Revisiting Every Game Boy Game
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 13 – April 27-28, 1990
We continue with the the three April 27-28, 1990 Game Boy games, all of which launched in Japan. I also realized that there was a North American launch after all, and I’m arbitrarily including it in this post since it seems like the exact launch day of NA releases have been lost time time in…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 12: April 20th, 1990
April 20th was the last day of the Game Boy’s first year, with it having originally launched on April 21st, 1989. Fittingly, it broke the tie between launch day and April 13th for most releases in one day by dumping five new games on buyers all at once. Unfortunately, they were all terrible. Blodia (TonkinHouse)…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 11 – April 6-13, 1990
The week of April 6-13 1990 saw five new Game Boy games, although all but one of them released on the 13th. This is another batch that’s more weird than good. Kakomunja (Dual/Naxat Soft) This is a snake clone that innovates by having two snakes competing and by making the controls A/B/Left/Down instead of just…
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Revisiting Every GameBoy Game: Part 10 – March 23-30, 1990
The remaining 5 Game Boy games for the month came out from March 23-30 1990, and whereas the last batch contained only one Japanese exclusive, this one contains only one game that launched overseas. Nonetheless, one of them is quite famous. Flappy Special (DB-soft/Victor) Flappy Special relased on March 23rd and is another example of…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 9 – March 15th-21st, 1990
March of 1990 was a crowded month for Japanese Game Boy games, but there were none before the 15th. It was busy in North America as well, but once again exclusively because of ports of games that debuted in Japan. Baseball Kids (TOSE/Jaleco) Wikipedia’s coverage of this game is a mess. It released as Baseball…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 8 – February, 1990
February 1990 would have looked like a very busy month to North American Game Boy players at the time, but all of those games were actually localizations of earlier Japanese releases. There were only three truly new games. Othello (Kawada) This is a port of the 1986 NES game made by HAL Labs. It released…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 7 – January, 1990
It’s a new decade and the Japanese property bubble is still going strong. January 1990 saw four more Japanese releases and the very first Game Boy game to debut in North America. Hero Shugo!! Pinball Party (Jaleco) This pinball game, whose title means “Heroes Assemble!!” released on January 12th and featured characters from previous Jaleco…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 6 – December, 1989
December of 1989 was the Game Boy’s busiest month so far by a wide margin. It got there mostly with a bunch of garbage, but a few of these are at least interesting for reasons other than than being good. Pachinko Time (Marionette/Coconuts) Pachinko Time released on December 8th and, unsurprisingly, never left Japan. It’s…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 5 – November, 1989
November of 1989 was a fairly quiet month for the Game Boy. December was about to smash April’s record for most games in a single month, but until then players had to make do with only two new releases in November. Kwirk (Atlus) Although it may not look like much, this block-pushing puzzle game from…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 4 – October, 1989
Today we continue with the three Game Boy games that debuted in Japan in October 1989. Although that’s not many games, there’s another big hitter here. Revenge of the Gator (HAL Labs) It’s pinball and released on October 18th. There’s nothing really interesting to say about what you can see of this game with only…