>albeit short
In hindsight yes but as a dumb little kid it took me months to beat metroid 2.
Found my old gameboy at my parents' house a few years ago and completed the game in a sitting.
Alot of shovelware or butchered down entries to popular series on the thing. The only games worth playing nowadays I can think of are:
>Link's Awakening >Pokemon >Metroid 2 >Kirby
The hardware's strength is top down games with simple and clean graphics, you would think there would be tons of RPGs but instead developers tried to make detailed sidescrollers that look and play like shit with only 4 shades of green and such low resolution screen.
Exactly what I'm talking about: reduced play area to the max and graphics that blend together into a mess of ghosting puke green pixels. Pokemon may be overrated but it's the perfect match for the hardware.
RPGs are not well-suited to a portable system for obvious reasons, although there were some good ones.
The early days of the system had loads of puzzle platformers and Nintendo ported over titles from NES like Baseball and Balloon Kid (Balloon Kid GB is really good btw). Lots of good side scrollers on the system. The Mega Man games (after 1), Castlevania 2, Gargoyles Quest, SML2, Warioland, Kirby 2, Donkey Kong 94, Batman, DuckTales 1-2, Kid Dracula, etc.
Unfortunately, you can't gauge the quality of the Game Boy without comparing it to other mobile devices of the time, which were these horrific pieces of shit.
Compared to that, the Game Boy was pretty fricking cool.
>other mobile devices of the time
That would be the Game Gear and Atari Lynx. The Gameboy was severely underpowered when it came out and the screen was a major criticism, even at Nintendo they though Gunpei Yokoi was crazy designing the handheld with that shitty screen.
NA release dates according to wikipedia: >Gameboy: July 31, 1989 >Atari Lynx: September 1, 1989 >Game Gear: April 1991
Gameboy was the first but they came out more or less at the same time and competed with eachother. It's less of a gap than between 5th gen console releases.
Both the Game Gear and the Lynx weren't succesful because they took too many batteries to run and they were bigger in size, the success of the Gameboy is nearly entirely thanks to how it lasted a long time on just two batteries and it was small enough to be portable for everyone.
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The games aside from maybe Pokemon didn't even matter, at the time people were still amazed you could play games anywhere.
A few people had the Game Gear but I think it's really how cheap the Game Boy was combined with the software that is really responsible for the success rather than battery life. When Nintendo packed it with Tetris they basically won.
No one other than richgays could afford changing batteries every 3-4 hours, that's how much the GG would drain batteries, the Gameboy was the obvious choice for anyone that wanted an affordable portable device.
People used AC adapters at home just like they do today when playing the Switch. Gameboy had an AC adapter too. 3-4 hours of battery life was enough for most kids when they were on the go (essentially family trips) and having a backlit gorgeous screen was worth it. It just didn't have the same software and you couldn't trade games with your friends because almost nobody had a Game Gear. I'm not saying the battery situation didn't contribute to Gameboy's success, but that it's an overblown factor and doesn't tell the whole story.
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Anonymous
I remember getting a solid 6-8 hours off my gameboy battery pack.
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Anonymous
Yeah but its a goddamn portable console, playing it at home defeats the point of why it was created, granted i did know people that did that AC thing all the time
Lynx was completely irrelevant. Nobody was buying a Lynx.
Game Gear was a cool system. People liked it. The games were good. But it was more expensive and ate batteries like crazy. By the time 1991 rolled around the GB was firmly established as the “default” handheld. It kind of helped that Nintendo had 90%+ market share in the console market. People trusted Nintendo in a way they did not for Sega. Sega really had a tough time in the US market until Sonic.
Its still getting some games now
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Anonymous
90% of people exclusively play their handhelds at home with only occasional use when on a trip. When you were a kid you weren't bringing your Gameboy at school: because either someone could steal it, or the teacher would confiscate it. Handhelds were a way to play without hogging the TV and it's still true for the switch now.
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Anonymous
>When you were a kid you weren't bringing your Gameboy at school: because either someone could steal it, or the teacher would confiscate it.
Sorry you had so many Black folk/were too stupid to not play during class. My friends and I used to play every day during recess, sometimes even during downtime after tests.
2 years ago
Anonymous
My friends and I used to bring our GBs to school and played during recess, sorry you went to school with blacks.
2 years ago
Anonymous
good
2 years ago
Anonymous
I don't really use my handhelds to play out of the house. I moreso use them to play in relaxed and reclined positions, or at the same time as something on the TV.
Lynx was completely irrelevant. Nobody was buying a Lynx.
Game Gear was a cool system. People liked it. The games were good. But it was more expensive and ate batteries like crazy. By the time 1991 rolled around the GB was firmly established as the “default” handheld. It kind of helped that Nintendo had 90%+ market share in the console market. People trusted Nintendo in a way they did not for Sega. Sega really had a tough time in the US market until Sonic.
