Posted by exodus on May 09, 2019 at 17:19:14 EST.
I've been looking at wonderswan games again, and the 8 shades of black/grey really can inspire some neat stuff. This Chou Denki Card Game thing has a real neat vibe, check it out inside. I've got a flash card now, but I'm making a list of interesting games to play... there's quite a lot of them! it was a weird and ambitious system, with a robot, a sonar device, a hobby programming cart, and the ability to play horizontally and vertically... And on top of that access to all the Bandai licenses. I'm not sure what else could've made something that interesting succeed other than being in color from the start maybe.
attract mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_-WVwcwdx8
Watch this short segment to see some of their nutso animations: https://youtu.be/jKnz-NtAnFY?t=93
Follow Ups:
It took me a little while to realize that was gameplay footage rather than an animated intro or something. : o (n/t) (Paleface) (22:11:07 05/10/19 EST)
Wonderswan pissed me off back then because I just wanted all those games to be on the Neo-Geo Pocket and I was always too broke to afford one. I wanted to play Blue Wing Blitz on my NGPC so bad.....fuck wonderswan! (n/t) (a-star) (15:41:14 05/11/19 EST)
Holy shit, that’s true OG 16-bit weirdness there. Is it a sequel to a Mega Drive game by any chance? Or a gaiden? Also, Clock Tower looks a lot cooler than I thought it would... (n/t) (SignOfZeta) (16:03:47 05/11/19 EST)
I've been playing Tetris on Wonderswan a lot lately. It's good! (n/t) (Jeurja) (20:34:51 05/18/19 EST)
I didn't know this game existed. I like how the blocks break apart into individual squares when you clear lines. (n/t) (Paleface) (14:10:05 05/19/19 EST)
Tetris is my favorite WSC game, maybe even my favorite version of Tetris. I played it a lot last summer on the deck at sunset. I don't have a WonderSwan Crystal, so I have to catch the light just right to bring out how nice it is. (The Worm Light is a bit clumsy in vertical, so I don't reach for it here.) Tetris has a really snappy feel for a Tetris of that era: 2002, I think late in the WSC catalog. Some cool little options: saves high scores, music on or off. Neat explosive sound effects for WonderSwan. It sounds as if it were Amiga public domain (a good thing!). I remember reading it was cheaper than most WSC titles, so I think they were marketing it to old or casual gamers (sort of like The Tetris or The Invader on PSX?). It's all in English language, as you know. It's really expensive on eBay, but I found it for a normal price, buried in a lot by searching through all new WonderSwan auctions for a couple weeks. I'm not a "collector," so maybe it's easy to find with a bit of effort. I bought it to play it, so I didn't care that mine didn't have the box. It did have the manual, though, which isn't in English. I noticed Tetris is backward compatible with regular B&W WonderSwan. If you have a B&W machine, would you test it out on it, and let me know if it's easier to see in B&W? I can't trick the WSC into displaying dual-mode carts in B&W, though regular B&W carts always display much crisper/more visible on the WSC than color carts do (so much so that I prefer playing B&W games). There's a shop in my megalopolis that has a number of affordable B&W machines, so I'd buy one if it makes Tetris better. I compared the NGPC screen to the WSC screen recently, and it's night and day: NGPC is so much easier to see than WSC when playing color games. However, B&W games on the WSC are easier to see than color games on the NGPC (I don't have any B&W/NGP games to test). All that said, I found a cart-only Korean version of Tetris DS recently in Bellevue, and through much of the year, it's hard to beat; I love its 2-player 1-cart wireless battle mode. But when summer comes around, I'm all about WSC Tetris. (n/t) (Mike Chicago) (14:37:09 05/21/19 EST)
How about a dedicated Tetris handheld? ; ) (Paleface) (16:19:33 06/10/19 EST)
