Did anybody ever mention that the length of your guys' intro is absolutely perfect.Never feel the need to skip ahead to get to the meat and bone of your show.
Agree 100%. I also appreciate any skits they do are usually saves for the end of the video, in case you aren't into that kind of thing. I hate having to slog through the stupid opening skits just to get to the main part in most video game review videos. And Game Sack skits are usually short, random, and just for giggles, rather than serving as some kind of needless introduction. Yay Game Sack! You guys rock ^_^
You needed to have 47 accessories on your Gameboy for true maximum like magnifying glasses, George Foreman grills, lights, multipurpose knife, link cables, flask, and rechargable cable. Cause back in the day those suckers looked like the Transformer Soundwave had a gaming baby
I still have both my GAMEBOY and SOUNDWAVE, good times, I think I was 8 when I got SOUNDWAVE and about 12 when I got the GB, with Double Dragon and Mario Land, I miss being a kid, that said I've not exactly grown up, besides having bills to pay and responsibility's, if a time machine existed I'd go back in a heart beat.
I usually like to eat poptarts when I watch Gamesack. woke up this morning around 630 and saw a notification for a new Gamesack, went to the cupboard and was all out of poptarts. So I went 3 miles to the closest store that sells them waited 20 min for them to open, scored a few boxes, came home popped those s.o.b. in the toaster oven and fired up some game sack on the big tv
+Game Sack Dave I am a lucky bastard who gets to work from home and stay up all night at the same time. I'm usually in the midst of my graveyard shift when a new sack graces the web early on Sunday morning. I like to prepare a succulent tuna sandwich, featuring wasabi mayonnaise, or maybe even a grilled cheese, grab a beer, and throw the new episode on my big smart TV. My God... Isn't this country great?
Sword of Hope was one of very few Game Boy games that where translated to Swedish, and with hilarious results. For instance "Treant" was translated to Trädmyra which means tree ant and most famously they used the wrong translation of the word chest so instead of asking if you want to open a treasure chest they ask if you want to open a breast.
Link's Awakening was really a pinnacle game for the GB...the immersive story, music, graphics, gameplay speed (game never seemed to lag)....it was an incredible experience for a portable system
This episode actually made me pull out my brother's old GameBoy...and wow I can't believe I used to settle for this! I could barely see the screen without a bright light focused on it. Thank you Joe for smashing Dave's GameBoy....I once thought it barbaric but now I see it was actually an act of love.
The first console I ever owned for myself - so many happy memories of this. Crazy to think that it would have such a long lifespan, the fact the n64 had a transfer pak and a gameboy player all those years after the gameboy was released is a true testament to how cool the gameboy was and groundbreaking
+CF-105 Games Strictly speaking it's a handheld console. The handheld market is different, but it is still a type of console so it counts. Besides, he isn't comparing it to a home console, he is just saying it is the first console he owned...
+ben owen Same exact thing for me. I was addicted to the music in Tetris and Mario Land. I remember my mother was getting miffed about how many batteries we went through so she bought the ac adapter for using it at home and a AA recharge kit for on the go lol.
+N64 Glenn Plant "the fact the n64 had a transfer pak and a gameboy player" The N64 had a transfer pak, but not a gameboy player. The Game Boy Player was on the Gamecube and played Game Boy Advance games as well. There were some 3rd party devices such as the Wide-Boy64 and the GB Hunter, but those were rare.
Not sure if someone's already mentioned it but Solomon's Club is a port of a game called Solomon's Key which was a superb little game in its own right.
Back in the mid 90's, I used to dream about having a gameboy... but this was totally not affordable. A gameboy would cost as much as two minimum wages value and the cartridges were very, very expensive. Gameboy was definitely a rich kid's item and I didn't know any middle class kid that could convince their parents to buy it :P However when pokemon games came out in english around 98, the interest for the gameboy skyrocketed in Brazil, as most kids where studing english in elementary school being able to understand the dialogues and almost every kid loved pokemon. Gameboys started becoming more affordable and still up to now it is the most popular portable console in Brazil, maybe in the world.
Yes, video games were definitely for upper middle class families back then. I grew up in a low to mid middle class family and I remember having the Gameboy pocket and only 2 freaking games. I was 10 yrs old and I didnt even wanna bother to convince my parents to spend on it.
sweet vid! loved the gameboy ever since I got mine in 91. The games i first bought with the machine was, mario land, tetris, robocop and terminator 2. man the latter two were hard!