Both the Game Gear and the Lynx weren't succesful because they took too many batteries to run and they were bigger in size, the success of the Gameboy is nearly entirely thanks to how it lasted a long time on just two batteries and it was small enough to be portable for everyone.
Game Boy came out earlier than both those systems, had better games, and Nintendo had a reputation that neither Sega nor Atari had at the time.
[...]
It was based, and everyone had one except for the one kid with a GG, so you could borrow each others’ games and play them, or link Tetris on the bus.
The games aside from maybe Pokemon didn't even matter, at the time people were still amazed you could play games anywhere.
You are right, the original took 4 but lasted up to 30 hours while the pocket took 2 and lasted around 10, don't know about the color but i assume that run with just 2 too.
>Mario land
Mario land 2 >Donkey Kong >Kirbys dream land 2 >Pokemon games >Pokemon Pinball >Links awakening >When the bell tolls >GB Camera >Bomberman GB >Harvest moon
>people are now trying to say the lynx and game gear were better
the lynx was a nogamestation since atari was nearly dead by that point and couldnt develop or get the licenses to anything anyone wanted to play
the game gear was a portable master system which was great if you wanted to play ugly euro jank on the go
The Game Gear was something more just a portable Master System. Now the PC Engine GT was literally a portable PC Engine, It run the hucards like the home console would and had no exclusive games
>game gear >portable
That b***h took 90 AA batteries and burnt through them in a half an hour.
That's the price that you were gonna pay for having a color screen of such high quality for the time
Easy to develop for so a lot of shitters came out but there’s still a good amount of good stuff. Mario Land 2 is unironically one of my favorite 2D Marios.
Im thinking about it, and nah it really didnt.
It had tetris and dr. Mario.
What more do you need?
Donkey Kong 94
>Donkey Kong 94
basado
so unbelievably wrong it hurts
the games were excellent albeit short and minimalist, and there were lots of them
>albeit short
In hindsight yes but as a dumb little kid it took me months to beat metroid 2.
Found my old gameboy at my parents' house a few years ago and completed the game in a sitting.
Tetris was all it needed
I thought about it and OP is a homosexual
Alot of shovelware or butchered down entries to popular series on the thing. The only games worth playing nowadays I can think of are:
>Link's Awakening
>Pokemon
>Metroid 2
>Kirby
The hardware's strength is top down games with simple and clean graphics, you would think there would be tons of RPGs but instead developers tried to make detailed sidescrollers that look and play like shit with only 4 shades of green and such low resolution screen.
Nintendies are so goddamn obnoxious, Pokemon was never good btw
Exactly what I'm talking about: reduced play area to the max and graphics that blend together into a mess of ghosting puke green pixels. Pokemon may be overrated but it's the perfect match for the hardware.
RPGs are not well-suited to a portable system for obvious reasons, although there were some good ones.
The early days of the system had loads of puzzle platformers and Nintendo ported over titles from NES like Baseball and Balloon Kid (Balloon Kid GB is really good btw). Lots of good side scrollers on the system. The Mega Man games (after 1), Castlevania 2, Gargoyles Quest, SML2, Warioland, Kirby 2, Donkey Kong 94, Batman, DuckTales 1-2, Kid Dracula, etc.
how does it feel to own a gameboy back in 90s?
>in 90s?
Bruh, I got my gameboy christmas morning 1989.
Shit was cash.
Considering how limited it was it’s incredible they got anything out of it after Tetris.
It has Wario.
Was it necessary?
I loved my gbc so much, first console i ever owned. Had to save up money for months to buy it
SOVL
Unfortunately, you can't gauge the quality of the Game Boy without comparing it to other mobile devices of the time, which were these horrific pieces of shit.
Compared to that, the Game Boy was pretty fricking cool.
>other mobile devices of the time
That would be the Game Gear and Atari Lynx. The Gameboy was severely underpowered when it came out and the screen was a major criticism, even at Nintendo they though Gunpei Yokoi was crazy designing the handheld with that shitty screen.
Game Boy came out earlier than both those systems, had better games, and Nintendo had a reputation that neither Sega nor Atari had at the time.
It was based, and everyone had one except for the one kid with a GG, so you could borrow each others’ games and play them, or link Tetris on the bus.
NA release dates according to wikipedia:
>Gameboy: July 31, 1989
>Atari Lynx: September 1, 1989
>Game Gear: April 1991
Gameboy was the first but they came out more or less at the same time and competed with eachother. It's less of a gap than between 5th gen console releases.
A few people had the Game Gear but I think it's really how cheap the Game Boy was combined with the software that is really responsible for the success rather than battery life. When Nintendo packed it with Tetris they basically won.
No one other than richgays could afford changing batteries every 3-4 hours, that's how much the GG would drain batteries, the Gameboy was the obvious choice for anyone that wanted an affordable portable device.
People used AC adapters at home just like they do today when playing the Switch. Gameboy had an AC adapter too. 3-4 hours of battery life was enough for most kids when they were on the go (essentially family trips) and having a backlit gorgeous screen was worth it. It just didn't have the same software and you couldn't trade games with your friends because almost nobody had a Game Gear. I'm not saying the battery situation didn't contribute to Gameboy's success, but that it's an overblown factor and doesn't tell the whole story.
