Super Game Boy

Got one of these bad boys in the mail yesterday.

Went through some of my old Game Boy games:

Mega Man - Starts out real easy with Elecman. Cutman gets a bit harder. Then holy shit Iceman and Fireman stages are ridiculously difficult. So many death traps and punk ass enemies. No wonder I never beat this one. Great soundtrack, at least. I think this is the hardest Mega Man game I have played and I have played all the NES/SNES ones.

Battletoads - Another great soundtrack in an obscenely difficult game. Would be much easier to beat this one were it not for all the instant-kill death traps in later levels and the punk ass bosses that can kill you in 2 hits.

Metroid II - Looks awesome in color! Sounds great in stereo! Too bad the backgrounds are a lot more repetitive than I remember. It's easy to get lost because areas look the same and there is no world map.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III - More like Teenage Mutant Metroid Turtles! You start out as Michelangelo, going through a huge factory/castle/cave rescuing the other three Turtles, who all have unique abilities that you need to access certain spots on the map. Much easier than Metroid because a world map is included!

Super Mario Land - Short and easy. The real challenge comes in the second loop after you beat the game once. A bizarre final level against some weird airship.

Metal Gear Solid - Was pumped to replay this one but found out it is only for Game Boy Color! Boo!

More to come.

Some games on my short list:

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Donkey Kong
DK Land
Castlevania II
Super Mario Land 2
Wario Land
Final Fantasy Legend II, III
Gargoyle's Quest
Bases Loaded
Tecmo Bowl
Double Dragon
Ninja Gaiden Shadow
Kid Dracula
Operation C
Kirby Dreamland 1, 2

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Any other suggestions?

That Mega Man game was rough, parts 2 through 5 get progressively easier. I beat all of these and I'd recommend the rest.

Battletoads was awesome, I really liked the jetski level and the rolling rock level. I didn't beat it for years after I had it, took a trip to Peru and it was the only game I had for my fat boy.

I also really enjoyed Kirby's Pinball Land and the Kirby Arkanoid clone, whatever that was called.

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Originally Posted by jyoung

Any other suggestions?

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Your list looks pretty good (although you can probably skip the sports games, they've just inferior versions of the NES games) but off the top of my head I'd add...

Final Fantasy Adventure
Kirby's Block Ball
Ghostbusters 2
LoZ: Link's Awakening
Solar Striker
Revenge of the Gator
Kid Icarus

I second Kirby's Pinball, Revenge of the Gator, and Final Fantasy Adventure, FFAdventure in particular. It's a Zelda-like with a super melodramatic story and great music. I used to play it every year until i finally sold it. ): I still miss it.

Try Solomon's Club if you like character-based puzzle games like Lolo or Solomon's Key. There's also a Lolo game for GB if you're willing to import, keep in mind the European version has more levels and Super Gameboy support.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

the Kirby Arkanoid clone, whatever that was called.

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I actually have that one.

Kirby's Block Ball was the name.

It was extremely easy, from what I remember. I think I beat it in a day or two.

Kirby Pinball was a lot harder, but unfortunately, I sold it. :cry:

Many of the best ones ones have been mentioned. Here are some good ones that often get overlooked:

Bionic Commando (platform)
Trax (shooter)
Mr. Chin's Gourmet Paradise (platform)
Amazing Penguin (action)
Quarth (shooter/puzzle)
Trip World (platform, import)
Catrap (puzzle/platform)
Ninja Spirit (platform, import)
Booby Boys (action/puzzle, import)
Burai Fighter Deluxe (shooter)

I hated the Gameboy, so I never played much on it. But one week, I swapped my Game Gear for my friend's Gameboy. I played the shit out of Kwirk. If you like puzzle platformers, get that.

Get Donkey Kong! I don't mean the DKC games, but the updated original arcade game. It's probably my favorite GB game, and it was the killer app for the Super Game Boy back in the day since the colors were done very well and had the arcade cabinet border.

Kudos to Timber for bringing Revenge of the Gator to the party. I think everything I would recommend has been mentioned, although I actually liked the variety of SML1 better than 2. Actually, I liked the SaGa, er, Final Fantasy Legend games too. It was so weird to have guns and grenades in a "FF" game back then.

I'm with you on SML1. I still like it more than any of the other Mario/Wario platformers on the system. At the time I'd only played SMB and SMB2 and after SML I just assumed all future Mario games were going to go off in radically different directions. The fact that they threw in a horizontal shooter level really threw me off (in a great way) at the time.

I loved the Saga games back then but I haven't tried them again since the mid 90's. I was actually thinking of jumping back into Legend 2 at some point here soon.