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55 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
How to wake up your children and make your wife unhappy.., 19 Oct 2004
Great idea. I've always been a lover of gizmos and ways of interacting with consoles other than game-pads so I own light-guns and even a fishing rod for the dreamcast. Bongos! What's not to like?Well....when they arrived they were bigger than I was expecting, quite durable but they have a very 'plasticcy' feel and hitting them when they aren't plugged in to the gamecube makes you feel like you've made a very bad decision. These certainly aren't made to be played stand-alone. When you are playing the game that comes with them however they begin to reward your faith in that belief that a spectacularly silly idea can be fun as well
, as long as you can overcome the overwhelming self-consciousness which accompanies hitting the bongos in time with a set of covered hits when your wife and children are in the room with you at the same time. You will perform better if you manage to get a groove going. Also as you can probably imagine, when you lose the beat it's really difficult to get it back. So I recommend waiting until you are alone in the house if you want to max your high score. To be honest, it's gimmicky and trashy and you really just want to own these to avoid having to entertain people at parties with conversation. If you are a smoker then mortgage your stash to buy this game. Only real gripe (which my wife noticed and now I can't avoid doing) is that you get a 'left bongo' and a 'right bongo' and a 'both bongos' icon scrolling across the screen, and you can sort of cheat because it counts hitting both bongos as a left hit or a right hit as well as a both hit. But then at higher skill levels that cheat doesn't matter because basically hitting both is harder than hitting one or the other. Also the bonus games you can unlock with points earned are worse than the LCD watch games you could buy in the eighties. I am not a reviewer of games normally, but I kinda wanted to know whether to buy these and I guess I use amazon reviews as a way of making a decision (god help me). Only one bad review swayed me to making an entry. They are OK. They are fun. Would I buy them again knowing what I know now? Probably not. I got a good weekend of fun out them and they were cheaper than a night in the pub. If I ever get a chance to play against my brothers however they will last another evening , because these things will bring out the competitive spirit in you I guarantee that. Just so you all know, I'm 35 as well, so I guess I'm adding an extra star to allow for the sad-old-git reviewing these factor.
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