Pocket Fighter

Pocket Fighter is a monochrome game for the original WonderSwan handheld console.

Summary
This is a port of Pocket Fighter or Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix (the marketing title outside of Japan) for the original console. The game is for the black and white WonderSwan and is one of the few arcade fighters for the system. The others being Guilty Gear Petit, Guilty Gear Petit 2, and Ultraman Hikari no Kuni no Shisha. Also, Pocket fighter has been reviewed by IGN.

Gameplay
Pocket Fighter plays almost identically as its PlayStation (PS1) counterpart where you battle each other, similar to Sstreet Fighter but as you fight gems are dropped. You collect the gems to power up your gem attacks. On the PS1 the button combination is listed at the bottom of the screen, however for this port possibly due to screen size limitations the button list has been left out and cannot be found anywhere in the game. The combos are the exact same as the ps1 so you could almost perfectly match the wonderswan to the ps1 if you so desire. Also on the ps1 PS1 the gems were colored so you could tell what you kind of gem was on the ground, but because of the monochrome screen all the gems are now shades of grey making it impossible to tell them apart. All the menus for fighting mode like the ps1 are in English and the game does not auto save like the ps1. To save go to Options, Look for Backup and click save data or load data when you firs turn the game on.

Next, the game also contains a card colecting mode of new cards you obtain by beating the fighting mode. Then there is card battle mode which requires Japanese to play.

Lastly, the game also supports multiplayer mode via cable and oddly training mode can only be accessed through the now defunct online mode.