Puzzle Reviews

As you can tell from the picture, this puzzle is a picture of any of the Simpsons characters from the television show. Some characters appear more than once (but only a couple of them).

The illustration is really quite nice and it is fun to try and identify the characters and their episodes. Because of the scope of the show, not every character is here but there is a good chance that your favorites will be here.

My only real trouble with the puzzle was that many pieces were not cut through completely. Leave them together, the thin puzzle stock is not sturdy enough to force them apart. The front or back will peel.

Other than the problem above, the puzzle was fun to put together and its lack of large objects made almost every piece a challenge. It provided several hours of fun.

This is a really cool example of a 3-d puzzle-- but it does have faults. It is not durable. Mine falls apart if you touch it. I didn't put it together quite how you were supposed to, which is another fault. Once you put together the puzzle, it is very hard to assemble the parts. The base is not stable, and it doesn't stand up on the bottom like the pic shows on the box. On the other hand, it looks really cool and stands about a foot and a half high. The sound system is great. To sum it up- if you don't need perfection and like either Star Wars or 3D puzzles to display (not play with!) then this is a great buy.

Tom and Jerry is an intertaining game. It's 22 levels get kinda repetative, but they are fun because they're challenging. As you play the game u get codes that act as a save to return to a level. This game is pretty hard. You have to be good at the controls and have patients to keep replaying each level. This is a fun game to play every once in a while, but DO NOT play it OFTEN or you will become bored. Maybe every 2 wks.

My five year old loves Bob the Builder and just inherited his brothers game boy. I thought this game would be perfect for him. The first problem is that you need to know how to read in order to play it. Since BTB is geared towards the preschool crowd, that seems weird that they would require you to do any reading.

Secondly, each level rewards you with a password. You re-enter this password whenever you start playing which brings you back to your current level. This would be fine if the child knew how to read and told me about the password, but he since he can't he just skips right over it and the password is lost. He needs to start from square one each time. Which leads to the next problem....

You have to accomplish 10 tasks (aquire 10 passwords) before you get to play with Scoop. This is so discouraging for my son because he loves Scoop. It's his favorite character and the only one he is interested in playing with. He's also the hardest to master. So if you don't write down those passwords and help your child enter them, they'll never get to play with Scoop.

How nice it would have been if the game had automatically saved your level each time you played. Is that too much to ask for in a preschool game?

This is a great item the person I bought it for LOVED IT!
Its a cute and great gift

(...)WHy would you buy a gameboy for a three year old. Bob is the greatest show in the world. I watch it every chance i get. Pilchard is so cool in this game.

I bought this item and have been playing it for months now, not yet tired of it. I tried another puzzle product, but this one is by far the best. I liked it so much that I Bought a second one and put it in at work. I only wish it had more pictures to do puzzles. Don't bother with any of the others, this one is the one for anyone who loves jigsaw puzzles. The other one I bought didn't have the square outline. I didn't know where to begin and have even forgotten the name of it. It was so difficult that I never use it. "Great Jigsaw Puzzles" is exactly that, GREAT. I just wish it had more pictures to choose from, though there are quite a few and I haven't done them all yet. Great Product. I highly recommend it.

I haven't done jigsaw puzzles for years, but this program is used almost every day. Every pretty picture I see I download to a folder and make a puzzle from it. A great way to analyze a picture. Any color background can be used to help the pieces stand out. A great sedative. Anyone who likes jigsaws will love this!

This is the only jigsaw puzzle I found that has the square outline so you know where to begin. All the others have no square outline to begin the game and you have no idea where to start the puzzle. I have had this for a couple of years now and I wish they'd make a volume two. I have just now discovered how to bring up other pictures to enlarge the library. This is the best jigsaw puzzle out there. You have a choice to have pieces that rotate or don't rotate and any difficulty level you desire. I love it. If I am still playing it after 2 years, you know it's good!!! I wish Wizard Works would make more of these.

This game is great for kids who love hello kitty.We had trouble finding it,but my daughter loves it.Ithink if you love hello kitty you gotta have it.

Yes, I love Hello Kitty...Unfortunately, "Hello Kitty Cube Frenzy" is just another Tetris-style cartridge that doesn't quite deliver.

There's a large problem--but not NewKidCo's fault--in the basic design of this game. As gameplayers, we want and expect a Tetris-type game...an easy and familiar gameplaying concept...but "Hello Kitty Cube Frenzy" is different enough from Tetris to frustrate. I'm willing of course to admit this is *my* fault in coming to the game...unique design twists on old games and familiar gameplay are always something to be applauded. What *is* NewKidCo's fault is the spotty and anemic instructions that are poorly written and complicated. I pride myself on being able to play any Game Boy game for the first time *without* reading the instructions, but even after studying the booklet, I was confused and baffled by the gameplay.

Another major negative point is a difficulty level far beyond the age group for which this is geared (well, *I* couldn't get past the fourth level at all, but an eight-year-old might surprise me--I like a *challenging* game, but not an infuriatingly *frustrating* one). Tiny, tiny characters and weak use of color were also a disappointment (quiet pastels do *not* translate well to the Game Boy Color). Finally, the 'cube stacking' concept simply doesn't lend itself to Hello Kitty at all. It seems a concept shoehorned onto the character to sell a game to Sanrio fans. I was hoping for gameplay that involved Hello Kitty as a specific character, but here she could be replaced by any number of light-pixeled characters: Mario, Yoshi, Kirby, maybe even Lara Croft.

In short, if you're a Sanrio collector who *must* have ever Hello Kitty item ever made, go ahead, buy this one. If you're a gameplayer who's looking for an involving and rewarding cartridge, borrow it from a friend, because you'll tire of it quickly.

