Revisiting Every Game Boy Game
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 18 – July 27-31 1990
July 27-31 1990’s Game Boy games offered a lot for puzzle fans and very little for everyone else. Dr. Mario (Nintendo) (July 27) The NES game is certainly the best-known version, but this released on the same day and plays about as well if you can ignore all the green. Even the music carries over…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 17 – July 3-20 1990
July 3-20 1990 was another one with only three Game Boy games, but they’re all at least somewhat worthwhile. I had to split this month into weird blocks of time in order to not have either one giant post or a normal post and a tiny one. Pipe Dream (Bullet Proof Software) (July 3) It’s…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game Part 16: June 22-29 1990
June 22-29 1990 was a bad week for Game Boy games. Sokoban 2 / Boxxle 2 (Atelier Double/Pony Canyon) (June 22) It only took 9 months from the first game’s release for the sequel to arrive, and it is unsurprisingly the first franchise to have two releases on Game Boy. It’s pretty much the same…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 15 – June 1-15 1990
June 1-15, 1990, were an interesting two weeks for Game Boy games. None of these titles are very well known, but they were mostly innovative in their own ways. One of them may even be the originator of a popular gameplay gimmick. Pitman/Catrap/Power Paws (Kodansha) (June 1st) Pitman, known as Catrap in the US and…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 14 – May 1990
May 1990’s Game Boy games consisted of just five titles, quite a step down from the 13 released in April. All debuted in Japan, and two of them never released anywhere else. Gargoyle’s Quest (Capcom) Released on May 2nd, this is a spin-off of Ghosts n’ Goblins where you play as one of the standard…
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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…