Well having decided I needed a night away from
Resident Evil Code Veronica, I thought I would post something on the best god damn "handheld" gaming site on the web.
(This one of course!!...)
Having read
Gnome's almost encyclopaedic, interesting witty and insightful posts about homebrew, freeware, retro and innovation in the world of the hand held, I looked deep into the recesses of my
Zombie pickled brain and found...
Bugger all!
T'was then that I decided to hatch a cunning plan... I would buy a new game for the
Gameboy Advance for cheap at
Gamestation. I would then play it on my DS, thus giving me something to actually review, a chance to dust off my beautiful little
Nintendo hand held console that had remained unplayed since I abandoned
X Men DS after Christmas, and a valid reason for having my name attached to
GGOTG...
So without any further ado, I sneaked off to
GS, and scoured the retro cabinet for something worth scoring... The choice on offer was abysmal... I mean truly terrible, but I settled for
'Simpson's Hit & Run' .
So I got it home sneaked past
the Mrs. and
Hey Presto! Its....
GREAT! I had no idea about this game but it's essentially
'Crazy Taxi' but with the
Simpsons!
Jump in the family Sedan, pick up such characters as The Sea Captain or Moe and take them to their desired location in the quickest possible times to amass the most $$$!
There are various modes to play on which include:
Road Rage (the basic "arcade" style version of the game)
Performance (skills)
Mission Mode (playing through set tasks in a specific order against the clock)
And
'Head to Head' (racing against an opponent using the
GBA "Gamelink" cable. )
I basically bought this as a means to an end...
I wanted something to write about!However, as luck would have it, I managed to score myself a very decent game (and at a fraction of the price that you would pay for the
Crazy Taxi re-issue on the inferior
PSP...)
But it also made me think... The DS is the most current console I have and my games repertoire is shit! I play more Game Boy games on it than DS ones.. It extends to Ridge Racer DS...
X Men DS
...and my son's games... Nintendogs, Cats and Ping Pals! Oh and a SpongeBob game...
Pitiful really...
What I really want is Resident Evil Deadly Silence... Or do I? OR DO I??????
OR DO I????
Do I really want a port of the original
Resident Evil when I have a version of that game for the
Saturn and have never played it to it's conclusion?
Do I really want to immerse myself in another chapter of the
S.T.A.R.S. odyssey when the first two I have played have turned me into an obsessive, twitching,
Zombie-paranoid, flinching hermit?
No, for the same price I could get the wonderful and innovative
Hotel Dusk or
Phoenix Wright... Graphically original and intriguing in their formats... Hopefully a new dawn of
DS gaming is coming my way...
Won't you join me on my journey? (Cue cheesy ending music...)
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