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A must have for any former or current Genesis player

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The Sega Smashpack is a must have for any Game Boy Advance owner, in my opinion. It features three great games from the Genesis library. In all honesty, I've never been the biggest Ecco the Dolphin fan, but the game's sales speaks for itself. Many people have played this Genesis classic for years and years. Sonic Spinball takes the Genesis mascot (Sonic the Hedgehog) and throws him into a new kind of game, while still keeping some of the classic Sonic feel. Part side-scrolling adventure and part pinball, Sonic Spinball is a great game that has tons of replayability. My personal favorite entry on the Smashpack has to be Golden Axe. There was a time when video games were simple. You didn't need a Hi-Def big screen TV and online play to enjoy them. All you need is a side-scrolling 'Beat 'Em Up'...and this one is one of the best the Genesis offered. Great control, sound, and high replay factor make this game worth 10 or 15 bucks alone in my opinion. So, to wrap it up, whether you're an old school gamer looking to carry the classics in your pocket or you're curious about these old Sega games you've never played the Sega Smashpack is a must buy. The games look and sound great on the Game Boy Advance, and they're some of the best ever available on the Genesis.

Where's the sound...?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Overall, this is a nice collection of games, all of which i grew up with having owned a Sega Genesis. Graphically, each game resembles the originals but with less polish on the GBA. Golden Ax is a clean brawler in the likeness of TMNT with medieval-style characters and repetitive hack-n-slash gameplay, that for some reason never gets old. Sonic Spinball is the biggest disappointment in that all levels, boss included, have the same tune from the first stage. What's up with that!

If you are looking for classics with enjoyable gameplay and have a GBA, I would recommend this. Otherwise, if you have a Genesis get the original games.

Great Vintige Gameing.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a awsome game trilagy from the Sega era, which would be my favrote of vintige game eras. All 3 of the games had been a phenomenon. Golden Axe was the best of all, Ecco the Dolphin is the 2nd best, Sonic Spinball: 3rd. If you are a fan of vintige games like the ones on this colection, than you have got to purchuse this game!!!

*****

A great idea.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: May 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

"Sega smash pack" for Game Boy Advance is a great game. it feature 3 Sega Genesis Classic : 1. Ecco the Dolphin 2. Sonic Spinball 3. Golden Axe. And unlike the Super Mario advance games, these are not modified. These have no updated graphics or sounds. they appear exactly the same way they did on the Sega Genesis system in the 90's. The only thing that is different is the Controls. To put a Sega Genesis classic like Sonic Spinball on to game boy advance was a BRILLIANT idea. For Sonic Spinball, there is an improvement. There is a bar at the top of the screen that shows your score and lives. on GBA, you can hide that bar by pressing the select button. The bar wasn't removable on the Sega Genesis system. That makes it a lot easier to see what is above you. Nintendo has released several game boy advance games known as "Classic NES Series" where they put Classic NES games onto GBA unmodified. Since Sega stopped making systems and are now releasing games on multiple systems, There should be a "Classic Sega Genesis" Series. Sonic The Hedgehog 1, 2, 3, and Sonic & Knuckles for Sega Genesis would be perfect for the GBA System. I'd buy them. GET a Classic Sega genesis Series on GBA

2 great Sega games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love Golden Axe and Sonic Spinball, but Ecco is what drops my review down to 4 stars. I don't even understand the game. I really hope they make a sequel to this, maybe one that has Altered Beat, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Ristar, and Flicky.

not the same as the sega classics

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

the sonic spinball is pretty much like the old sega one golden axe is almost as good as the sega one trying to kill bad guys and the deatha adder and you can even do a duel beetween your character and some monster but golen axe 2 for sega gennesis is da best ever.echo the dolphin is nothing the same as the old sega i cant even figure out how to play this one. but i still reccomend you to buy this no matter what the price is.

Smashin'!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The game is quite action packed, but the Sonic Pinball game is a perfectly great handheld game! Golden Ax and Ecco are GREAT! Enough to entertain you...

Classic plays for that long trip

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: March 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

These games look great on the new Game Boy with frontlighting! The old-fashioned gameplay gives you hours of fun, especially on a long flight. Just smash and score!

Those were the days...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you're like me and were around in the good old days of sega genesis, this is a game you'll be interested in. Sonic Spinball and Ecco are both classics and worth the buy. I'm not familiar with Golden Axe, however, so I can't tell you about it. Sonic Spinball is fun and like all the other Sonic games, worth it. Ecco is a bit challenging, so experienced gamers might prefer it. Overall, this will be worth your while.

Decent, but could have been better...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Unfortunately, this version of the Smash Pack inherited the same flaws the Windows and Dreamcast versions suffered from. The emulation (or in this case, reprogramming) just isn't that good. Most notably the sound is pretty awful. Granted, these games didn't sound the best to begin with, but the audio is even more tinny and "metallicy" sounding than the originals. In the case of Ecco, it's just one horrid 30 second sound clip looping indefinitely. The visuals are also missing some animation and details over the original versions (and even if they were perfectly reproduced, they'd still be below average visuals for a Gameboy Advance game).

Beyond that, none of these three games were terribly good choices for the collection. Golden Axe was great for it's time, but a bad port of a bad port just doesn't cut it now. Pick up Final Fight One (also for the Gameboy Advance) for a much better port of a similar style game. If you must have Sonic Spinball, the version in Sonic Mega Collection on the Gamecube is flawlessly emulated (along with the rest of that collection). And Ecco...well, the best version by far was on the Sega CD.

I love ports, updates, and collections of older games-when they're done right, as in Sonic Mega Collection. But there are much better Gameboy Advance games to spend your money on than this lousy collection.

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