I'm a big fan of Hello Kitty and am so happy sh'e finally got a game on GBC! The game is very much like Tetris and keeps you on your toes. Don't get this game thinking it's an easy or "girl" game! It's very tough and gets only tougher as you progress! If you are looking for a challenge though, this one is for you.

The story pannels are very pretty and really show off the characters (even though the story is pretty weak), but in actual game play the sprites are exremely small and it's hard to tell who is who. This adds to the frustration factor, and increases the difficulty. Let's hope this isn't the last we see of Hello Kitty, this game proves there is a lot that can be done with the license.

I've been playing SHGM since 1995 but, unfortunately, it lost functionality when I installed all the latest MS O/S patches. It worked fine before the Blaster worm but the subsequent patches have created some kind of glitch that neither Activision nor Microsoft cares to address.

I have used Shanghai Version 2 for years and just love it!
Unfortuneately my computer fried and I lost my software to install on my new computer. Where can I buy Mahjong Shanghai version 2 for Windows 2000 XP? I have tried until I am ready to give up. Can someone please help me. Thanks Pat

I have owned the Dragon's Eye game for many many years and love it. Mah-Jongg is a fantastic game and this edition has an Alphabet tile set which makes it easier to play. I have had my grandchildren playing this at age 3. Now everytime they come over it is the first thing they want to do. My husband is color blind and the large letters make this one of the few games he can play.

This is a great puzzle game and would be well worth 5 stars if this game didn't have passwords for each level. This is a GBA game, shouldn't we be pass the password stage? I have just finished level 4 and in the beginning I thought this game would be easy. Boy was I wrong. Around level 4 things begin to pick up and the game becomes more the puzzle game I was expecting. The best way to compare this game is to Tetris 2 because of the matching colors and the stars, but really I haven't met any comparison to this game.
The really neat thing about this game is of course the monsters. They climb up and down the puzzle grid which can be really cool and the noises they make are great. As the game goes along you pick up more monsters to pick from and they all have their different quirks as they go up and down the puzzle grid. For those who are fans of puzzles, keep playing the game and it will become addictive. Just realize, passwords are annoying but it can be fun just to watch the different monsters and their different antics, especially on the rescue stage, which is a lot of fun just to watch the monsters.
If you hate passwords, though, stay away from this game because as I said, GBA and still have passwords. I don't think so. If passwords don't bother you, then this is a great puzzle game.

if your a big rampage fan then don't buy this it's not like any of the others. But if you like Tetris or just puzzle games you might be impressed with this game. It was ok but not as fun as the others.
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I liked this game but once you beat a certain mode you're done....the monsters were kind of annoying to.....good time filler, eapecially on a plane or something

I bought this for my daughter, 10 at the time,and she enjoyed it somewhat. Though it did not hold her attention long. She said it was fun,but she became bored with it after about 2 months. It has since passed on to my 8 year old niece. Who pretty much gave it the same review.

Well, i guess I would say this game is pretty challenging but it's also sort of boring. The characters don't look like the olsen twins too much and the levels are sort of boring looking and are not colorful at all. If you aren't expecting very much, you will be happy when you play this game but it's not even close to how great the crash bandicoot and spyro games are for the game boy advance console.

I got this game 2 years ago and I still like to play it. But not as much as I used to. I love the MKA games they are so good. The only problem is when MKA talk it sounds awful but I don't care b-c the game is awesome. At first it was a little hard for me b-c it was my first gbc game and I was only 10 years old. I like how Ahley,M-K,and Clue have their own abilities. Ashley's are she can throw clue and flick switches. Mary-Kate's are she can jump high and can be bounsed on to boost others up. Clue's are canswim, can be stood onto boost others up, can be ridden,and can be thrown (by Ashley). You got to have this game even if you aren't a MKA fan.

I would like to start by saying I love Tetris and have been playing for years! That is why I felt it needful to tell all weary of this game to seak other games as options. The downfalls are greater for an older aged generation down-pitted with cheezy annoying music and lame Attari like graphics. As for a younger group of Tetris players this may just pass as fun.

Tetris is one of the classic videogames ever. It was the "killer ap" that created the Gameboy, but it took some time to reach Playstation. Tetris Plus contains the standard version of the game that you loved a decade ago, and also contains a new idea. The new game involves a falling ceiling and a little guy you need to move to the bottom of the screen. I was sceptical about the new element, but it was a blast. The new game lets you play from over 80 created screens or make your own. The levels start out easy (some may take a few seconds), but get tougher. MUCH TOUGHER. At times I would go for hours playing "just one more game". It's a classic game with a new spin. Just as addictive as you remember it.

Tetris became an instant classic when it was packaged with the Game Boy in 1989. But the most interesting thing about the game becoming so successful is the fact that it spawned so many sequels - each of which was unique in its own way. One of these sequels was Tetris Plus, in which the objective of the game was to save a professor from being smashed by a spiked ceiling, rather than scoring lines like in traditional Tetris games. How does this change of pace work out for the series? Read on and see.

PROS:
-The graphics here are much better than those in the Game Boy game of the same name.
-In addition to the new "rescue the professor" mode which is the main attraction of the game, there is the classic Tetris mode you should know and love.
-Like in most Tetris titles, there's a two-player mode (WELL worth checking out.)

CONS:
-The music, while very good, isn't nearly as catchy as the classical Russian music featured in the original Game Boy game.

OVERALL:
Overall this is a fine addition to the Tetris library. If you're a fan of puzzle games, then Tetris Plus is well worth checking out. Sure, it never got the recognition and popularity that the original did, but it's still excellent. Don't pass it by if you're a Playstation owner.