Play 2 in 1 - Sonic Pinball Party & Columns Crown (E)(Independent) Online

This GBA cart is basically two solid games for the price of one—and they couldn’t be more different. Sonic Pinball Party takes everything chaotic about Sonic and slams it into pinball tables. You’ll recognize zones from the Genesis games, but now you’re bouncing the little guy off bumpers and praying he doesn’t drain between the flippers. It’s way more fun than it has any right to be.

Then there’s Columns Crown, which is like if Tetris and Bejeweled had a very orderly baby. The gem-matching feels satisfyingly chunky on the GBA’s screen, and the new power-ups actually make you think instead of just smashing buttons. I kept switching between the two—one minute I’m tilting the system to save Sonic from a gutter ball, the next I’m carefully rotating jewel clusters. Both games hold up surprisingly well.