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Short Order/ Egg-Splode! - 2 Game Cartridge

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This is an unsung game that many gamers don't remember. When you think of the Nintendo Power Pad, you always think of World Class Trackmeet or 3-D Runner. Unfortunately, that was the game that was bundled with the Nintendo Entertainment System package that included the Nintendo Power Pad and the Zapper Light Gun. In World Class Track Meet, you would use the Power Pad to make your runner go fast by rapidly stomping on the Power Pad Buttons. To me, this is a colossal waste of what the accessory could have been used for.

Now with Short Order and Eggsplode, you have a different and much more practical use for the Power Pad. Short Order is when little animal characters tell you what they want on their sandwich. You, the short order cook, have to put their sandwich together by memory. Different buttons on the Power Pad correspond to different sandwich ingredients, so remembering the ingredients then properly jumping on the right buttons in the right order to put the sandwich together can get very challenging. This is the sort of physical fun that should have been more heavily promoted with the Nintendo Power Pad. Eggsplode, the other game on the cartridge, also incorporates this sort of quick-thinking memory with physical coordination. In short, these games are both extremely fun.

It is my personal opinion that Nintendo really messed up by putting World Class Track Meet in the Nintendo bundle with the Power Pad. That game really doesn't come close to harnessing the potential for fun that the Power Pad was capable of. If Short Order / Eggsplode or even a game that was somewhat similar and maybe featured Mario characters was sold with the bundle, then I venture to say that the Nintendo Power Pad would have enjoyed a much better run of success and subsequently, a better legacy as well. Since the life of the Power Pad was so short-lived and most gamers only remember mashing the Power Pad with their hands on World Class Track Meet, nobody really bothered or cared to explore any of the other few games of the Power Pad, and people really only remember the Power Pad for the game World Class Track Meet. What a shame.