2004-05-05
I wonder what it looks like when I post twice in a day?
Anyway, I think I'm finally going to buy a Gameboy Advance. I have the original Gameboy from 1989, a Pocket Gameboy I bought around 1996 or so (I should look into when it was released) and a Gameboy Color from around 1999 or 2000. The reason I want a GBA is because of a game called Car Battler Joe. It came out last year, but I only heard about it yesterday. It seems quite rare, and it's only available on the GBA. But from viewing the screenshots and reading the reviews, it sounds like it's nearly the game that's been in my head since 1987, when I lived in Australia. I still remember thinking about how the game would play while standing out in the field where my friend Ben and I would play one-on-one cricket, a very frustrating and exhausting game for the non-batting side.
The game would be like Autoduel where you're a dude in a semi-post-apocalypse world who eventually earns enough money to buy an armed and armoured car, then takes on various missions (sometimes courier, sometimes other things). Kind of like the world of Mad Max but without so much anarchy and lawlessness - I can't see how anyone could really survive in that world.
Autoduel was great, but lacked some important things. The cities were packed with buildings that served purpose, but they lacked personality and character interaction. And the highways between cities were barren places - the only thing to do was fight with other vehicles. You could get out of your car, but the only purpose that served was to scavenge parts from your opponent's wrecked cars. Occasionally there would be houses off to the side of the highways, but you couldn't enter them - they served no purpose.
Unfortunately, Car Battler Joe is done in an anime style, rather than the semi-realistic (though still 8 or 16 bit) graphics I had envisioned. But I can overlook that if the gameplay and story and setting are there. If they aren't, I guess I'll still have to make my game.
Anyway, I think I'm finally going to buy a Gameboy Advance. I have the original Gameboy from 1989, a Pocket Gameboy I bought around 1996 or so (I should look into when it was released) and a Gameboy Color from around 1999 or 2000. The reason I want a GBA is because of a game called Car Battler Joe. It came out last year, but I only heard about it yesterday. It seems quite rare, and it's only available on the GBA. But from viewing the screenshots and reading the reviews, it sounds like it's nearly the game that's been in my head since 1987, when I lived in Australia. I still remember thinking about how the game would play while standing out in the field where my friend Ben and I would play one-on-one cricket, a very frustrating and exhausting game for the non-batting side.
The game would be like Autoduel where you're a dude in a semi-post-apocalypse world who eventually earns enough money to buy an armed and armoured car, then takes on various missions (sometimes courier, sometimes other things). Kind of like the world of Mad Max but without so much anarchy and lawlessness - I can't see how anyone could really survive in that world.
Autoduel was great, but lacked some important things. The cities were packed with buildings that served purpose, but they lacked personality and character interaction. And the highways between cities were barren places - the only thing to do was fight with other vehicles. You could get out of your car, but the only purpose that served was to scavenge parts from your opponent's wrecked cars. Occasionally there would be houses off to the side of the highways, but you couldn't enter them - they served no purpose.
Unfortunately, Car Battler Joe is done in an anime style, rather than the semi-realistic (though still 8 or 16 bit) graphics I had envisioned. But I can overlook that if the gameplay and story and setting are there. If they aren't, I guess I'll still have to make my game.
