Nintendo Game Boy - thirty years of portable power!

Jenuall wrote:Weren't the Final Fantasy Legend games the ones that were actually from another series but re-branded as FF games for the West?

I remember having a couple of them and they were enjoyable enough but never felt like they were actually FF games.

They're part of the SaGa series, yeah.

Not sure why the Final Fantasy branding though as FF was still niche at that time.

That said it was still better known than SaGa was/is.

Those are the ones, yes. I played this before Mystic Quest released, so had precisely zero FF knowledge at this point in my life.

I got a Game Boy Color with Pokemon Blue (and Red, although that went to my brother). It was my first handheld and I absolutely adored it, and had a good selection of games. Obvious highlight goes to Link's Awakening DX - my second and still favourite Zelda game.

Strange to think that I must have got the GBC for Christmas 1999 and the GBA for Christmas 2001, which is only 2 years, but it definitely felt like a long time, and I still had a dozen or so games that my parents bought me (although I've added to the collection over time).

I loved the Game Boy, especially the Pocket and Colour editions, the Sega Game Gear was great as well but it drained batteries incredibly quick

I remember Mission Impossible on GBC (which was a much better game than the N64 version) could be used as a TV remote. Had hours of fun switching over from The Box whilst my sister was trying to listen to terrible music.

suzzopher wrote:I remember Mission Impossible on GBC (which was a much better game than the N64 version)

But the N64 game was awesome!

OrangeRKN wrote:
suzzopher wrote:I remember Mission Impossible on GBC (which was a much better game than the N64 version)

But the N64 game was awesome!

Oh honey, no

Okay so I could never get that far into it because it's clunky and difficult, but the hotel level is genuinely brilliant. It's like a hybrid between a third person action game and a point-and-click puzzler. No other game makes me feel quite so much like an actual secret agent doing secret agent things - I think Hitman comes closest, but that's much more of a sandbox rather than MI's fixed objectives and solutions. If the game was made today it would just be a shooter and it would be so much worse for it.

I too quite enjoyed MI on the N64. Never got too far myself as it was my mate's copy, but it was clunky as hell and bastard hard.

I have tried to go back to it on emulator and it's really aged horribly though.

I got my first Game Boy in 1993, it was bundled with Tetris and i also got a copy of Super Mario Land 2 at the same time.

The best game on it for me though, was the massively underrated Kirby's Pinball Land.

I spent years playing this, for me it's the best pinball game ever.

I have kirby's pinball on 3ds, it's fun, you can get over an hours playtime on it without getting bored.

I also has mission impossible on GBC, I'm not sure if I have it anymore.. Might have sold or lost it. I didn't really enjoy it, just felt fiddly and overly complicated and not that enjoyable to play. Maybe if I still have it I'll give it another go.

NickSCFC

Never owned one and my impressions of it weren't that good when I did play.

Though saying that, this was my introduction to the system when a friend brought it to school...

:dread:

Nintendo Game Boy - thirty years of portable power!

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