My daughter was recently diagnosed with autism. It’s surprisingly nice to hear of anyone else who has children on the spectrum and their wonderful view on it. Keep making great vids! (Btw, she is 4 and excellent at Sonic Mania)
My step brother and I would build carboard box cubby holes for us to compete in. He had one, I had one, both had areas to store accessories, and a link cable connecting the two boxes lol. I cut a book page by page so I could put a Gameboy in it after seeing it done in Parker Lewis Can't Lose, and used it at school lol. I liked motocross a lot, but I was good at Tetris. Back then during the Pump Up The Volume days, I'd play with a CB radio keyed in so other school kids could hear the 100k score music lol. I was shocked to find in recent years I didn't know my two favorite NES games were on it.. Solomon's Club (key), and Burger Time.
My mom's friend had a gameboy with like 15 games, I was like 8, and the gameboy was already 11 years old at that point, but I still found it charming. There's a special vibe to playing antiquated machined like this.
Great overview - also good that you looked at these games in context to what expectations were of the time. The fact that you could have a portable system with interchangeable games that actually looked like video games vs. those LCD tiger handhelds was amazing. I had Tetris (of course), Mario Land, Tennis, and Castlevania. Loved them all - especially as the games cost significantly less vs. the regular Nintendo games at the time and could be played without a TV. People forget you had to share the TV back then too!
I don't recall why but for whatever reason I never owned the original Game Boy, by '89 I was still playing my Game & Watch and Tiger Electronics (Yeah I know...) and leading into the 90's I had the battery sucking handheld known as the Game Gear.
Links awakening and Tmnt were my favorite game boy games of all time. Followed by gargoyles quest and the castlevania stuff. Mario land as well. I know not all 1989 just listing my stuff. Not for nothing SML has lots of charm.
Super Mario Land for me was a favorite. I had a nice collection of GB games and this just brings back so many wonderful memories. Such an amazing video and I cannot thank you enough for bringing back childhood memories.
Absolutely love the Game Boy. Such fun games perfect for all ages. I have a Switch, a Game Gear, and a Game Boy. When we’re out and about, my six year old always wants the Game Boy.
I played Supe Mario Land on my 7th bday. Still playing it regularly to this day! Amazing game! Also Game Boy really gave you a quick jump out of the world that you were living without the commitment of playing for long hours! I believe we need more of that especially nowdays! Awesome video John!
Back in fourth grade (89) I still remember when the gameboy came out, it was fantastic! It my eat my time in recess for sure especially when playing super Mario land. Hey John loving the series keep up the great work!
You know out of all the retro systems most people talk about game boy is usually the least covered of all the retros systems on these old school video game TH-cam channels thank you for covering it
My mom got a game boy for herself. We got to play it sometimes, i even went and borrowed some games from friends for me to play thinking i was going to play it, nope the game i borrowed was Alleyway, and she loved that one and Tetris. Doing the B type on level 9 i think it was and beating it and you got the space shuttle was always cool, my mom would get it and let me watch it, then when i started to play and it felt good to get it myself.
I still remember getting my Gameboy when it came out & I absolutely loved it! It was my first Nintendo console, up until then I mainly had Atari (800XL & the 5200). I had everyone of these games, except baseball & SO many more, & logged hundreds of hours on my Gameboy! Glad to see The Castlevania Adventure getting some love for once, it’s a tough game, but it doesn’t deserve all the criticism it gets, I loved it & the music is awesome! The GameBoy is one of the greatest & most underrated consoles of all time in my opinion…so many amazing games.
Of course I loved Super Mario Land and Tetris, but I also really love Alleyway. I enjoy just picking that up and playing often. As flawed as Castlevania Adventure is, I love the music and it keeps me playing.
