PixlBit | "If you have fond memories of lazy Saturdays taking turns with a friend’s Game & Watch, the possibilities for recreating those experiences have been pretty sparse in the last decade. Today, the primary way to get your hands on LCD-style games is through Nintendo’s own Game & Watch collections for the DS and, strangely, in this summer’s Deadlight on XBLA. Outside of those cases, though, the LCD game is essentially dead. Or so it seemed, until Retro Pocket swooped onto DSiWare and packed several Saturday afternoons’ worth of LCD-style games into a package that will have some peering over the top of their sunglasses to take in something so rad."
An ill-judged homage to Nintendo's Game & Watch title Octopus, Escape From Whale is overpriced and painfully basic.
Gamesta.com is back with this week's downloads for the European Nintendo eShop. Once more, Wii U owners can get their hands on a few title, but there is still plenty of 3DS titles to go around and a rather familiar looking DSiWare game.
DHGF: If you’re looking retro glory, Retro Pocket. It’s only five dollars, and UFO Interactive did a great job of making this game feel like LCD gaming used to feel. If you’re looking for a twist on the classics, however, this is probably not the best game to pick up. Fuel Drop, Kung Fu, and Whale Escape are worth the money, but most of the others are fairly bland, and quite a few of them are too similar in concept to honestly be considered different minigames. Anyone who didn’t grow up on LCD gaming is probably not going to understand what the appeal of these games were in the first place.
I had a lot of fun playing Kung Fu Hero.