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I bought a Game Boy Advance unit recently simply because board and card games are finally available to players who don't really fancy the arcade-style games. The sheer availability of the games is a plus in itself. I haven't tried the Scrabble Jr., so this review concerns itself with Sorry and Aggravation. In general, the graphics are excellent and the game play good -- when it works (in the case of Aggravation). Had Aggravation not had a couple major problems, I'd have rated the package with 5 stars. SORRY: I would have paid the price of the game for Sorry alone, and since it plays a fairly good game, I consider the money well spent. 1) SORRY FLAWS: Very occasionally the game seems to become confused when an opponent's pawn is on your starting spot and you enter a pawn and send it back to its start. Subsequently a pawn of mine got sent back for no reason I could see. 2) SORRY LIMITATIONS: A) As a previous reviewer noted, when activating the Sorry or "11" cards, the human player has no choice about which opponent's pawn to affect with these. B) The computer players never take advantage of the special features of the "7" and "11" cards when these would benefit them. For example, with a "7" card you can either move one pawn 7 spaces or split the move between 2 pawns; the computer players never choose the latter option. C) You cannot save a game. AGGRAVATION: I'm new to this game and enjoyed it immensely, but be aware that the game may go haywire in mid-game and you may need to quit and begin the game afresh. I've written Destination Software about this but have heard nothing from them yet. 1) AGGRAVATION FLAWS: A) Sometimes in mid-game the game refuses to move pawns for one or more of the players, human or computer, even when they can legitimately move. This conditon lasts for the remainder of the current game usually, although sometimes it clears up after several turns. I haven't been able to figure out what causes this freeze-up. B)Occasionally an opponent's pawns will simply vanish from the board, only to reappear a few turns later, again for no discernible reason. 2) AGGRAVATION LIMITATIONS: A) In the offical rules, you may not jump one of your own pawns, but the electronic version waives this rule, probably for a faster and easier game. B) You cannot save a game.
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