Gameboy (not color) thread

[Anonymous No.9753609]

Post games of the GB line only.
Good or bad doesn't matter

[Anonymous No.9753614]

no

[Anonymous No.9753618]

Do black carts count? My recommendation list for original gb is easily 3/4ths black carts

[Anonymous No.9753664]

>>9753614
Always thought that picture was of a bunch of red electricity as a kid.

[Anonymous No.9753667]

>>9753618
I think black carts are technically classified as Color games, so, no. Link's Awakening DX was released in a Game Boy Color-branded box, for example.

[Anonymous No.9753719]

>>9753618
I just want to enjoy GB early aesthetic and most black cart games are late 2000 anyways

[Anonymous No.9753729]

Games I remember playing through as a kid
Battle Unit Zeoth
Fortified Zone
Final Fantasy Legend / Adventure
Asmik World
Dragon Slayer I
Rolans Quest
Great Greed
That Dragon’s Lair game that’s actually a ZX Spectrum remake in disguise
And many others…

[Anonymous No.9753782]

>an image you can hear

[Anonymous No.9753785]

as a kid I had:
Alleyway
Wario Land 1,2
Motocross Maniacs
Kirby's Dream Land
Mega Man 1
Donkey Kong Land
Mortal Kombat 2
Pokémon Blue
and I was given Link's Awakening

a friend lended me a bootleg cart which had like 30 actual games too

maybe something else but I don't remember now

I'm playing the Donkey Kong Land trilogy as we speak and i'm having a blast, probably more fun than

other games I played along the years:
The TMNT games, Super C, Mega Man series, Castlevania II (1 and 3 suck)

[Anonymous No.9753935]

>>9753618
nah, fuck off

[Anonymous No.9755136]

if you know you know

[Anonymous No.9755147]

Play Banishing Racer and Esparks if you like platformers

[Anonymous No.9755167]

>>9755136
Doesn't make it a GB original game. Says Color right on the cover.
>inb4 whatabout Pokemon Yellow's cover
Still doesn't matter.

[Anonymous No.9755318]

I find it cool how the GB actually has a number of decent fighting games ports. Even some western ones like Killer Instinct and MK II

[Anonymous No.9755350]

My most played GB game.

[Anonymous No.9755351]

I love f1 race

[Anonymous No.9755357]

is there any meme pic with GB recs? as a kid never really played much outside of pokemon and right now im going through some games with the rg351 i bought recently.
so far:
Mole Mania
Kirby Dreamland 1/2
Mario Picross
Wario/Mario/DK Land

[Anonymous No.9755532]

Marathoning few most popular Nintendo franchises in release order, and got many GB titles in a row lately: recently finished DK Land and Super Mario Land, halfway through Kirby's Dream Land 2 and about to start Metroid ~~Land~~ II.

DKL - solid af platformer, although less challenging than DKC. The soundtrack is just top notch, I probably enjoyed it even more than the SNES one.

Mario Land - disliked at first for the stiff and non-Mario-like physics, but kinda enjoyed towards the end. Now I know the origin of this sort of Egyptian setting in the Smash Brawl campaign. Wish they added a password for the hard mode so you don't lose it after restarting the game. Constantly checking if my RetroArch tab still works while I'm not playing did no good for my anxiety.

Dream Land 2 - pretty good, but I liked the first one and Adventure more. Not sure why tho, probably because the levels aren't challenging enough for the new features.

[Anonymous No.9755991]

Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer GB

[Anonymous No.9756050]

>>9755532
I love DKL as well, DKL2 and 3 are really good too though less unique than 1 was. I liked 2 more than 3, the later felt too simple and easy and that it lost too much compared to the SNES title

[Anonymous No.9756247]

I never see anyone mention this one but it's an interesting take on puzzle platforming that I haven't seen copied much

[Anonymous No.9757691]

Hands down my favorite game on the system

[Anonymous No.9757931]

Always wondered, how GB games mostly hold up better today than NES ones despite being released for an inferior platform? And what's up with the "Land" subtitle in so many games, what does it mean?

[Anonymous No.9757940]

>>9757931
NES was more expandable through mappers but the base GB hardware was better.

[Anonymous No.9757970]

>>9753664
I always saw a weird moai head sort of thing.

