murderer, place pieces into a board, aggravate yourself, and catchmice. I like all of these board games, but they just don't work well on a Nintendo DS, unlike othergames such as Monopoly or even Life. I'd rather play the real thing.


136. PUPPY LUV - SPA AND RESORTGenre: Simulation

What's it about?You run a spa and resort for cats and dogs. Play mini games too like guessing how much to feed eachanimal, killing fleas etc.


137. ARCTIC TALEGenre: Adventure, Minigames

What's it about?As a polar bear cub, a walrus, or a fox, explore the arctic in all its plain glory. Do mini games and trynot to do.


138. PIC PICGenre: Puzzle, Activities

What's it about?Complete the mazes and make a picture. Connect the numbers together. Magicpic, which is coloringthe numbered squares. It's a lot more complicated than it sounds. In all honesty, I think the games aredecent, a good attempt at making something new, but a bit too tedious. Not much flash to it. Boring.


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139. SEA MONSTERSGenre: Adventure.

What's it about?

You're a swimming dinosaur and you have to find fossiles.


140. TANGRAM MANIAGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Tangrams. Put together the geometric shapes to make a shape. Not the greatest version I've played, butnot bad either. The controls are fairly intuitive and there are enough puzzles to enjoy. I have a fewproblems though. 1. The timer doesn't count down (not a clock.) 2. No multiplayer. 3. They don't revealwhat the tangram is after you solve it. Sometimes I don't know what I'm looking at.


141. BARNYARD BLASTGenre: Horror, Adventure, Shooter

What's it about?You're a pig. You have to rescue your son. You're armed to the teeth. Blast the monsters. It's aCastlevania ripoff. Then again Castlevania was a rip off of Bram Stoker's Dracula, no? Anyway, not abad imitation.


142. BEETLE JUNIOR DSGenre: Adventure

What's it about?You're a beetle and you have to swallow blocks.


143. DORA THE EXPLORER - DORA SAVES THE MERMAIDSGenre: Children, Minigames

What's it about?Save the mermaids with Dora. Clean the beaches. Real kiddy stuff. Not the worst children's game I'veplayed.



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144. GO, DIEGO, GO! SAFARI RESCUE

Genre: Children, Minigames

What's it about?

Help the animals. Move rocks around, avoid rocks, blow into the microphone, ride an elephant, etc.


145. POWERPLAY TENNIS

Genre: Sports, Tennis

What's it about?Tennis. Needs multiplayer. Maybe an improved perspective.


146. BETTY BOOP - DOUBLE SHIFTGenre: Simulation

What's it about?A knock off of that Diner Dash game, except instead of a plain Jane you got Betty Boop working thetables, and keeping the music playing.


147. JELLY BELLY - BALISTIC BEANSGenre: Minigames, puzzle

What's it about? Jelly bean pinball.


148. HOLLY HOBBIE AND FRIENDSGenre: Children, Mini Games

What's it about?Play mini games and activities, with the slutty, ten year old Holly Hobbie and her best friends. Do aquiz. Collect flowers while riding bicycle. Buy fruit at a supermarket. Match the pictures. And so on.


149. NEVESGenre: Puzzle

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You have these geometric pieces and have to fit them together to form specific pictures. A smalllearning curve at first, but once you get going it can be quite fun. It's like rudimentary jigsaw puzzles,although at times more challenging.


150. BACKYARD BASEBALLGenre: Sports

What's it about?Baseball. With kids. In a backyard. Cute characters. Simple to play.


151. MOORHUHN: JEWEL OF DARKNESSGenre: Adventure

What's it about?Indiana Jones as a chicken. Not a good game.


152. DIARY GIRLGenre: Girls, Productivity

What's it about?You have a diary. Add your friends. Play dress up. Stuff for little girls. The concept is okay, but this is acumbersome for something like the Nintendo DS. I don't think anyone would actually use this to writedown their thoughts in the age of Twitter and Facebook.


153. ELVEN LANDGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?A crappy version of Tetris. With elves.


154. CHRONOS TWINGenre: Action, Adventure, Shooter

What's it about?The game has a neat concept: plays as two characters at once, past and present. It's neat, but doesn'twork in the game. Plus, there generally isn't much to do, and you have these painful story lines that youcan't skip. This is like Mega Man, but with a big blue dog, and it's not as good.


