Survival Kids

by Konami

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00003E4EM
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Game Cartridge
• Release Date: January 15, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,890 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Editorial Review

Survival Kids is an unconventional puzzle game that hooked us from the moment we powered it up. You control a young survivor who has been stranded on a deserted island after the sinking of a cruise ship. Armed only with your wits and a pocketknife, your challenge is to find a way off the island.

Along the way you'll find several more items that will help you progress through the game's devious puzzles. Fortunately, items can be combined to create complex objects that can be used in solving these challenges. In addition to the puzzles, your character must also keep a healthy supply of food and fresh water. You'll also want to stay rested if you aim to survive. Since this title plays on the Game Boy Color, it is no surprise that the graphics are adequate without being too fancy. The sound effects are also decent, but not overwhelmingly impressive. --T. Byrl Baker

Pros:

• Unique puzzles
• Decent graphics

Cons:

• May be too easy for the true puzzle fanatic, but it's still a lot of fun

Product Description

This is the game Survival Kids for the Original Game Boy Color. This game is used and comes as the cartridge only. All of our Game Boy Color games are cleaned tested and guaranteed to work. Here at NintendosForSale.com we stand by our products and offer a 60 days guarantee. If a game does not work within 60 days from the time you receive it we will gladly exchange it for you.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How long would you last?, December 13, 1999

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Survival Kids (Game Cartridge)

The premise of the game is to survive on an island after you've been shipwrecked, and hopefully escape. True to life, you don't have much of an idea of what to do when you first start out. You have to figure things out, sometimes the hard way. But that's half the fun! The graphics looks nice on GBC and the sounds of nature is a nice touch although it does get repetitive. Nice points: Three game slots (saved games), nice gradual change in colours to signify a change in time (on the GBC, on regular GB, it changes from day to night). Realistic game play. (such as food spoils over time, you get hungry, thirsty and fatigued, if you get sick you don't immediately recover etc.) Very nice! Highly recommended!

40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Survival Kids. The quest to survive., December 5, 1999

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Survival Kids (Game Cartridge)

Imagine you as a kid ore on an ocean liner with your dad who is a great explorer. The ocean liner crashes while you are sleeping and when you wake up your on an island with no other humans to help you. What can you do? I love this game because it is a mix of harvest moon (which is also great) and the book Lord of the Flies. you use the concept of being hungry, thirsty, and tired instead of having health. At first you can only eat berries and get water from a stream but you can come up with other means. If you find a stick and a metal piece you can merge them into an axe. This concept provides ways to make usful items to help you survive. Once you are comfortable with your food and water supply you canthink about getting home. You can also find other items such as a radio ( batteries included in your backpack which you brought with you and other things...) to use. The other thing is that you can not only merge, eat, sleep, and drink but other means of fun are to be had. If you merge yourself a bow and arrow you can shoot game like Link in Legend of Zelda: Links awakening. Anyway it's a really fun game and it's great for the average kid in New York who has never been on an Island. ( kind of like a show on cartoon network called Mike Lu and Og but that is irrevelent...)

41 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Survival Kids- OK, June 20, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Survival Kids (Game Cartridge)

It's your birthday. You are going on a cruise with your dad. You two are the only people on the ship. At night, when you are sleeping, it crashes. When you awake, you are alone on an island. There are no humans on the island, just you and the animals. You have to get your own food and water. You might want to improve your lifestyle as you go along, so merge items to create hunting tools, fire, "pleasure" objects (fan) and other items. Sometimes, you need to use one of your objects to move something (knife cuts down grass) or to create something. There is a "timer" for day and night, which passes gradually, and for how long until you need to eat or start losing hit points and other stuff like that. The game is fun in the beginning (sometimes frustrating) and interesting. But once you have played once and you are stuck (or you've beaten the game) then it gets boring. Once you've beaten it, you can't really play it again for awhile with out being really into it, because you know how to make everything. Then it isn't challenging. I recommend this game for the older group because sometimes you get annoyed when you can't get past a certain part. Still, it's a pretty good game.