[Anonymous No.9758002]

>>9757931
>how GB games mostly hold up better today than NES ones

That's like, your opinion man.

[Anonymous No.9758158]

This fucking tomato thing.

[Anonymous No.9758163]

>>9753609
Actually kind of good.

[Anonymous No.9758249]

>>9753664
Until right now I thought it was a weird red 2001 embryo, I never saw the gameboy or the headphones wtf

[Anonymous No.9758759]

>>9757931
Land like playland or Disneyland. Like small.

[Anonymous No.9758796]

>>9757931
I suspect Super Mario Land was named that while Super Mario World was still in development or was around the corner, so the Land contrasts as a smaller game than the World.

The Donkey Kong Land games are probably paying homage to Super Mario Land. They came out after the country games. There isn't really a big size difference between a land and a country, so it has to be a reference to the "land" side series of Mario games.

Kirby's Dream Land is probably unrelated.

[Anonymous No.9758801]

>>9757691
Who made that cover? The game is called Pitman in Japan.

[Anonymous No.9758810]

>>9753729
>Fortified Zone
Monica

[Anonymous No.9759870]

>>9758801
No idea, it's probably an edit. I found it on google and used it because the american box art is just a shitty version of the japanese box art

[Anonymous No.9760059]

>>9757940
Really? Didn't know that.

>>9758002
OK. Just my opinion, but GB games although being limited by screen size and visibility, tend to feel much less clunky and archaic than the NES ones. Probably game design development over time also mattered, besides the hardware.

>>9758759
>>9758796
Makes sense. Still a nice coincidence tho.

[Anonymous No.9760169]

This game sucked so bad but everyone had it

[Anonymous No.9760556]

>>9760059
>but GB games although being limited by screen size and visibility, tend to feel much less clunky and archaic than the NES ones. Probably game design development over time also mattered, besides the hardware.

Outside of screen size, resolution and FOV the only difference is that GB games as a whole tend to be easier and shorter than NES games. The GB doesn't nearly has as many good games as the NES, only the PSX does.

[Anonymous No.9760974]

>>9757691
The fun stopped for me around stage 26 or so. Neat little game, though.

[Anonymous No.9760979]

>>9760169
A friend of mine had it, and it indeed blew. Oddly enough my grandma had a Gameboy to entertain me and a cousin that would visit, and rarely if ever bought shit games. Almost all were quite good.
>Mario Land
>Tetris
>Zelda
>Nemesis
>Motocross Maniacs
>Mega Man 2
>Metroid
>Star Trek
>Kirby
>Operation C
Damn, patrician grandma looking back. That or my cousin fed her game recs.

[Anonymous No.9760989]

>>9760979
Battletoads, DKL, and TMNT as well.

[Anonymous No.9763073]

Can't believe I almost got filtered by this bullshit. The levels in this game seemed to be very short and easy, but when it comes to looking for the rainbow drops with a specific friend+ability combo it's just annoying. Since that fucking fish can't shoot fire downwards, I had to get rid of the blocks on my way by quickly dropping the ability, inhaling a block, then inhaling the ability back before it disappears in a fraction of a second and repeat because my buddy is too fat for a 1 block hole. It's not even challenging, it's retarded.

[Anonymous No.9763126]

Battle Unit Zeoth is awesome
Shmup with a health bar instead of exploding after every hit like a fag, mostly progressive powerups that feel useful and powerful, good control over movement, not to mention controlling direction of fire, levels stay fresh, difficulty level easy enough for a kid to beat and still feel accomplished, and best of all the bosses are giant mysterious bulletspraying mechanical alien horrors. Short and sweet.
I want more games like this.

[Anonymous No.9763529]

does n e one know if pic related has been dumped? i cant find a rom of it anywhere.
i got the same cart with my gameboy i got as a 7/8yo back in the early 90's, obviously a bootleg cart, my dad got it either from jersey or guernsey, about 30yrs ago, thought someone might have dumped it by now.
i still have it as well as another which has 220-in-1. if not i may have to get something to dump it myself.

also pretty sure i heard u can dump games with the gamecube gameboy player, but may only work for GBA not GB/GBC not certain.

[Anonymous No.9763625]

>>9763529
Man you can dump on a n64 with an everdrive.

[Anonymous No.9763646]

>>9760974
Shame. Go a bit further in and you start the puzzles that need both cat kids to solve.