+Jose Luis Rodriguez ah yes mario picross I never played it when it came out I mostly played Pokemon Red but ever since I got my everdrive GB I have been playing countless Gameboy games on my Gameboy light. I love picross. Edit ps I never had an original gameboy I grew up with the GBC but I have since gotten a silver gameboy light an extrem green gameboy pocket and an ags 001 GBA SP. I need to get an orginal Gameboy one of these days as it is as sweet system but frankly I love my Gameboy light that EL backlight is fantastic.
I really loved the Gameboy when it came out. Well, more so when it was only about 4 years old...I was born in 87. It was absolutely amazing that I could play video games while being anywhere. I played hockey growing up and we did a lot of traveling around from game to game and state to state. When the Gameboy advanced and then Color came out I went bought them immediately. Then, around the time they first announced the PlayStation 2 my parents got one of those big conversion vans with a TV and vcr inside it. So instead of the Gameboy, we would bring the ps1, N64 and then the ps2 on trips. But I would still play the Gameboy while on the pooper
growing up as a 90's kid I grew up with a gameboy then a gameboy color, and this video was a trip down memory lane. I remember spending what seemed like an eternity playing Donkey Kong Land, and Castlevania. On the super gameboy for the SNES one of the funniest things was playing Links Awakening in the movie theatre screen it had. This episode was amazing
+Rogar Hurtubise I wish I could 'dig out' consoles. I must have sold my consoles back in the day, I definately sold the Game Boy 15 or so years ago because I remember how happy I was with the price I got. How I regret it now.
+ThalinRPG I feel your pain, growing up the place I work at with my dad now, used to be an independent distributor of Nintendo, and I had a SNES in the demo cabinet that would set on a counter, my dad stored it at my grandparents house and it got ruined in a flood.
The reason most early Original Gameboy games have amazing music, is because Hip Tanaka was behind the scenes on many of them. As well as many awesome NES game OSTs.
The always unique Game Sack system focused episodes is a blast, great work Joe and Dave, as usual. Oh, Dave, at least you've got your Game Boy back! :)
@@videostash413 Nope, look up a map screen with all the hidden levels. If I recall, the Turtle Zone had one. I think Space Zone had two or three. Anyways, there's more than just the base game in Mario Land 2.
I just wanna say, I love your guy's videos. You guys do a lot of hard work and research and it shows. I love especially when you bring up games that I've probably never played or heard of, and it makes me want to seek them out and play them for myself! Thanks guys for everything you do, and really like your website too. :)
At first I was bummed that you guys only covered the original Gameboy but the more I watched the more it became apparent that you guys made the right call. Plus the ending was just brilliant.
My personal favorite series on the Game Boy is the Mega Man games; called Rockman World in Japan, the first 4 games are remixes of the NES games with all new levels and even a new villain known as the Mega Man Killers. The fifth Mega Man game is a totally unique entry on its own; the Robot Masters are named after planets and has a pretty epic final boss. I would highly recommend all but Mega Man 2 as that game was a rush-job; these games are tougher than their console counterparts, half due to the screen and the other half being in the tough (but fair) level designs.
Mega Man 5 was a great game on the Gameboy. Although I prefer Mega Man Xtreme 1 and 2, Capcom really made an effort in optimising the sprite size and gameplay for the small screen on those two games.
I don't remember them being that hard, and would like to replay them again, especially 5. Too bad the Mega Man Mania collection never materialized, as I do know that 5 is expensive.
+Oliver Surpless The hardest GB installment (Mega Man III) is considered one of the tougher Mega Man Classic Series games around, but Mega Man IV and V are a bit easier than Dr. Wily's Revenge and III, whereas II is the easiest of the five. From personal experience, I'd rank it Mega Man III >> Dr. Wily's Revenge >> IV > V >>>>>> II in terms of challenge. I'd say just get a GB EverDrive instead of finding the games on eBay as nearly every GB and GBC game can be played on it.
+PinMike Oh man. I remember nearly smashing my Game Boy trying to play Mega Man on it. It's a good thing I discovered RPGs! Speaking of that, no RPGs in this episode!
Thank you for this episode. This has got to be one of the best retrospectives about the Gameboy. It was a nostalgia trip for me, remembering the console I grew up with as a kid. Thanks guys!
