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It's been a while since we've had a puzzler show up for the Virtual Console, so it's refreshing to see drop into the Wii Shop. This Data East design first made a grab for gamers' quarters as part of the Neo Geo arcade line-up back in the '90s, and now it's back for one more round - and, if you roll out nine bucks to download it, you can keep your stack of coins at home.An immediate issue with, though, is that it betrays its arcade origins right away. This version of the game doesn't feel like a home release at all.
Metacritic Game Reviews, ACA NeoGeo: Magical Drop II for PlayStation 4, The worldwide arcade hit brought to you by Bandai will keep you bursting bubbles and stacking combo points in this puzzler that will have. The Magical Drop III coin-operated Videogame by Nihon Bussan/AV Japan (circa 1997), and it's history and background, photos, repair help, manuals, for sale.
It's incredibly light on presentation, has very few options to choose from and, worst of all, it's way too hard. You can tell that the difficulty factor was set to be pretty brutal in the hopes that gamers paying 25 cents to play would lose quickly, freeing up the Neo Geo cabinet for the next paying customer to come along. That's all fine back in the '90s arcades, but not too much fun here today. Magical Drop II casts you in the role of a kooky clown, juking left and right at the bottom of a screen that's getting constantly filled with multi-colored bubbles. Using the 1 Button on the Wii Remote, you're able to pull down bubbles from above and hold them in your hands.
Then, using the 2 Button, you can launch them back toward the ceiling. The idea is to grab a few of the same color - say, blue - then find another open blue to launch them at. Lining up three or more in a vertical row pops them all.
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Magical Drop III
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Name: Magical Drop III Manufacturer: Nihon Bussan/AV Japan Year: 1997 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release Genre: Puzzle Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 2 Maximum number of Players: 2 Gameplay: Competitive Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player Controls:
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel) Cabinet Styles:
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Magical Drop III DescriptionMagical Drop III was produced by Nihon Bussan/AV Japan in 1997. Nihon Bussan/AV Japan released 60 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Other machines made by Nihon Bussan/AV Japan during the time period Magical Drop III was produced include Burning Rush, Skull Fang, Magical Drop II, Stadium Hero '96, Outlaws Of The Lost Dynasty, and Locked 'N Loaded. A fast-paced puzzle game where the object is to match three or more pieces of the same color and design. Magical Drop III - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.65 (1 vote)
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, 'Like' carries a little more weight than the other factors. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter EggsIn the story mode, if you do not collect any fire bubbles, you will not advance any spaces. You can use this to your advantage on spaces that provide very simple puzzles (the first space always works, there are others) to rack up the score.Scores higher than 999999 (which are very achievable using this trick!) will not display correctly on the high score menu, but they will be listed in the proper order. Game IntroductionTry to match three or more objects of the same color while playing against the computer or alone in two different types of games: survival mode or magical journey.Game PlayGameplay is very similar to Magical Drop 2 - line up three similary-coloured bubbles and they disappear. Two new additions to Magical Drop III were the countdown block (indestructible, but counts down by one for each group you destroy) and a multicoloured block that eliminates all blocks on the screen, including countown blocks, ice blocks and bubbles.There were also a few changes in the rules from Magical Drop 2:
The single-player game is also more difficult: Magical Drop 2 happily allowed players to progress as far as level 60 without becoming unusually tough, where Magical Drop III becomes very challenging around level 30. VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Magical Drop III CensusThere are 10,964 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 8,791 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 147,018 machines (6,414 unique titles).Very Common - There are 89 known instances of this machine owned by Magical Drop III collectors who are active members. Of these, 3 of them are original dedicated machines, 1 is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 85 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with extra Magical Drop III circuit boards for sale. Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Magical Drop III circuit board set. This game ranks a 31 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
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