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Capcom Classics Mini Mix (Bionic Commando)

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At $20 you'll pay too much if you elect to buy this. The three games are ported pretty much intact, and that's the problem--NES Strider already suffered from crippling programming bugs, hit detection, lame control and slowdown. For some reason, the processing power of the GBA magnifies rather than corrects this--the game is constantly slowing down to a crawl.

Mighty Final Fight is good enough for what it is, but the SD characters come off as too small and dumpy on a tiny portable screen and the play mechanics feel really cheap most of the time, which compromises its fun factor somewhat.

Bionic Commmando comes off the best, but is hobbled slightly by the tiny screen dimensions--to play the game well, you need to be able to see your bionic arm clearer than you're able to and it really makes for frustrating play.

On top of all that, the sheer laziness of the conversions--especially compared to the PSP compilaion leaves a bad taste in my mouth. They could have done so much more with this, unfortunately the will wasn't there and was tossed onto the dying GBA with hardly an afterthought. And very much feels it too.

Avoid it like the plague and hope they do a better compilation on the DS someday.

With the release of GBA games dwindling ever so much, it's nice to get a compilation cartridge from Capcom, even if it's only a half decent one. Capcom Classics Mini Mix features the old 8-bit Nintendo versions of Strider, Bionic Commando, and Mighty Final Fight; all of three of which are worthy distractions for the most part. Longtime gamers will no doubt be familiar in one way or another with the three titles; all of which are emulated near perfectly from their NES counterparts, even the lag time and glitches from the NES Strider are here, and it's still the best game in this collection. Though the 16-bit Genesis version was far superior, the version of Strider we get here isn't bad at all, and is a fun platforming adventure. Bionic Commando is pretty different from the arcade game (which is available on the home console Capcom Classic Collection Vol. 1) but fun nontheless. Mighty Final Fight on the other hand isn't as fun as the original, classic brawler. Taking the original game and characters and shrinking them down to ultra-deformed, anime-like fighters, the game just doesn't retain the feel of the original Final Fight game. The biggest gripe of this compilation is that Capcom could have easily thrown in another game or two to go along with these three. If they wanted to stick with old NES games, then any of the Mega Man games or even the rare Street Fighter 2010 would have been welcome here, as would any of Capcom's older arcade titles (1942, Street Fighter 2, Mercs, or Forgotten Worlds) which would have been easily handled on the GBA. Not to mention, some extras would have been nice as well, but at the bargain price, I can't complain too much. All in all Capcom Classics Mini Mix is worth a look for longtime gamers who remember these games, but whether it's worth picking up will be up to you.

This is a good pick up for your GBA system or even if you have DS/DS Lite. These three games all came out originally on the NES when I was a mere kid. 2 of which I actually had being Strider and Bionic Commando. These two games are well worth picking up alone but you also get Mighty Final Fight which is pretty cool to.

When its all said and done you are getting three great games and thats pretty much the whole charm of the game cartridge. Bionic Commando had challenging gameplay but was my 2nd favorite NES game of all time so playing this again in 2009 is a treat since my NES died around 2000. Strider was a good game also but kind of got old fast after a while. Good thing is though it used a password system which easily ups its worth. The graphics in Strider were pretty amazing for the time with some catchy music. Mighty Final Fight is a very good beat em up and I have no complaints about it.

These are the type of games you are going to play more than once. The length of each game might not be all that long (a few hours for each depending on how good you are ). But like I said these are the type of games that are just fun to pick up and play and thats what makes for good replay value.

Like someone else mentioned, Bionic Commando will probably be the primary reason to purchase this mini mix - It's still a great game and it is exactly as I remember it. The mix was obviously made for people that still care to play 8-bit games, and Bionic Commando is definately the highlight here, although Strider is also a worthwhile game (not one of the best, but certainly not one of the worst either).

Final Fight seems to be the real throwaway game here, and I couldn't really imagine anyone spending much time with it. I can kind of understand why they included it, but just about any other Capcom game of the era would have been a more entertaining addition.

For the few bucks that it would probably cost to purchase this mix, I think it's completely worth it for Bionic Commando alone.

Capcom classics mini-mix is a collection of three games emulated from the NES: Bionic Commando, Mighty Final Fight and Strider. Each of them are good in their own way, but there is a flaw in this game collection as well. The screen size is terribly small! It makes the already dated NES graphics look more like Game Boy Color due to the tiny scaling. But the games play well, and the collection could have been better, but if you buy it cheaply, you will not be too unsatisfied.