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For some reason, be it screen size or a lack of computing muscle, there's a distinct lack of decent handheld basketball games. Konami's latest attempt to redress the balance, NBA Pro 99, is a pretty good effort, even if, ultimately, it's more Budweiser League quality than NBA. It's a full five-a-side game in which you can take on a daunting 82-game season or just stick to exhibitions and practice matches. The gameplay is fast and easy, although lacking the kind of long-term depth you'd expect on the Big Consoles, and there are some fairly nice slam-dunk animations. Fun, in a none-too-taxing sort of way.
Of all the arcade games from the golden age of the late 1970s, few have been updated and revamped as often as Asteroids. Bosses, backgrounds, new weapons and smarter aliens - they're all here, and as with all the other versions, they don't add a great deal to the gameplay. It's still all about zooming around the screen, pinging bullets at chunks of rock as they spin past. The power-ups and weapons are all a bit superfluous and it would have been nice to see a plain old 1979 version included, but Asteroids is still Asteroids. Let's face it, you know exactly what to expect.
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