Designed and released for japan only, but gained a large cult following with North American Players for its fun excellent gameplay and replay value. Many believe it to be the best Japanese N64 exclusive game and feel it would have been a big hit if released in North America back in the day.
The game has full English conversion making it fully playable. The conversion is not perfect and may have some text overlay in some areas.
The game was targeted at younger Japan boys who enjoyed action figures and toy models at the time and was inspiration for the game. The game single player story driven with plot focusing on friendly rivalries between characters who normally befriend after battle. Similar style to Pokémon games.
Story RPG part of the game has players move around various 3D background scenes and text driven character interactions to later engage in combat mode. Combat take place in an arena where robots combat with variety of weapons and movements. You have full control of the battles that puts you right into the action. The combat is fast paced, with strategic considerations. Goal of game beat other players which normally get new robot parts for more customisation. The robot customisation where this game really shine as you tweak your robot for your exact style of combat game play.
This game has a built in save chip that fully functional. Another very popular feature in Japan at the time is the ability to save your own custom robots via N64 Memory pack and battle with your friends on another Game Pak.
The game was rated very high with reviewers noting: ease of controls, well balanced controls, good music/sounds, excellent two player battles, and addictive adapting/collecting of new weapons. The game was very successful in Japan selling over 35,000 copies in first week. Some believe Nintendo did not allow a North American release in fears it may bring attention away from there very popular/successful Pokémon franchise.
Extra note. If a future/updated English patch of this game is released, all customer who purchase this prior Vintex 64 copy are entitled to free upgrade Game Pak version. Vintex 64 with to thank the translation author for his work in this conversion and for sharing it on a Game Pak.
PLAYERS: 1 or 2
The game has full English conversion making it fully playable. The conversion is not perfect and may have some text overlay in some areas.
The game was targeted at younger Japan boys who enjoyed action figures and toy models at the time and was inspiration for the game. The game single player story driven with plot focusing on friendly rivalries between characters who normally befriend after battle. Similar style to Pokémon games.
Story RPG part of the game has players move around various 3D background scenes and text driven character interactions to later engage in combat mode. Combat take place in an arena where robots combat with variety of weapons and movements. You have full control of the battles that puts you right into the action. The combat is fast paced, with strategic considerations. Goal of game beat other players which normally get new robot parts for more customisation. The robot customisation where this game really shine as you tweak your robot for your exact style of combat game play.
This game has a built in save chip that fully functional. Another very popular feature in Japan at the time is the ability to save your own custom robots via N64 Memory pack and battle with your friends on another Game Pak.
The game was rated very high with reviewers noting: ease of controls, well balanced controls, good music/sounds, excellent two player battles, and addictive adapting/collecting of new weapons. The game was very successful in Japan selling over 35,000 copies in first week. Some believe Nintendo did not allow a North American release in fears it may bring attention away from there very popular/successful Pokémon franchise.
Extra note. If a future/updated English patch of this game is released, all customer who purchase this prior Vintex 64 copy are entitled to free upgrade Game Pak version. Vintex 64 with to thank the translation author for his work in this conversion and for sharing it on a Game Pak.
PLAYERS: 1 or 2