The Gameboy Charts, 6

.____________________________________________________________________. |. | |.:. T H E | |:::. ______|_ _ ______ : _______ __\_ |____ /\__. ___\_ \___|_ __ _______ _____/\___ / _/__ / _ .| \/ |/ / // |____ ___\_ \/ / / // | / | ||. :// _____/. _ \/ / // / // \______ \_________|| \/ \________/|| | //\________/\_____ / \ _______| l____||____| |________/ -rtx/art \ ____/ \/ ` ' \/ . . __ |_____ ______|_ _ ___/____ | | _______ .____| | __\_ | ______\_ _/______ __ | | _/ _/ | | .|/ _ .|___\_ \/ \/ _/___ | | // |__| _ |/ | ||. / / \\_____ \ | | \_________/| |____\_________|| \____\______/\ ______/ .| | `----' l____| \/ .::| | Issue #6 (October) ' .::.:| `-------------------------( http://www.capital-consoles.co.uk )------' [- Compiled by Rotox/Capital with comments by various scene people. -] INTRODUCTION ------------ The October chart. It sits, still as a rock, in ascii on your HD. - Wayne Kerr .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' RULES & POINTS -------------- -1 Point - DUPE: Released a game, but only after another group already beat you? -1 point then. DUPE TRAINER: A Late Trainer with the same or less options. BROKEN: If you release a game/trainer/crack that doesn't work, -1 time! +0 Points - FIX: You get 0 points for fixing one of your own mistakes. +1 Point - AVERAGE TRAINER: +1, +2, +3, +4 trainer receives 1 point. +2 Points - AVERAGE FOREIGN: Foreign (non-English) games receive 2 points, even if the game has previously been released in another language. JAP/GER/FRA/SPA, whatever. A European release of a previously available US release will also receive 2 points. QUALITY TRAINER: A +5 or above trainer will receive 2 points. CRACK: A crack for a protected/non-working game gets you 2 points. +3 Points - INT: An English-language release of a game will receive 3 points. QUALITY FOREIGN: A Foreign (non-English) game that is 100% playable. TRANSLATION: Translating a non-English game to English = 3 points. The points reflect the major amount of work this requires! +4 Points - MAJOR: Usually the best/most-anticipated game of the month. .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' - Capital ________ _________/______ ____ / __/ ____\_ / / _____ | // |__/ _____// /_/\ | `----\________/_______|-rtx\_____/____\----' DATE CTY TITLE OF RELEASE SIZE PTS INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 31-10-99 INT Rugrats: Time Travelers +3 Trainer IPS +01 30-10-99 INT Elmo in Grouchland +2 Trainer IPS +01 29-10-99 INT Grand Theft Auto 32MB +03 29-10-99 INT Carmageddon (Multi-Language) 16MB +03 29-10-99 INT Space Invaders +4 Trainer IPS +01 16-10-99 INT Bubble Bobble +4 Trainer IPS +01 12-10-99 INT Tom and Jerry +6 Trainer IPS +02 11-10-99 INT Looney Tunes +4 Trainer IPS +01 06-10-99 INT Die Maus +3 Trainer IPS +01 06-10-99 INT Mario Golf +1 Trainer IPS +01 05-10-99 INT Mario Golf 16MB +04 GOTM ----------- TOTAL +19 ----------- COMMENTS -------- Ah charts time again and this time I see it's charts #6, which means this has been half a year of charts! Going through all these GBC releases has been fun, although I haven't loaded every single one that has been gone over in the past. This month, I loaded every game, trainer, and patch (besides V1 bung card patches) to check everything out. This month, I noticed Capital has a new intro they put on GTA and Carmageddon which is logos moving horizontally and changing colors behind a text that is going around in a large circle on the screen with a scroller underneath. Also, CPL has used a few different trainer menus in their trainers. This is all good because it gives a variety of demos from CPL during this month :) Anyways, on to the games. I thought GTA was the most anticipated game of the month, but on a GBC, it just lacks too much (well, the original version of the game wasn't the greatest of graphics either, but strip it down any more and there isn't much left). Still, I think this can be somewhat enjoyable on a handheld system. Carmageddon appears to give better graphic appeal, but not completely the same style of game as the