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Game Boy Camera

Review by Captain Doormat

"The point?"

Why did Nintendo ever bother releasing this? It really has no specific point, and is only fun for about an hour, once the novelty wears off.

Turning it on, you are greeted by a menu. Here you can put your name in, your birhtday, etc. From the main menu, you can take pictures, time lapse pictures, complie them into a short movie clip, play 3 limited dull games.

You can take pictures of your head, them stick them into 3 games. The first, Space Fever 2, is just daft. You have a little space craft, and you shoot enemy ships. Then your head comes down as a boss. Wow.

Ball is equally as pointless. You have 4 frames of animation of your head on this body, and you move the arms left and right to juggle balls. Not fun.

The 3rd, DJ, is the best. Put notes into a loop to make music. WOW! It's the best in there, but that really isn't saying much.

Another, Run Run Run! just has you rapidly smashing the button making a little character run slowly and jump over hurdles, racing against a mole and a bird. With your face as the head. Again, boring, repetitive, and pointless.

The games really have no replayabilty, all you do is get some high scores, and that's about it.

The sound and graphics aren't much to rave about. The graphics are plain and simple. The sound is just...pap. Basic beeps, repetitive music, basic graohics, hard to navigate music, its just really boring, and all a bit too random. Nothing is neat, it's just kind of scattered.

The actual camera is terrible. It is hard to get a deent picture-even a small bit of light completly messes up a picture. The dithering is terrible-it gives no feeling of perspective, and there is no quality in the pictures.

And really, what is the point of putting googly eyes onto your pictures? And why do people get excited about printing pictures off? If you want decent pictures, go and buy a little APS camera for £30, instead of spending it on this.

You can unlock special pictures, but other than being able to print them off... and..stick them on..stuff.

I guess the thing that appeals to people is being able to put yourself in a game, even though the games are completly crap.

All in all, pretty pointless, useless, and boring. Don't wate your cash on this complete and utter waste of time. 4/10

Reviewer's Score: 4/10, Originally Posted: 07/21/02, Updated 06/14/03

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