Mobygames (142)

Harukanaru Augusta

 

 Harukanaru Augusta is a golf game which allows the player to participate in a tournament on the Augusta National course. The interface consists of three windows: the 3D window where the golfer and the ball movement is shown, an overhead map of the hole and a status window which shows where the ball is (e.g. on the green) and the wind direction. The controls follow the usual formula: first the player sets the used club, the feet position and the direction of the shot. Then the power (a moving line on a scale) and the drift (a moving dot on a golf ball) is determined by clicking with the correct timing to stop the line respectively dot.

Harvest Moon 

   

 Ever wanted to live life on a farm, with nothing but the sun, the fresh scent of your crops, the muddy fields underneath, and cows and chickens to keep you company? Well, you're in luck, because you have just inherited your grandfather's ranch, but it's in a terrible state of disrepair! What ever can you do?

You're going to do like the farmers do; roll up your sleeves, get down in that dirt, fix that farm up and make it the best farm anyone has ever seen! It sure gets lonely on that farm...but not to worry! There are plenty of girls in the village, and if you treat them right and manage to win their love, you've got yourself a wife!

So let's go, farmer! You've got 2 years to make a name for yourself on that farm! Work hard, and the rewards will be great!

Harvest Moon : Back to Nature

 

 As a young boy, you visited your grandfather's farm one summer, which was one of the best there was. Now, some years later, your grandfather has passed away and you inherited his farm, which is now in a state of disrepair. The Mayor of the village has given you three years to turn things around, and bring the farm back to a state that your grandfather would be proud of. At the same time, you must also think about dating and getting married to secure a place in the village. Roll up your sleeves and get ready to get dirty, because that farm needs help and you're the only one who can make it the best farm anyone's seen.

Harvey Birdman : Attorney at Law

 

 Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law is based off of the Adult Swim show of the same name. The game is more of an interactive story that leads your through five separate cases and features characters from the TV show.

The gameplay is mostly consistent of exploring crime scenes, finding evidence, talking to cartoon character witnesses and give try to prove the innocence of your client by any needs necessary. You only are allowed five crests during your court hearing, losing all five when making a mistake will result in having to restart back at the last checkpoint and starting over again.

Picking certain moves while talking to other people can result in extra crests for your court hearing or even unlock a Street Fighter cameo (Guile, Dhalsim, Zangief, Ryu and Chun Li) that will unlock a secret movie that you can view.

Hasbro Family Game Night

 

Hasbro Family Game Night is a mini-game collection of conversions of Hasbro board games. It contains the classic versions as well as advanced or remixed variants. The game is hosted by Hasbro's toy figure Mr. Potato Head.

The includes games are:

• Battleship
• Boggle
• Connect 4
• Scrabble (North American versions only, PS3 (PSN) and Xbox 360 retail + XBLA)
• Sorry!
• Sorry! Sliders
• Yahtzee

There is no retail PS3 release. On the Xbox 360 it was also released on XBLA next to a retail version. There it was made available as a free application where users can buy the individual games to be played through the Hasbro Family Game Night hub, similar to Game Room. Not all games were released simultaneously on XBLA and three additional titles are available for that platform:

• Connect 4x4
• Jenga
• Pictureka

Those three games are also available for the Wii, but as a part of the retail game Family Game Night 2.

The Wii version includes a Party mode (only for human players) with a mixed-up mish-mash of each of the six games and rules similar to the Mario Party series. Most games can be played with up to four players, except for the PlayStation 2 version where only two players can compete.

Hasbro Family Game Night 2  

    

Play your family in your very own Game Show in HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT 2!

All the excitement of a prime-time TV game show in your very own living room! With MR. POTATO HEAD as your host, you are guaranteed to have a thrilling night of family-friendly fun. HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT 2 lets up to four players become contestants with a wide variety of fun and engaging party games. Win and collect parts for the coveted Golden Potato to become the ultimate game show champion!

Features

• Play classic and all-new versions of your favorite Hasbro gameso OPERATIONo JENGAo BOP-ITo CONNECT 4x4o PICTUREKA• Play with your Mii in the Hasbro Family Game Show!• Customize MR. POTATO HEAD and earn new themes and trophies

Hasbro Family Game Night 3

 

 Hasbro Family Game Night 3 is the third installment in the board game-to-video game franchise by Hasbro and EA.

All of the games are more or less true to their board game counterpart, usually having some added mini games or interactive parts not found in the originals. All games can be played in either the Original version or a game mode called Remix, which adds new rules, switches gameplay mechanics, or simply makes it into more or less a new game entirely. There is also the option of playing a full game or a quick game for each of the five games (which either is made up of a much simplified board or fewer rounds than the full version).

The game hub is an amusement park, where all the games are seen as rides or buildings and where the players pick which game they want to play. There is also the option of changing outfits for Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head (who can be seen wandering around the park). After a certain number of games have been played, mascots, confetti, statues and various items are unlocked for the amusement park. They fill no other function than adding visual flair to the hub.

