You avoid monsters instead of ghosts, and you paint the paths instead of collecting pellets along them. But more valuable and interesting is Crush Roller, an updated port of a similarly classic SNK arcade game. Sure, there’s a Pac-Man port on the NGPC. Its English release was limited with a rough translation, but the underlying gameplay makes it deserving of a larger audience.
RPG fans of the era may remember Evolution: The World of Sacred Device! This little sibling tells the same story with a simplified combat system. And separated from lofty expectations, it can be its own brand of fun. It’s a game about using radar to find and battle boats. And it wasn’t really trying to be! But any handheld game of the era with two versions and link play was going to draw those comparisons. Dive Alert: Becky’s Version / Matt’s Versionĭive Alert’s reputation is largely this: it’s no Pokemon. It deserves a place in the collection because there’s really nothing like it. Similar to board game RoboRally, you decide when to move, turn and fire in advance and try to predict enemy movement. You program the mech’s moves, a batch at a time, with chips. In what might be the platform’s most experimental release, the rare Faselei! is a tactical, turn-based mech game. It looks nicer! It plays nicer! It’s really rare! So if another sports game deserves a spot on NeoGeo Pocket Color Selection Vol. To some, it may seem strange to choose this game over the classic Baseball Stars Color, but the late-life Dynamite Slugger improves on the formula. The sequel adds more features, and if we’re only getting one, we’d prefer that. You connect two blocks of the same type with lines to clear them as the field moves closer and closer to the bottom of the screen. Puzzle Link is no Tetris, but it’s the NGPC’s attempt at delivering an arcade-style puzzler. (And we’re not getting a re-release of this otherwise, so this is the chance.) Puzzle Link 2 And it’s a good one! You can see what some of the development team would go on to do at Dimps in Sonic Advance, but this game is a lot more traditional and precise in ways that lean into the NGPC’s strengths. It’s an exclusive game in the franchise, largely based on elements of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. If it shows up in NeoGeo Pocket Color Selection Vol. The first RPG on the system, Unitron holds a soft spot in a lot of players’ hearts. You replace arms and legs to customize your creation, then push through increasingly hard procedural maps. Biomotor UnitronĪ gameplay-focused dungeon-crawler, Biomotor Unitron has you assembling and upgrading a robot. And with Match of the Millennium appearing in the first collection, we’re not worried about the Capcom licensing holding it up. But it deserves more players! With an innovative support system and lane-based play, its ideas were ahead of its time. Unlike the Pokemon TCG, Card Fighter’s Clash is locked into a digital existence. You wander around and battle other players, collect cards and build better and better decks. Card Fighter’s Clash is a card-battling RPG in the vein of Pokemon Trading Card Game for the Game Boy Color. Capcom: Card Fighter’s Clash: Capcom Version / SNK Version Here are our picks for the ten games we’d most like to see in a potential NeoGeo Pocket Color Selection Vol. 1” part if you aren’t planning something else? The NGPC has a lot more cool games, and they’re not available anywhere else.