I had Tetris, Super Mario Land & Mario Baseball at the time this system released. My fav game out of those was Super Mario Land. Then later on I got F1 Race that came with the 4 player multi adapter. I used to play 2 of my other friends as a kid with the link cables. It was very revolutionary at the time to play your game with everyone having their own screen. Now we take that for granted as we can play online. I used to play the Tetris head to head like that to with link cables attached to both Gameboys. Robocop, Lock & Chase, & Turtles Fall of the Foot Clan. These were the 7 games I had for the system when I was a kid. Now kids are spoiled. They get a video game system with probably 50+ games to it & still complaining if they don't have a best version of a console. "Back in my day" If you had that Gameboy system, they weren't buying you a Game Gear which I found a lot better at the time than a Gameboy. That's how it was back then. Very limited console & games & you were just very happy to have the little games that you had.
The late 80's and early 90's were the best time to be a kid, the music, movies, cartoons, video games, in literally every way. I may be bias, but I'm also right! I remember my cousin getting his Game Boy and it was amazing. I recently bought the OG Game Boy along with Tetris and Super Mario Land. I forgot how addicting Tetris is.
I got a Game Boy with Tetris and Tennis for my 10th birthday in October 1990, then a couple of months later I got SuperMarioLand for Christmas. I'm still very fond of these three games. One thing to remember about SML is that it was a lot of people's first Mario game, many more people played the Game Boy than the NES, especially outside of the US. To us it's the other Mario games that seem weird! Also, at that time there was no set Mario formula, even on the NES. SMB1, 2 and 3 are very different games.
I wasn't around for the original Game Boy, but a few years ago, my friend gave me one in great condition as a Christmas present because he knows how much I love retro stuff. I still take it with me on rare occasions with Tetris in it. It's a fantastic conversation starter.
I didn't know much about games back then and didn't a Gameboy back then, but eventually got on to it when the Pocket came out. Tetris was an amazing pack-in for sure. Super Mario Land was also iconic. Loved playing both games from the other kids who brought in their Gameboys and let others play.
Wow this video took me back. I remember getting the game boy for Christmas in 89 I'm playing at non-stop. I got all the games that you went through in super Mario Land was my favorite.
Castlevania Adventure was awesome when it came out. I have very vivid memories of playing that on car rides with the giant magnifying glass screen attachment and light for those back home at night portions of the car ride. Of course it's nuked from orbit by Belmont's Revenge, but that came later. Having a Castlevania game on the go was incredible.
One cool feature of the Gameboy was that you could use a cable to connect two Gameboys together and play two-player. Tennis was great for this, and my friend and I would play before class in high school. Big fun.
Never played any of these in 1989, as I didn't know anyone who had a Gameboy back then. But when one of my friends did get one a year or so later, I do remember playing a lot of Super Mario Land, Tetris, Baseball and TMNT: Fall of The Foot Clan. those were the four games he had, and they all blew me away. So naturally, I wanted my folks to get me one as well, Unfortunately, they never did.....
I was 5 years old when this came out. I remember borrowing it from my friend with games like Tetris, Mario Land, Snow Bros, Dr. Mario, Boxxle, and Metroid 2. It was amazing to have a portable system back then, I loved it.
I remember my best friend had a Game Boy, and for some reason she sold it to me for peanuts. It was a steal because it included a carrying case, the bulky yet convenient rechargeable travel battery, Mario Land, Tetris, and the unfortunate NFL Football. I still count it a win. Funnily, however, I still have the Game Boy but not the best friend.
John; finally the system that started it all for me. Was the second kid in my school to own one, but the first to buy it myself. Super Mario Land has to be my favorite on release. I did play Tetris at school linked to the rich kid who's parents bought his.
I remember getting one and I also got Super Mario Land with it and I loved the console, it was a brilliant piece of kit. I remember coming home from school and my mum was playing Tetris on it. Which she switched over to SMB3 on the NES.
