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Pentegarn · #1

It was clunky, had zero battery power, a spinach green screen, and yet....

It had Tetris on the go, which seemed to win the day at that time. The only handheld competition that was relevant (sorry Lynx and TG16 portable) was the Game Gear, and as bad as Gameboy was on batteries, Game Gear was way worse. So Gameboy won by simple default. Also Nintendo had nearly godlike status in the vidjamagames market in those days so if you slapped the Nintendo logo on a bucket of vomit people would have shelled out hundreds of dollars to buy it

As I recall the initial library for Gameboy was poor, other than Tetris and Super Mario Land there was nothing of note going for it (though I may be forgetting a title or 2)

mew barios · #2

compared to my pile of tiger lcd games the gameboy looked like the face of god :o i had one of those giant magnifier/light things stuck on top of it so i prolly looked like i was browsing through a microfiche goin down the street.

i dunno what you can compare it to and say that it had poor battery life though, i remember getting like 12h out of it.

Pentegarn · #3

On 4 AAs I got about 4-6 hours. Not a ton. The rechargable battery solved that problem though. And the magnifier/light was a necessity if memory serves.

Also I too had a pile of Tiger LCD games

Fathom Zero · #4

Bionic Commando for the GBC rocked.

k0k0 · #5

I like Bionic Commando Rearmed the best, but the NES version was a good time. I never got into playing handheld versions of anything other than sudoku on my cell phone.

Chojin · #6

everything blurred so much on the gameboy that it was pretty much an unplayable system for me :< it doesn't happen on emulators, so i feel that kids these days who go back and try it are getting an unfairly good opinion of the system

WhiteRat · #7

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everything blurred so much on the gameboy that it was pretty much an unplayable system for me :< it doesn't happen on emulators, so i feel that kids these days who go back and try it are getting an unfairly good opinion of the system

Did you need to wear coke bottle glasses as a kid or something? Yeah the resolution was crap but it was so bad that it was unplayable? Metric shit tons of the units were sold worldwide so it couldn't have been THAT bad.

Also the emulators aren't going to have this "blurriness" that you speak of simply because the resolution of the pc is so much higher.

Pentegarn · #8

There's a gulf of difference between flaws and glitches though

mew barios · #9

link's awakening is my favorite zelda game :< when i finally got a gameboy of my own that was the game that came with it and i played that thing all day everyday. i love the story and the tone and all its quirkyness that really bring through a feeling that the entire game was a labor of love and everyone involved gave it their all. i had never played a game before that made me consider the consequences of completing it.

for me it edges out link to the past, though i really enjoy that game also. even with that said, when i tried to relive the experience on the original hardware i found it to be totally unplayable :< but i have no real reason to bust out the old green machine when i can play it on the super gameboy or gameboy player or gameboy color or gameboy advance or emulated on the ds

Guitar Woman · #10

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link's awakening is my favorite zelda game :< when i finally got a gameboy of my own that was the game that came with it and i played that thing all day everyday. i love the story and the tone and all its quirkyness that really bring through a feeling that the entire game was a labor of love and everyone involved gave it their all. i had never played a game before that made me consider the consequences of completing it.

Yeah, basically this.

I don't know why you guys are treating it like it was Zelda's answer to Super Mario Land or Mortal Kombat or whatever. It functioned as a proper standalone game rather than a scaled down handheld port of a stronger title, and you could tell a lot of effort went into making it.

You guys did play it, right?

Zhukov · #11

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It's not that crazy a notion that a game can have glitches yet still be better than a game without said glitches. It may even be possible that the aforementioned glitches give the game a certain character and charm that may otherwise not have been present.

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There's a gulf of difference between flaws and glitches though

Ok, well if you think that, then change the word 'flaws' in my post, for 'glitches'.

Grislygus · #12

I first played the color version of link's awakening, but I never had a problem on the games I played on the original as long as I wasn't outside

Chojin · #13

i'm referring to motion blur, not resolution

i'm beginning to think none of you have actually used a gameboy

WhiteRat · #14

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i'm referring to motion blur, not resolution

i'm beginning to think none of you have actually used a gameboy

Yes, I do remember (SML brought that memory back from the grave) but other than that game I never remember it being an issue. Like I said, it was an extremely successful platform so it couldn't have been that bad. Honestly when I think back to the GB, "motion blur" never even pops up as something that I would even associate with the system. To each his eyes I guess.

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You guys did play it, right?

Yeah but the motion blur was so bad it made me throw up and I just could never finish it. Heard it was the best Zelda, too. Bummer.

Pentegarn · #15

I know what you are talking about. Anyone who played Super Mario Land would remember it vividly because that game did it worse than any other I can remember

Pentegarn · #16

Yes, we played it, which is why when you say "I hate LttP" and "I love Links Awakening" we wonder if you really played LttP. It is the same basic game minus the owl

executioneer · #17

darkvare · #18

i dunno if you know but i was at ign and apparently the domain modernwarfare3.com has been bought by someone whose only purpose was to talk shit about the game

Zhukov · #19

That's fantastic.

Fathom Zero · #20

http://www.capcom-unity.com/gregaman...ge_from_capcom

bollocks

Zomboid · #21

Aren't you from Alabama, or something? Why do you say stuff like "bollocks" and "mum"?

Zhukov · #22

Because our labour laws are better in the Commonwealth.

Do you say Mum and Labour and Colour and Favourite and all those properly spelled words in Canada?