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Right now there is not a _SINGLE_ device on the market catering to "mature" portable gamers. The original Gameboy, in all of its 14 year old glory, contains better ingredients for producing a fast-action game than the latest NR-70 Sony. Well, we're not likely to get better games until we get a Palm-OS based handheld with a configuration more conducive to game playing! It sounds like my eternal plea for a D-pad equipped Palm will continue to fall upon deaf ears.B/W and poor sound are not as detrimental to gameplay as unorthodox control schemes and practically unusable button layouts are. But if your Palm is monochrome, don't even bother! If you have a color device it is highly worth it. The program is quite small, just a smidge above 100k.Unfortunately, the program chews through battery life, so you'll find your Palm spending more time in the charger.īig Money is a fast-paced game and provides a lot of fun, even when you have a little bit of time.
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Small factors, but really useful when you are deep in the middle of the game and need to make sure you're not late for a 4:00 meeting.īig Money also has a high score board, and a rather cute series of titles for various point brackets. A very cute idea, but much better in theory than in practice.Īs all other Astraware games do, Big Money has the option to display the time and the battery level. The pieces are actually filled with dollars signs, yen, and the like. Now, on a grayscale device, it is a completely different story! The pieces are very difficult to read, and it makes your eyes hurt just to play it. The color version is clear, easy to see, and nonabrasive on the eye. Each level starts with a different speed and is set to give a different amount of points for each combination.Īlthough the graphics don't make anyone gasp in awe, they certainly aren't bad. There are three difficulty settings: easy, normal and hard. When a dollar sign is removed all of the coins of the same color as the one it was resting on are removed from the board. Occasionally dollar signs appear as well, and they are removed in the same way the money bags are. To remove the bag, just clear the coin directly below it. The money bags drop down when you remove groups at a rate steady enough to fill up a bar along the left side. The bigger the group of coins, the more points you get, and the closer you are to earning a money bag. Not only are you trying to keep the columns from reaching the top, you're also trying to boost your score and gather money bags so you can reach the next level. If any of the columns do reach the top and there is no room for a new row, the game is over. You have to keep removing coins so the columns don't reach the top. While you're getting rid of the pieces, new rows keep forming underneath.
The object of the game is to tap on groups of three or more colored coins so they disappear. Difficulty increases until you can’t handle it anymore īig Money is a fast-paced action game by Astraware combing logic and speed with a capitalistic theme.