/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9478565
James bond is a pretty good zelda clone

>>9478565
The other Nintendo staples are all good.

Mario/Wario Land series
Link's Awakening
Metroid 2

>>9478565
I was actually just playing this game over the weekend and I finally beat it after having it on my 3DS for 10 years.
It became not just one of my favorite Game Boy games, but also one of my favorite games. It was challenging, but I was glad I stuck to the end. Many of the puzzles were super clever and sometimes it took me a while to figure out what to do. Mario controls like a dream as well, although I don’t care for the roll he makes when he falls a distance.
My other favorite games for Game Boy are Mega Man IV and V, Kirby’s Dream Land 2, Kirby’s Block Ball, Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins, Trip World, and the Bomberman GB series of games.

I love seeing people talk about this game because I was the only person I knew growing up that played it. It's a great game. I like it more than any of the Mario or Wario games on there, and I like those too.

Trip World is worth playing at least once. I really like the Sunsoft Batman game on there too. Kirby's Dream Land and its sequels are also great. And if you haven't played Link's Awakening and like Zelda games, you need to. It's one of the best games in the series.

I haven't played these yet myself, but I hear that Cave Noir and The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls are great.

>>9478590
I really liked Frog, but it's not at all what you'd expect it to be. It reminded me more of Monkey Island than anything else.

>>9478615
That sounds sick, I had no idea.

>>9478565
Mole Mania (I'm only half joking)

I remember playing this on a livestream with a friend watching.
His reaction was lukewarm at first

>"Donkey Kong on gameboy?"
>"Oh. Cool."
>2 minutes pass, first levels cleared
>"-What?"
>"WHAT? HOLD ON WHAT - WHAT?"
>"WHAT IS HAPPENING"

Here's the part none of you knew.
Jump Up Superstar is actually the end credits theme of DK94.
You'll have to listen carefully, but you'll find that I'm right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSytcJ7X6JA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9r5hx47kxM

>>9478871
Eh I can kind of hear the "jump with me grab coins with me oh yeah" melody in DK94 a little bit, but I'd be willing to bet it's a total coincidence.

>>9478901
UR A FUCKIN COINCIDENCE

>>9478615
My favorite part of the game was the running gag where You start the game with 100000000 coins, but some convenient plot device always takes it away from you right before you get to a shop. Then you always end up finding it again when you're in a part of the game with no shops. The game's hilarious.

>>9478578
seconding Mario land 2 and the wario land titles, especially the latter. Mario land 1 I didn't grow up with and it feels a bit too wonky to me, it's charming but has a bit of a bootleg atmosphere imo. Metroid 2 is very hit or miss, I like it well enough but I have to be in a very specific mood.

>>9478926
Yeah, the dialogue is surprisingly entertaining for a Game Boy game.

>>9478904
It'd be cool if it was true but I dont think it is

>>9478565
gargoyles quest

>>9479007
Harder than most NES games. Those levels are long, and you only have two hits.

>>9479042
You get more hits as you go on, up to five.

>>9479093
Oh dang, I might give it another shot then.

>>9478871
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6SoIojIrXg

>>9479134
>>9479134
>>9479134

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>9478871
>>9478871
>>9478871

The best games are the obvious Nintendo ones, and they're pretty much all hits. Kirby's Dream Land 2 is a really well put together platformer and despite being someone easy, it's secret crystals required for the final boss are cleverly hidden (and the actual final boss fight is incredibly cool). Metroid 2 has crazy atmosphere and is remarkably intuitive to find your way since it's relatively linear. Zelda Link's Awakening has a ton of heart and easily holds it's own against the bigger 3D games in the series as one of the best. The Mario/Wario Land games are all great platformers, each with their own distinct flavor. The Donkey Kong Land games are a great alternative to the Country trilogy and worth playing for their own sake. Pokemon Red/Blue are well thought out RPGs that are worthy of the insane media empire they spawned.

>>9479215
Yes, thank you for the most basic bitch day-one assessment of Game Boy games. Not even mentioning the Kirby spinoffs which are infinitely better and actually challenging. Also DKL is garbage.

I rate Monster Max as the next puzzle platformer after DK94 even though it's isometric instead of sidescrolling and less acrobatic. This is one no one talks about, and it was made by the guy that made Batman and Head Over Heels on the Spectrum, closing a sort of isometric puzzle platformer trilogy of Jon Ritman.

>>9479306
Any relation to a Sylvester and Tweety isometric puzzle game on GBC?

>>9478565
I'm probably the anon who urged everyone to play dk94 and MvsDK.
I'll list some games gb/GBC/gba

Donkey Kong land 1/2/3(play with GBC filters)
Final fantasy legend 1/2/3
Metroid 2
link's awakening
Oracle of ages/seasons
Minish cap
Oddworld adventures 1/2
007
Kirby's dl 1/2/blockball/
Warioland 1/2/3/4
Sml 1/2
Legend of the river king
Defender/just
Balloon kid
Antz
Game and watch gallery series
Ms pacman maze madness
Blades of steel
Legit Star wars 2
Tetris
Gex 3
Chicken run
Lufia 2
Hamtaro
MegaMan zero 1-4
Fortress
Pokemon
Kingdom hearts chain memories
Yu-Gi-Oh worldwide gba
Mario & Luigi superstar saga

>>9479476
>Balloon kid
Based. Play the Japan-only GBC version, though.