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155. BACKYARD BASKETBALLGenre: Sports

What's it about?

Kids playing basketball. It's okay.


156. BEST OF TESTSGenre: Educational

What's it about?Test your intelligence. In a particularly boring manner.


157. BEST OF BOARD GAMESGenre: Board Games

What's it about?Board games. Checkers. Chess. Yams. Mahjong. A very small, unimpressive collection. I ran into anerror that wouldn't even let me leave the game. The touch screen went to the non-touch screen andwouldn't let me select.


158. B-17 FORTRESS IN THE SKYGenre: Action, Shooter, WW2

What's it about?You have to man a B-17 Fortress. Can you do it? Hard to with the lackluster graphics. The clouds aren'teven moving! This does not do World War 2...games justice.


159. KURUPOTO: COOL COOL STARSGenre: PUZZLE

What's it about?The introduction is painfully long and boring, but the game play itself is quite interesting. Basically,you are presented with a box, and you have to rotate it to get the stars back into their rings (using the Land R buttons). A bit more complicated than it sounds. Points are lost here for not being able to doquick play. The only mode, it seems, is story mode. The story is dumb and you can't skip it.


160. SUPER FRUIT FALL: DELUXE EDITION


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Genre: Puzzle

What's it about?A puzzle game. Rotate the fruit, which are trapped in a box, to make them fall and match (thendisappear). Very unique in that you can play with two players with one Nintendo DS.


161. SPELLING CHALLENGE AND MOREGenre: Educational, minigames

What's it about?Mini games based around spelling. The games are decent, but they are not very creative, nor are theychallenging.


162. ATV: Thunder Ridge Riders/MONSTER TRUCKS MAYHEMGenre: Sports, Racing

What's it about?Race an ATV or monster truck. Pretty awful. Terrible sound, graphics, and controls.


163. THE BEE GAMEGenre: Adventure

What's it about?Play as Maya the Bee or her male companion. Go around collecting flowers, hovering about, andstomping on snails. Mini games too. Cute but in the end not exciting. Boring.


164. BALLS OF FURYGenre: Sports

What's it about?Based on the movie you love to hate. Play ping pong basically. A crap version of it.


165. RYTHM 'N NOTESGenre: Educational, Musical

What's it about?This game kind of hits a dead zone. You learn about music. Yes, but it's not good enough for a beginner,and it's not good enough for someone who has experience. It just falls flat as something that teaches. Ithas no organization to it.


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166. SUPER COLLAPSE 3Genre: Puzzle

What's it about?Touch the colored blocks, three or more connecting, and make them vanish. Simple but can beaddicting.


167. OMG 26: OUR MINI GAMESGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?This is the same thing as MYSTERY MANSION. It's just under a different title.


168. SCHAAKMAT!Genre: Board games, Puzzle, Strategy

What's it about?This is just "Chess" under a different title.


169. DEAL OR NO DEAL (UK) VersionGenre: Gameshow

What's it about?Pick a box, and pick more boxes. See if you're a winner. Play as a regular player or a banker. Based onthe hit game show from the UK.


170. PUZZLE DE HARVEST MOONGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Grow crops on a grid, competing against other players. Find a strategy and collect the most points. Ifound this to be way to frantic and non-linear. I did not enjoy it as a puzzle game, although thecharacters were cute.


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Genre: Sports, Pool

What's it about?Pool. It's not too bad. You can either use the stylus or regular controls, and you can play as any of manycharacter, male or female. I should note the character named Kate looks a lot like the actress whoplayed Hermione Granger.


172. CHICKEN ATTACK DSGenre: Puzzle, Adventure

What's it about?You're a chicken and you have this weird shield thing. Anyway, you have to use it to knock a ball backand forth, and break objects. That's how you advance through the level. It's a lot like Arkanoid or BreakOut, but not as fast paced and exciting.


173. CRAZY PIGGenre: Minigames

What's it about?Take care of your pig and play mini games with it.


174. FRISBEE DISC SPORTSGenre: Sports

What's it about?Play Ultimate or Frisbee Golf. The golf part isn't bad, but the Ultimate is terribly...the controls areawful. You can only run straight, meaning no diagonals. Actually, you can run diagonals, but it seemssporadic.


