Game #982: Hot Potato!

  I liked them baked.

 Hot Potato! was a very early GBA game, and one that usually made it into my ROM downloads, although I never spent too much time with it. Regardless, I've a little bit of nostalgia for it, so I decided to add it to my GBA collection.

 This is a puzzle game reminiscent of Dr. Mario, albeit on wheels. You play as a cart that is continually moving forward and is continually supplied with alien potatoes, red and blue. You get 3 columns of 2 potatoes each, and can use the R and L buttons to rotate their positions. Pressing the B button will shoot forwards the 3 potatoes on the front. Your objective is to hit other potatoes of the same color in order to clear them. If you hit a blue potato with a red potato they'll stack, and if your cart hits a potato you lose a life. Sometimes you'll get a green potato that kills everything in its path.

 There are two modes to play the game, both made up of seven 'missions', Score and, well, Mission. In Score mode you must simply reach X amount of points. On Mission you must clear X amount of a special-looking potato.

 And... that's it. That's all there is to the game. It's very lacking in content, they probably thought that an addictive hook would be all that the game needed. But... the game is nothing worth writing home about. I think the game should've included an endless mode as well as at least a third potato color.

 5.0