Revisiting Every Game Boy Game
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 58 – July 11-12, 1991
The Game Boy games of July 11-12, 1991, were Ganso!! Yancha Maru, Castlevania II: Belmont’s Curse, and Vattle Giuce Ganso!! Yancha Maru (Irem) (July 11th) This is a Japan-only entry in a series that was occasionally localized as Kid Niki. There’s not a great deal written about it in either English or Japanese, but it…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 56 – June 28th, 1991
The Game Boy games of June 28th, 1991, were led by Seiken Densetsu and not remembered for anything else. Aerostar (Sigma Pro-Tech/Vic Tokai) A shmup that is, if nothing else, original. The core gimmick is that you are a tank that can also fly like an airplane briefly, but you can only shoot when in…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 57 – July 1991 North American Debuts
June 1991 brought another batch of North American Game Boy games with no known release date. PAL’s release drought ended this month, but all the new releases there had debuted somewhere else, so the wait for a new PAL game continues. Klax (Eastridge/Mindscape) If you’re thinking, “wait, we already did Klax!”, that was Klax by…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 55 – June 21st, 1991
The Game Boy games of June 21st, 1991, were Jungle Wars and Choplifter II. It’s a small one today because the next window includes Seiken Densetsu and I’d rather not make that one have five games. Jungle Wars (Atelier Double/Pony Canyon) Most games from this duo have been public domain tabletop games, but this time…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 54 – June 7-15, 1991
The Game Boy games of June 7-15, 1991, were Soccer, Daisenryaku, and Magical Taruruto-kun. Soccer (TOSE/Tonkin House) (June 7th) Despite having a name that screams ‘NES port’, this is actually a brand new game that never released for any other system. It allows you to play as one of eight national teams in a bizarre…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 53 – June 1991 North American Debuts
PAL was still in the midst of a two month gap in any releases at all, so the dateless Game Boy game debuts of June 1991 were once again all North American. Bo Jackson: Two Games in One (Equilibirum/THQ) If anything can be called the Iron Law of Video Games, it’s that anything claiming to…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 52 – May 18-31, 1991
The Game Boy games of May 18-31, 1991, have all been outdone by later games. G-Arms: Operation Gundam (Bandai) (May 18th) Another Japan-only release that’s been largely forgotten everywhere. It’s an action game that controls really poorly and has extraordinarily tanky enemies, to the point that I got bored before managing to kill any of…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 51 – May 10-17, 1991
The Game Boy games of May 10-17, 1991, are all pretty obscure. One of them is decent and one of them is not a game at all. Kitchen Panic (Bits Lab/Coconuts Japan) (May 10th) This has nothing to do with the PS1 Kitchen Panic you’ll find by searching that title. It’s deeply obscure even in…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 50 – May 1991 North American Debuts
May 1991 was a busy month for new North American Game Boy games. Normally I’d combine the NA and PAL debuts into one post, but PAL didn’t get any releases at all in this month. There’s also a stray April debut that I didn’t notice until now. WWF Superstars (Rare/LJN) (April) This is the one…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 49 – April 27th, 1991
There were only two new Game Boy games on April 27th, 1991, but I didn’t want to make a multi-month post, so here we are. Karakuri Kengoden: Musashi Lord (TOSE/Yutaka) This is a Zelda-ish game based on an anime that ran for about a year from October 1990 to September 1991. You journey through various…