Warcraft II - Battle.net Edition Review

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(More customer reviews)Ever since I was 13 I have loved this classic real time strategy game.Although it may not have the fancy graphics or customizable characters that many RTSs can boast of today, what is does have is simplistic fun.Tolkien style fantasy war; orcs verses humans, knights verses horded monsters, heck... it even has dragons verses defenseless peasants!Have your legion of paladins ride off to expunge forces of darkness from it's goblin infested lair, or if you prefer, knock down your enemy's church and eat what you find inside!

With it's well rendered cartoon graphics, funny catch phrases, skill testing resource management, and good old fashioned explosion noises Warcraft 2 battle net edition can be fun for anyone with an eye for real time strategy.

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Platform:WINDOWS 98/ME/2000/XPPublisher:BLIZZARDPackaging:DVD STYLE BOXRating:TEENReturn to the Age of Chaos and wage war against live Orc and Human opponents with the same skill and fearless intensity you lived and breathed in your Warcraft II career. Warcraft II Battle.net Edition brings you real-time combat with up to eight players from around the globe. Put your skills to the ultimate test in the most epic Warcraft II battles ever.This Exclusive Set Contains:Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness Battle.net EditionThe all-new Windows 98/95 version of the legendary strategy game including new Battle.net multiplayer mode and all 28 original single-player scenarios. Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal Battle.net EditionThe award-winning expansion set for Warcraft II updated for Windows 98/95 and complete with all 26 original scenarios. What's New in the Battle.net EditionIntense Internet CompetitionChallenge players worldwide with free access to Blizzard's Battle.net gaming service. Up to eight players supported for head-to-head allied or team play. Enhanced features include global player rankings tournaments and challenge ladders. Over 100 New Battlefields:Continue the struggle for the domination of Azeroth across more than 100 new and updated multiplayer maps. Improved Combat Controls:Command your armies with newfound ease. Enhancements include:Hot-key unit groupingsImproved auto-commandsInstant event-alert centeringShared visionSystem Requirements: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP Pentium 60 or equivalent 16MB RAM80MB available hard drive space 2x CD-ROM drive for gameplay (4x for cinematics) 8MB graphics card (DirectX compatible) Microsoft compatible mouse DirectX compatible sound card for audioMultiplayer Options: 2 Players: 14.4 kbps modem. 2-8 Player: AppleTalk Network IPX Network or Battle.net (requires low-latency Internet connections with support for 32 bit applications).

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NES Advantage Joystick Review

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(More customer reviews)The NES advantage was great... All the cool kids had them. And unlike some of the awful accessories Nintendo would unleash on us kids like the Power Glove, the advantage was actually a good, solidly made peripheral. It brought home the feel of the arcade like never before, and for those willing to get used to it (or already were used to it, due to rigorous arcade playing), it offered a level of precision unmatched by a standard controller. There are plenty of games that are best played with a classic NES controller, but there were also a great many that made you glad to have the Advantage handy. It even had turbo switches, which back in the NES days were a necessity for some games. If you had an NES, you wanted an Advantage arcade stick!

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Play your NES games just like a old school gamer! Has a double pronged plug that fits into your NES system for a classic feel to your NES playing experience! With turbo dials for extreme game play!

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Pokemon Stadium 2 Review

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(More customer reviews)I found out about Pokemon characters in another Nintendo game, Super Smash Brothers. I spent many hours annoying friends with Piakchu's battle cry and shortly after rented Pokemon Stadium. I loved the game play in it and a friend and I spent many hours in front of the tv hooting and hollering at each other in the midst of battle.
The other day, Pokemon Stadium 2 hit the shelves and I debated about renting it, said what the heck and just bought it. After investing my money it, I came home, showed it to a few people in the dorm and shortly had three or four people in my room. We had back seat battlers calling out commands to the people with controllers and people wandering in to see what was going on. One of the nice things about the game is the ability for 4 controllers to be used. I was curious how they were going to do this and found out it's in the free battle arena. Each person chooses 6 Pokemon and then right before the battle begins you choose 3 each and then switch between trainers in battle, a bit like a tag team.
About half of the game is one player and the rest of it is in two -four player mode.
I'm still working my way through the gyms and, yes, they do get harder as you move along. I've been frustrated by some of the higher trainers more than once.
The "battle now" idea they have is very good. If you and a friend want to sit down and have a quick little go between the two of you this is a good way to go. It is right there on the main screen and you click on it and the system randomly picks 6 Pokemon for you to battle with, this can be done in one or two player mode.
The little mini-games are so cute. If you pay attention to your own screen, un-like I did the first time, you should do well. If you want to make sure you win there is an easy setting, if you want a challenge set the system to hard.
In event battle there are 4 cups, the Prime Cup, the Poke Cup, the Little Cup and the Challenge Cup. In the challenge cup instead of you using your Pokemon's the computer picks them for you and you can battle on the settings for the Prime, Poke and little cups.
To be honest, I have yet to get through everything. I'm currently working on finding a Gameboy Pokemon game so that I can access everything this game has to offer, (as in Pokemon Stadium you need a transfer pack, and sadly it's not included in the game)yet with out it I've had many hours of battle already. Those new Pokemon are toooo cute. My faves? Of the new guys, I've found good battle buddies in Jumpluff, Skarmory, and Girafarig. My tried and true battle companions from Pokemon Stadium are Rapidash, Pikachu and Snorlax. Now... who'll help you win all those battles?

