Notes on Game Boy Games

Game Boy Color games marked [GBC]

After Burst
Another one of those neat, modest Game Boy action puzzle games. Here you are an astronaut, with a cannon with a variable fire angle.

Balloon Kid
It's an extension of the Balloon Trip mode from Balloon Fight, and is even more wonderful than that sounds. There's also a Japanese release called Balloon Fight GB for the Color which has a save function.

Catrap


Cave Noire


Donkey Kong


ダンジョンランド
The multiplayer mode is great fun. Players take turns to create a dungeon—by placing walls, a boss, etc.—which the other player much make their way through, revealing one tile at a time. The menus are in Japanese, but I figured it out without any ability to read the language.

Final Fantasy Adventure
A really solid predecessor to Secret of Mana—probably betters it, actually. What Link's Awakening is to A Link to the Past, this game is to Secret of Mana. There's also a nice chainy morningstar type weapon.

Great Greed
One of those tidy, quick, frictionless game boy RPGs; this one with a food themed coating.

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening	also on: 3DS


Mario's Picross	also on: 3DS
Solid nonogame. I like the archeological theme—chiselling bits away feels good, makes a great pling sound. BGM 5 is not as ace as the SNES version (Mario Puzzle 2) though.

Mercenary Force
Really neat little shooter, by Lenar (the small company behind Gunman's Proof). The members of your 'force' function somewhat like the options we see in other shooters—though the player may care more about their safety. Each member type has a different attack pattern, and you can rearrange your formation.

Metroid II: Return of Samus	also on: 3DS


Mole Mania	also on: 3DS


Mysterium


Nail 'n' Scale


Picross 2	also on: 3DS


Pokémon Picross `[GBC]`
Officially unreleased GBC nonogame by Jupiter, but there's a complete ROM you can probably find ;3 along with an English translation. Solid game, but missing some of the nice features modern games have, like auto marking hints for completed lines.

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Notes on Game Boy Games

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