>>9478565
Megalit is pretty fun imo.

>>9478565
>ctrl + f
no Kid Dracula.
Fuck you all.
also NO Mystic Quest / Final Fantasy Adventure
double fuck you all. Are you all retarded?

>>9479476
Sorry for trying to help OP out but god your list is shit. What is wrong with you like seriously? At least there are some good titles in there but also stinkers like
>Oddworld adventures 1/2
a game where you can not make out shit and Gex 3 sucks too and chicken Run and fucking ANTZ?! Seriously what is wrong with you?
Also no
Survival Kids/Stranded Kids

so far this thread is not very good and I am disappointed.

>>9479546
>no Kid Dracula.
>Fuck you all.
It's actually just a remix of the NES game. It does have some new bosses, and it is the only Western release, so it's at least playable.

>>9479546
>Also no
>Survival Kids/Stranded Kids
This was strictly a GB thread until that faggot posted. It's definitely one of the better GBC games.

Nobody? Here's the best game boy game.

>>9479546
>Oddworld adventures 1/2
>a game where you can not make out shit and Gex 3 sucks too and chicken Run and fucking ANTZ?! Seriously what is wrong with you?
Are you retarded?
Nothing, those games are good.

>>9479556
The cove is fucking awful and just so badly drawn like look at her arm or how weird his fingers are BUT thanks a lot for posting the cover. First time I see it in my life and I own this game on a mega cartridge (back in the 90s when the GB was almost new and did not have many games) and I always thought they are little daemons but yeh the name should have given it away if English was my first language. I almost beat that game but there was always something scary about it.

>>9479553
Yeh i know it is a GB thread but that guy is a complete faggot. He has to bring up GBC and GBA as well and only drops shit like WTF the GBC and GBA have some amazing titles and then he names one of the worst crap ever and even forgets about classics like Stranded Kids

but like I said
play Mystic Quest, it is amazing and one of the best GB games out there.
Kwirk is also fun. I think there are some pretty interesting early GB games. Turtles 1-2 and Castlevania 2 and 3 are great too.
I always loved Metroid for GB.

>>9479558
yeh you are full of shit which explains your terrible taste

>>9479605
>Mystic Quest
Yeah, FFA is playable. FFL2/SaGa is way better, though.

I also really like video pinball games with objectives and stages that go beyond recreating what a standard table would do. On Game Boy there is Pinball Revenge of the Gator, Kirby's Pinball Land, and Pokémon pinball, that play very similarly, and are enjoyable and simple though hard to master.
>>9479382
None, but Ritman and Drummond's older isometric platformers were very influential on euro developers

>>9479651
Kirby's Pinball has a lot of RNG, like a literal slot machine that lets you proceed to the boss. I don't know if pinball is supposed to be like that, but I dropped it there.

>>9479651
>On Game Boy there is Pinball Revenge of the Gator, Kirby's Pinball Land, and Pokémon pinball, that play very similarly
Aren't they all made by the same people?

>>9479665
Yeah, HAL. Wonder what caused them to go so hard on pinball on the Game Boy.

Avenging Spirit

>>9479605
You're such a complainer crybaby. I don't think you ever gave those games a fair chance or you're a zoomer bitch. All you can talk about is stranded kids, like yeah this is /vr/ it gets brought up, I've played it. It's good. I just posted some games, I didn't say they were going to be obscure or the top ten I said, some games. Though, the games I posted are all good in their own right.

>>9479476
Thanks anon.

>>9479749
Was an arcade game to begin with. Still good.
>>9479770
Samefag.

>>9478565
I enjoyed this one

>>9479784
Feelings on the final boss?

>>9479790
Not really a fan of the "Mega Man Gaunlets".
Final boss itself was kinda underwhelming

>>9479801
You didn't play it.

>>9479436

The Amazing Spider-Man for the GameBoy is not one of the greatest games on the system. But it is a game that I played quite a bit of on a real GameBoy and Super GameBoy. The opening theme song is an awesome rendition of the 60's Spider-Man cartoon theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNYLtkMTlLQ

>>9478565
Metroid 2, the second Gradius and Castlevania games (the second Castlevania is called Belmont's Revenge), Kirby's Dreamland 1 and 2, Tilt'n'Tumble, Block Ball, Pinball: Revenge of the Gator, Wario Land 1-3 and Mega Man 1-5. The latter two Mega Man games in particular are amazing: the fourth one uses already existing robot masters but makes new (and better) stages using them while the fifth one is completely original.