175. SOLIATIRE OVERLOADGenre: Card Games

This is a repeat of game 134!


176. BRAIN BUSTER: PUZZLE PACKGenre: Educational, Puzzle

What's it about?Five Japanese style number based puzzle games: Kakuro, Slitherlink, Light Up, Nurikabe, and Sudoku.


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The presentation can be a bit confusing, but the games can be fun, if you like mind teasers. They alsohave tutorials. I was particularly attracted to "light up." However, given the amount of games out there,excellent puzzle games, I cannot bear to give this anything too high.


177. SEGA PRESENTS: TOUCH DARTSGenre: Bar Sports

What's it about?Darts and dart related mini games. It's okay, I guess. It's not like the real thing. Seriously. For $20 justbuy a real dart board from China. Much more fun.


178. F-24 STEALTH FIGHTERGenre: Shooter

What's it about?You're an F-24 stealth fighter. Sort of cute, but the game lacks goals, and the controls are a bit wonky.


179. Ed's Farm (This is actually 180, because I accidentally deleted a game.)Genre: Puzzle, Platformer

What's it about?You guide around an old man, jump on switches, and help rabbits go into a hole. It's a bit likeLemmings, except it's terrible. Graphics are cheesy and the play is choppy and unnatural.

Rating: 4 out of 10

(GAME IDEA: Train your brain, learn another language, and enrich your knowledge all at the sametime, through a series of fun mini games.)


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------------------------------- OTHER REVIEWS -------------------------------**

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 3: MUTANT NIGHTMAREGenre: Action, Adventure

What's it about?You are a ninja turtle. Play as Raph, Leo, Don, or Mike. Bust up the bad guys and kill the aliens. Fun atfirst but gets frustratingly difficult as you go on to the point you hate it.


TRAUMA CENTER: UNDER THE KNIFEGenre: Simulation

What's it about?Heal people's wounds. Treat the sick. Cut up some flesh.


UNSOLVED CRIMESGenre: Simulation

What's it about?You're a hard boiled detective and you gotta go around finding out who did what before the case goescold. Murder involved.


NAMCO MUSEUMGenre: Games Collection

What's it about?A collection of Namco favorites, including: Galaxian, Pacman, Galaga, Tower of Druago, Mappy,Xevious, and Dig Dug. The fun thing about this is all the adjustments you can do to the games. You caneven, virtually, go inside the arcade boards and play with the switches.


MR. DRILLER: DILL SPIRITS


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Genre: Puzzle

What's it about?Drill your way down and destroy the evil colored soil!


MOONGenre: First Person Shooter

What's it about?You're on the moon! Everything's gone wrong and you have to defend yourself with an assault rifle.Very similar, atmosphere-wise, to Metroid; hough I think it would be considered the inferior game inmost people's eyes, I think this Moon is a smidgen better, mainly because the storyline has moredirection. It's a bit less complicated. You can get immersed into the world easier. I have to make anote...that these games would be much more enjoyable with proper controls. D-pad should be forwardand back, and "strafe." L and R should be to turn. X and B should be for looking up and down. Yshould be for ducking. A should be for shooting. Use the touch screen for a mini map and to selectweapons or do other actions. Also, doors opening, and jumping should be automatic.


MIAMI NIGHTS - SINGLES IN THE CITYGenre: Casual, Simulation

What's it about?It's a dating game. Kinda like the Sims -- but you're a whore of a man or woman. When I played it therewas an error the screwed up my whole game, so I take points of for that, but I must this game is myguilty pleasure. It is my 50 Shades of Grey. I'm lowering the score to reflect sanity.


CAKE MANIAGenre: Strategy, Casual

What's it about?Make cakes, and serve customers in your bakery. Don't fuck up their orders, bitch.


CARNIVAL GAMESGenre: Mini Games, Simulation

What's it about?A collection of mini games. Go around playing games at the carnival. Earn tickets and win prizes.


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CASTLEVANIA: ORDER OF ECCLESIAGenre: Action, Adventure

What's it about?Play as a vampire-huniting babe, and go around slaying monsters and junk. Very fun. Lots of RPG-typeelements.


DINER DASH: SIZZLE and SERVEGenre: Simulation, Strategy

What's it about?You work at a crappy diner. Serve customers and collect money.


