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SonSon (1984)

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And we're in the second Capcom stadium now. More games! More expensive. More duplication. Some rather egregious duplication, releasing two expensive sets within a month of each other with a large amount of overlap. Yup, Capcom's a video game company, designed to take as much of your money as possible. So how are the games in this one?

SonSon: The free game for this set and I don't like it. It's too boring. It's an older arcade game, where they had very limited memory and thus could only do a small amount of things. Really, the focus would be on one mechanic, and trying to stretch the content out of that. And I don't think this one works. There's so many games so many companies made where it's basically a multi-path auto runner like this. And none of them are any good. This one bounces between mind-numbingly easy to filling the screen with enemies. But there's also the secret bamboo shoots to find for higher score! ...Yea, they aren't impressive, and I don't care. No continues hurts this game too.

Savage Bees: All my lists kept the original "Exed Eyes" name for the game -but only for this one, oddly. So that threw me off. But here we have an early Capcom schmup. One that, surprisingly, does a lot of things right that I didn't expect to see. Two players on screen at the same time, even in single player you continue right where you left off when you put a new coin in. It's pretty basic, has a "mega crush" but that only stops enemy shots, not even killing the enemies themselves. But the game is looooooooooong, far, far too long. Not that that's a problem in arcades where you just put a few coins in and stop playing when you're done, but a big problem for this set in trying to get a completion. I suppose I could have fast forwarded, but I'm trying to be legit. At least, unlike 1942, the difficulty kept ramping up instead of spiking. But this was mind-numbingly repetitive. And, while I had asked for a boss rush for the last stage, the way they executed it was about the worst. It's rather put me off the game, sadly. -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/the_nametag

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