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BLOOD AND GORE: At the end of Bionic Commando, the leader of the bad guy's head explodes, but the 8-bit graphics keeps it from looking very realistic. MILD VIOLENCE: You can shoot, punch, and slice bad guys, but they only disappear or explode. Back in the 80s, game publisher and developer Capcom created and published some of the Nintendo Entertainment System's most memorable titles. Now you can play three of these favorites on your Game Boy Advance: Strider, Bionic Commando, and Mighty Final Fight. Strider on the NES was different from the arcade version, but the idea was still the same. Control a futuristic ninja as he slices through enemies with his laser sword. Gather clues and collect items to help Strider beat the bad guys and reach new areas. In Bionic Commando, you're a super soldier with a bionic grappling hook arm that is used to swing around obstacles and pits, which is good since your soldier can't jump! The NES version of Bionic Commando is also different from the arcade version, but many people like this one better. Finally, Mighty Final Fight is a home version of the arcade classic side-scrolling beat ﾑem up by the same name (sans the ﾑMighty'), featuring short and squatty cartoony fighters. These games are recreated fairly accurately on the Game Boy Advance, which means you get 8-bit era graphics and bleepy, bloopy sounds and music. Unfortunately, just like the originals, there are no save files or extras on this collectionﾗand just like many older titles, some aspects of these games haven't aged well. Stiff play control on some of the games and cheap deaths make things a little frustrating. Still, 20 dollars isn't a bad price for fans of these Capcom classics.  
While the games on this collection are pretty basic and simple to understand, most kids probably won't get into Capcom Classics Mini Mix. Even though the games feature written text, reading skill isn't really required to figure out what's going on. Even if kids can read, they may still not be able to figure out what's happening since these games featured badly translated text (from Japanese to English).
Each game has violence and fighting, but the basic nature of the graphics keep the visuals from getting too realistic. Defeated enemies either flash out of existence or poof away in a small fireworks display. However, there is one rather graphic depiction that probably earned Mini Mix its T for Teen rating. At the end of Bionic Commando, the leader of the bad guys looks quite a bit like Hitler and says the word ﾑdamn.' That was a big deal back in the squeaky clean NES days. Once you defeat him, the game also shows an animated graphic of his head exploding in all its three-frame animated 8-bit glory. You probably won't have to worry about your kids getting to the end of Bionic Commando anyway because the difficulty is so overwhelmingly hard that they'll probably quit after the first few levels. Capcom Classics Mini Mix wasn't designed for kids anyway. They're not going to have any memories attached to these games like older gamers might. So unless your kids just really like classic games or you want to show them the games you grew up on, there's really no reason to get this collection for them when there are better, newer games they would probably enjoy more. This review edited by Dave Long Comments? Chat about it in our forums! Format For Printing | Tell A Friend | Digg | Slashdot | del.icio.us | Buy This Game Browse Amazon.com's selection of "capcom classics" themed games Home > Review Archive > Video Games > Results: Capcom Classics Mini Mix |
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