DK: JUNGLE CLIMBERGenre: Strategy, Puzzle

What's it about?You're Donkey Kong. Swing around, using the L and R buttons on your Nintendo DS.


DRIVER'S ED PORTABLEGenre: Educational

What's it about?Learn about the rules of the road via quiz format. I guess it is what it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.Maybe a little less.


KIRBY SQUEAK SQUADGenre: Action, Adventure

What's it about?This is Kirby as you've always loved him. He's fat, pinky, and a greedy bastard, who goes aroundsenselessly killing creatures at random.


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KONAMI CLASSICS SERIES: ARCADE HITSGenre: Retro, Minigames, Action, Games Collection

What's it about?A collection of classic Konami games that you used to enjoy in the arcade. Gradius, Rush'n Attack,Contra, Scramble, Horror Maze, Pooyan, Time Pilot, Roc'n Rope, Track & Field, Circus Charlie,Basketball, Road Fighter, Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Rainbow Bell, and Sha-lin's Road. 15 in total!


LEGO INDIAN JONES - THE ORIGINAL ADVENTURESGenre: Adventure

What's it about?Play as Dr. Jones, Lego-style. Live the movies.


METEOS - DISNEY MAGICGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?The Disney version of the popular game, Meteos. It's a lot like Tetris Attack, except you can go in anydirection except diagonal. So basically you switch up the blocks, and make 'em match, and disappear.Not a new concept however.


EASY PIANOGenre: Educational

What's it about?Learn to about the piano. If you buy it new you get a little keyboard for your Nintendo DS. It's not asubstitute for a teacher of course, but it's sort of fun. You can compose and save up to three songs.



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BUST-A-MOVE DSGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?The classic game of Bust-a-Move launch the marbles, match the colors, and let 'em fly. A great game asusual. You can either use the stylus or conventional controls (see options).


MY SPANISH COACHGenre: Educational

What's it about?Learn Spanish from a sexy Spanish teacher.


MY SPANISH COACH - LEVEL 2Genre: Educational

What's it about?Expand your vocabulary with a not so sexy Spanish teacher. Needs pronunciations and a betterorganization. Not as fun as the first, despite having a variety of games. Yet it still can be valuable inhelping you learn the language. It mainly acts as reinforcement in my estimation.


MY CHINESE COACH

What's it about?Learn Chinese. She's not as sexy as the French or Spanish girl, but she'll do. Play games, record audio,and listen to clips to learn Chinese.


SUDOKUROGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Sudo and Karuro games. It'd decent, but not anything amazing.


CUSTOM ROBO ARENAGenre: RPG, Action


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What's it about?In the future -- or in Japan -- a popular hobby is to build and upgrade mini robots, and battle them out.Basically, that's what you have to do here. Fight these little robots. It can get to be a lot of fun.


PAWS & CLAWS: BEST FRIENDS, DOGS & CATSGenre: Simulation

What's it about?It's a pet simulation game. A bit like Nintendogs, but not quite as good. The animals don't seemparticularly responsive.


ANIMAL CROSSING: WILD WORLDGenre: RPGWhat's it about?You've just moved into a new town, with weird, human-like animals. You have to live there and makethe best of it. You live in a house as big as a big fridge box. A cute time based game, similar to TheSims.


TOUCH MASTER: CONNECTGenre: Mini Games

What's it about?Mini games galore, using your touch screen. Well done. Clean, easy to use. A good way to kill time.


SPORTS COLLECTION (UBISOFT)Genre: Sports

What's it about?Sports and trivia. Not the greatest games in the world, but I like it for its simplicity.



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AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYSGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Switch around the tiles and make them disappear. Similar to Bejeweled, but following the adventuresof Jules Verne.


SOUL BUBBLESGenre: Adventure, Puzzle

What's it about?Blow a bubble through a maze. A cute concept, and very nice artwork, but not substantial enough for awhole game.


PEGGLE: DUAL SHOTGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?You have this nozzle on top of the screen, and then you shoot a ball down onto some pegs, and try todestroy them. It's a lot like Pachinko. A good amount of luck is involved, although I can see how you'ddevelop strategy.


BIG BAG MINIGenre: Action, Strategy, Artistic

What's it about?You're a triangle and you have to throw fireworks at balloons to collect stars.


