It was recently that HeroCraft HiTec released Arcade Park (my review here; note that opinions certainly differ on Arcade Park. For example, Eric Pankoke certainly disliked it. Allen's review is here. All the three of us agree that the inability to reassign the Action (fire) button is a definite problem with the game.)



The game is almost exactly the same as Arcade Park with the exception that only three of the mini-games are still here: the Breakout clone Arcade Ball as Bikini Balls; the Galaxians clone Galaxy Invaders as Sweet Galaxy and the Asteroids clone Asteroids as Erotic Galaxy. Also, there is a new menu item Gallery, which, at first only shows one image (later in the game, depending on your score, it may show more - I don't know).

The in-game music and the control system (which, unfortunately, hasn't been improved) are exactly the same. The latter means you must still use the Action and/or double-taps to fire. This is pretty OK with me (I mostly use the stylus to control my sprite and not the D-pad), but not necessarily with you.

Availability

It's available here and costs $14.95. As with earlier HeroCraft HiTec titles, all WM2003+ Windows Mobile versions are supported. The title also sports Palm OS (preferable for less-pixelizated graphics if you have a HiRes(+) Palm device) and Symbian versions.

Verdict

While (as opposed to some other people) I was pretty happy with Arcade Park (it offers a lot of fun and several minigames for $10 only - compare this to the technically much more inferior (for example, it has absolutely no in-game music), official Namco ports (for example, Galaxian), which sell for as high as $14.99 a single title), I can NOT recommend the new title. It's not only $5 more, but also five games less. Arcade Park (if the control scheme is OK with you - again, it's working OK with me, but your mileage may vary) is a much better buy.

Microsoft MVP - Mobile Devices, 2006, 2007. See my PPC & SP blog HERE.