Konami Collector's Series: Arcade Advanced
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Konami Collector's Series: Arcade Advanced was released on March 22, 2002, for the Game Boy Advance
Game Boy Advance
The is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo. It is the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001; in North America on June 11, 2001; in Australia and Europe on June 22, 2001; and in the People's Republic of China...

. It was released in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 under the name Konami Collector's Series: Arcade Classics. A version was also released as a dedicated console
Dedicated console
A dedicated console is a video game console that is dedicated to a built in game or games, and is not equipped for additional games, via cartridges or other media.- History :...

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Games

Arcade Advanced is a compilation of six popular Konami
Konami
is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...

 games from the 1980s, including Rush'n Attack
Rush'n Attack
Rush'n Attack, originally released in Japan and Europe as , is an action/platform arcade game released by Konami in 1985. Rush'n Attack is remembered for its Cold War setting and its reliance on the player using a knife to dispatch enemies...

, Frogger
Frogger
Frogger is an arcade game introduced in 1981. It was developed by Konami, and licensed for worldwide distribution by Sega/Gremlin. The object of the game is to direct frogs to their homes one by one. To do this, each frog must avoid cars while crossing a busy road and navigate a river full of...

, Gyruss
Gyruss
is a shoot 'em up video arcade game developed by Konami, and released in 1983. It was designed by Yoshiki Okamoto, who had earlier created Time Pilot for Konami. Gyruss was licensed to Centuri in the United States, and was ported to numerous games consoles and home computers...

, Time Pilot
Time Pilot
Time Pilot is a multi-directional scrolling shooter and free-roaming aerial combat arcade game designed by Yoshiki Okamoto, released by Konami in 1982, and distributed in the United States by Centuri...

, Scramble, and Yie Ar Kung-Fu. Besides being arcade games, most of these have also been quite popular on home consoles. The games themselves are very accurate ports, with some minor exceptions.

Konami Code

The famous Konami Code
Konami Code
The Konami Code, known in Japan as the , is a cheat code that appears in many Konami video games, although the code also appears in some non-Konami games...

 can be used in this game to enhance each of the games. Of particular note, the code turns the one-player version of Frogger from graphics and sound similar to that of the original Golden Age
Golden Age of Arcade Games
The golden age of video arcade games was a peak era of video arcade game popularity, innovation, and earnings. Although there is no consensus as to its exact time period, most sources place it around the early 1980s.-Overview:...

arcade game to a thoroughly modern graphical and musical update, like that found in the two-player mode. In Scramble the code allows you to choose between three different ships and play a more updated version.

In Time Pilot, it allows you to rapidly fire your gun by holding down the fire button, and offers a sixth stage set in 1,000,000 BC. In Yie Ar Kung-Fu, the code lets you to fight two extra opponents, Bishu and Clayman. In Rush'n Attack, the code gives the player extra lives (not infinite lives).
In Gyruss, it enhances the graphics and sound. The game starts off with a text saying, "Now entering black hole".

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