Compile’s chain-building classic — the game the West met as Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine and Kirby’s Avalanche — gets a full-featured pocket edition with Arle, a story mode and proper chain science.
Data East’s frantic orb-matching duellist brings its unique grab-and-drop mechanics and tarot cast to the pocket intact. The fastest puzzle game on the system — and the most breathless.
Taito’s bubble-shooter was born for handhelds, and the NGPC version — Bust-A-Move Pocket in America — is a faithful, colourful, endlessly replayable edition of an all-time puzzle great.
Nazca’s arcade golf masterpiece loses almost nothing on the way to the pocket: six golfers, proper courses, three-click swing and all. Quietly one of the finest handheld sports games of its era.
Success’s candy-obsessed witch brings the cute-’em-up to the NGPC in a faithful, charming conversion of the arcade original — one of the system’s rarest Western releases and one of its sweetest.
Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 gets the pocket treatment: thirteen fighters, two-plane heritage flattened into fast one-plane bouts, and Terry Bogard’s grin in miniature. A solid, swift series conversion.
The weapons fighter comes to pocket size with its tension intact: single strikes that matter, a roster borrowed from the 64-bit games, and collectible cards to chase. A launch title with real edge.
KOF ’98, distilled into a cartridge the size of a matchbox. R-2 keeps the teams, the tactics and the attitude — and adds a making mode and Dreamcast link that were years ahead of their time.
The first Sonic game on rival hardware is no curiosity — it is a superb Dimps-built remix of the Mega Drive classics that plays like a love letter and runs like a dream.
Everything the first pocket mission did, expanded: more stages, more characters, more vehicles, more secrets. 2nd Mission is the NGPC’s best pure action game and a high watermark for handheld run-and-guns.