So what is known? Well, the GBA has now been released worldwide and is readily available for inspection.
So, with Nintendo’s typically silent stance, we’re left to speculate off of the limited facts that are available and fill in the rest with our imagination. It’s certainly an interesting idea but Nintendo hasn’t expounded on the idea other than to offer the example of choosing football plays in private with the use of the GBA’s screen. Nintendo has repeatedly said that the GameBoy Advance can act as a controller for the GameCube. Now I’ll take a look at some possibilities for using the GBA and GameCube in real-time. Just before E3, I took a look at what has already been done with console-handheld connectivity and suggested a new utilizing connectivity for the GBA and GameCube. Many have been speculating as to what Nintendo has in the works, myself included. It’s almost a shame this obscure 1971 game has made such a pathetically small mark upon gaming history, but maybe some Kickstarter some day will bring it back to life with the quality pieces the game deserves.Īmazingly there are some second hand copies of this old version on Amazon UK right HERE and it’s pretty cheap…but then again it is old and second hand.Ĭube Fusion is still a Funny Old Game, it just happens to be quite a good one too.With SpaceWorld 2001 only moments away, Nintendo is set to finally reveal how the GameCube and GameBoy Advance are to work together. Normally Glenn and I don’t really care who wins the Funny Old Games we play, but for Cube Fusion it became competitive after a few games. You could also fit it in a tiny little travel box, but no, it insists on coming in a box the size of a dog’s coffin instead. It’s a real shame the pieces are so cheap, because you could quite easily make some nice glass cubes or something and the game would feel much better. It was a surprise to see 12 bits of shitty plastic inside, and nothing else. The box is unusually long, but barely weighs a thing. In fact, the game doesn’t make any sense at all in black and white, which is why the stupid video we made is so obviously rubbish. The cubes down the bottom right of the cover have been painted on because black and white in them days couldn’t be done like that. I can tell by some of the pixels and having seen quite a few shops in my time that this art was produced in the pre-Adobe era. So lets shift by mocking the box art a bit. It’s simple, strategic and entertaining.īut that’s not very funny to write about now, is it? Get three of your cubes in a row, in any direction or dimension, and you’re the victor. So you place your red cube where you need it to be, but you also have to think about the protruding green cube and where that might end up. The fusion twist is that every time you bosh down one of your blocks, it comes attached with one of theirs. Its central premise is taking on the concept of naughts and crosses but adding in a third dimension. The problem with Cube Fusion is that it’s really quite good. There’s a certain joy to be had as we mockingly creak open the terrible packaging, read through the strange rules and start playing a very toilet game.
The funniest thing about Best Play’s ‘A Funny Old Game’ series is that most old games are properly shit. A bold call indeed, but does it stand up to scrutiny?
What’s more is that the manual even goes so far as to claim it’s among the very best modular strategy games of all time. It even says there is unlimited scope in all game modes, before declaring that there are 1400 possible combinations in the first two moves and thus proving themselves wrong. In the booklet it declares that the game’s unique feature gives it outstanding superiority over 3 DIMENSIONAL TIC-TAC-TOE (or 3 in a row) games. That world is our world.Ĭube Fusion is a game that the publisher calls ‘an exciting modular strategy game … unique in the history of games’. Well reality just hit you in the face at 100mph. Imagine, if you will, a world in which regular cubes were merged together to form a single piece of matter.