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85)
Astra Superstars86)
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance87)
Star Wars: Dark Forces 2 - Jedi Knight88)
Star Wars: Dark Forces89)
VVVVVV90)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist91)
Broforce (PS4)
92)
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight93)
The Terminator (SCD)
94)
Aban Hawkins and the 1001 Spikes95)
Electronic Super Joy96)
Golden Axe (GEN)
97)
Double Dragon (GB)
98)
Double Dragon II (GB)
99)
Double Dragon III (GB)
100)
Super Mario Land (GB)
101)
Kirby's Dream Land (GB)
Yeah, another Game Boy title. I managed years ago to snag
Super Mario Land for cheap with the box and everything. Wish I'd gone ahead and picked up the other in-box games that were there, too. I didn't think they were good ones (and they weren't), but they
were complete, which is rather rare in the Game Boy world. I only went for
Super Mario Land 1 & 2.
Anyway, it's a good, if weird, Mario game. It's also pretty gutsy, going for a shooter stage at the end. Probably a bit of a callback to prior work on
Kid Icarus. This was R&D1 that developed the game with Gunpei Yokoi at the helm, as opposed to Miyamoto's R&D4.
Technically, this brings me to 100 games on the year, but... I've got a couple of repeats in there from save-state and legit runs, so the actual number is slightly less. Although I'm very tempted to claim
Solitaire that I was playing while goofing around with Windows 3.1 in DOSBox. Dang it, I don't know that I've
ever had such a run of bad luck in
Solitaire as I did then. It probably took 40 tries before the RNG stopped screwing me over!
EDIT:
Kirby's Dream Land is really short. Like, 20 minutes short. Which I knew, but still, I'd hate to have bought a game back in the day only for it to be over that quickly. It's a fun game, and quite surprising how fully-formed the idea was back then. No copy powers in this one, though, and no dashing or sliding. And no double-inhale power star shot. You get a few items that I don't think show up anywhere else: the mint leaf, which lets you stay aloft while still being able to exhale air puffs; the curry plate, which lets you shoot fire, and a bomb to inhale, which acts pretty much like the power shot.
Fantastic looking for a Game Boy game, of course. And the typical bouncy soundtrack. Sometimes, the more things change, the more they stay the same.