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Anticipation

Overview

Anticipation is a video board game for one to four players (both computer and human). The object of the game is to be the first to collect a card for each of the four colors on the game board. During each turn the computer will display seemingly random dots, then a pencil starts connecting the dots to form a picture. The first player to correctly identify the picture will earn a card for the color of the picture being drawn. As the picture draws, a dice on the screen will count down from 6 to 1. Whatever value is showing when a player successfully identifies the picture is the number of spaces that players game piece will move on the game board for the next turn. The color of the space the game piece lands on will dictate the category for the next picture to be drawn.

Each game will choose four categories from the various options, which include: tools, man made, clothing, food, math, office, travel, music, things, natural, leisure, and many others. After you've mastered the easier skill levels, the difficulty can be increased which will present more complicated pictures, remove some of the dots from the picture, or eliminate the dots entirely.

The game supports one to four players, however the NES satellite is not supported. If three or four players are competing, then two players will need to share a single controller. The control pad or A/B buttons would ring in a player who knew the answer for the picture being drawn, then the controller would have to be handed to that player in order to enter in the answer.

Developers
Rare
Publishers
Nintendo
Alternate Names
No information available

Media

Box - 3D

Anticipation - Box - 3D (North America) - 903x1401
North America -  903 x 1401

Box - Back

Anticipation - Box - Back (North America) - 1540x2100
North America -  1540 x 2100
Anticipation - Box - Back (Europe) - 800x1150
Europe -  800 x 1150

Box - Front

Anticipation - Box - Front (North America) - 1528x2100
North America -  1528 x 2100
Anticipation - Box - Front (Europe) - 800x1132
Europe -  800 x 1132

Box - Spine

Anticipation - Box - Spine (North America) - 149x1080
North America -  149 x 1080

Cart - Front

Anticipation - Cart - Front (North America) - 700x778
North America -  700 x 778

Clear Logo

Anticipation - Clear Logo (World) - 1803x421
World -  1803 x 421

Screenshot - Game Title

Anticipation - Screenshot - Game Title (North America) - 256x240
North America -  256 x 240
Anticipation - Screenshot - Game Title (Europe) - 256x240
Europe -  256 x 240

Screenshot - Gameplay

Anticipation - Screenshot - Gameplay (null) - 256x240
256 x 240
Anticipation - Screenshot - Gameplay (null) - 256x240
256 x 240
Anticipation - Screenshot - Gameplay (null) - 256x240
256 x 240