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About This Set: There are 10 games actually built into the Power Joy controller, and 84 games on the cartridge you can slide into the controller. A total of 94 video games! Cool! And these aren't the scrub games like you normally get with plug-and-play controllers. These are all video games of 1980s-early 1990s arcade/NES quality. In fact, there are quite a few Nintendo NES/Sega Master/Sega Genesis clones here. I'm very happy, not only with the quality and quantity of games here, but with the design of the control. I have big hands, so it's not always so easy for me to operate video game controls. But my big hands can work this control quite well, and it fits comfortably. The controller is very smooth and rounded. And it looks sleek!
The main Power Joy 2 controller is a game pad with built-in gun device. Two-in-one controller! Remember how annoying it always was to hook up the Nintendo Light Gun seperately? This is a very clever and workable idea. For two players, there is another controller not exactly like the Power Joy, but resembling more of a NES type controller; there is no built-in gun. You have to connect it to the butt of the Power Joy main controller to be able to work it.
This controller can be operated with an AC adaptor or 4 AAA batteries. I like it that they give you this choice. If the adaptor goes bad or you run out of AAA batteries, you always have the other to fall back on.
Built-In Games:
1. Shoot Copter 1
2. Falling Block
3. Shoot Copter 2
4. Panzer Fly Car
5. Debar Bomb 1
6. Shooting
7. Debar Bomb 2
8. Future Tank
9. Space War
10. Shoot Glass
Cartridge Games:
1. 80 Days
2. 1942
The airplane fighter games from the 1980s-1990s are the best, because you can just fly around with an overhead view and blow up stuff. This is a WWII fighter pilot game with a lot of color and activity. The graphics are decent enough, too, where you can really imagine you're flying and shooting down WWII-era planes. Fun!
3. Arkanoid
Did someone say "Breakout clone"? This is basically a ripoff of Breakout and Super Breakout like you would play on Atari systems in the 1980s. It is, in fact, a bit better looking and better done than its Atari inspiration, but its premise is too simple and I get bored. It's slightly more interesting than Pong.
4. Aladdin III
This was the first game I actually tried to play on this device and I love it. It's bright, colorful, and simple, but with enough activity and challenge to make it interesting. The Arabian Nights type music is also fun. You're Aladdin, flying around on a magic carpet, trying to shoot/avoid enemies until you get to the main boss of each stage. You can get points, power-ups, extra lives, etc. There isn't even an index screen to this game. As soon as you press "Start" you're in it. Not a very complicated game design or concept, but more challenging than you'd think and surprisingly fun!
5. Argus
6. Adisland
This is the Japanese version of "Adventure Island" originally produced for the Nintendo NES in 1989. It's exactly the same as Adventure Island, only the title screen and other things are in Japanese text. I love Adventure Island, so naturally I love this game as well. The only bad thing is that, on this controller, it's hard to control the guy. Too many functions are spread out with too many buttons. It's hard to get use to controlling him with this controller. It's a bit more reasonable to play on NES controls. The game itself is similar to the Super Mario Bros. series with a likable little adventurer that goes around collecting items and clobbering bad guys along the way.
7. Ascii
8. Arabian
I think it's funny that they actually had two Arab-themed games on this cartridge. Unlike Aladdin, you don't scroll from left to right, but rather stay in the same screen. You, the Arab, has to run around the ship collecting bags of gold fighting off animals. Simple to play, but hard.
9. Badminton
10. Baltron
11. B-Wings
12. Bird Week
13. Boat Race
14. Boom Man
I suppose this is an okay game, but the navigation sucks. You try moving your guy in a certain direction, but most of the time he will not go, getting stuck in place. By the time you fiddle around trying to get unstuck, the bad guys get you. Then you can only set one bomb off at a time, and you have to work against a timer. It's also not overly-thrilling graphics-wise, but not bad, either. Worth a few good plays.
