I’ve just rediscovered my childhood Gameboys, I grew up in the 90s and had an original, a color, an advance and an sp. My game collection has whittled down over the year to the usual suspects, Pokemons, Zelda’s, Mario’s and some other standards. But I want to dive into some games that 7 year old me would have brushed over. So what’s your favorite game?

  • MeowKittyWow@beehaw.org
    9·
    1 year ago

    Buncha youngins with your GBAs.

    My favourite OG gameboy game was Kirby’s Dream Land. Played and replayed it many times. Even had one of those attachments to magnify it and light up the screen when it got dark :)

  • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
    4·
    1 year ago

    I was also going to say MMBN, but since that’s been said, I’ll say Golden Sun. Loved both of those games to death.

    Breath of Fire 1 and 2 are also great (although technically SNES ports).

    • vinzen@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      Golden Sun is my all-time favorite! I wish I could relive the thill I felt for the first and second games

      • TheCulturedOtaku@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        Same here! They made a DS one as a third installment, but the story leaves off in the middle, and the sense of awe just isn’t there. Not the same anyway as 1&2. Especially 2, when you [SPOILER] play the “bad” guys

  • BasidialTiger@beehaw.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    The non-pokemon ones I played the most were:

    DMG: Kirby’s Dreamland 2

    GBC: Shante

    GBA: Drilldozer

    Platformers to me always felt like the best suited games to handheld games, and I love the bright colorful art styles. Drilldozer is definitely my all time favorite. If you can find a copy, I’d highly recommend it! The rumble pack cartridge is so cool.

  • Shadow298@aussie.zone
    3·
    1 year ago

    Metroid II: Samus Returns & Gargoyles Quest (such a bloody hard game) on the OG GameBoy were my favs. I played a lot of *Battletoads *on it too but that game was so bloody frustratingly difficult, especially for a kid, so played it mostly out of spite to get past the stupid brain ball chasing you level. Also loved Parodius (parody side scrolling SHUMP from Konami) but never owned it, so borrowed it from friends to play. Naturally I also played Tetris to the point that the music still haunts my dreams. There was also a pretty decent Spider-Man game for it, but can’t remember it’s name & it’s not showing up on lists.

    The OG GB also had a lot of bog awful licensed property (movie/tv/cartoon) tie in games too, as well as generally terrible releases. To see them all, check this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_games

    I unfortunately never owned an Advance, so only got into games on it later via official emulators (the Wii U control pad was the best GB Advance out there), so got to play Golden Sun later but enjoyed it as a fairly unique take on the J-RPG genre. The releases of Breath of Fire 1 & 2 on the Advance was also a great thing, since they were my favourite SNES games.

    For GBA games, here’s a list but so many shitty licensed games there too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_Advance_games

  • Chernobob@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    So I grew up playing James Bond 007 on my OG Game Boy. It wasn’t the greatest game in the world but it provided hours of fun on car trips when I was a kid.

  • dark_stang@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    The Megaman Battle Network series on GBA is awesome. Replayed a few of them last year and they are still great.

  • drcouzelis@lemmy.zip
    2·
    1 year ago
    • Metroid II is one of my favorite games of all time.
    • Mega Man: Dr. Wily’s Revenge and Operation C are both highly polished and fun, but quite challenging.
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan is a relatively easy, short, polished action game.
    • Kirby’s Dream Land is my favorite game in the series. And if you think it’s too easy, turn on Extra Game mode. It will wreck you, I promise. ;)
    • Ninja Gaiden Shadow and Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge are amazingly polished challenging but fair action games.

    Every game I mentioned has excellent music, is an original game (not a port), and I have played in their entirety again and again throughout the years.

    Let me know if you’re looking for a genre other than an action game. XD

  • sharpiemarker@feddit.de
    2·
    1 year ago

    I know you mentioned Zelda, but there were actually a ton of pretty good Zelda games like Oracle of Ages/Seasons. Advance Wars was pretty fun. Golden Sun too. I also have to agree with MMBN from the other commenters.

    • CoderKat@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Oracle of ages/seasons was waaaay too hard. I tried to play it as a kid, got stuck, and gave up very early on. As an adult, I decided to come back to it just to see what I missed out on. Still had to check guides a few times and abused save states.

      I can’t remember the details, but there was some kinds puzzle or something that depended on sound and my adult, hearing impaired self could not complete it without save states galore.

    • Nepenthe@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      The only thing I disliked about Tactics Advance was I felt like they really cheaped out on Ritz’s plot. I’m thinking maybe it comes off better in the context of a japanese culture where standing out like she does really IS culturally frowned upon, but it made very little sense to me in the west and I still feel like she got done dirty. Everyone else has a really good reason to stay, Doned doesn’t have functional legs, and she’s complaining about her hair.

      Other than that one single thing, yeah, still one of the best games I’ve played. I’ve never seen a game tackle it from that angle before or since.