You'll always have Amazon or Ebay if you would like to order them, but for those that prefer to stick with Gamestop shopping, you'll want to be on the lookout for the games in this list. Post whatever games you want guys. Just please accompany each entry with a short review.
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To start, here's a game that made criminally low sales in the US. A game that is brimming with personality and some rockin tunes.
![Image](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f2/Elite_Beat_Agents.jpg)
What does it take for a game to make excellent sales? Apparantly not excellent reviews from critics and a number of 2006 awards. Elite Beat Agents is actually the American spinoff of a Japanese rhythm game for the DS, called Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan. Which was also the inspiration for the free online rhythm game, Osu!
The game is entirely stylus based and uses the touch screen of the DS in probably the most effective way ever. You simply tap numbered bubbles in time with the music in order to help troubled people in need. In a game like EBA, the gameplay is only 50% of the experience. The other half comes from the characters and animations that play out in the top screen. Do excellent, and the characters in the top screen will too. Do lousy, and the characters will get flustered and start messing up. These characters and their scenarios are well thought out and often pretty wacky.
My personal favorite is a meteorologist who is the mother of a young boy. She promised to have a picnic with her son that weekend, but right when she's about to go on air to deliver the weather, she's told that there is 100% chance of rain. She knows her son is watching her, so she says that it will be a sunny weekend. It's then up to the Elite Beat Agents to help her get rid of all the storm clouds is crazy ways by dancing to the song, September.
Without outright gushing, EBA is a game that was developed with high standards in mind. You can see the love and work the designers put into the game. I recently found a copy at Gamestop for only 5 bucks. If you own a DS (preferably a non-XL model), you would do well to purchase this game and experience one of the greatest DS games from 2006. Music lives!
-Final Notes-
A few songs in the game are...
Sk8er Boi, ABC, Walkie Talkie Man, YMCA, Makes no Difference, Highway Star, Material Girl, Jumpin Jack Flash, and Survivor.