Good cxpanty The and contans 28 of RAM, which makes the second centarily ecanon has 48K) smartest vid game system around. All this power system, but great if ituned property, but un The unit fortunately the only six games avala inbertesting ting at at the the time time of of this this weting the ned more than of memory
wise man pocs said, A things come small packages Whoeve comed the addage wasn't thinking about Emenon's Anacha 2001 videogame the phrase ture fits, atyway which kapks something the the vson's baby brother has the cutest system around new
The carton in which the 2001 comes packed, hantly enough to hold a fhandlit of Nonetheless the conele power of eogarne machine programmatictures ing waited
Though it's hard to know if gners conndered it in the Arcadia owns the distinction the world's fint portable videogame tystem. Beudes ways handy in a tale along the 2001 capable of operating off of any 12 volt DC power sauce. The indudes auto batteries of the type used in hoa and campers, a viden power bettor the Battery pack of a port TV list think, pece Watchman-size color tele vision becomes mality, you' be able to fit a com plete fun factory into a brefcasel MWCE ATTACH
Banking the central ca tndge sict on the Artadie 2001 comule are two tellvision took alike com frollers. Sunt below the sartridge slut is the or off switch and buttons for reset, gume select, option select and start. A er on 100 completes the aicture
Along the back panel are fuued conveniently located jacks for two optional controlfen, a 12-vot DC power soare, two hard wired coil cords for the built-in cors trollers and a channel channel a selector switch
The big news about the system however, its extremely high memory
either blank the picture after two min ules of non-play or tovary the colors or antensity of the on-screen image When questioned about the lack of TV protection crcutry, Emenon told C that looking into the situation, bef that feels such protection e't needed. Emenon meson may be right, but the company is going to have a hard time convinong potential buyen of the Let's take a closer look
The controllers are almost virtual Arcady has of those found o looks big There are 12 buttons on the cartodges, two fong buttons (Matte has packs the and ask contre The latter joystikkyou the the de you've got em and if you crave light the there in the box just of being ing for you
Mylar overlays come with each game as needed, and both con neatly into the con when play is completed though the cards dange Che that the system dom not contain comutry to
BASEBALL
and the single player involved. This provides a much better chance for the outfelder to catch and felde bull than other home ormulations. After the player gets the ball the screen reverts to formal and the coach can direct the felder to throw the bal to any base man including the catcher.
at some of the games The grest Americ keyboard pastone Baseball done our justice by way of one de thegation in the mevation, 2001's diamond program disks When a ball it to the outfeld second screen wat appears which shows an astline of the outlet
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With a full mine-player team represented and contre of peching, he ting and manning mang en san make matic plays. The game is not qule as detailed as the oward-woning inte som cartridge but its excelent baseball game in own right
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is also easy to lears and to master. giving it a leg up on most of in com petition This reviewer Sked 2001 Baseball and looks forward to other sports simulations from this newcomer on the block.
Breakaway, the 2001 approach to wall bathing is nothing more than adequate. The cartridges innovative in that it allows verywing of the pande speed and includes a vertical vesion of the game, but the overall effect was presive As EG tested an early version of the game and we were told later versions would be much in provedon't worth detailing the problems. Suffce that paddle speed and an was much too pokry, the sions had to be played with the joystick moung dugonally, and overall control was any thing tot smooth ing from the other games we previewed we could only wish for the improved ver
We have to doubt that Einenon cas do much better job than with this fest edition of Breakawayreally shouldn't have broken away from (menon at all Cat Trax convenely, in not a game
for pussycats, but more of a clever muze-chase Cat Tras provides three. sather than nine lives as you thatever your kitty through a maze dodeing trio of hungry dogs. At the same Stre the electronic feline must gobble preces of cathip and an occasional bone The bone flashes perodically in the middle of the screen, and if you watch it you tum into a degratther's ven that enables you to race through verte, at a very high speed and capture the offending canines Doce touched the dogs are placed in the pound for up to 20 seconds of game Judgme. There's a time clock within the doghouse that lets you knows how long you have to grab the catne be fore the dogs are released once more Each time you eat a bone and send the son to come our way pups to the just reward, last time is awarded to get the job dane, The graph ics are dever, and the game is gener aly & peat deal of fun it is one of the few home mase games that offers almost as mudi fut as the granddaddy of them all
BREAKAWAY.
Pac-Man Cat Traxi good game and should keep you pung for hours
Sticking within the labyrinth category. there is Jungler. Played in a maan that closely momibles Cat Trax, Ang ler pi a gamer's co trolled serpent against one deven by the coo auter Notice we don't
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