Let’s Play
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 25
Hoyle Card Games (Sandbox Interactive/Sierra On-line, 2000) Another collection of public domain card games. Most of them are things like Go Fish and War that are barely games and that are odd choices for a game seemingly aimed at adults. It does have a good variety of solitaire games as well as Hearts and Spades,…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 24
Hexcite: The Shapes of Victory (Landwarf/Ubisoft, 1998) I can only assume this is a port of a forgotten board game. You and your opponent play tetronimoes to the board, but I could not figure out what determined whether I was able to play a piece on a space or not. Hiryuu no Ken Retsuden GB…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 23
Hello Kitty no Bead Koubou (Imagineer, 1999) One of those puzzle games where you can drag the rows and columns in any direction. When you get five matching shapes (Hello Kitty’s head is wild) in the same row or column, it disappears and resets your timer. If it didn’t contain any wild shapes, you get…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 22
Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite! (Pax Softonica/Nintendo, 2001) I have zero familiarity with this IP, so if they idea that hamsters communicate through “Ham-chat” comes from the show rather than this game, I wouldn’t know. Ham-chat is really just a stupid made up sound to replace real words, and you have to go and equip new ones…
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Co-Open Review: Minimarket Sweep
Co-Open is another Humble Choice freebie that stars you, Boop, on your first solo shopping trip. The game treats the idea that children are left to buy six of whatever they want from the grocery store without supervision as if it’s totally normal, so I guess that must be a thing somewhere on Earth. Co-Open…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 20
Grand Theft Auto 2 (Tarantula Studios/Rockstar Games, 2000) Pretty much the same as the first one, but now with more characters to pick from and an inverted dpad. Yeah. Down is up, left is right, right is left, and up does nothing. This makes navigation extremely difficult, but thankfully there’s still nothing to do anyway.…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 19
Gift (Cryo Interactive, 2001) A European-exclusive release that was a spinoff of a console game that Wikipedia describes as a platformer parodying adventure games. That’s quite a line of descriptions for what’s really just a simple Zelda-style puzzle game. You have a dinky little sword that enemies in two hits, and you need to press…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 18
Ganbare Goemon: Tengu-tou no Gyakushuu! (TOSE/Konami, 1999) You play as a kid who loves the Goemon anime, which his grandmother keeps calling a manga. I actually don’t know if that’s meant to be a joke or if they’re somewhat interchangeable terms in Japanese. Regardless, grandma tells you it’d be much more interesting to go check…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 17
Gaia Master Duel: Card Attackers (Capcom, 2001) Much as it sounds like a 1v1 card game, it’s actually a 1v1 roll and move game where you can play cards to get special abilities and impact the board. Seemed like it could actually be pretty interesting, but there was about three novels worth of narration at…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 16
Flipper and Lopoka (Planet Interactive/Ubisoft, 2001) Despite the English title, it’s only in French. It’s a character platformer that looks like it’d be one of the Disney games. There’s not really anything interesting other than that your character does a long jump everywhere and you can stand on tornadoes for some reason. Force 21 (The…