this is a 16-bit plug & play console I got at the same time as the Samuri, never really bothered with it much though. because yknow some generic 16-bit thing totally can't compete against Hummer Teamness. but I busted it out again recently and i've noticed a few interesting things about it. well kind of interesting. so here it is:
the box is packed away at the moment, its nothing special. except it says something like "EMG 2008 30 in 1 User Gnide"(sic) all over it for some reason. and no that text doesn't appear on the "manual" (a single sheet of paper with setup instructions in chinese depicting an AC adapter connection it doesnt actually have).
I don't know much about Sunnyflyer, google returns a few results for a Taiwanese maker of model planes under that name but there;s no mention of them branching into games. and i've seen two other consoles with their name on it, a famiclone with 88 games built in and 50 on cart (not sure if they're originals or what) and some unidentified dancemat.
anyway the console itself is about as cheaply made and uncomfortable to hold as it looks. it also looks identical to
this Excalibur famiclone with Nice Code games built in.
theres an on-screen volume control in the menu for some reason, even though the sound in some games is distorted if you set it on anything above 1 (and it defaults to 4...).
i have no idea who actually made the built-in games, but there are one or two random connections in here. for one, the sound effect when you pause a game was also used by Jungletac, I think in the menu of the VG Pocket Caplet. the rest are game specific so i'll point them out when i get to them.
1. Lion Roar - Puzzloop clone
2. Battlefront - guy at the bottom of the screen shooting alien robot things. and there are shields you can take cover behind. like Space Invaders from a different perspective I guess. Kinda reminds me of Space Invaders: Invasion Day for the PS2 2Dified.
3. Bubble Man - like some kind of crazy bastard offspring of Bomberman, Sokoban and Bubble Bobble
4. Goal - Penalty shootout game. bit more involved than the usual Wii clone "shake the remote and hope" type game, there are powerups and stuff. but unfortunately this didn't reveal the name of the developer as penalty shootout games often do, unless theyre called "Bear" or "Cloud". (someone in the crowd is holding up a sign saying "Nice" but I dont think its ~Code)
5. Shooting King - one of these basketball shooting games. stop the guy moving and then set the power.
6. 1945 - vertical shooter. Similar to the games on ABL's 16-bit Air Blaster, maybe the same dev? Instead of no music like the Air Blaster's it has a probably stolen 5 second sample though.
7. 3D Bean - the Mega Drive Harry Potter pirate. seriously. the sound, a couple of the sprites and the HUD are different, but the background graphics are basically identical and so is the gameplay. unlike the original Level 2 uses the same graphics as Level 1, i'm not sure if subsequent levels do because the AI is annoying and the controls suck. >:0 I think it's a port to some other hardware rather than this being a Mega Drive clone though.
8. Sonic X - uh not really Sonic at all. well the main character isn't Sonic and it doesn't control like Sonic. but it is a platform game. The levels do have a few Sonicy elements in them though and some of the level graphics look like bits of Green Hill Zone if Sonic had been a bad early-90s PC game.
9. Apaqi - Another ABL Air Blaster esque shooter.
10. Blackjack - what it sounds like
11. Bomber - basically a Bomberman clone with a more maze like level layout
12. Bosconian - a port of Namco's arcade game. the sprites are updated but its more or less a direct port.
13. China Brick - tetris clone
14. Elevator - you're an elevator operator and you have to take cavemen to the floor they ask for. yep.
15. Golf - a golf game. seemingly with a lot of graphics ripped from Neo Turf Masters
16. Hit Brick - breakout/arkanoid clone
17. Math - pick the right numbers and symbols to reach the total on screen
18. Maze Car - Rally X clone
19. Moon Tank - a Pang clone. with a version of the Charlies Angels theme tune that reminds me of the obscure DS puzzle game Trioncube a bit.
20. Motorboat - jetski racing. Decent Mode 7 ish graphics. and also the riders' arses are very visible through their outfits. im just saying.
21. Poker - not poker. just bet on whether you or the computer have the highest card. exciting.
22. Span - you just run along and jump over stuff. sort of like a low rent Canabalt or something. (except this was made before Canabalt). quite fun really. oh and a special mention for the music which starts off quite reasonably but when the actual tune kicks in it sounds like its being performed by a robot cat with its balls caught in a dot matrix printer. or something.
23. Shooting Ball - a Puzzle Bobble clone. a pretty bland one at that.
24. Shoot Birds - shoot some birds. Not even ducks or anything, they look more like sparrows.
25. Spin - slot machine. yay pointlessgames
26. Tank - you're in a tank at one end of a field, other tanks are coming at you, shoot them, the end
27. Tank War - Battle City clone
28. Top Ball - bounce balls off your head from one side of the screen to the other
29. Treasure Brick - Columns clone. amusingly the sound effect when a piece lands is blatantly a stock door-closing sound effect.
30. Triangle Plane - Asteroids clone, complete with pseudo vector graphics
... and that's it!
In general the games aren't too bad. the graphics and music are a bit dodgy in some of them which didn't give me a great first impression, but mostly theyre quite fun.
