AMIDA

Amida is a Japanese-only puzzler released early on in the Game Boy's life cycle, in 1990. If you've ever played Wario Ware, or I think one of the mini games in Super Mario 64 DS, than you know how this game works. There's a little, uh, guy, who goes down a random tube. You play a bridge, and you have to move vertically and horizontally to place yourself down and let the guy cross over you, to try and avoid danger.

Any time the little guy, I'm going to name him Cutie because I imagine he has the texture of a tiny tangerine, comes across a bridge he will cross it. Even if that bridge means certain death, he will cross it. you have to get him to the right outlet on the bottom of the screen. Each level is preset every time, but Cutie will pick a random pipe at the top. When I first picked up the game I didn't realize you could move up and down as well as left and right so I thought the game was total chance. This game is too obscure to have an English manual translation so I'm all on my own.

The game is decently fun, I enjoy that there's four options for background music and that you can adjust Cutie's speed from 8 (the slowest) to 1 (the fastest.) Passwords every ten levels. It's alright, I enjoy that there's a full game version of a WarioWare microgame, but it's nothing too special.