Are there any Game Boy launch titles that stick out to you? We'll be tackling either the Wii or Sega Dreamcast next, and don't worry! The PS1/PS2 will come around soon enough. Thanks for all your amazing support with this series!
I don't understand the "everything I've got" meme from these videos and I've never asked a question before so I'm going to ask. This I've. Got. Can somebody tell me thank you lol.
Got my Gameboy for Xmas 1990 and alleyway and Mario tennis and super Mario land. I still own my game boy 30 years later and still plays fantastic today. There was dance tune for super Mario land and tetris that came out in the UK charts around 1992.
The one thing you forgot to mention about Super Mario Land was the INFINITE ricochet fireballs! No greater feeling than grabbing a bunch of coins and kill a koopa or two in a single perfectly timed sniper shot. Glorious.
There was another game other than Tetris? Still have my Gameboy that I got for Christmas that year, gave all the games away 15+ years ago and still don't know why I've kept it all these years.
I had Super Mario World bundled with my Game Boy Pocket (clear plastic version, melon farmers!) So that was my favourite out of these. By the time I got it though I had also got Pokémon blue.
Super Mario Land was my first ever game that was all mine. On my first ever video game system that was all mine, a Game Boy Pocket. And yes, the music absolutely slaps. It is the game that taught 5 year old David how to think about a video game and how it can sometimes be fundamentally different from real life (I remember it not being super obvious to me why you could jump on enemies and smash your head into bricks. I literally had to learn to test out these simple game mechanics and trust in their consistency. It was a big moment for me both in terms of gaming, but also I think in generally being able to think about the world complexly and not just what was happening right in front of my face and my reaction to it)
I want you to know I say the “oh here we go…sports time” bit with you ever time. And now I say it in my daily life whenever I’m doing something for the first time.
These videos just get better and better. They always have a few moments that make me laugh, but Ben’s looks to the camera after entering naughty player names had me absolutely rolling.
I can't count how many times I had traded games I had to play again and again Super Mario Land back then. Tetris my buddy gift me one because for some reason he had two. It was package with the console, but I had taken a different bundle with R-Type, Magnetic Soccer & Gargoyle's Quest. From the rest games mentioned another friend of mine had that tennis, I liked it back then. I think I've played Alleway too, maybe in one of those 50 games in 1 people were getting from vacations in Thailand. Great times!
It's either "cannot be overstated" or "should not be understated." "It cannot be understated" implies that it is so little the case as to be impossible to understate how little it is the case. ..welcome 😀👍
A 65% Tetris score from Famitsu? That's interesting. It created a genre, and it deserves some respect for that. Most people look at it through heavily rose-tinted glasses though. The nature of the game doesn't allow for combos (chain reactions) like Puyo Puyo, Tetris Attack (Puzzle League), Puzzle Fighter, Wario's Woods, Dr. Mario, Bejewled, etc. This makes it a really shallow experience, compared to its peers. At the time though, I feel it did its job of offering something new, and killing time effectively. Tetris is one of those games that's just Taboo to say anything negative about in modern times, so it's neat to see a perspective from when it was fresh.
Spending a romantic evening with Ben and a lot of classic games. Perhaps if you run out of consoles you could choose a release year and play those games?
Please make another video series about playing the last few games of the consoles before they were discontinued. There would be lots of sports time and even some radical cool bird man for the Nintendo 64.
When I was a kid I had Mario Land. It's a pretty mediocre game. Usually you have nostalgia for the game you played where you was a kid, but that's not the case. Sequels were an ENORMOUS improvement.
Bit harsh, I'd say it's still very much worth a go, even if you're right that the sequels were better still. It's over in under an hour, there's some nice ideas with things like the submarine and airplane that hadn't been tried before in Mario, and the music is great.
I thought the first Mario Land game was the best of the series. Yes the graphics were tiny but the gameplay was super fun, the music was amazing and you could play through the whole thing in under an hour. The sequels may have looked prettier but the gameplay felt slow and boring and too long for a handheld platform game. I thought the difficulty level was perfectly calibrated so that I always got a bit further each time I played.
Just think, there's someone at Famitsu who played Tetris at launch and rated it 65%, the video game equivalent of that guy who didn't think the Beatles were worth signing because he didn't think guitar bands were gonna be that popular.
I wanna see you guys rank all the Gameboy/Gameboy color titles. Quarth may have not been launch title, but it was certainly one of the best, and easily one of the most unique puzzle games, combining with a bit of a shoot em up
Favorite Gameboy Games?.....Okay, here they are. 😉 Super Mario Land Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Wario Land - Super Mario Land 3 Wizards&Warriors: Fortress of Fear Gargoyles's Quest Burai Fighter Deluxe Side Pocket Kirby's Dreamland Tennis Alleyway SolarStriker The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening F-1 Race Mystic Quest Paperboy Tetris Dr. Mario The Amazing Spiderman Castlevania Kung Fu Master Mega Man: Dr. Willy's Revenge Mortal Kombat Motocross Maniacs Pokemon Red R-Type Skate or Die: Bad 'n Rad Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Footclan Track&Field WWF Superstars Pheeeww, that's it. Man...those were the Days!
Never played Tetris, clearly didn't know the blocks were going to drop from the ceiling in Mario Land... I'm beginning to doubt that 'I love GameBoy' statement at the start of this video...