DECA SPORTS DSGenre: Sports, Minigames


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What's it about?Sports-themed minigames, from golfing to arm wrestling. A decent concept but the controls are just abit off, rendering some of the tasks un-enjoyable.


THE LEGENDARY STARFYGenre: Adventure, Kids

What's it about?You're a little, yellow star fish, and you have to go around helping animals in the sea by powerswimming, and spinning about. Not the height of video game adventure, but not bad either. It's forchildren!


MONSTER TALEGenre: Action, Adventure

What's it about?Megaman meets Castlevania! Not as exciting as it sounds, although this game does have some merit.You're this little girl, with blue hair, and you have a flying robot (monster?) who follows you around onyour adventures. Shoot monsters.


PICROSS 3DGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?The next step in Picross. Use numbers to destroy blocks and create shapes. More challenging than itappears.


PLANET PUZZLE LEAGUEGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?It's like Tetris Attack (switch the blocks around and match them), but without the lovely branding.



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STYLE SAVVYGenre: Simulation.

What's it about?Ah, fuck, the intro was so long. Anyway, you work in a clothes shop and you have to help people try onclothes. Gets seriously boring after two minutes, and it's racist. The first two white girls that came intothe shop each had a budget of $1,000 or more, then that black girl comes in, and she can only afford$96 worth of clothes.


ANIMAL PARADISEGenre: Simulation

What's it about?Take cares of animals. Not bad, but not as good as Nintendogs or the Catz/Dogz sequels


POP CUTIE STREET FASHION SIMULATIONGenre: RPG

What's it about?You're a small time fashion designer and you want to make it big. Can you?! Run a shop. Make clothesby getting inspired with words. Go around the street, catching words, and colors. Watch out for yourrivals.


THE QUEST TRIO: JEWELS, CARDS, AND TILESGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Three games. Jewel Quest, Solitaire, and Mahjong, with a thirst for adventure. Each game can stand onits own. It's not a collection of crappy games put together. However, it's not anything new. Jewel Questis like Bejeweled, and the rest are just regular games.



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HARVEST MOON DS: SUNSHINE ISLANDSGenre: RPG, Simulation

What's it about?A vast improvement over "Harvest Moon DS." Better graphics and easier game play. Lots of fun if youlike simulation games.


HARVEST MOON DSGenre: RPG, Simulation

What's it about?The Harvest Whore is missing... And so much crappy story that you can't skip. Run a farm orsomething.


PAC MAN WORLD 3Genre: Adventure, Action

What's it about?It's Pac Man in 3D! Find your way around the world of Pacman, and as usual collect dots, and eat fruit.


JOHN DEERE - HARVEST IN THE HEARTLANDGenre: Simulation

What's it about?Run a farm. Load times a pain in the butt. Some errors. Good concept, good artwork, bad execution.


GIRL TIME - EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR A HIP, HAPPENING LIFEGenre: Girls, "Productivity"

What's it about?Sort of a neat concept. Take quizzes, make an avatar, learn about yourself according to the "elements,"


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maintain a diary, get a horoscope reading, check your IQ, etc. HOWEVER... Done in a clunky manner.I didn't find it too enjoyable. Yes, I'm not a girl but am open minded to these things. Just as an exampleof its clunkiness, they let you type out info with a telephone-style keyboard, so you have to press abutton up to three times to get the letter you want. Just dumb. If they had made it a bit more slick itcould have worked.


JEWELS OF THE AGESGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Similar to Jewel Master, which is similar to Bejeweled. Switch around the pieces, make them match,and disappear. Not any better nor any worse than the others. With Ancient Greek theme.


JEWEL MASTER: CRADLE OF PERSIAGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Match the tiles, make 'em go bye-bye. Persian style.


7 Wonders, Treasures of SevenGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Match the jewels. A Bejeweled imitation, except this has a storyline to it.


WWE - SMACKDOWN VS RAW: 2009Genre: Sports, Wrestling


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What's it about?Wrestle in the futuristic year 2009. With wonky controls. Use the d-pad and stylus at the same time tocontrol your character. It's a pain in the butt.


BURGER ISLANDGenre: Strategy, Puzzle

What's it about?Make hamburgers!


