|
|
Street Fighter 2 Pong (Arcade) by Hokutoy  The fenix engine seems to be making waves in the GP32 homebrew world lately and here's the first creation by Hokutoy, who until now, has concentrated on some quality Beats of Rage age mods. Technically, this isn't pong, as there are no paddles and the idea is to hit the button at the right time to send the fireball back at the other player, the twist is that each time you hit it, it speeds up so your reactions must adapt to quicker button presses. I'm not entirely sure if this is intended as a two player game (as the readme is in spanish) but it's quite good fun for one player to play both players as there's only one button per player. You will have realised that all the sound and graphics are direct rips from Streetfighter 2 and the action is based around the same system of "best of 3" matches, and you will be greeted by a stats page with details of fireball count and max combo - which is the amount of times one fireball has been bounced before making contact. I'm unsure what the other 2 fireball types are for, but assume they are yet to be implemented, unless I'm just not good enough! But an idea would be for the "Max combo" stat to be saved so when you reboot it sticks so you can try to beat it again. The main problem I find with this game, is that for such a simple concept, it takes up around 5.5Mb of valuable space on your SMC and will put a lot of people off. I suspect from looking at the files, that it is mostly down to the music being quite high quality, and it would benefit from some kind of compression for future versions. But there's no disputing that for a first release, it looks damn good, and is nice to see new talent emerging. Download Street Fighter 2 Pong from GP32x.de Download Street Fighter 2 Pong from PDRoms.de
Review by frolik Nov/18/2004. |
