Help me remember a couple of Game Boy games!
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Help me remember a couple of Game Boy games!
Okay, I know there are a few Game Boy specialists on this forum, so I'm looking for help identifying a couple of original monochrome Game boy games I remember playing on Chinese multicarts 10-15 years ago...
The first one had the title "Croc" (in the multiboot menu), but it is not the GBC game based on the PlayStation-era franchise of the same name. This game was a simplistic platformer with static screens you would progress through one by one. Each screen was split up into three (top, middle, bottom) and you could take multiple paths. The top level was usually clouds, the bottom was water. The crocodile character had a tail attack as far as I recall, and it may have released a little crescent shape when it attacked.
The second one may have been called "Dungeon (something)". There was no storyline to this game, you just started with a knight looking character in the middle of a dungeon. It was a top-down view and I seem to recall there being powerups, crosses and various enemies including, possibly, spiders. You may have also been able to remove walls, but maybe not!
I could probably draw a rough outline of what these games would have looked like in paint, but I'm not really much of an artist and the foggy memory doesn't help!
Any ideas?
The first one had the title "Croc" (in the multiboot menu), but it is not the GBC game based on the PlayStation-era franchise of the same name. This game was a simplistic platformer with static screens you would progress through one by one. Each screen was split up into three (top, middle, bottom) and you could take multiple paths. The top level was usually clouds, the bottom was water. The crocodile character had a tail attack as far as I recall, and it may have released a little crescent shape when it attacked.
The second one may have been called "Dungeon (something)". There was no storyline to this game, you just started with a knight looking character in the middle of a dungeon. It was a top-down view and I seem to recall there being powerups, crosses and various enemies including, possibly, spiders. You may have also been able to remove walls, but maybe not!
I could probably draw a rough outline of what these games would have looked like in paint, but I'm not really much of an artist and the foggy memory doesn't help!
Any ideas?
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Re: Help me remember a couple of Game Boy games!
Hot damn, thanks noiseredux - Tail Gator was the one I was after! Thought you might know. Have to buy that ASAP!
Second one isn't the right one though. It didn't have any menu system / HUD and was an Action RPG (though I can't remember if one could actually attack - I just remember dying a lot).
Edit: IIRC the "knight" had an obscured face too (by a helmet I presume).
Second one isn't the right one though. It didn't have any menu system / HUD and was an Action RPG (though I can't remember if one could actually attack - I just remember dying a lot).
Edit: IIRC the "knight" had an obscured face too (by a helmet I presume).
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Tail Gator was easy. The 2nd one's a bit vague. I feel like I'll figure it out for you though...
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Afraid not, thanks for the effort though!
It all took place inside the dungeon and it was scrolling rather than fixed on one screen. No stats were visible either.
It all took place inside the dungeon and it was scrolling rather than fixed on one screen. No stats were visible either.
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hmm. I'll figure it out at some point, granted it was released in the US.caffeinedreamer wrote:Afraid not, thanks for the effort though!
It all took place inside the dungeon and it was scrolling rather than fixed on one screen. No stats were visible either.






