Re: Time to brush up the Gameboy/GBC Hidden Gems list
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 3:34 pm
One thing I used to be well educated with was Gameboy games, especially the pre-GBA stuff. Thanks to how the N64 was choked through more than half its life it turned me into a handheld gamer (and one who owned a Duo too.) I had a LOT of them because they were cheap then and mostly still are cheap now too so I'd experiment a good bit.
Wizards and Warriors (GB) oddly called chapter 10(eh?) Fortress of Fear is a fantastic under the radar game. A solid platformer without all the weird floaty gravity and that totally lost feeling of the NES titles, it had defined stages and tighter controls.
Lemmings/Oh No More Lemmings (GBC) fairly overlooked, a solid conversion and plays well, lacks the ability to speed up walking (ugh) but very good and unlike the old GB version as you can see from the title, has the sequel included.
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine (GBC) plot is there, the flow of the stages fairly well too, but it is so differently designed and wasn't advertised really at all it went under the radar but it's a solid gauntlet like view indy game with good design to it.
(PC-DOS buddies!) Commander Keen/Duke Nukem (GBC) - They're not the games you grew up with for DOS, but they're designed to be like the old games. Keen is more colorful so it looks a little more different than Duke which is in the style of DN2. They're good throwback platformers.
(Capcom NES/Arcade junk!) They ported 1942 and Ghosts N Goblins to the GBC. 1942 is GBC only, it shows, it's more the arcade game than the NES. The G&G game is a hybrid looks like a straight NES port with a save mechanism(password.) Both are nice though.
Revelations the Demon Slayer (GB/GBC hybrid) - This one from Atlus is if I recall right is part of the earlier days of the SMT series franchise. Play as a human, command, fight, befriend demons, merge them to make better ones, solid adventure. I finished this when it was new back then. Due to the name few realize it's one of the series.
Microsoft Pinball Arcade (GBC) - Conversion of the PC-Windows release, lacks 2 of the tables (one because it is just a sit and watch the ball thing which is boring, the other a 90s DMD style pin too much for GBC to handle.) Low color solid conversions of some excellent Gottlieb EM(mostly) and one SS pinball table...5 in all if I remember right.
Wizards and Warriors (GB) oddly called chapter 10(eh?) Fortress of Fear is a fantastic under the radar game. A solid platformer without all the weird floaty gravity and that totally lost feeling of the NES titles, it had defined stages and tighter controls.
Lemmings/Oh No More Lemmings (GBC) fairly overlooked, a solid conversion and plays well, lacks the ability to speed up walking (ugh) but very good and unlike the old GB version as you can see from the title, has the sequel included.
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine (GBC) plot is there, the flow of the stages fairly well too, but it is so differently designed and wasn't advertised really at all it went under the radar but it's a solid gauntlet like view indy game with good design to it.
(PC-DOS buddies!) Commander Keen/Duke Nukem (GBC) - They're not the games you grew up with for DOS, but they're designed to be like the old games. Keen is more colorful so it looks a little more different than Duke which is in the style of DN2. They're good throwback platformers.
(Capcom NES/Arcade junk!) They ported 1942 and Ghosts N Goblins to the GBC. 1942 is GBC only, it shows, it's more the arcade game than the NES. The G&G game is a hybrid looks like a straight NES port with a save mechanism(password.) Both are nice though.
Revelations the Demon Slayer (GB/GBC hybrid) - This one from Atlus is if I recall right is part of the earlier days of the SMT series franchise. Play as a human, command, fight, befriend demons, merge them to make better ones, solid adventure. I finished this when it was new back then. Due to the name few realize it's one of the series.
Microsoft Pinball Arcade (GBC) - Conversion of the PC-Windows release, lacks 2 of the tables (one because it is just a sit and watch the ball thing which is boring, the other a 90s DMD style pin too much for GBC to handle.) Low color solid conversions of some excellent Gottlieb EM(mostly) and one SS pinball table...5 in all if I remember right.