original. So the best game here is Mario Golf. I believe I've commented on the Japanese one already so to make it short, this game is the one to play :) - Amptor/Oldskool As usual Capital releases 8 trainers...can't someone else train games? They also released the 3 best games. Specially Grand Theft Auto what a great game. There weren't many games released by them but as usual they release the best trainers...ooops only trainers! - Skates/Independent What can i say Capital does it again with a good month of quality trainers and three releases, including the rather nice Mario Golf - which gets game of the month, GTA makes it to the gameboy with quite a nice conversion. But i am undecided about Carmageddon... Also kick ass intro on both GTA and Carmageddon, good work Wayne Kerr. - Thallium/Independent Well, a decent October for CPL - mainly due to ^TuFF's contribution on the training side of things. A very welcome addition to the ranks! 3 games released this month too, 2 of which are excellent and 1 of which sucks. I'll leave you to figure out which :) Overall it's nice to see someone break the Menace monopoly on the top of the charts, even if I am biased :) - Wayne Kerr/Capital .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' - Eurasia MTX!____.--._)\____ .-. ____/(___:.___ .--/ _ | | \___ \/ _ \/ ___/___]/ _ \--. | / __| l | _/ \___ \ / \ | `-\____ \_____|_\_ \__|__/ ____/___\ |__/-' ------\(---------\(-----)/---------`-'---- DATE CTY TITLE OF RELEASE SIZE PTS INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30-10-99 JAP Bullet Battlers 16MB +02 ----------- TOTAL +02 ----------- COMMENTS -------- Ah hadn't noticed that Eurasia only came up with one release this month. Well, this is a good game I'm sure, although I can't read a damn thing in it! *cough*japcrap*cough* Well hopefully they will port it to the English language, but like many other good RPG's, I doubt that will happen. - Amptor/Oldskool What an off month for EURASIA. They release one game and its Jap Shit. Its unplayable since it is in Japanese. Why do they keep releasing this shit? - Skates/Independent Probably a good rpg from konami, only i don't read japanese text too well. - Thallium/Independent Again, just when you think EUR will finish the month with 0 points, they manage to release something in the nick of time! A good-looking RPG from Konami, which unfortunately is completely unplayable to non-Jap speakers. Not much for several months now, only time will tell if EUR have anything to offer as we get steadily closer to the end of the Millenium... - Wayne Kerr/Capital .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' - Independent/Anonymous _______ -poyZ! __ ___\______________\ __/ __ /_/\ _\ \_ _ / _ \ /_/\ .---\_\/-/______/___/___/_________\-\_\/---. `------------------/-----------------------' DATE CTY TITLE OF RELEASE SIZE PTS INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27-10-99 INT Beauty and The Beast 08MB +03 10-10-99 INT Three Lions 08MB +02 ----------- TOTAL +05 ----------- COMMENTS -------- Hmm..more independant releases. I see Kel hasn't been grabbed up by a group yet (well at least as far as I know right now). His release of B&TB is a pretty good board game (I usually hate board games, yech). But this one has mini games built in, a bit like Game and Watch Gallery type stuff (like the bouncing log game) I also played a shooting gallery in this, which was way too easy. Well, both of these are to be shelved in my opinion, although they can offer a small amount of entertainment. - Amptor/Oldskool I have not gotten to play these games very much but from what I hear they are pretty good. Atleast the Independents are releasing some good stuff. - Skates/Independent Beep Beep - Thallium/Independent Beauty and the Beast is a board game on GBC, and 3 Lions is the same as Golden Goal, released ages ago by PDX. Still a valid release with new title screen gfx, but nothing to shout about... - Wayne Kerr/Capital .