I remember worrying about whether or not this would be a trend with the Gameboy. Both games were okay, but neither made me want to spend any real time with them. Spent most of this month focusing on the NES, but found time for Mole Mania and Dragon Warrior I & II. The best games were Kirby Tilt & Tumble, which proved to be to uncomfortable to enjoy, and the Gameboy port of Duck Tales, which was… fine. Revelations quickly became boring, and I found Dragon Warrior Monsters downright bad. Harvest Moon GBC served only to remind me why the original Harvest Moon game is better left as a memory, and Donkey Kong Land just seemed like a poor knockoff of its big brother on the SNES. This game is an absolute gem, so much so that I’m considering getting a reproduction of the Famicom version for the NES. Luckily, Kid Dracula was there to save the day! I’d never heard of this game before this project, and it’s easily my personal favorite platformer for the handheld.
When I pop a golf or tennis game into my Gameboy, it’s because I want to just play golf or tennis… Street Fighter Alpha was relatively unoffensive, but it wasn’t really anything to get excited over either… I understand the RPG elements of Camelot’s Mario sports games are really appealing to a lot of people, but they just don’t click with me. Tomb Raider, Kid Icarus and Mario Golf were just incredibly average, enough that I was completely uninterested in finishing them. Everything about it just seemed clunky and not very fun, so much so that I didn’t even bother putting it back on my shelf, instead tossing it into the overlow box. Perfect Dark was an awful experience, which is odd considering how much I enjoyed Metal Gear Solid on the Gameboy later in the list. The second month was a mixed bag of terrible, mediocre, average, and one fantastic stand out. This was unfortunate, as I was looking forward to both game, but neither of them really had an impact on me. Pokemon TCG was obviously good, combining to of my favorite things (Pokemon and card games) and recreating what I’ve always considered one of the better card games on the market.įrom there things start falling off though, with both F1 and Yoshi’s Cookie being pretty big disappointments. Not a whole lot to talk about for the first month with the device.
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Suddenly I was looking forward to Legend of Zelda and Metroid, and had a deeper, or at least different, appreciation for how the portable entries stood up compared to their console counterparts. Incidentally, it was playing through the NES list that really gave some meaning to the games I’d be playing on the handheld.
As a result, I decided to the Gameboy on hold after a certain point, until I was done with the NES and could focus on it completely. I was also playing them in tandem with the NES games, so it always kind of felt like that thing I did when I wasn’t working on the “main” portion of the project. When I first started playing Gameboy games for the project, and honestly I didn’t really have any set expectations. Why the GB Boy? It can be bought brand new for $25 brand new and it has a proper backlight! Sure I could play games on a GBA SP, and did for a while, but then you risk knocking the cartridge and resetting your game... It wouldn’t be until starting this project and buying a bootleg GB Boy Colour that I would actual experience a larger amount of the Gameboy’s library. Even with Pokemon I often had to hold up a magnifying glass to the screen just to see any sort of detail. There was also the general lack of interest in portable devices given that I’m legally blind. In fact, when I first got one it never occurred to me that it could actually play games that weren’t Pokemon! I thought it was some kind of single person device that was designed specifically for the one game! (which comes with 30 fully-playable games) >Ĭlick here for some more Super Mario Brothers online fun and games >Ĭlick here for some more Nintendo GameBoy-related online fun >Ĭlick here or here to play over 150 Super Mario Brothers and Sonic the Hedgehog Flash and Java online games in one place.My history with the Gameboy is actually, surprising, extremely limited. The in-game controls are as follows:Ĭlick here to start a different "Nintendo GameBoy Emulator"
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