I remember getting a solid 6-8 hours off my gameboy battery pack.
Yeah but its a goddamn portable console, playing it at home defeats the point of why it was created, granted i did know people that did that AC thing all the time
Its still getting some games now
90% of people exclusively play their handhelds at home with only occasional use when on a trip. When you were a kid you weren't bringing your Gameboy at school: because either someone could steal it, or the teacher would confiscate it. Handhelds were a way to play without hogging the TV and it's still true for the switch now.
>When you were a kid you weren't bringing your Gameboy at school: because either someone could steal it, or the teacher would confiscate it.
Sorry you had so many Black folk/were too stupid to not play during class. My friends and I used to play every day during recess, sometimes even during downtime after tests.
My friends and I used to bring our GBs to school and played during recess, sorry you went to school with blacks.
good
I don't really use my handhelds to play out of the house. I moreso use them to play in relaxed and reclined positions, or at the same time as something on the TV.
Lynx was completely irrelevant. Nobody was buying a Lynx.
Game Gear was a cool system. People liked it. The games were good. But it was more expensive and ate batteries like crazy. By the time 1991 rolled around the GB was firmly established as the “default” handheld. It kind of helped that Nintendo had 90%+ market share in the console market. People trusted Nintendo in a way they did not for Sega. Sega really had a tough time in the US market until Sonic.
Both the Game Gear and the Lynx weren't succesful because they took too many batteries to run and they were bigger in size, the success of the Gameboy is nearly entirely thanks to how it lasted a long time on just two batteries and it was small enough to be portable for everyone.
The games aside from maybe Pokemon didn't even matter, at the time people were still amazed you could play games anywhere.
>2 batteries
That shit took 4 you lemon
You are right, the original took 4 but lasted up to 30 hours while the pocket took 2 and lasted around 10, don't know about the color but i assume that run with just 2 too.
Game gear took like 6 and only ran for about 2 hours
Game Boy was enormously popular before Pokémon, stop being moronic.
And the first GB used 4 batteries not 2.
WE SHITTING ON GAMEBOY TODAY
I had one, didn't think too much about it. Nostalgia trannies literally had a shit childhood.
There is nothing great about these shitty pieces of plastic
You're literally 17 years old, I strongly doubt you ever had a Gameboy
>Mario land
Mario land 2
>Donkey Kong
>Kirbys dream land 2
>Pokemon games
>Pokemon Pinball
>Links awakening
>When the bell tolls
>GB Camera
>Bomberman GB
>Harvest moon
>people are now trying to say the lynx and game gear were better
the lynx was a nogamestation since atari was nearly dead by that point and couldnt develop or get the licenses to anything anyone wanted to play
the game gear was a portable master system which was great if you wanted to play ugly euro jank on the go
>this plastic troony thing is better
when will you stop worshipping plastic?
sorry for posting about video games on the video games board
I'l make a soijak troony thread next time
Who is "worshipping" anything in this thread you stupid argumentative wienersucker.
>game gear
>portable
That b***h took 90 AA batteries and burnt through them in a half an hour.
The Game Gear was something more just a portable Master System. Now the PC Engine GT was literally a portable PC Engine, It run the hucards like the home console would and had no exclusive games
That's the price that you were gonna pay for having a color screen of such high quality for the time
It was the backlight more than anything.
Still no one really used it as a portable and most of the time you were using an ac adapter out of the wall.
Warioland
Donkey Kong Land
Mario Land
Tetris
Tennis
Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow
Pokemon Gold/Silver
Literally the first true portable console. It has a good excuse
What an objectively wrong opinion.
It stands out for the same reason the NES stands out: The few games it does have that are good are REALLY GOOD.
Can't believe technology now has games in full color
30 yrs ago I was playing with a green screen console
It's cool
>Blades of Steel
>Mega Man
>Link’s Awakening
>Tetris
>Super Mario Land
>Dr. Mario
It had an okay library for the underpowered piece of hardware it was
Why haven't they added Gameboy to Switch Online yet??
I wouldn't thought GB would be added before N64.
Easy to develop for so a lot of shitters came out but there’s still a good amount of good stuff. Mario Land 2 is unironically one of my favorite 2D Marios.
Its color version had some goodies
Frick off, awful opinion.
For me? It's Elevator Action.
Even a puny soundchip like the one the gameboy had managed to produce better music than modern videogames, where did it all go wrong
Also the Castlevania tracks in those videos sound like they were recorded in mono, this is how they sounded in glorious stereo
It has Tetris, that's all it needed.
post your favourite gameboy hidden gems
>Did you mean: quartz
frick off israelitegle
Outside of Pokemon, I really only played Yu-Gi-Oh Dark Duel Stories
Magical Chase had a pretty decent gameboy port
But the biggest hidden gem is probably Gargoyle Quest