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25 Definitive Gameboy Games

Quick list of my top 25 GB games, plus a few homebrew extras

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The Gameboy Color is an iconic handheld system. It has a small color screen, with a D-pad, two inputs, start and select buttons. As iconic as the system is it seems to be remembered for Pokemon and Links Awakening DX. And outside of those two games, most of the library seems to be devoted to poor adaptations of N64 games, and bad movie spin offs for bad movies. It seems like with the Gameboy Color’s limited pallet and limited controls, it seems like there should be more simple games built around the limitations of the system. So that’s going to be the focus of this Gameboy series of blogs is to look into the Gameboy’s library to find the most notable entries for graphics and gameplay on the system, and try to find the best games in addition to Pokemon and Zelda that are on the system.

  1. Super Mario Land 1 (DX patch)

  2. Super Mario Land 2 (DX Patch)

  3. Super Mario Land 3 : Wario Land 1 (no Patch)

  4. Wario Land 2

  5. Wario Land 3

  6. Links Awakening DX (New Awakening Patch)

  7. Tetris DX

  8. R-Type DX

  9. Legend of Zelda (Ages and Seasons)

  10. Shantae

  11. Metrod II (DX Patch)

  12. Pokemon Red and Blue (DX Patch)

  13. Pokemon Yellow (DX Patch)

  14. Pokemon Gold and Silver

  15. Pokemon Crystal

  16. Megaman XTreme (1 & 2)

  17. Castlevania (GB)

  18. Pokemon Trading Card Game

  19. Project S-11

  20. Metal Gear Solid : Ghost Babel

  21. Harvest Moon (1 , 2, 3)

  22. Commander Keen

  23. Worms Armagedon GBC

  24. Contra Operation C

  25. Dragon Warrior

  26. Crystalis

  27. Star Ocean: Blue Sphere

  28. Survival Kids

  29. Kirby (GB)

  30. Megaman V

  31. TMNT

Homebrew:

Tobu Tobu Girl : https://tangramgames.dk/tobutobugirl/
Micro City : https://github.com/AntonioND/ucity
Floracy : http://www.nesworld.com/article.php?system=gbc&data=gbchomebrew
Space Invasion : http://www.nesworld.com/article.php?system=gbc&data=gbchomebrew
Tyrian 2000 : http://www.nesworld.com/article.php?system=gbc&data=gbchomebrew

Missing:
– Dark Souls
– Legend of Zelda NES (remake)
– Gun Star Hero’s
– Ikaruga
– Luigi’s Mansion

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