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' - Menace ._____ /\___ _______ _______ ___|. \/ |____\_ \_/ _/____ |:. || \/ / / /// |__rtx| `---l_____||____/_____/_____/\_________/---' DATE CTY TITLE OF RELEASE SIZE PTS INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28-10-99 INT Space Invaders 08MB +03 28-10-99 JAP Sylvania Family 16MB +02 28-10-99 INT Madden NFL 2000 08MB +03 15-10-99 INT Classic Bubble Bobble 08MB +03 11-10-99 INT Tom and Jerry 08MB +03 ----------- TOTAL +14 ----------- COMMENTS -------- Ah..more quality releases from Menace :) The first of these I tried was Madden 2000. It's an ok game, but I still prefer the simplicity and fast action of NFL Blitz since I'm not a huge sports game fan. I was highly skeptical of Space Invaders, as the original was a horrible game. It looks like the new trend is to improve classic titles now, which is incredibly obvious in this title. Now, with power ups side shooting weapons, and, amazingly, improved graphics, Space Invaders is a very enjoyable game :) Good work on this release. Classic Bubble Bobble I thought was going to be pretty good, since Taito did a decent job on previous b&w versions. This turned out to be so, but compared to the original NES version (which I thought this was probably going to be a port of), it lacks a few things from the beginning (like different prizes appearing..I only saw bunches of grapes) But overall it's a pretty fun game. Not much to be said about Sylvania Family, but Tom and Jerry is an allright game. It's another side scroller with very little graphic appeal, but I didn't find anything too annoying about it besides that. - Amptor/Oldskool Menace had a pretty good month. They release the best football game ever made, Madden 2000. Space Invaders was an "OK" remake could have been better! I have not played Bubble Bobble very much but from what I see in the first couple of stages it sucks compared to the NES version. Keep up the good work guys! - Skates/Independent The Menace Machine is wheeled out again with a month of good gameboy releases added to the menace catalogue, a mighty force to be dealt with as they are soon to dominate both the n64 and gb scene, but only time will tell... - Thallium/Independent Some nice releases from MNC this month, especially Space Invaders which was a surprisingly good conversion to handheld. Bubble Bobble was also quite good, certainly better than Tom+Jerry! The only blight on an otherwise quality month was the release of a "jap-crap" title, Sylvania Family. Expect Menace to be back dominating the charts next month though... - Wayne Kerr/Capital .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' - Nightfall .____________.:[fAZ!]:.___\ | /_________ .|__ _____________ _ ________/\____ ___| í \ /__/ ___/ _/--. __/__) _\ /__| /__ | \ | / \ \ | | _) \\ \ | \ | `--l__/--┤----┤--\__|--┤--┤--l___\---┤-----┤ DATE CTY TITLE OF RELEASE SIZE PTS INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 05-10-99 INT Die Maus +2 IPS +01 ----------- TOTAL +01 ----------- COMMENTS -------- Another +2 from Nightfall. Good work and I see you got this out before CPL as usual. It's interesting that two groups release trainers for the same game so often. - Amptor/Oldskool I have not played this game so I can't really tell you how good it is. Nightfall put on a week show this month with only 1 release. Will we see more than that in November? - Skates/Independent Nice to see someone else making the effort to do trainers for the gameboy! - Thallium/Independent Only one trainer from NFL this month, although it did contain the best name for a trainer-option I've ever seen ("Big Bear Jump"), hehe! I expect NFL to release more trainers, as the xmas-games rush means there will be too many for one group alone to train... - Wayne Kerr/Capital .