Here’s some pretty rare footage for you, utilizing two pretty rare Nintendo devices. I searched around on YouTube and couldn’t find many e-Reader videos (as in the GBA attachment, not the recent eBook machines). So here you go, the “Jumping Doduo” mini-game.
I had attached the e-Reader to the Game Boy Player, one of the few things the Nintendo Gamecube can handle that the Wii can’t. So essentially, I attached a failed Nintendo device to another failed Nintendo device. The e-Reader was something that would attach to the Game Boy Advance. Built into it is a device that lets it read dot codes on e-Reader cards. You swipe them through the e-Reader like you would a credit card, and if all is well, the e-Reader will ick it up and store the data on the dot code. The Game Boy Player is a machine that connects to the bottom of a Gamecube and allows you to play GBA games on it. Since there’s nothing on a GBA that lets me connect it to my video capture device, I plugged the e-Reader into the Game Boy Player.
The mini-game you see here is “Jumping Doduo.” You can play it by scanning in the cards “Doduo” and “Dodrio” from the Aquapolis set of the Pokémon Trading Card Game, released back in 2001. When you successfully scan in the long codes for both of them (there are two codes on these cards, a short one at the bottom and a long one on the right), the e-Reader will be able to load the mini-game.
It’s a very simple one, really. Doduo is running across a plain, and he needs to jump over everything in his way. Doduo jumps with the A button, and in addition to rocks, he’ll jump over Bulbasaur, Bellsprout, Teddiursa, Electrode, Sudowoodo, Dugtrio, and Totodile. Each obsctacle has a different height and a different width, so you can’t approach them all the same way. (But almost the same way.) Your score is the number of obstacles Doduo has jumped over, and the game ends when Doduo runs into or lands on something.
It’s just a cute little extra for the card game. It’s very simple in design, but more than anything else, it’s a bonus for having these two cards.
Don’t ask for more Pokémon e-Reader minigames though, since this is the only one where I have all the cards required.
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I lost my Eon …
I lost my Eon Ticket I got with Nintendo Power. =(
nice score man
nice score man
i find quite …
i find quite amazing that a few dots on a piece of paper can do this.
Nope. I got the …
Nope. I got the e-Reader used, which came with no cards.
The data needed in …
The data needed in this game wouldn’t fit on one card’s dot code. Two dot codes are needed, and the logical choice after Doduo would be Dodrio.
Uh. I hated her …
Uh. I hated her voice.
Did you have that Machop one?
I could never get past like 20 on it >.>
i remember having a …
i remember having a e-reader card. idr where i got it from (probally free with something else) i think it was supposed to be a special pokemon trainer battle… but i never had an e-reader to begin with
These are things …
These are things I’ve accumulated over many years. A lot of Nintendo enthusiasts have way more stuff than me.
I got mine used. It …
I got mine used. It came with nothing but the machine. I didn’t know it came with all of that stuff.
no, it actually is …
no, it actually is explosion
y slide doduo ad …
y slide doduo ad dodrio? lol i thought the doduo would evolve on a straightaway and go even faster xD
wow… that looks …
wow… that looks like sooo much fun… =_=
I don’t know about …
I don’t know about YOUR e-reader, but MINE came with DK Jr, Manhole, and the three Mach- cards. I believe it even showed them on the box.
Also I think some other Pokemon card.
aah , wasn’t sure …
aah , wasn’t sure which object he meant
Dugtrio
Dugtrio
LOL
LOL
the orange rock at …
the orange rock at 2:24?
Electrode used …
Electrode used Thunderbolt on that Doduo.
GCN Devices are …
GCN Devices are very useful.A very good thing is that XD is no longer needed for me.Not being conceited, but I have now the 12 starters.DS is very awesome.Ophie I didn’t expected you having an truly awesome device.You have, DS, Wii, GCN, e-Reader, Game Boy Player, Game Boy Advanced[?] and Pokémon Games.What else do you have on your sleeve?
lol XD that’s cute!
lol XD that’s cute!
Very cute. I don’t …
Very cute. I don’t suppose you know what the brown circular pokemon you jump over are, or are they rocks or something?
YEAHHH, HIGH SCORE. …
YEAHHH, HIGH SCORE. ^_^
Sure, there are. …
Sure, there are. The Nintendo 64 and Gamecube were moderate successes. They weren’t quite all the rage, but they were not profit sinks either. Nevertheless, Nintendo is a risk-taking company, which is why it can get such wildly different results from stuff it makes.
I’ve seen a few of the Mario Party e-Cards. The minigames are apparently very very simple in design and look much like this Jumping Doduo thing.
Also, I had a Mario …
Also, I had a Mario Party card game that was compatible with the e-reader (even though I never owned the E-reader, nor was one required).
When someone played a card that pitted you against another player, you scanned the card to play a mini game, and the game was different depending on what card it was.