TouchMaster is a video game created by Midway Games for the Nintendo DS. It supports Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and was released on June 25, 2007 in North America. A sequel, Touchmaster 2 (known as More Touchmaster in Europe), was released on November 3, 2008. Another sequel called TouchMaster 3 was released on October 27, 2009. Yet another sequel, Touchmaster: Connect (known as Touchmaster 4: Connect in Europe) , which allows players to post high scores to Facebook and Twitter, was released in 2010. Touchmaster tests the player's skills on the Nintendo DS with a variety of games and challenges. The games share the TouchMaster name with Midway's previous series of coin-operated touchscreen games.
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Touchmaster is the first of 4 games in the Touchmaster series.
The series is all about minigames you play in an arcade sort of way. Most of Touchmaster 1 is original minigames by midway, and for a first attempt, they did well. The worst aspect of the game for me is the timer, which i wish i could play without, but that's just how it is.
I do love the theme of the game. It feels like a game show! The design is okay overall.
Games alright. If you want a minigame set, this is an okay one.
The series is all about minigames you play in an arcade sort of way. Most of Touchmaster 1 is original minigames by midway, and for a first attempt, they did well. The worst aspect of the game for me is the timer, which i wish i could play without, but that's just how it is.
I do love the theme of the game. It feels like a game show! The design is okay overall.
Games alright. If you want a minigame set, this is an okay one.
"?? MYSTERY BAG ??" review - Part one of eight
Today, I attended PLAY Expo Glasgow 2023. They rent out a hockey rink and fill it with a load of arcade machines, old home computers and vendor booths. I didn't have a lot of time to spend there, but I'd regret it if I didn't go, and it was nice to have a shot of Dragon Wang on the Sega Mark III. One of the vendors was selling a £10 "?? MYSTERY BAG ??", adorned with Google image search results for "Sega", "Nintendo", "Xbox" and "PlayStation". I'm such a mark for these things.
I have fond memories of a subscription service called "My Retro Game Box" that ran during the height of Loot Crate's popularity. They'd ask which consoles you owned, which games you had for them, and what kinds of games you'd like more of. You got your fair share of stinkers, sure, but it's also the service that gave me Super Mario Advance, Kirby's Dream Land and Skate or Die: Bad n Rad. A wee surprise each month, and even the rotters were a good laugh for 20 minutes. The folk running it were real champs, and they got nothing but grief from cunts on Twitter complaining about being sent games like Shenmue and Ristar. It was unsustainable, and I don't think they kept it running for even a whole year.
That allure still sits with me, though. The games you didn't know you wanted to play.
I opened my bag.
TouchMaster for the DS is a collection of 23 touchscreen-based games from Midway. Despite their history of arcade hits such as Mortal Kombat, Rampage and NARC, they've opted to fill this with simple puzzle and card games. This was their pitch at the Touch Generations market, and there's little to draw the interest of gamers. It's also very skewed towards an American audience. There's a trivia game here, which asks you how many stitches are on a baseball and which sitcom Haley Joel Osment was on in 1997. There's an attempt at a Tetris-like puzzle game, but it's about coloured balls with numbers on them, and you can match three balls by either their colour or number, and it's really ugly and boring.
Those looking for action will be most drawn to "Hot Hoops", where five identical basketball players in #81 jerseys stand in a line as a hoop moves left and right at a constant speed. Touch each player in time and they will throw the ball at the hoop. Find the rhythm, and you'll play a perfect game.
I'm committed to reviewing each one of these eight games, to find some value in the £10 I spent on my bag.
I do not recommend TouchMaster.
Today, I attended PLAY Expo Glasgow 2023. They rent out a hockey rink and fill it with a load of arcade machines, old home computers and vendor booths. I didn't have a lot of time to spend there, but I'd regret it if I didn't go, and it was nice to have a shot of Dragon Wang on the Sega Mark III. One of the vendors was selling a £10 "?? MYSTERY BAG ??", adorned with Google image search results for "Sega", "Nintendo", "Xbox" and "PlayStation". I'm such a mark for these things.
I have fond memories of a subscription service called "My Retro Game Box" that ran during the height of Loot Crate's popularity. They'd ask which consoles you owned, which games you had for them, and what kinds of games you'd like more of. You got your fair share of stinkers, sure, but it's also the service that gave me Super Mario Advance, Kirby's Dream Land and Skate or Die: Bad n Rad. A wee surprise each month, and even the rotters were a good laugh for 20 minutes. The folk running it were real champs, and they got nothing but grief from cunts on Twitter complaining about being sent games like Shenmue and Ristar. It was unsustainable, and I don't think they kept it running for even a whole year.
That allure still sits with me, though. The games you didn't know you wanted to play.
I opened my bag.
TouchMaster for the DS is a collection of 23 touchscreen-based games from Midway. Despite their history of arcade hits such as Mortal Kombat, Rampage and NARC, they've opted to fill this with simple puzzle and card games. This was their pitch at the Touch Generations market, and there's little to draw the interest of gamers. It's also very skewed towards an American audience. There's a trivia game here, which asks you how many stitches are on a baseball and which sitcom Haley Joel Osment was on in 1997. There's an attempt at a Tetris-like puzzle game, but it's about coloured balls with numbers on them, and you can match three balls by either their colour or number, and it's really ugly and boring.
Those looking for action will be most drawn to "Hot Hoops", where five identical basketball players in #81 jerseys stand in a line as a hoop moves left and right at a constant speed. Touch each player in time and they will throw the ball at the hoop. Find the rhythm, and you'll play a perfect game.
I'm committed to reviewing each one of these eight games, to find some value in the £10 I spent on my bag.
I do not recommend TouchMaster.
Fun time waster. Not much Depth.
I dunno. Theres something just completely underwhelming by the entire package here. I cant tell if its the drab music, the muted colours or the sheer refusal to move outside of its arcade-origins, the whole thing just feels incredible beige and not worth touching, especially when you have other better compilations like Nintendos own Clubhouse Games pack. Functionally this is fine dont get me wrong but its so dull and lifeless, its appeal is really limited.