DISNEY'S ALICE IN WONDERLANDGenre: Adventure

What's it about?Use your stylus to guide the White Rabbit ("McTwisp") and Alice through Wonderland ("Underland").Use your watch as a weapon. Make sure she doesn't get sucked up into vortexes and so forth. Abeautiful game with adventure. However, it fails for me, because you can only use the stylus, and notconventional controls. A stylus is good as a supplementary, but should not be the mainstay ofsomething where you have to explore such a large world.


SCRABBLE: CROSSWORD GAMEGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Lay the word tiles down, spell words, and win points. I think Scrabble itself is a good (board) game,but the mechanics of this just don't work. I have no idea why the eff they didn't use both screens todisplay the board, instead they choose to display your avatars.


ADVENTURE TIME: HEY, ICE KING!Genre: Adventure

What's it about?You're carrying around a little dog, and you collect items, and punch worms and junk. The charactersare cute though not much fun to play with. Seems inspired by the old Zelda games.


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SOLAtoRobot: Red the Hunters

Genre: Action, Adventure

What's it about?You're a dog on a robot -- who flies. Weird but a very beautiful game.


DINOSAURS: BATTLE OF THE GIANTSGenre: Simulation

What's it about?Be a dinosaur and for some reason go around, hunting for fossils. Make your dinosaur strong and puthim into battle.


THE URBZ, SIMS IN THE CITYGenre: Simulation

What's it about?You're a gangsta girl, or boy, and you live in a ghetto-ass city in a high rise building. Do variousmissions, stay alive, and don't pee yourself.


VIVA PINATA - POCKET PARADISEGenre: Children, Minigames

What's it about?You have these living Pinata creatures, and you have to make them do stuff...and junk. Make a horsepick up bales of hay, poke a hedgehog with a shovel, etc. I know it's a kid's game, but...


GAME & WATCH COLLECTIONGenre: Minigames


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What's it about?You can only get this from Club Nintendo. There are three games from the device that inspired theNintendo DS: OIL PANIC, DONKEY KONG, GREEN HOUSE. Keep in mind these games aresupposed to be extremely basic. It is replicating nostalgia, and I think it does it well, especially seeingthat the Nintendo DS is basically based of the Game and Watch devices.


JUNIOR CLASSIC BOOKSGenre: Educational

What's it about?A collection of fantastic books! Yet it fails to please. You simply cannot read these on the Nintendo DS.Well, you can, but it's not so pleasant. I'd rather download these onto a tablet, or hear the audio, or pickup the actual book.


NICKTOONS MLB (BASEBALL)Genre: Sports

What's it about?Play baseball with your favorite MLB stars and Nicktoons characters. Not perfect, but not bad either.


RYTHM 'N NOTESGenre: Educational, Music

What's it about?Learn about piano/music. Get quizzed on the piano. Learn chords, etc. An admirable effort, but not fora beginner, yet not for anyone who knows more. Not great for learning music.


THE SIMS 2Genre: Simulation, Adventure

What's it about?You get lost in a strange town and you have to unravel the mystery behind it. Control a sim. Live yourlfie.



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THE SIMS - CAST AWAYGenre: Simulation, Adventure

What's it about?You're stuck on an island. Try and survive. Clunky and boring.


WRECK-IT-RALPHGenre: Adventure, Action

What's it about?The bugs have returned. Play as Ralph and Felix from the famous Disney movie. I liked the movie butthis game stinks. It's slow and unwieldy. Not much fun at all.


FARM FRENZYGenre: Simulation

What's it about?Run an animal farm. Raise chickens, collect their eggs... But why do the chickens eat grass?


JEWEL MASTER COLLECTIONGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?You have two games: JEWEL MASTER EGYPT, which is similar to Bejeweled (you switch around thepieces to match them), and then you have CRADLE OF ATHENA, which is along the same lines.


SOLITAIRE OVERLOAD PLUSGenre: Card Games

What's it about?Solitaire, Mahjong, plus Tangrams.


ULTIMATE CARD GAMES


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Genre: Card Games

What's it about?Play your favorite card games, including solitaire, black jack, and poker! With graphics and everything!Although I did not like the music. It felt a bit tedious.


MONOPOLYGenre: Board Games

What's it about?Build a monopoly in real estate. Make your friends go bankrupt. Good fun. But I recommend playingthe actual board game. Monopoly on a tiny screen is still cumbersome.

Rating: 6.5 out of ten.