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' - Network International Ltd _______ __________/\_______/\__ \__ \| ____ __/_ ___/ / \ \/ \/ \_/\ / \ \_ \_ \_ \_____\_______/________/__________/md DATE CTY TITLE OF RELEASE SIZE PTS INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07-10-99 JAP Super Robot Wars Link Battler 08MB +02 ----------- TOTAL +02 ----------- COMMENTS -------- Bah another japcrap game. I don't say this because I don't know how to play it (I can get through this style of game without knowing any Japanese), but these are just a waste of batteries haha. - Amptor/Oldskool NIL releases one game this month...guess what its Jap Shit. Come on guys get on the ball! - Skates/Independent Another bad month for NiL, lets hope they get back on track again.. - Thallium/Independent Super Jap-Crap Robot Crap Link Crap War Battler. NIL used to rock my socks on a fairly regular basis, but it's been a quiet few months from them recently...fingers crossed that they make a return to the GBC scene in the same way as they have recently on N64! - Wayne Kerr/Capital .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' - Oldskool . :_____ :_____ _____:""|______.| /__ _____ __. | . Y / . | ____|! /. Y . Y |__ | ! ! /\ ! |___ / . _/ l | i | l | l_____l____\___i| \__i \____|_____!_____| ================l____\=|___\================ DATE CTY TITLE OF RELEASE SIZE PTS INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29-10-99 INT The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland 02MB +03 29-10-99 INT Rugrats Time Travelers 08MB +03 18-10-99 JAP Front Row 08MB +03 ----------- TOTAL +09 ----------- COMMENTS -------- This month, Oldskool is proud to introduce its newest member: Duz. He is helping with the US releases and this month he brings two games on the 29th. I'm not a big fan of Sesame St. but I guess Thallium might be because he trained this one :) As I recall, CPL usually only trains games that they like :P Well, the same thing goes for Rugrats, but this game has better graphics and animation than Elmo. Good job on these releases Duz :) Front Row is another F-1 game. Interstingly, this is a Japanese game with all English text in it. Pretty cool just for that. Looks like no Japcrap from OS this month eh :) - Amptor/Oldskool Holy Shit! What's this? Two INT releases by Oldskool in the same month? Ahh to bad they had to release a Jap Shit game. Well I hope they keep up these INT releases in November. - Skates/Independent Oldskool with some nice english releases (and the one jap one). Elmo's gonna rock you with his 2d/platform/type mayhem, who ever programmed this game certainly dabbled with acid judging by the floaty level bit! - Thallium/Independent Old Skool surprised many with a couple of US releases this month, courtesy of new member Duz...We shall see if this addition to their ranks can keep pumping out the new USA releases, but OS certainly made a decent showing in October - completely jap-crap-less :) - Wayne Kerr/Capital .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' - Paradox _______ /\ :____/\ /\ __________ :____ \___ \/ \| _ \/ \ \ \ \___| / __/ / | \ |/ / | \_\__ \ \\ | / | __/ _ \ / \ _ / Y \ / _ \ |___|/ |___\\____\ |_\ :_____/__/ |___\ ----/_____|-----/_____|--\/-------/____|---- DATE CTY TITLE OF RELEASE SIZE PTS INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 04-10-99 GER Die Maus (Multi-Language) 08MB +03 ----------- TOTAL +03 ----------- COMMENTS -------- All I can say is Germany releases some strange games. Good thing they're usually playable though :) What's weird about this one is you move around a small blue elephant and a larger creature to solve getting out of each screen's obstacles. Interesting game. - Amptor/Oldskool I have not gotten a chance to play this game. But why only one release by Paradox? They have so many warez releases a month...to bad they can't release as many GBC games as PC and PSX games! - Skates/Independent A nice 3d isometric game from PDX, not quite Head over Heels though.. - Thallium/Independent This game really kicks ass...it was a real surprise to see this one come from PDX, but a welcome one! The game is very like "Head over Heels" by Ocean from the 8-bit (home-computer!) days...a nice release, but again a fairly quiet month from PDX. - Wayne Kerr/Capital .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' - Quasar ____ __________| /______/\_________/\_______ | , / ! / _ / ___/ _ \_ ___\ ! \_ \ ! \_ . \____ \ . / . \_ |____/ \_____ / !