15. Brush Roller
16. Clay Shoot
17. Chack and Pop
18. Circus Chablie
19. City Connection
20. Challenger
21. Dig Dug
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Manufacturer:
Year:
About This Set: There are 10 games actually built into the Power Joy controller, and 84 games on the cartridge you can slide into the controller. A total of 94 video games! Cool! And these aren't the scrub games like you normally get with plug-and-play controllers. These are all video games of 1980s-early 1990s arcade/NES quality. In fact, there are quite a few Nintendo NES/Sega Master/Sega Genesis clones here. I'm very happy, not only with the quality and quantity of games here, but with the design of the control. I have big hands, so it's not always so easy for me to operate video game controls. But my big hands can work this control quite well, and it fits comfortably. The controller is very smooth and rounded. And it looks sleek!
The main Power Joy 2 controller is a game pad with built-in gun device. Two-in-one controller! Remember how annoying it always was to hook up the Nintendo Light Gun seperately? This is a very clever and workable idea. For two players, there is another controller not exactly like the Power Joy, but resembling more of a NES type controller; there is no built-in gun. You have to connect it to the butt of the Power Joy main controller to be able to work it.
This controller can be operated with an AC adaptor or 4 AAA batteries. I like it that they give you this choice. If the adaptor goes bad or you run out of AAA batteries, you always have the other to fall back on.
Built-In Games:
1. Shoot Copter 1
2. Falling Block
3. Shoot Copter 2
4. Panzer Fly Car
5. Debar Bomb 1
6. Shooting
7. Debar Bomb 2
8. Future Tank
9. Space War
10. Shoot Glass
Cartridge Games:
1. 80 Days
2. 1942
The airplane fighter games from the 1980s-1990s are the best, because you can just fly around with an overhead view and blow up stuff. This is a WWII fighter pilot game with a lot of color and activity. The graphics are decent enough, too, where you can really imagine you're flying and shooting down WWII-era planes. Fun!
3. Arkanoid
Did someone say "Breakout clone"? This is basically a ripoff of Breakout and Super Breakout like you would play on Atari systems in the 1980s. It is, in fact, a bit better looking and better done than its Atari inspiration, but its premise is too simple and I get bored. It's slightly more interesting than Pong.
4. Aladdin III
This was the first game I actually tried to play on this device and I love it. It's bright, colorful, and simple, but with enough activity and challenge to make it interesting. The Arabian Nights type music is also fun. You're Aladdin, flying around on a magic carpet, trying to shoot/avoid enemies until you get to the main boss of each stage. You can get points, power-ups, extra lives, etc. There isn't even an index screen to this game. As soon as you press "Start" you're in it. Not a very complicated game design or concept, but more challenging than you'd think and surprisingly fun!
5. Argus
6. Adisland
This is the Japanese version of "Adventure Island" originally produced for the Nintendo NES in 1989. It's exactly the same as Adventure Island, only the title screen and other things are in Japanese text. I love Adventure Island, so naturally I love this game as well. The only bad thing is that, on this controller, it's hard to control the guy. Too many functions are spread out with too many buttons. It's hard to get use to controlling him with this controller. It's a bit more reasonable to play on NES controls. The game itself is similar to the Super Mario Bros. series with a likable little adventurer that goes around collecting items and clobbering bad guys along the way.
7. Ascii
8. Arabian
I think it's funny that they actually had two Arab-themed games on this cartridge. Unlike Aladdin, you don't scroll from left to right, but rather stay in the same screen. You, the Arab, has to run around the ship collecting bags of gold fighting off animals. Simple to play, but hard.
9. Badminton
10. Baltron
11. B-Wings
12. Bird Week
13. Boat Race
14. Boom Man
I suppose this is an okay game, but the navigation sucks. You try moving your guy in a certain direction, but most of the time he will not go, getting stuck in place. By the time you fiddle around trying to get unstuck, the bad guys get you. Then you can only set one bomb off at a time, and you have to work against a timer. It's also not overly-thrilling graphics-wise, but not bad, either. Worth a few good plays.
15. Brush Roller
16. Clay Shoot
17. Chack and Pop
18. Circus Chablie
19. City Connection
20. Challenger
21. Dig Dug
This is EXACTLY like the classic arcade version of Dig Dug we all know and love, and the charʡxN .,6 MK)6rNUW*YqOIw1u6S{i֭Ye