100 ALL TIME FAVORITESGenre: Games Collection

What's it about?A games collection, from pool to chess. Well done actually. Near the same level as Club House games.


4 GAMES FUN PACK - Monopoly, Yahtzee, Boggle, BattleshipGenre: Board Games

What's it about?A collection of 4 classic board games. Found it sort of confusing despite knowing most of the rules.The layout is not intuitive.

Rating: 5 out of 10

THE PRICE IS RIGHTGenre: Gameshows

What's it about?For the first few minutes a ridiculous disclaimer. Then later you get to play The Price Is Right. Guessthe prices and win (fake) money! Not as exciting as the show however.

Rating: 6 out of 10

UNO, SKIP BO, UNO FREE FALLGenre: Card Games


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What's it about?As far as I know, Uno. A decent virtual replica of the game, I think. If you're an Uno fan you'd like this.


WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?Genre: Gameshow

What's it about?A quiz game. Try to get a million dollars. A decent version of the game show. You'll like it more ifyou've ever watched it on the tele.


WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? 2ND EDITION. (UK)Genre: Gameshow

What's it about?The international version of "WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?" In several languages, anduses video instead of computer graphics. It's fun learning about other cultures. I selected French as mylanguage and failed.


INTELLIVISION LIVESGenre: Minigames, Retro, Arcade Collection

What's it about?Remember the Intellivision? Well, here is a collection of crappy Intellivision games. It's not that I haveanything against old video games, but this collection isn't that great. Since there's no nostalgia factorfor me, I do not feel like this is enjoyable. Don't get me wrong. I like a lot old games, includingAsteroids, and Pong, but these stink.


PHOENIX WRIGHT - ACE ATTORNEYGenre: Simulation

What's it about?You're a young lawyer, trying to keep your friend from being blamed for murder. Lot more exiting thanit sounds.



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RETRO GAME CHALLENGEGenre: Mini Games

What's it about?

A creepy Japanese man is challenging you to retro games from his childhood. Can you beat him?


SCRIBBLENAUTSGenre: Puzzle

What's it about? Use words to create objects in your Scribblenaut's world. They will help him navigateacross the land and reach his goals.


THE SIMPSONS GAMEGenre: Adventure, Action

What's it about?Play around as one of your favorite Simpsons characters.


Plants vs. ZombiesGenre: Strategy

What's it about?Destroy the zombies with plants. Grow your arm of pea shooting friends.


RETRO ATARI CLASSICSGenre: Minigames, Games Collection

What's it about?Pong. Sprint. Tempest. Warlords. Asteroids. Break Out. Centipede. Gravitar. Lunar Lander. Missile


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Command. Plus remixes. So, all the games that made Atari into what it is today. An icon. And nothingmore.


ATARI GREATEST HITS VOL 1Genre: Minigames, Retro

What's it about?Asteroids, Battlezone, Centipede, Gravitar, Lunar Lander, Missile Command, Pong, Space Duel,Tempest, and a boatload of Atari 2600 games.Rating: 7.5 out of 10.

ATARI GREATEST HITS VOL 2Genre: Minigames, Retro

What's it about?Retro Atari fun! Like Milipede, Super Break Out, Asteroids Deluxe, etc. The presentation is well done.A treat if you like older video games.


BOING! DOCOMODAKE!Genre: Puzzle

What's it about?You're a mushroom and you have to make yourself into smaller mushrooms, and turn them into floatingblocks to collect coins, then find your way out of the levels you are presented with. Way too bizarre andtedious for me.

Rating: 5.5 out of 10.BOOKWORMGenre: Puzzle, Word Game

What's it about?It's basically a word search, except they don't tell you what words to find. Oh and there's a cute worm.Can be quite addicting.


RYTHM HEAVENGenre: Minigames, Music

What's it about?Increase your rhythm, so they say, by playing mini games and activities based on sound. However, I


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found I played the games better when focusing visually. I found this to be boring at best.


JEOPARDY

Genre: Game Show

What's it about?Answer answers with questions, based on the famous game show. The idea itself isn't bad but thepresentation isn't fantastic. It lacks...life.


PASS THE PIGS - LET TH GOOD SWINES ROLLGenre: Board Game

What's it about?Roll some pigs and make them land in a certain way to collect points, and win. Based on the gamewhere you actually have to roll (plastic) pigs. It just doesn't translate.


