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Yoshi Touch & Go is based on a tech demo that Nintendo showed at trade shows to demonstrate the technical abilities of the DS. Like in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Yoshi is carrying Baby Mario on his back and is walking through the countryside. There are enemies, pits in the ground, and other obstacles you must circumnavigate. You do not control Yoshi; you must use the stylus to draw alternate paths (made of small clouds), kill enemies, and throw eggs for him. There is only one level, but it can be played as a Marathon game, Time Attack, Score Attack, and a couple other modes. You can also play against a friend in Versus mode.

This game is basically a fusion of Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2 for the PS2 and XBox. All of the levels from those two games are available in this collection, and all of the minigames are already unlocked and included. Formerly only available to GameCube players, the Super Monkey Ball series has made it to the PS2 and Xbox after a wait of almost 3 and a half years.

The game itself plays very much like the old arcade game Marble Madness. You control a monkey in a ball, and you have to navigate it through many perilous labyrinths to the finish. In the previous two games you had limited lives/tries, but here you have infinite lives, which makes it all the easier.

You play a young college graduate who has been given a large sum of money by your parents to set up a company. You start in a crummy office on the Lower East Side of town, and as you dabble more in the stock market and make more money, you can take a trip to the mall and buy things from a porcelain dalmatian to a new office. You have to be careful, though- one wrong move with your money, and you end up penniless on the street.

Qwirks is a simple puzzle game in which colored blobs fall from the top of the screen, and the player has to arrange them in collections of four or more. The game is a variant of Puyo Puyo, but Spectrum HoloByte had a license from the original creators.

Tetris Gold is a compilation released by Spectrum HoloByte in 1993 containing all of the Tetris games and spinoffs they ever made:

• Tetris
• Super Tetris
• Tetris Classic
• Wordtris
• Faces...Tris III
• Welltris
• prototype version of Tetris

It includes versions for DOS (all 7), Windows (Tetris Classic and Super Tetris only) and Macintosh (all but Tetris Classic and the prototype version, color and B&W versions included). The CD also includes a 10-minute video interview with Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris.