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Company: Kemco
Release Date: June 2001 (launch title)
Size: 32 Megabits
NP's rating: 2.5/5 (vol. 145 p. 119)
ESRB rating: E

Finally, a game I can agree with the rating NP gave! After playing this for a half-hour, it's kind of an interesting game, but I noticed a few flaws, one of them being the helpful turn warnings stay on longer than needed, making the car go into the grass (or beyond the side of the track). Another one is that the cars seem like they speed up after the first lap. I know this because I made a simple oval track in the track editor (yes Virginia, there is a track editor) and sure enough, the cars did speed up after the first lap. Why? Even with these few major flaws, it's better than GT Advance Championship Racing. While most of these launch titles I most definitely will not play ever again, I can see myself maybe wanting to play this again, which is a huge compliment coming from me. After this one, I only have one more launch title: Army Men Advance. I have yet to buy this, so it'll be a while before I can review it.

Now you can actually see what I look like...well, kind of. I drew a picture of myself, scanned it and voila. This after a comment made that it's time for a new profile picture. My hair is always messed up. I try to comb it down as best I can when I go outside, but there seems to always be a part of the hair that sticks up funny. And my moustache is less filled out than my picture shows. And I forgot to add my shoulders, so I quickly drew those in, and it made me look like I have a tank top on, which is fitting because it's supposed to be 70 degrees on Saturday, or so they say. And I ran out of lollipops. I tried eating a chocolate one, but god, have you tried a Chocolate Tootsie Pop? I can describe it in one word: Barf! They should just make a whole bag of red ones. I mean, who eats Orange and Grape ones? Anyone?

Company: Midway
Release Date: June 2001 (launch title)
Size: 32 Megabits
NP's Rating: 2.5/5 (v.145 p. 119)
ESRB Rating: E

For those of you following along at home (or at work where you're not supposed to), you may have noticed a trend in my GBA Chronogaming blog section: I don't like very many of these games. Well, you can add this list to the sucks pile. Basically what it is is random button-mashing, hoping (and it does get your hopes up) that one of the punches hits the computer. Once I got knocked out in round one and the countdown started, i turned it off in disgust. Mind you this was even on easy mode. I am really wondering whether I should continue this. I mean, the GBA is an amazing handheld system, but as it turns out, I guess I don't like very many games for it. The only games I've even come close to liking are Konami Krazy Racers, Super Mario Advance, and ChuChu Rocket.

up next: Top Gear GT Championship

I actually had Bank Heist, so I don't need to look for it. I just forgot to put it on the list. Jawbreaker arrived today. It was in kind of bad shape. The end label was missing, and the game didn't want to work at first. So I cleaned it a little bit. Got the title screen, but once I pressed the reset switch the game zonked out on me. I finally got it working another cleaning later. This is another case of a game being easier using buttons on a keyboard in an emulator than by using a joystick and playing in real life. Anyway, poor Mom. She went up to Portland with my sister's family. Here it is 5:30 and she's still up there. And then it takes an hour to drive back to Salem, and then Mom has to drive back home. She just called me to tell me she's still in Portland. Luckily, I was awake at the time. I had just gotten up from sleeping on the couch and my ear hurt. The pain was intense at first, but then it went away. How weird.

While I was finished with the program, I wasn't completely thrilled with it. The "press 1 to go first" and "press 2 to go second" messages stayed on throughout the whole game. So, I went back to programming the game. It took about an hour or two, but I finally got those messages off once play begins. So, now I'm happy with the way things have been going regarding this game, but if I look at the game for a longer period, I might see some things I want to change. I'm a perfectionist, even when it comes to programming games nobody except me will play. So if you have a TI-83+ or compatible calc, you can program the game here. And for those of you who don't have one, I've included a screenshot of the game at the end. The main reason I bought my TI-84+ is to program games on it. I had a TI-83+ once, but I sold it to someone on this forum (I don't remember who, though.)