Part nostalgia-bomb, part note-taking and part FAQ, what started in GameTrailers as a video game blog is now on Blogger. This blog is a look back at video games, both popular and obscure, from the video game industry's infancy all the way to the previous console generation.
Our fourth and last bingo game theme is Skydiving Bingo. You can control the little guy who falls into the stadium to make it easier to get the numbers you want. You can do that with the D-Pad, but keep in mind that the view constantly spins, and you'll need to fine-tune where you're at in order to land on the number that you want to land on. If you can do it right (which isn't that hard to do), you can get tons of easy bingos. As a result, this is the easiest of the themes to win in.
And that's it for Bing Bing! Bingo! See you next Let's Play!
In this video, we play a pirate-ship theme bingo game. Compared to the bingo themes we've done previously, we have more control over which numbers we get here.
In Pirate Bingo, the numbers are fired out of a cannon. Unlike other themes, instead of trying to get a certain number, you get to pick the color. Black is B, Yellow is I, Red is N, Green is G and Blue is O. B covers 1-15, I covers 16-30, N covers 31-45, G covers 46-60 and O covers 61-75.
Because of this, you have the second best amount of control over what you can get and an easier time trying to get the number you want as a result.
For this video, we'll be playing the Amida theme and watching Santa land on a lot of chimneys. If you've ever played the mini-games where something has to travel a path and always has to turn at a fork in the road, you'll have a good idea how this theme works.
In Amida Bingo, you're taking Santa Claus and his sleigh down a series of lines in order to land on a house. The number on that house is then called. You can change where Santa drops down from the top of the screen at with Left and Right on the D-Pad before pressing A, but that's as far as you can go when it comes to changing the outcome of what number you land on...which can be pretty hard to do.
If you've ever played the bonus games in Kid Dracula, one of the bonus games in Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins, or fought the spider boss in Mega Man X, you'll know how this works.
If not, it's quite simple. You pick a line and go down it. If you see a horizontal line on the way down, you have to take it. From there, you'll have to keep going down and travelling across horizontal lines until you reach the bottom. It's explained here, and is known as "Amidakuji" (Amida's Halo) in Japan as well as "Ghost Leg" in China.
Now for the bingo games. Slot Bingo has a woman in a bunny costume pulling the lever on the slot machine that picks the numbers. Let's see how this goes!
All four themes have the same bingo modes and cards, with the only difference between them being the presentation of how the numbers are called. That's pretty much it.
Party Play allows for playing the game in real life. If you have real bingo cards and markers, you can use this to call out the numbers and conduct a real bingo-game.
VS Play is what we'll be playing for this and the next three videos. This will be you against the computer or another human player. The both of you will be alternating turns and drawing numbers. Thankfully, numbers cannot be drawn twice. B covers 1-15, I covers 16-30, N covers 31-45, G covers 46-60 and O covers 61-75.
From here, you can use Up, Down and A to pick a board for the next few seconds. Then, the game starts.
In Slot Bingo, a bunny girl will pull a lever on a slot machine. You'll have to press A twice to pick which numbers you get. If you're paying attention, you can time your button presses right to get the number you want.
In order to fully win any of the bingo games, you'll have to clear your board completely. If you get two bingos in a row, you get a one-line bonus that allows you to clear an extra line. You can score a bingo vertically, horizontally or diagonally. You can end the game at any time by picking "END" after any turn.
Here's something you never see in the West: a collection of bingo games and mini-games. While the four different bingo themes are the main draw of the game, the first video is spent getting the mini-games out of the way.
Here, you can switch between mono and stereo sound and play with the sound test. There is a setting that can be changed from "Auto" to "Manual," but I have no idea what it does and there's nothing on the Internet that tells me. Maybe it's for the bingo games?
Halisen Shoot
This is a whack-a-mole game. Use the X, Y, B and A buttons to strike monsters up, left, right and down. You'll be on the left side, while the second player or computer will be on the right. Different colored monsters will pop up at different speeds. The more monsters you hit, the more points you'll be able to get. How I'm able to win on Hard but not the easier difficulties, I will never know.
Arm Wrestling
Pick your player and your opponent, then mash A as much as you can get more button presses than your opponent. Jurian and Cyber have a handicap of +2 and +3, respectively, which means that you'll get extra button presses with Jurian compared to Samson, much like how Cyber gets more button presses than the monster. You'll also be able to pick your difficulty before picking your players, as well.
Darby Zone
You can play with up to eight people in this mode. Input your names with A, B and the D-Pad and bet on who you think will place first and second in the race. If you're right, you can get a bunch of money depending on how much you bet and what the odds are.
For example, let's say that you want to bet on Horses 1 and 4. You'll pick 1-4. The odds on 1-4 placing in the top two are 13.4. Let's say you bet 1000P (points) on them and they place in the top two. You'll will win 1000P x 13.4, or 13400P, back. You can make up to three bets, but make your bets carefully.
Once you place your bets, the race will start. You'll have no control over the action whatsoever, so all you can do is watch. You'll then see how much you won (or lost) depending on who placed in the top two and who you bet on and what.