Yup, I had all these games (except baseball). I was *so lucky,* I had 13 games, 2 gameboys, a carrying case, 4-way link cable, the light, the magnifying glass & the battery pack. Most of which I got second hand from an ad in the newspaper. That's BEFORE Kijiji kids LOL
A lot of these early games were great, but what's amazing is just how much of a leap the next versions were - Super Mario Land 2 is more Super Mario World than an NES clone, and Castlevania II is much smoother and brought back sub-weapons. It's incredible how much they got out of that little system!
I got the powerpack that included Tetris and earbuds and F1 Race with the multitap when I turned 11. I was blown away that I could Nintendo on the go. In my eyes the games back then looked just as good (what can I say. I was a kid). Whent through batteries like no other. Tons of memories. My favorite games are Double Dragon and Kwirk
Special place. I can't find our old Gameboy, but the games got passed on to the SuperGameboy and later the Gameboy Color... still finding/buying a few carts to this day
Tetris, MarioLand and Castlevania blew my mind in 1989. I remember soon having Gargoyle’s Quest after that…great times. Nintendo could do no wrong in those days.
I got my Game Boy for xmas in '94 and absolutely loved it. I took it everywhere. Tetris was great. Mario Land was cool but it pissed me off a lot. I like it much better as an adult now tho. Some of my favorites were Mario Land 2, Kirby's Dream Land 2, Kirby's Star Stacker, Battle Arena Toshinden, and Asteroids & Missile Command. It wouldn't be until emulation that I would discover many more new favorites like Kirby's Block Ball, QIX, and Batman: Return of the Joker. I feel so fortunate to have been born in the age of portable gaming. My mom loved Tetris btw. I can't load up the rom without thinking of her.
I owned all of these except for Baseball and Alleyway. I must have speed run Mario Land a dozen time, long before I knew that was a thing people could do.
At some point in the mid-1990s I owned a yellow Game Boy, but only ever had two games, Dr. Mario and Bubble Bobble. My Super Nintendo was the thing that really mattered to me.
Somehow nobody has ever shared Welcome To Holland with me. I really like the sentiment. I'm not sure the whole thing sits exactly right with me, but it's really lovely.
I had at least half of these growing up, I need to get alleyway again, but my favorite is castlvania adventure that's where my love for castlvania started
Super Mario Land is such an interesting game. It puts Mario in these unique locations with stages based off of Ancient Egypt, the Bermuda Islands, Easter Island, and a Chinese style stage. Catchy music and fun stage variety (the shooter levels are fun) make Mario Land a pretty good time
It is nice to see a retro channel finally starting to hit on the game boy because that seems to be one of the least talked about systems and yet it's one of the most influential systems of all time because I guarantee you without a game boy and the success of it we would have missed out on a lot of other great Nintendo handhelds
In Sweden we got the Game Boy in 1990. Me and my second oldest sister got it along with Super Mario Land and Tetris, always perferred the former even til this day.
super mario land, super mario 2, sneaky snakes, kirby, Metroid, and tertris ( one of the rare puzzle games i enjoyed) , were my top games i played the most, i also played snoopy's magic show fairly often, it was technically a single screen puzzle game which again i normally didnt like, but this one was an action puzzle game, avoiding obstacles and projectiles coming at you.
Love the retrospectives you're doing here - had all of these on my original GB, but Mario Land saw the most action. Definitely a top-5 Mario title for me! And still playing the OG Tetris to this day...
I got a Gameboy for Hanukkah in 1989. I had Super Mario Land, Alleyway, and Castlevania Adventure eventually, and of the 1989 games, I’d have to say that Super Mario Land was my favorite, though I played the heck out of Tetris also.
This made me realize that I didn't get enough games as a kid & now I'm compensating 😂 I only had Tetris, eventually I got Duck Tales for GameBoy. I didn't have many NES or SNES games either. Now I have hundreds of Switch games, Series X, PS4/VR, etc.
