Revisiting Every Game Boy Game
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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…
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Revisiting Every GameBoy Game: Part 3 – September, 1989
The GameBoy finally arrived on American shores on August 1st, 1989, but it only brought along the existing Japanese library minus Yakuman and Shanghai. As a result, there was a monthlong gap in new games from Shanghai‘s Japanese release on July 28th until Soukuban/Boxxle launched in Japan on September 1st. The US would not see…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 2 – Summer 1989 Games (Tennis/Tetris/Shanghai)
It’s time to continue our chronological journey through the Game Boy library with the final three games that released prior to the GB’s American release on August 1st, 1989. Two of these actually released when it was still spring. Tennis (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo) Tennis launched on May 29th in Japan and as a launch day title…
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Revisiting Every Game Boy Game: Part 1 – Japanese Launch Day (Super Mario Land, Baseball, and more)
I’ve previously run series where I played through every GameBoy Color and GameCube game, which you can find here. Those series went through every game in alphabetical order with a set number of games per day. This time, I want to do it a bit differently and cover every game in order of release, with…