Gameboy - The Bear and Badger

Scotswahey

I was going through my stuff that I'd left at my parents house and found my old Gameboy with Warioland inside. Good news! It still works. Since my parents were skinflints I only ever got a handful of games for the thing. My question is this.

What are the best games on the Gameboy?

After playing Wario I realised that the Gameboy kicks the arse off the DS and PSP. Also does anyone know a good place to get accesories? I'm missing the battery cover off mine.

Skerret

I think you're going a bit mental.

LazyGunn

I found the zelda game (i think there were 2 but im talking about the first) really great

I'm going to be pretty vague i suppose but the nintendo golf game was addictive as hell, as was that bike one that was a bit like kickstart etc, total precursor to Trials

monkey

Mario Tennis.Â
Motocross Maniacs
All the Mario and Wario platformer stuff.

EvilRedEye

You might be able to get a battery cover off eBay. I've been playing the GB version of Donkey Kong on the 3DS, it's basically a whole new game with the same title, with loads of content.

LazyGunn

Uh oh i replied to a mental person's thread, help, Skerret!

Yossarian

Best games? Tetris, obvs. Super Mario whatever it was. There may have been others, but those are the only two that I played which I can still recall enjoying.

hylian_elf

LazyGunn wrote:

I found the zelda game (i think there were 2 but im talking about the first) really great

Only one, Link's Awakening. It was indeed absolutely great, still one of the best Zeldas.

Skerret

LazyGunn wrote:

Uh oh i replied to a mental person's thread, help, Skerret!

Break for cover, I'll create a diversion.

Scotswahey

I've got Links Awakening kicking about somewhere as well as.

Star Trek - The next Generation
Chuckie Egg
Tetris
Some "Soccer" game my dad got in the states

Nothing mental about liking the Gameboy.

hylian_elf

Monster Max
Kirby's Dreamland
Batman
Some Frankenstein game
Super Mario Land 1&2
Pokemon Red and Blue

wonderbanana

Monster Max is a oft overlooked masterpiece on the GB.

WorKid

Had Pokemon blue for my GBC. Stole my life.

davyK

It got a quite brilliant early golf game - just called Golf.Â

It also got a stupendous remake of Donkey Kong that starts out with the 4 basic levels then turns into an excellent puzzle platformer with loads of levels featuring keys and locks etc. DK '94 I think it was called.

If you have a Gamecube loitering around then the GBA adapter will let you play original GB games on your TV.

Scotswahey

I've got a gamecube that sits unused but I don't really fancy playing infront of the tv. I've not even got my PS3 plugged in at the moment such is the shift in my life. Gameboys were just so easy to useÂ·

Yossarian

Scotswahey wrote:

I've not even got my PS3 plugged in at the moment such is the shift in my life.

Preferring to do other things, such as gaming, to watching BluRays?

/Sony fan baiting.

[Deleted User]

Alleyway was fantastic.

Scotswahey

I don't even own any blurays funnily enough. If I do get spare time away from my gf or daughter it's spent fucking about on my Raspberry pi.Â

All this will change 'when the last of us' is released.

acemuzzy

Balloon Kid!

Matt_82

I still have mine. Â Wario Blast, Mario Land and Tennis still get an airing when I can be bothered hooking up the Gamecube.

mk64

Boxxle
Pinball Dreams
Kirby
Rc pro am
Double dragon

Just listing ones which haven't already been said

adored

Tetris
Tetris
Tetris

Have played little else since getting a Gameboy off 'nana.

If anyone has an old copy of Tetris knocking about still that they don't want anymore let me know, think the battery is on its way out in my cart, need a backup.

mistercrayon

Tetris? I think Tetris dx might have saved scores but vanilla Tetris didn't.

Yossarian

Surely even if it did save scores (which I don't recall) another cart will just have another battery which is roughly as old as the one in adored's cart and so just as close to running out.

EvilRedEye

Alternatively get a 3DS and the VC version of Tetris which will last, like, forever through the miracle of save states. Only Â£140!

adored

Yossarian wrote:

Surely even if it did save scores (which I don't recall) another cart will just have another battery which is roughly as old as the one in adored's cart and so just as close to running out.

Can't remember whether the original saved scores or not, this one doesn't, but it's also a bit tempermental. Obviously they're all going to be on the wane, but it wouldn't hurt to get another one at some point.

davyK

The original didn't

mistercrayon

EvilRedEye wrote:

Alternatively get a 3DS and the VC version of Tetris which will last, like, forever through the miracle of save states. Only Â£140!

they could have just ported dx and saved everyone the bother. remembering to use save states in tetris is something i repeatedly forget to do.

wonderbanana

adored wrote:

Yossarian wrote:

Surely even if it did save scores (which I don't recall) another cart will just have another battery which is roughly as old as the one in adored's cart and so just as close to running out.

Can't remember whether the original saved scores or not, this one doesn't, but it's also a bit tempermental. Obviously they're all going to be on the wane, but it wouldn't hurt to get another one at some point.

You tried cleaning the contacts with a bit of rubbing alcohol dude?

Minkymu

Donkey Kong is ace. Gargoyles Quest. Tetris.

adored

wonderbanana wrote:

adored wrote:

Yossarian wrote:

Surely even if it did save scores (which I don't recall) another cart will just have another battery which is roughly as old as the one in adored's cart and so just as close to running out.

Can't remember whether the original saved scores or not, this one doesn't, but it's also a bit tempermental. Obviously they're all going to be on the wane, but it wouldn't hurt to get another one at some point.

You tried cleaning the contacts with a bit of rubbing alcohol dude?

Done nothing more than blow on the contacts so far, wil try something more pro-active at some point.

It's only crashed a couple of times, nothing out of the ordinary for a cart that age, but I should probably try and get another before the all vanish.

Used to have a cart with about 50 games on it with a reset / select button on the cart itself. Wish I could find that now.

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