__ // /___! \__! / ----/____\---\/___|-\//_____\---|____\-|__/- DATE CTY TITLE OF RELEASE SIZE PTS INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28-10-99 GER Carmageddon 16MB +02 ----------- TOTAL +02 ----------- COMMENTS -------- This is the first release of Carmageddon of the month, as well as the first one I tried out. It's the same as the US version, except the menus are in German. Good to see Quasar is still putting out some competition :) - Amptor/Oldskool I am not German so I didn't play this game. But the English version is great. I give them credit for appealing to the Germans. Well atleast Quasar is back with a release! - Skates/Independent No comment given! - Thallium/Independent Quasar sneak into the charts this month with the German release of this popular racing game...the GBC conversion is truly awful, but that's not really QSR's fault so we'll give them the points :) Maybe we'll see QSR again during November, with some quality Euro-releases... - Wayne Kerr/Capital .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' - Romkids _______________/\ __|__ _________ ______ \___ \ _____ \/ : |/ ____ \/ __ / / / __/ /\ \ \ _:__ _/ | \ \__ \/ / \ \__\/ \ \ / | \ \ | / \| \_ \__|\_________/__\/__|__|\ /__|_____/_____/ . .. ... ... .:.::|::::\/.::::::::::::::: DATE CTY TITLE OF RELEASE SIZE PTS INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21-10-99 INT Dragon Quest 1 & 2 (Save/Crack Fix) IPS +02 ----------- TOTAL +02 ----------- COMMENTS -------- Good work. I can't tell if it works because I don't play Japanese RPG's though. Maybe we can hope for an English release and these guys can fix it if necessary. - Amptor/Oldskool I have not tried this patch, but atleast someone else is patching games besides CPL! Keep up the good work guys...I hope its good work! - Skates/Independent No comment given! - Thallium/Independent I wasn't even aware this one needed a crack/fix, as I couldn't play it due to the fact I don't speak Japanese...still, for our readers in .jp, I'm sure they can make use of it. - Wayne Kerr/Capital .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' .____________________________________________________________________. |. | |::. TOP 10 __ |_____ ______|_ _ ___/____ | | . _______ .____| | __\_ | ______\_ _/______ __ | | _/ _/ | | .|/ _ .|___\_ \/ \/ _/___ | | // |__| _ |/ | ||. / / \\_____ \ | | \_________/| |____\_________|| \____\______/\ ______/ | | `----' l____| \/ | | | | Position Group Name Total Points | | -------- ---------- ------------ | | 1ST Capital 19 | | 2ND Menace 14 | | 3RD Oldskool 09 | | 4TH Ind/Anon 05 | | 5TH Paradox 03 | | 6TH --> Eurasia 02 | | ... | NIL 02 | | ... | Quasar 02 | | ... --> Romkids 02 | | 7TH Nightfall 01 | | 8TH N/A -- | | 9TH N/A -- | | 10TH N/A -- .| | ..| | .:::| `--------------------------------------------------------------------' SUMMARY ------- So, October is over. Lots of good games, especially near the tail-end of the month, and things going pretty much as predicted last month. We return to the fabled GBC chart crystal ball, for the November predictions:- Menace & Capital will dominate the charts. Capital will train several games, followed By Nightfall and perhaps even some others... More Jap-crap releases than William Shatner has hairpieces. Once again, will these predictions prove foolish, or will my soothsaying abilities fail me? Stay tuned faithful readers... - Wayne Kerr Note from editor: I'm finding it hard to find people willing to comment in the Charts and without comments from people it makes my life harder and sometimes makes me think is doing them really worth it.. So please anyone what's into the gbc scene and would like to help comment let me know. .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' (c) Copyright, Capital 1999 - Art/Design by: Rotox! @BEGIN_FILE_ID.DIZ ________ _________/______ ____ / __/ ____\_ / / _____ | // |__/ _____// /_/\ | `----\________/_______|-rtx\_____/____\----' Gameboy Release Charts Issue #6 -[CHARTS/OCTOBER]------------------------- @END_FILE_ID.DIZ