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What can you expect from the sequel to one of the favorite Nintendo 64 games of 2000? A lot. Pokémon Stadium 2 comes with four new tournaments, 12 new minigames, and lots of fun extras, like special Pokéquizzes to test your level of mastery. And you're sure to find your favorite monsters, because--gulp!--249 Pokémon are present in the game. As in Pokémon Stadium, you can train and battle your monsters, as well as transfer them (via the separately sold Transfer Pak) from your favorite Game Boy titles--including the newer Gold and Silver editions of the game.

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Dr. Mario Review

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(More customer reviews)This is an excellent game and if you were looking for a version of Tetris that was more challenging, than DR MARIO was for you. This game is sometimes very tricky, but it's very fun as well.
The object of the game is to match the colors of the pills that are being dropped onto the viruses below and by doing this killing them off, one by one. I really don't carw what anyone says but this game rocked. In Tetris, the challenge was to clear lines that are at the bottom and they build up. In DR MARIO you had to play the boards as they were giben and in most cases, the viruses were all over the place so placing some of the pills in the wrong place could come back to haunt you.
Like I said, the challenge to this game is great and it never got tired. Really check out DR MARIO it's worth it!

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Dr Mario NES Game! Dr Mario is a mega-addictive game that certainly deserves a place in any NES owner's collection. Guaranteed to work perfectly!

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WarCraft 2 Battle.net Edition Review

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(More customer reviews)Gamers, including myself, have marveled at the old game Warcraft II for a long time.When I heard that Blizzard Entertainment was developing a new version for that classic, I was overjoyed.The old Real-Time Strategy (RTS) has left its mark as the best Game of the Year 1995, Best OnlineGame, and Best Multiplayer Game.Although the gameplay graphics andcutscenes art are somewhat lacking, it has pretty good graphics, funnysounds, and appropriate background music.The game's online gameplay ofthis game is fantastic since it takes Blizzard's free online gaming server,Battle.net, and uses it in this classic's upgrade.Warcraft II Battle.netEdition's AI is much in need of improvement compared to the other newgames, though.But this game was not supposed to be completely new, soBlizzard decided not to improve some of the features, but to fix old bugs,add small improvements, and add a super multiplayer option.
The story ofWarcraft II: Battle.net Edition takes place after their first big hit,Warcraft I: Orcs and Humans.After the death of the Orcish WarchiefBlackhand, Ogrim Doomhammer quickly took his place as the new Warchief. Meanwhile, the tattered humans from the destroyed land of Azeroth seekrefuge in Lordaeron, the other power in the Alliance, a group of humans,elves, and dwarves allying up against the fearsome Orcs. The humanshave won the second war against the Orcs and have destroyed their only wayinto human lands, the Dark Portal.As they find out, though, the riftallowing passage to their lands still exists.They Alliance must travelthe rift to Orcish Lands to stop the Orcish threat.
When you first startout on a single-player campaign, if you choose one from the Tides ofDarkness, then you'll start with a small amount of units and a basicbuilding to start out on.This just teaches you how to build things andgives you a basic feel for how you play the game.Eventually, you'll moveinto much harder levels which involve keeping someone alive as you travelenemy territory, building up a strong enough force to overcome a powerfulenemy, and developing strategy in order to outsmart your computerenemy.
The multiplayer features in this game are comparable to some ofthe top games out now.Popular online games, such as Starcraft and Diablo,use Blizzard's personal gaming server, Battle.net (the top online gamingservice in the world), to make a very easy and powerful multiplayer option. There are also the basic multiplayer options such as connection over anAppleTalk or IPX networks.There are traditional modem games, which areonly two player, and there is direct-connect (null modem).This game'smultiplayer is also compatible with the old version of Warcraft II.Youcan select either the enhanced (which fixes bugs and adds Battle.netoption) or you can choose normal (which is the only way you can playagainst other people with Warcraft II, but without Warcraft II: Battle.netEdition).This enhanced game has new features such as Shared Vision (theability to see what your ally sees), there is the new food bar (whichallows you to see how much food you have without selecting a farm), andthere is fixed bugs and smaller new features that would take a while tolist.
This game is a pretty basic RTS.Proportionally, the graphics areway off, but otherwise they are pretty good.For example, you walk a unitnext to some trees or a building.From the sizes they use, you would onlybe able to fit about 16 units into the biggest building (the Town/GreatHall).Those must be very big units because the smallest unit is a peonand supposedly it takes up as much space as a catapult.The cutscenes inthis game could be better, too.While they are much clearer and sharperthen the original Warcraft, they still could be better.
The sound in thisgame is good, but not as good as I hoped.They have added a few new soundsthat they had forgotten in the original, but those sounds go usually gounnoticed.While it's really funny to hear an Two-Headed Ogre burp reallyloud and then the two heads argue over who did it and to hear a Footmancomplain about what he's supposed to do, that's basically it in the sounddepartment.
I highly recommend this game if you are/were a frequentWarcraft or Starcraft player.

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From the initial, unexpected invasion of the Orcish Horde to the quest of the Great Alliance to forever seal the Dark Portal that links their two worlds, you will experience the epic saga of the mighty battle to gain dominance over the kingdom of Azeroth.

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Friday the 13th Review

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(More customer reviews)I was like many other kids at the time when this game came out. Thought it'd be cool to play a Jason game. Well, like many kids did, I threw this game into the junk pile quickly after getting it, sad that I wasted money on such a piece of garbage.

-Graphics are what you'd expect from a NES game.
-Controls are stiff and thumb-numbing.
-Jason is stout and PURPLE!!
-After a while of running around you want to yank the game out because the sound effects of the alarm are so annoying!
-As many others have said, Jason is IMPOSSIBLE to beat!

You're better off playing Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, Urban Champion, or Kung Fu. Unless you're looking to get this game to complete your collection of rotten games, DON'T GET IT!

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Friday the 13th NES Game. Destroy Jason.....if you can!

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