Donkey Kong on the GB is one of my all-time favorite games. I love those kind of one-room puzzle platformers (or whatever they're called). I enjoyed my time with the Game Boy. It was the first Nintendo console I ever owned. I preferred the Game Gear, though.
"Sound - 2 PWGs, 1 PCM and 1 Noise" That's not a PCM, that's a 4 bit Wavetable channel, the same kind of sound the Turbografx 16 puts out, except in 6 channels instead of 1 and in 5 bit instead of 4 >_> The NES had a 1 bit PCM channel, they called it the DPCM, but the Game Boy had no PCM what-so-ever... I make GBC music, I know what I'm talking about...
Game Sack Well, the sound hardware is unchanged, but the graphics hardware was far improved upon and I believe the CPU was also made a lot faster... But I might be mistaken on the last one, I need to look it up...
Ruko Michiharu I ask mainly becuase the (very, very few) GameBoy Color games I've played so far are drowning in arpeggios and to me that sounds more primitive.
Solomon's Key was one of my favorite games for the Famicom. I used to play it a lot with my dad when I was younger. It is actually out on the PSN store and I highly recommend it!
I think the GameBoy, GameBoy Color, and GBA are all underrated systems. They have very good game libraries, and you can play them anywhere you want. :)
Hey, Kid Dracula's soundtrack features "Golliwog's Cakewalk" by the composer Debussy at 8:40! I love it when classical music pops up unexpectedly in a game's soundtrack. Also kind of an odd coincidence, considering that golliwogs were controversial black caricatures, and this game also features what was originally a Ku Klux Klansman as a boss (shown at 8:18). O_o
Unfortunately, 3DS Eshop versions of Gameboy/GBC titles are severely crippled. They play as they would on an original Gameboy, thus none of the color enhancements of the GBC. And while there weren't many, some GBC games gave additional features when used on a GBA (Zelda Oracle games)...this also does not work on the 3DS, as the games play as they would on a GBC. This...pretty much rules out the 3DS Eshop versions for me, and I have to hunt down the original cartridges.
The Game Boy was the console I played the most as a kid. I still have my original gray brick. I remember not really having a lot of classic beloved titles on it though. I had like the Star Trek game, Pyramids of Ra, some golf game...it wasn't until I got Kirby's DreamLand 2 that I realized "Woah, there are FUN games on this console!"
I love that you guys are putting out more videos lately, this is seriously the best gaming channel and I'm always looking for uploads from y'all, thanks a bunch and keep it up!
The GameBoy is an absolutely amazing system, and is still to this day my favorite handheld. It may be nostalgia talking, but I love the chiptune music and the monochrome graphics, it all has an unparalleled charm. For the longest time I only had Wario Land, but my collection slowly expanded with Mario Land 1 and 2, Kirby's Dreamland, and Pokémon Red (I was like 7, I weren't buying any games myself with my petty ass allowance any time soon). Favorite games: - Pokémon Red - Wario Land - Wario Land II - Kirby's Dreamland - Tintin in Tibet (I LOVE TINTIN, and Infogrames just have a thing for amazing soundtracks) - Tintin and the Prisoners of the Sun - Metroid II: The Return of Samus (believe it or not, this Black sheep of the series was what finally got me interested in the franchise) - Tetris PS. I still have my old GameBoy pocket, and in pretty damn good condition too I might add....though it did go through some tough times where the battery cover went missing, one of the battery springs got wangled, and the screen protector got dirty and had to be removed, BUT all of these issues have since been fixed, cuz I love my little baby
+Game Sack Dave If you like Tintin, you totally should. The have great graphics, awesome soundtrack, and varied gameplay to keep the experience fresh. Funny thing is, both games were released for both GB and GBC, and the GB versions were apparently so hard that the GBC versions had to be made easier. They are not too expensive on eBay so I definently recommend picking them up:-)
Hey guys, I don't usually comment but I just wanted to let you know I've really been appreciating your show during the year that I've known about it. It's great fun, and the dorky stuff like the sound effects you add really ups the fun factor. Great breakfast entertainment!
I always loved how the backgrounds on most plataformers looked simple but beautiful on the GB! I still have mine and Kirby Dreamland is probably one of my favorite games of all time
Thank you so much for this episode guys. I realized just yesterday that you guys didn't have a gameboy episode, but you guys delivered. Thanks so much again. :)
These episodes are always awesome, I just wish those sweet-ass end movies lasted longer! You guys should definitely make a feature length film someday. I remember playing the GameBoy when I was like 9, in my bed at night under the covers with a flashlight propped on my shoulder so I could see. Good times!