>>9479838
You didn't play the Mega Mans.

>>9479546
kid dracula is cute but it's not a good game.

>>9479906
The NES version is. Also you're a blackpilling trannykike.

>>9479803
I sure didn't

>>9479919
Noice. Did you ever use the puzzle clear item?

>>9479923
A few times but went back to the levels for the 100%

>>9479931
Which ones did you have a problem with?

>>9479934
There was one puzzle in w5 with a square of pure pipes, other in w6 i think which had to be timed to stop the Ball and other in a beach with a lot of arrows that change the item directions to

>>9479939
>change the item directions to
Are you a bot, or did you just have a stroke?

>>9479942
sorry, english is not my main languaje

>>9479943
Nah, you're a bot.

>>9479295
nta but if OP didn't know dk94 I think starting from basics is reasonable and it's a thoughtful post. go take your sourpuss ass to the time out corner to pout it out. also dkl is good and has a dope reinterpretation of the country ost. lil bitch

>>9479949
Consume my balls.

>>9479917
>nes version
>What are the best Game Boy games?

>>9479954
>someone brings up a Game Boy game which is an NES remix
>you lose your fucking mind because you're a retard

>>9479605
of course it's an ESL shitting up the thread

>>9479946
I wish

Anyway, Here's that dumb Puzzle with the arrow shit
https://youtu.be/cwt5YS3RsZo?t=1640

If you enjoy puzzle platformers, give Solomon's Club a go.

>>9479964
>you lost your mind
reread the comment chain

>>9479978
You're going to die, you fucking kike.

>>9479783
>Was an arcade game to begin with. Still good.
Quite a few people prefer the Gameboy version to the arcade version, just because the arcade version is full of quarter-eating bullshit that got rebalanced.

>>9479965
Shut up, big meanie. I'm defending him because I took a Spanish class. I hope he'll blow me a kiss...?

>>9478565
The Pokémon TCG games are surprisingly fun. A bit too easy if you make actual competitive decks, but worth playing either way.

>>9479919
Why the wii version of mgba doesnt support SGB mode?

>>9479973
Thank you Dana

>>9478565
i remember finally beating 100m and being absolutely shocked that that was only the beginning of the game

>>9478738
Mole Mania is no joke. It's fantastic and a Miyamoto project.

>>9479906
a not-insignificant amount of GB games fall under this category. even kirby's dreamland 2 pales in comparison to kirby's adventure on NES. However, it does have LA which is obviously a must-play. Not saying Kirby and Kid Dracula aren't cute though. Definitely worth a go-through

>>9478565
Super Mario Land 2, Tetris, Harvest Moon, Wario Land. Also play The Grinch, it's surprisingly good and perfect for Christmas time

>>9478565
I've been wanting to play this game again for years, how do I buy a cartridge online and be sure the battery won't be dead?

>>9481127
Only way I can really think of to know for sure is to ask the seller to test it for you.

Batteries in these carts are really easy to replace, thankfully. It's best to solder the replacement battery in place, but you can get away with just using electrical tape. You really just need the right screwdriver to get the cartridge open.
Or you could go full crackhead like I did as a broke teenager, hold the flame from a Bic to the tip of the casing of a ballpoint pen and press it onto the screw while it's still molten, making a screwdriver that works exactly twice. You probably shouldn't do that though.

>>9480690
I always appreciate when a licensed property doesn't go for the generic sidescroller template.

>>9478590
>Sunsoft Batman
Is that the TAS game? Because I loved that one, and I think it did a really great job translating the shows artstyle into GB graphics.

>>9480690
I remember hating the shit out of the PS1 version of The Grinch, it wax one of the few games i had that got close to zero play. What was the GB one like?

>>9481224
Nope, I actually haven't played that one. I looked it up and it does look great, though. Apparently Konami made that one.
I was talking about the game "based on" the 1989 movie where Batman's inexplicably a little plump guy with a handgun.
https://youtu.be/L1MIbJY1s6I

>>9481238
it's a metal gear clone made using ghost babel as a template.

>>9479816
I would say that it's one of the better platformers that I've played on the system. It's not amazing, but it's definitely not awful like a lot of people say it is, like that Jeremy parish guy on youtube who barely understood how to play the game before reviewing it. fun fact is the game was actually developed by rareware. that song you posted is so good, I remember listening to it over and over again as a kid when my friend brought over his game boy game collection to my house.

>>9479965
i read it and I saw that my gay ass phone auto corrected cover to cove. What else is wrong?

>>9480185
thanks. I'm wondering what all those terrible mistakes are this dude claims I have made. Also English isn't my second language. I'm wondering how many he speaks and yeh it's actually my third.

I will never not post this game in gb threads. go play it!! It's way better than the snes version

>>9481956
forgot the pic my bad

>>9481957
A monkey named Spanky. Hmmmm.

>>9479651
Pokemon Pinball had really shitty physics, others were good however

>>9479556
First rewind before

>>9479556
based