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Fish Tycoon

Fish Tycoon

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From: Majesco Sales Inc.
Category: Video Games

List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $14.36
You Save: $5.63 (28%)



New (12) Used (3) from $14.36

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 reviews
Sales Rank: 2398

Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.6

MPN: 01498
Model: 01498
UPC: 096427014980
EAN: 0096427014980
ASIN: B000UZXOWQ

Release Date: October 16, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:
  • Extensive use of touch screen features
  • Seven exclusive fish to the NDS version yield over 750 possible fish types
  • Enhance your fish with special plant types and chemicals
  • Based on the leading online and PC game from Big Fish Games that won 2006 iParenting Media Award
  • Simulated real-time experience - chooses from 4 speed options

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Editorial Reviews:

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Product Description:

Fish Tycoon is a fish-breeding sim with an entrepreneurial twist. Raise your fish in real-time virtual aquariums then crossbreed them however you see fit to create all-new, super unique breeds. Open your fish store and sell your fish to raise money for supplies, medicine, and special chemicals while researching new technologies or investing in advertising. Find the correct genetic combination needed to make each of the "Seven Magic Fish" and become the ultimate Fish Tycoon.

Features:

  • Extensive use of the Touch Screen: use it to breed and feed fish, administer medicine, make purchases, decorate tanks and much more.
  • Seven exclusive fish in the DS version including the Clown Fish and Blue Tang, yield nearly twice as many fish as the PC version--over 750 possible fish types. Mix and match your fish to create rare hybrids while searching for the genetic combination to each of the "Seven Magic Fish".
  • Simulated real-time experience brings potential surprises every time you turn the game on. Choose from 4 speed options to dictate how time passes in game: Paused, Speed, Normal Speed and Double Speed. Be sure to take regular care of your fish or watch all of your hard work get flushed down the drain.
  • Brand new 3D environments in the DS version bring your fish tanks to life. Buy fish tanks, decorations, plants, fish eggs, fish food, and medicine to enhance the aesthetic of your tank and attract more customers. A huge assortment of decorations make your tanks look nicer and help you sell more fish. Enhance your fish with special plant types and chemicals. Research environment, food and advertising techniques to discover how to keep your rare fish healthy, feed more fish per feeding and attract additional customers.
  • Use the Species Chart to track your breeding strategies.
  • Set your own prices for specific fish based on prior sales and present needs.
  • Use hotspots around the store to access statistics including how many fish you've discarded, cured and sold.


Product Description
Fish Tycoon is a virtual fish breeding game. The object is to breed and cross breed fish until you find the 7 Magic Fish and solve the genetic puzzle. You will have to buy supplies like meds, eggs and special plants and then sell some of your fish in your virtual pet store. If you have enough money you can buy new supplies and customize your virtual aquarium. Enhance your fish with special plant types (nutrition, fertility, or incubation), and chemicals (i.e. one chemical causes a growth burst, another temporarily boosts health while a third causes mutations) Research environment, food and advertising techniques to discover how to keep your rare fish healthy, feed more fish per feeding and attract additional customers Use the Species Chart to track your breeding strategies Set your own prices for specific


Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Annoyingly addictive   April 15, 2008
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

Definitely worth the price, but it is not a game I should really say I like, I just can't stop playing it. You are driven to keep making money and trying new breeding pairs. Gameplay is extremely slow, even on double speed. Too many fish fry die too often, making it frustrating and hard, yet I find too many games today are over in a matter of hours. Graphics are not great. BUT, for $20, I have gotten more than enough value out of it already- quite the challenge. Not for those without a lot of patience.


4 out of 5 stars Fish Tycoon DS   December 28, 2007
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I have to admit that this game takes some patience. I've had other Tycoon games in the past, and played a demo of Zoo Tycoon, and this one I didn't "get" at first. Now that I've gotten past my first hurdle I really like it a lot, certain fish sell better than others, some sell for more than others and that's where the strategy comes in.

Now I need to figure out the 7 Magic Fish!



1 out of 5 stars Too hard   December 11, 2007
 1 out of 15 found this review helpful

got this for my son, hes 5. its too hard even for me to try to figure out. Yucky graphics.


4 out of 5 stars hours of playing   December 4, 2007
 14 out of 14 found this review helpful

i did fish tycoon a year ago on my pc and spent hours and hours doing it. i was thrilled to see it for my ds. if you like games like this, you will love it. you have to find the 7 magic fish and in the meantime, breed, heal, sell fish and also buy equipment for your aquariums. you can stop time if you go away a long time or you can speed up time so everything goes faster. once you find a breed of fish that sells for some bucks, just keep breeding it over and over and you will get money to buy the special eggs, the potions and equipment. then it makes it easier to find the magic fish. i just finished plant tycoon on my pc and hope ds comes out with the game for it. fish tycoon is a game where you need to spend some time breeding and making your sick fish well and upgrading your equipment. once you get the hang of it, you will not be able to put it down. a great game for everyone but especially older folks (over the age of 12 lol). some fish are very very pretty and unusual looking and it is fun to breed different ones just to see what you get. sometimes, you will get one of the magic fish ! good luck


4 out of 5 stars Leisure fun   November 10, 2007
 14 out of 17 found this review helpful

I was expecting something different when I bought this. But I don't think I wasted my money.

This is not really a "pet sim" game... The goal is to try to breed the seven "Magic fish", and for some bragging rights, or just to give yourself more to do, you could try to breed all 780-some species of fish.

As the very subject matter "fish" should make evident, this is not a very engaging game (though at least more engaging than real pet fish). It is much better as a now and then (an hour here, a few minutes there) LEISURELY game; as even on the fastest speed setting, things don't move all that quickly.

Adults can enjoy the small challenge (likely more thrilling than the actual fish-breeding business); and kids can enjoy the virtual pet quality of it (at least tapping the tank wont kill THESE fish).

So, to conclude; it wasn't the pet sim I thought it was, but I do enjoy it.


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