Via Wikipedia - "Nintendo R&D1 was involved in developing the Game Boy Color, a successor to the original Game Boy with a color screen. Nintendo of America's Dan Owsen noted that Nintendo R&D1 included a special "Metroid palette" in the Game Boy Color's hardware, which "makes Metroid II look really, really nice on Game Boy Color", remarking that this made the game's graphics comparable to the original Metroid on the Nintendo Entertainment System." I was wondering why those Metroid II colors were so amazing!
I had the original GameBoy and played the hell out of it (I had Gator's Revenge pinball too, hah) and eventually I traded it in to get an Atari Lynx because I thought "OMG full color back-lit 16 bit graphics!!!" Little did I know that there would be virtually no 3rd party support and that Atari was basically dead and worthless... Years later I sold the Lynx and my games and eventually picked up a GameBoy Color and a few titles and loved it. Will you guys cover GBC in a future episode?
+Joe Blow I had a Lynx also for a while. I thought the exact same thing how awesome it was with its back lit screen. Sadly only a few good games. I never sold my original GB though. I couldn't part with it.
Game Sack Dave I had the model 2 Lynx but it still needed 6 AA batteries and I remember my dad was nice enough to modify some unused AC adapter he had laying around so that it would fit into my Lynx and output the correct voltage and such so I wasn't always eating batteries. I actually snagged mine during a promotion where you could get a free Batman Returns game, which was kinda fun but hard as hell and frustrating. (Remember that insta-death that happened every time on the first level if you didn't duck behind a trash can or whatever when the building blew up?)
I remember Christmas '98 I got a Gameboy Pocket and Pokémon Blue. That same Christmas I also got a brand new PSX with Metal Gear Solid and a Dual Shock Controller packed in. That was a pretty awesome Christmas! Can't say I'm into Pokémon nowadays though. I played Soul Silver on the DS but nothing more recent than that.
Thank you for covering only GameBoy games! Whenever I see a video or list about GameBoy games, they always include GameBoy Color games and I'm all like blargh it's a new system with different specs and plays its own games!!! So once again...THANK YOU!
Great video guys, keep up the great work, all the other "Gamer" youtubers have not been consistent with their video posts output and when they do they are very sub-par and have been focusing on spin-off version of their shows (Jontron, PBG, Game Theory, Completionist,ProJared, Spacehamster, brutal moose, Didyouknow games ), In my opinion: Games Sack, Dashie Games, Classic Game room are currently the best when it comes to gaming content and entertainment.
+bassgasmask Yeah, Game Sack is definitely my favourite gaming show. They're enjoyable to listen to, very informative, and entertaining, all without using any forced memes or stupid gimmicks. Cheers to Joe and Dave.
Ninja Gaiden Shadow is the first and only game I had on my GameBoy (got the PlayStation after a while). I absolutely loved that game, and didn't even know that there was a main series that was tough as balls! Anyways, I played that game all the time, all the way through, discovered every secret, fought every boss, and even dove into the secret sound test menu (which I found ON MY OWN back before the Internet, B+A when you press Start at the title screen). Never managed to defeat the final boss, but I loved every single moment of it. That game brings back some great memories of the past, and I'm really glad you guys covered it in this episode & enjoyed playing it. Thanks guys :)
I'm glad to see you guys got around to the Game Boy. Love all your other system focused episodes too and I've always been impressed with the variety of games you pull out. It was really good to see some of games that I never see talked about for the Game Boy like the Contra games as well as some that I never heard about like the one where you're playing the tank. Keep up the good work guys!
+Game Sack when i was younger i didnt think it was a castlevania game at all if im honest .....i always thought it was based on the childrens books that we had in the uk when i was younger ....can you blame me though it used the same (or similar) logo
I'm so happy this episode finally happened. Game Boy is the easiest system to collect for right now outside of the Atari 2600, and if you have a Super Game Boy or Gamecube Gameboy Player, you don't have to play them on a small screen all the time. I still bring my Gameboy with me to work on holidays because they're generally very slow, and I get paid time and a half to play Kirby's Dream Land 2.
