Personal Organizer
"Productivity Software"
by Infogenius
Review by Adrock
gbcam@hotmail.com
Size: 512 Kilobits
Save: Battery
Released: 1990
Works with: Any Gameboy Version.

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Opening Snide Remarks: For you Y2K activists (and there are a lot of you),
this game's clock will go up to 2099 (obviously Bill Gates, the one everyone
is pointing the finger at for the Y2K crisis, had no involvement in the Game
Boy Personal Organizer.)

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Usage: A nice little thing. You already own a Game Boy, right? So there's no
point in shelling out bucks for one of those big organizers with limited
memory. Get it on a little cart instead. There's an 800-Number directory
(most of them probably changed or re-directed by now), a regular phone
directory (editable), a calendar, a calculator, a notepad (8 lines), world
time (for time zones and daylight savings), and an appointment manager.

This thing lacks the translators and a Spell Checker. You'll have to buy them
seperately. At an eye's glance, the user base seems limited. No scientific
calculator option, thus no help in Algebra, Geometry, Calculus or
Trigonometry. You know what would be cool? Since Graphing Calculators cost so
darn much, why don't they make one of those for Game Boy? That would be real
helpful. The people at Texas Instruments could get together with Nintendo to
make the TI-GB! That would be real cool, since those things cost about
50-100 bucks, and a cart would only cost about $20. But, anyways, back to
the review.

The menu systems are controlled by a cursor and a keyboard. The keyboard is
layed out in ABC order, not QWERTY. When turned on, the game will ask you
for the date and time, because there is no in builtclock.

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Visibility: Simple menus. Easy to see on any Game Boy. Cool little scenes
for each month on the calendar. When entering and exiting menus, the fade out
thing is pretty cool.

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Sound/Music: Beeps and bloops... You won't need it, so just turn it off.
There is only one song. DOES THIS THING NEED SONGS?! NO! IT DOESN'T! But
they put one in anyways. It's on the title screen.

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Navigation: After using Game Boy Camera for a while, this thing will seem
pretty wacky. Start is to exit, not B. Weird. But you'll get it after a
while.

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Improve: Where are the translators, and the spell checker? And I don't see a
dictionary or a thesaurus anywhere. A GBC version with all this stuff,
Infared Link, Game Link, and Printer Compatability would be nice.

Recommend If You Like: Come on, now. No one likes to do work. But this does
make doing it more fun.

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Final Analysis: If you can find this thing, don't waste your money. I'm sure
a GBC version is soon to come. But if you can't wait, go ahead.

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Score:
Usage: ***
Visibility: *****
Sound/Music: *
Navigation: ****
Personal Opinion: ****
Total: 17 out of 25

Final Score: 68%

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Currently Known Codes:I should smack you.