08-05-2004, 12:30 AM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,186
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Polish Your Green Thumbs: Plant Tycoon Ported to Pocket PC
"Plant Tycoon sets players on a journey to create a virtual nursery of wildly diverse plants, cross-pollinating numerous varieties along the way to discovering the genetic codes for four magical plants. To finance the research necessary to pollinate and harvest the four magical plants, players must sell their discoveries along the way to earn the financial resources vital to acquiring special enhancements— such as exotic seeds, soil upgrades, radioactive plant food, and Insta-Grow fertilizer. Unique among games for mobile devices is the "real-time" nature of growing a virtual plant nursery in Plant Tycoon. Unless a player pauses the game, plants will continue to grow and thrive, or wither and perhaps become bug infested —depending on how often the player monitors and nurtures the plants in the nursery."
Magical Plants? Exotic seeds? I half expect Cheech and Chong to make an appearance in this title, which I'm SURE has nothing to do with the favorite past-time of those gents. Rather, it looks like this is a "Tamagotchi in a garden" sort of thing, which means that these digital plants actually have a chance of surviving what I like to call my Black Thumb of Death. My uninterrupted string of floralcide includes 3 bonsai trees, innumerable ferns, and a Venus Fly Trap that somehow managed to eat itself. :mrgreen:
This game was released for the Palm platform in November of 2003, so it's had a chance to be thoroughly reviewed by such esteemed publications as pdabuyersguide, PDArcade, PocketGoddess, bityard, and more. All told, this looks like a very fun, extremely addictive game. To celebrate their first foray into the Pocket PC world, LDW software has hacked $10 off the price, which means you can pick up a copy for the almost criminally low price of just $9.95. If any of you Palm converts out there have played this, pipe up and let us know what you think!
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08-05-2004, 01:32 AM
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2000 Posts And This is All I Get?
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 2,017
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Looks like a nice game. Any other place to buy other than handango ?
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08-05-2004, 02:07 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 258
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The game is very addictive. I have it on my T3. This is not a 'Tamagotchi' sort of thing - it has much more depth than that! But Fish Tycoon (also by LDW) is better.
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08-05-2004, 02:55 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 90
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Originally Posted by Maximus
Looks like a nice game. Any other place to buy other than handango ?
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Jonathan, they also plan on porting Fish Tycoon.
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08-05-2004, 04:24 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 53
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looks fun. any ETA for the ppc version of fish tycoon?
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08-05-2004, 04:25 AM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 5,133
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Well, I just bought it - hopefully I'll have time to PLAY it soon...
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08-05-2004, 02:38 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 26
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I started playing this yesterday. Picked it up for the $9.95 discounted price through Handango.
So yesterday I took a brief departure from being generally lazy to get in a workout in our home office/den, I and couldn't help but glance repeatedly over to my docked....Oh good- I just sold another plant. I only need an additional $200 to upgrade to bio-organic soil.... Anyway, where was I? Oh, so I kept glancing over at my ppc to check on the status of my plants. Sad, I know.
Not all of my friends would understand why I think growing simulated plants is even slightly entertaining. But, really, it is!
The only thing I'm a little disappointed in is the quality of the some of the graphics. Nice, but not as nice as many of the other games I've tried out.
It's a fun game and it will likely keep my interest for quite a while. After all- there is a genetic puzzle to solve, so there is some brain power in use.
Looking forward to Fish Tycoon as well. 
--Heather
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08-20-2004, 06:09 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 352
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Fun game. Very fun.
I love creating mutant plants.
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Linear Mode