Thanks for showing Trax! It was the first game I completed several times! It seems to be an obscure game, as the Internet has barely any details of it.
This was a fun trip back in time. I got my Game Boy in 1991 and loved it. The lack of colors hurt a bit, but the stereo sound and NES feel/influence felt in its games made the device special; it was, basically, as close to a portable NES experience as we could get back then. It's impressive that not even 37 minutes are enough to spotlight the major games in the GB library. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games were fun. Tecmo Bowl was a solid NES port. Having Final Fantasy games on the go was a big plus, as was getting a taste of Mega Man. At some point, I'd like to (re)build a Game Boy collection. There were a lot of games that I missed out on, and replaying the games that I did own back then would surely call forth lots of memories-- and those memories are a big part of what attracted me to retro gaming in the first place. Loved the ending, by the way. #BaldIsBeautiful
Thank you Game Sack for the nostalgia trip! The Game Boy was the first console I ever owned, and Super Mario Land and Links Awakening were some of the first games I ever played. Strange how much you remember when you see footage of them! I kept expecting to see colour in this video as you usually put Game Boy games randomly into other videos, I had to keep reminding myself there was no colour! Did you guys ever play 'The Humans' on the system. Look it up, more great music!
Qix is another good one. It seems sort of tedious until you figure out the strategy, but after that it's only a notch below Tetris in terms of sheer addictiveness.
Dave you talk like the gameboy was your favorite system, then why did you let Joe smash it with a hammer. Oh and congrats on getting your gameboy back. Also Hair is overrated when you got a beard and a large game sack.
+Therealmadkong LoL. Thanks! GB is one of my favorite systems and I wasn't quick enough to stop Joe from dong the hammer time with my GB. Luckily Mr. Yokoi saw this and gave me my system back.
My first experience with the Gameboy was with Tetris back in about 1990 or so, I think, it's hard to be sure. Such a fun game. The Gameboy had a good run in regards of it's lifespan, it outlasted more powerful handhelds like the Game Gear and Atari Lynx and had a pretty big selection of games while making quite an impact in the gaming industry and leaving behind a large legacy.
+Reina Watt Yeah the system had a long life span and I think it's due to the quality of the games. GG and the Lynx didn't have as many hits so they died earlier.
Also the battery life for the Game Gear and the Lynx didn't help them, the Game Boy had a good battery life while the other handhelds barely managed a few hours. The Game Boy proved that it didn't matter how fancy something was, if it didn't have the games and the battery life than it wasn't much use for prolonged periods of time when it came to gaming.
Great video.. I'm 7 years late to the party, but better late then never! lol. I remember getting the GB and loving Tetris. Castlevania was awesome even though it ran slow. I never really thought much about it because I was just excited to play it on the go. The battery life is something that I have to credit Nintendo for making sure it lasts long. Even to this day on my 3DS the battery last longer than most. I think that helped them in the portable war because you could buy more games instead of batteries. I didn't buy a lot of games for it since I didn't have the budget or work yet when I got it. I remember getting the light that snapped on to the screen so you could play it at night. I have recently got back into gaming with my Nintendo Switch, which is why I found our channel and have been watching episodes in chronological order now...I'm 145 episodes in and I can't say I've ever been disappointed......
Link's Awakening was huge for me, because I didn't have an SNES at the time but really wanted to play A Link to the Past, but was only lucky enough to have an NES and GameBoy* so this was major for me. I'll never forget Christmas morning getting this game. *I was still very lucky to have more than one system, or Hell even one!
Great episode guys. If you want to open certain Nintendo products in the future, all you need is a lighter and a ballpoint pen. Not the most elegant solution but it's always served me well.
another fun episode. The GB is not a favorite system of mine, but I've played some great games on it and had fun times with it. Mario Land's graphics may be really simple, but I've always liked the art style. Amazing how tiny the game ROM actually is. As for the ropes in Castlevania, I figured it was due to the low screen resolution and the relative size of the sprites.
Another quality episode. I especially liked how much you guys focused on the Super Gameboy. I really thought Donkey Kong showed off the Super Gameboy, but I never knew about Space Invaders. Wow! So they basically put a Super Nintendo game in a Gameboy cartridge? That's pretty neat!
Got a Gameboy back then, for Christmas. So many memories enjoying the music and trying to beat my high score on Tetris. Great coverage of this handheld console guys. Game Sack still kicking ass. \,,/