Between handleds released in 1989 to the Early 1990's, Game Boy is the best. While it may have lacked color, the execution of the console was done very well. It just wasn't enough for the other handhelds released around that time to have color assuming that they can beat the Game Boy. Not even Bandai's WonderSwan could capitalize the success of Nintendo's Game Boy. Sure, Tetris was America's Launch Title and Europe too, but my favorite launch title for the Game Boy released in 1989 was Super Mario Land. It introduced Princess Daisy who was a very weird character in her her first appearance because most people were familiar with Princess Peach during that time Super Mario Land was released.
The games I remember back then are Tetris, Super Mario Land and there was this Ninja Turtles game I enjoyed playing too, but can't remember its name. I also remember playing Metroid 2 during a whole summer to beat it and watching games like MK to run on it. I did hate though when you had one in school and friends would pass by and say, "what does this button do?" and turn the thing off on purpose.
I got the Gameboy the Xmas of 90/91? I only had Tetris, Mario Land, and Kirby but I loved that device. (My parents use to borrow it for Tetris, like they'd borrow my older sisters Atari for Qbert) Great video.
I still love my original Gameboy consoles more than PlayStation. Number one Gameboy series. Number 2 Xbox series. Number 3 Nintendo switch Led. And at the bottom PlayStation. Gameboy helps me with my metal health. Thank you for this video you have a great channel.
Dude I forgot I had this Castlevania game as a kid! I was so obsessed with Tetris, think I got the game boy when I was 10. My friend on the bus had a game gear which he would play mortal Kombat on and I was so jealous haha. Still loved my game boy though!
Enjoyable video as always, I am SO glad to hear positive things about Castlevania the Adventure for a change, the game deserves much more love than it gets!
I loved my game boy so much, if you measure just joy I received out of a system that was my all time favorite system. Alleyway was my first exposure to a game like that and I loved it. So I would say that, however Tetris and Super Marioland got a lot of play time too.
My first game system that was my own. Not "not family" was the game boy pocket. I had F1 racer,mario game and watch galleries, Bart something.. and road rash
From these Games Tetris is my absolute Favourite. Then Super Mario Land and Castlevania. I mean Tetris was realy the perfect Package-in Game. So addictive and still is.
hey! I have 2 children with autism. 1 without. i had super mario land and tetris. played it on the long drives to florida with my grandparents as a kid.
I was all on that Tetris. I got the Gameboy for Christmas in 91 I think I remember I got Super Mario Land 2 and Tetris. I played the mess out of those games.
I own Castlevania adventure as a kid and I could only get to like level three because like most Castlevania games it gets hard and because of the sluggish controls it feels like you're walking with a weight shackle to your foot the entire time you're playing the game but I still enjoyed it and it still had a lot of the things that made Castlevania fun
Gameboy was the first system that I bought with my own money. My dad was pretty frugal and I didn't get an NES till later than everyone else. Luckily my father's frugality meant we had rechargeable batteries for everything so I was set.
Loved me some Tetris, basically got the GB for this. Have since purchased it for every Nintendo handheld. Love it most on 3DSXL. Ruined my fingers playing it, and have benefited from teh stacking habit from "The Tetris Effect". Good times.
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That was a beautiful, heartwarming analogy. Great vid. The Mario Land footage was top notch!
@@BobbyReborn I agree 100 percent. Couldn’t have said it better myself.
My daughter was recently diagnosed with autism. It’s surprisingly nice to hear of anyone else who has children on the spectrum and their wonderful view on it. Keep making great vids! (Btw, she is 4 and excellent at Sonic Mania)
My step brother and I would build carboard box cubby holes for us to compete in. He had one, I had one, both had areas to store accessories, and a link cable connecting the two boxes lol.
I cut a book page by page so I could put a Gameboy in it after seeing it done in Parker Lewis Can't Lose, and used it at school lol.
I liked motocross a lot, but I was good at Tetris. Back then during the Pump Up The Volume days, I'd play with a CB radio keyed in so other school kids could hear the 100k score music lol.