PRESS YOUR LUCKGenre: Game Show

What's it about?A game show style game. Buzz in and answer questions to win big cash. Not too bad actually, if youignore the horrendous load time.


NINJA REFLEXGenre: Action

What's it about?Using your stylus, catch fish, throw ninja stars, do stuff (stereotypical) ninjas do basically. Aninteresting concept but the game is not substantial enough. Limited play value. Also, catching fish wasa pain in the ass.


MICHAEL JACKSON - THE EXPERIENCEGenre: Music


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What's it about?Dance with Michael Jackson by tapping circle on your stylus. The music is great, but the gameplay isboring as shit.


THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORDSGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?NYT Crosswords. This is probably the most sensible video crossword I've played so far. It's made soyou don't have to squint. It's also pretty easy to understand too. I still prefer an actual newspaper, butmajor points for keeping it easy.


TETRIS PARTY DELUXEGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?It's Tetris. Fit the blocks together and make 'em disappear. Try to score as high as possible. This is notmy favorite version of Tetris, but it is Tetris. You can't screw it up.


100 CLASSIC BOOKSGenre: Books

What's it about?It's not a game. It's a collection of 100 books. You can read lots of books. I would say it's pretty decentfor what it's trying to be, except it has no background music. Why no music to relax you? Or how abouthighlighting? I guess it's kind of limited in what it can do. Read a real book or listen to audio.


FEEL THE MAGIC - XY XXGenre: Minigames

What's it about?You want to get the attention of an ugly black woman, so you join a performance group called the "RubRabbits." Then you have to do a lot of absurd mini games to progress forward. For example, rubbingfish out of someone's stomach... You heard right. It's one of those absurdist Japanese games. But is itfun? Sometimes. The mini games are a mixed bag.



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1001 TOUCH GAMESGenre: Minigames

What's it about?A shitload of "touch" minigames. Surprisingly, some are good fun. My only problem with this is how

it's organized. I feel like there should have been some sort of storyline...or a way to play the gamesaltogether, cohesively, rather than going through each individually.


CROSSWORDS DSGenre: Puzzle

What's it about?Crosswords! This is probably the best crosswords game on the Nintendo DS. It's simple and easy touse. Very accessible. Well done.


FLASH FOCUS - VISION TRAINING IN MINUTES A DAYGenre: Productivity. Minigames

What's it about?Apparently you can improve your visual-acuity by playing these games. I doubt it. None of this hasbeen verified. However, if you take it for the mini games alone, they can be quite fun. Fans of BrainAge would enjoy this. This has an "eye age" instead of a "brain age."


LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD - ZOMBIE BBQGenre: Horror, Action

What's it about?A mindless zombie shooting game. Use your stylus to shoot, and the d-pad to maneuver side to side ona path of monsters. Kind of fun for a couple of seconds, but loses its charm very fast. And I have noidea why the female character is wearing such a skimpy outfit. You'd think during a zombie apocalypseyou would dress appropriately.


MASTER OF ILLUSIONGenre: Minigames, Magic

What's it about?


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You're a magician! Earn points by doing challenges, and do "real" magic tricks on the Nintendo DS.Simplistic yet fun. Although sometimes it's a pain in the ass. You need a regular deck of cards BTW.


THE SIMS 3Genre: Simulation

What's it about?It's your second life! Make a little human being, construct a house, and live your life. It's not as good aswhat you get on PC, but it is decent when you consider the limitations of a handheld console like theNintendo DS.


TOUCHMASTERGenre: Minigames, Assorted

What's it about?A load of minigames for the Nintendo DS. Not the greatest games ever, but designed well enough, andgood for killing time.


HIDDEN OBJECTS: MYSTERY STORIESGenre: Puzzle (Puzzling?)

What's it about?Go on an adventure! Click the picture to find the objects! It's like Where's Waldo but far more boring! Ithink the concept is okay, but the it just doesn't work on a small, small screen. Plus, it's pretty barebones. Bad music, and no style, or flare. How about a making a couple of the object animated?


50 CLASSIC GAMESGenre: Puzzle, Collection, Minigames

What's it about?50 Classic games, from Mahjong to Chess...with really terrible music, and bad graphics.


I SPY FUN HOUSEGenre: Puzzle, Minigames


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