The five featured games in this compilation are:

Clue/Cluedo: In this classic whodunnit game the players are cast as detectives who are all out to solve a murder by figuring out who did it, with what weapon and where it happened. In order to find out all of these things the players have to gather rumor points strewn across the mansion or by interviewing the guests of the house. Getting rumor points can trigger a random mini game which come in three kinds. One is a simple timing game where the player has to line up a brush by three finger prints, the second is a hidden object game where the player tries to find six specific weapons in a dark screen. The third has the player catching floating clues while avoiding red herrings. By adding up enough rumor points, the player can start a rumor and guess who, with what and where. The results will be added to the notebook as the players eliminate false leads. Interviewing people will slowly reveal a picture which gives a clue of either a weapon or a room in which the murder takes place.

When the player has figured out all of the essentials, (s)he can go to the pool room in the middle of the mansion and line up the evidence gathered. If it all matches, the player wins the game.

The Remix mode has the same basic game play but with added events, such as rooms getting locked off from investigation, suspects getting murdered as the game progresses and much more.

Twister: This is the game out of the five which differs the most from its board game counterpart. The game plays like a 'Simon Says' rhythm game, much like Parappa The Rapper. A series of buttons will move along a beat line, and the player has to replay the segments shown by pressing the corresponding buttons. There are several songs to choose from as well as various difficulties.

The Remix mode has the players take turns the game ends when the timer ends or when the game hits 10 bars' length. Whoever has the most points at the end wins.

The Game of Life: The aim of this game is much like the board game. Live a successful life, get a good job, raise a family, retire with the most accumulated wealth. The way to do so is to travel across the game board (representing life) and hitting all the landmarks in a person's life: graduate, get a job, get married, get a house, start a family. The difference between the digital version and the board game is the inclusion of mini games at key points of life. They include; a memory game when buying a house, clicking all the green envelopes while avoiding junk mail to get a good job as well as a wedding party where a version of the previously mentioned Twister determines how much you'll recieve as a wedding gift from other players.

It doesn't matter which player crosses the finish line first, as the money is all added up after all the players have finished. The one with the most money at the end of the game, wins.

In the Remix version of the game the player earns extra steps by landing on money making spaces or minus steps if landing on money losing spaces. In this version it's a race to the finish , and the player to cross the finish line first, wins.

Yahtzee Hands Down: This game is more or less a card game version of the classic game yahtzee. Instead of rolling dice, the players draw cards to make pairs, straights, full house etc. The twist here is that all cards also have to be the of same color. A certain amount of cards are placed in the middle of the table showing what combinations have to be achieved in order to score points. This version is turned based and each player (and computer) gets their turn to chance their hand around until they can lay hands on the points.

In the Remix mode, however, the game is real-time and while everyone still gets their turn, there is a ticking clock and anyone can show a hand at any time. There is also only one point card at the time in the middle of the table and all hands are visible to all players.

Mouse Trap: Just like the board game, the goal of Mouse Trap is to gather as much cheese as possible while assembling a Rube Goldberg-like mouse trap to catch the other players in before being caught yourself. In this digital version you are required to play a mini game in order to see how many pieces of the trap you can add (a minimum of one and a maximum of three). The mini game is a version of the classic game Pipe Dream where the player has to place tubes so that a steel ball can pass through certain "trap piece slots". The last player to be trapped after the whole mouse trap is assembled wins the game.

The Remix mode has the players competing to get a certain number of pieces of cheese first. This version is very different from the Original mode game in that the game takes place on a totally different game board. The players also get to place traps in specific trap slots along the road to hinder other players. Landing on one of the traps triggers a mini game where the player has to time a button push or lose a piece of cheese. There are golden spanners along the way which makes the player immune to one triggered trap.

Hasbro Family Game Night 4 : the Game Show  

 

Family Game Night 4: The Game Show takes a new spin on the Family Game Night franchise. This installment focuses on bringing to life the games that are played in the TV game show. With support for the Xbox Kinect, the PlayStation Move and the Wii Remote, players can mimic the actions of the actual game show and bring it to life in their own living rooms.

Playable games are as follows: Connect 4 Basketball, Bop-It Boptagon, Scrabble Flash (Boggle in the EU version), Sorry! Sliders and Yahtzee! Bowling.

In Connect 4 Basketball, two players compete to throw balls in real-time into a giant Connect 4 rack in front of them. First to connect four balls of the same color wins.

Bop-It Boptagon places two players in the center of large Bop-It devices. The players are given commands and must replicate the appropriate gesture to score a point. Scoring is tracked by a tug-of-war meter. If one player gets a command correct and the other doesn't, the meter moves for the correct player. Gameplay ends once the meter reaches one end or the other.

Scrabble Flash (Boggle in EU) provides five tiles that can be reordered to score 3, 4 and 5 letter words. Players compete to be the first to score 25 points.

Sorry! Sliders, recreates the shuffle board experience, for two players, with human sized Sorry! pieces on wheels that the player shoves down the lane. Players play over several rounds to score the highest number of points, taking turns pushing their pieces down the lane.

Yahtzee! Bowling pits players against each other on a bowling lane with six-sided pins at the end of it. The pins have pips on the sides to represent the sides of a die. Players bowl a human-sized bowling ball down the lane to knock over the pins and then choose which pins to reroll. Each player gets three rounds to score the highest combination possible.