Let’s Play
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 45
Moorhuhn 2: Die Jagd Geht Weiter (Similis/Ravensberger Interactive Media, 2001) A collection of bad shooting gallery minigames with even worse music. I thought I was going to actually finish it because there are only four games and the first one lasted all of 90 seconds, but then the second one dragged on for several minutes…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 44
Mobile Golf (Camelot Software Planning/Nintendo, 2001) The GBC had a network adapter called the “Mobile Adapter GB” in Japan that allowed it to physically connect to a phone and use the data network to have a very primitive online mode. Mobile Golf was one of only a few games to take advantage of that, but…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 43
Microsoft: The Best of Entertainment Pack (Saffire/Classified Games, 2001) This is the collection I was expecting from the puzzle pack yesterday. It has all the Windows card games you’d expect from Microsoft, but also SkiFree, which I had never played before and have now learned is mostly a game about slamming into things that suddenly…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 42
Metal Gear Solid (TOSE/Konami, 2000) I’m not sure how I didn’t know about this game already, considering it’s by some measures the single highest rated GBC game ever released, but here we are. Rather than being a port of the PSX MGS, it’s an alternate timeline plot set around the same time in a completely…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 41
Mega Man Xtreme (Capcom, 2000) I’ve gotta be honest: I’ve never really liked the Mega Man games. Given that, I can’t tell you if this is a good one or not. All I know is that it looks a lot worse than the other games, the music is awful, and it has an obsession with…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 40
Today we have 12 games that are all the same thing. I’m including the month and day in release dates for this post to emphasize how little time went in to each of these turds. Medarot 2: Kabuto Version and Kuwagata Version (Natsume/Imagineer, 7/23/1999) The first two Medarot games on GBC followed the Pokemon formula…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 39
Mary-Kate & Ashley: Pocket Planner (Powerhead Games/Club Acclaim, 2000) It’s secretly a reskin of the Austin Powers pocket planners from quite a few lists ago. I think this is the original version of the game, because the question text makes much more sense with this flavor than it did as a spy parody. Either way,…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 38
Mahjong Joou (Warashi, 2000) “Mahjong Queen” is another entry in the bizarrely expansive genre of “GBC mahjong games where all the characters are women”, but this time it at least includes you and quite a few of them look like they’re in their 50s, so I think it’s meant to be representative of the women’s…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 37
Lufia: The Legend Returns (Neverland/Taito, 2001) It has good music and a unique battle system that seems to use a 3×3 grid of party members, but despite being a release from 2001, its story and interface feel straight from NES-era JRPGs. It’s full of stilted dialogue and needlessly complicated menus. Critics at the time seemed…
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Let’s Play Every Game Boy Color Game, Part 36
Loppi Puzzle Magazine: Hirameku Puzzle Dai-3-Gou and Soukangou (Success, 2001) These are the same game as the one that ended the list yesterday, but with different puzzle themes. That’s not really surprising since all three came out within three months. Loppi Puzzle Magazine: Kangaeru Puzzle Dai-2-Gou, Dai-3Gou, and Soukangou (Success, 2001) These games mostly released…