I was shocked to find in recent years I didn't know my two favorite NES games were on it.. Solomon's Club (key), and Burger Time.
My mom's friend had a gameboy with like 15 games, I was like 8, and the gameboy was already 11 years old at that point, but I still found it charming. There's a special vibe to playing antiquated machined like this.
David Pumpkins is his own thing too!
Great overview - also good that you looked at these games in context to what expectations were of the time. The fact that you could have a portable system with interchangeable games that actually looked like video games vs. those LCD tiger handhelds was amazing. I had Tetris (of course), Mario Land, Tennis, and Castlevania. Loved them all - especially as the games cost significantly less vs. the regular Nintendo games at the time and could be played without a TV. People forget you had to share the TV back then too!
As someone born in 1999 I find these videos so interesting, gives a small glimpse at what it was like in gaming back then
Tetris still holds up incredibly well. A perfect game for the Game Boy and I agree, I think having it as a pack-in was a major reason for its success.
I don't recall why but for whatever reason I never owned the original Game Boy, by '89 I was still playing my Game & Watch and Tiger Electronics (Yeah I know...) and leading into the 90's I had the battery sucking handheld known as the Game Gear.
I remember it well too, i was 2.
Links awakening and Tmnt were my favorite game boy games of all time. Followed by gargoyles quest and the castlevania stuff. Mario land as well. I know not all 1989 just listing my stuff.
Not for nothing SML has lots of charm.
Baseball and tennis are fantastic haha I still have them
This fine channel is a treasure trove for us Digital Nomads (GenXers) and a time capsule for future generations. Glad I found ya bud.
Super Mario Land for me was a favorite. I had a nice collection of GB games and this just brings back so many wonderful memories. Such an amazing video and I cannot thank you enough for bringing back childhood memories.
Absolutely love the Game Boy. Such fun games perfect for all ages. I have a Switch, a Game Gear, and a Game Boy. When we’re out and about, my six year old always wants the Game Boy.
I played Supe Mario Land on my 7th bday. Still playing it regularly to this day! Amazing game! Also Game Boy really gave you a quick jump out of the world that you were living without the commitment of playing for long hours! I believe we need more of that especially nowdays! Awesome video John!
I still prefer to use the Tetris ‘89 Gameboy ‘green’ theme when playing Tetris 99 on Switch, and I wouldn’t want it any other way
I had a love hate relationship with Gargoyles Quest
Back in fourth grade (89) I still remember when the gameboy came out, it was fantastic! It my eat my time in recess for sure especially when playing super Mario land. Hey John loving the series keep up the great work!
You know out of all the retro systems most people talk about game boy is usually the least covered of all the retros systems on these old school video game TH-cam channels thank you for covering it
For the last 25 years I have had a gameboy with Tetris in my bathroom
My mom got a game boy for herself. We got to play it sometimes, i even went and borrowed some games from friends for me to play thinking i was going to play it, nope the game i borrowed was Alleyway, and she loved that one and Tetris. Doing the B type on level 9 i think it was and beating it and you got the space shuttle was always cool, my mom would get it and let me watch it, then when i started to play and it felt good to get it myself.
I still remember getting my Gameboy when it came out & I absolutely loved it! It was my first Nintendo console, up until then I mainly had Atari (800XL & the 5200). I had everyone of these games, except baseball & SO many more, & logged hundreds of hours on my Gameboy! Glad to see The Castlevania Adventure getting some love for once, it’s a tough game, but it doesn’t deserve all the criticism it gets, I loved it & the music is awesome! The GameBoy is one of the greatest & most underrated consoles of all time in my opinion…so many amazing games.
Of course I loved Super Mario Land and Tetris, but I also really love Alleyway. I enjoy just picking that up and playing often. As flawed as Castlevania Adventure is, I love the music and it keeps me playing.
Those videos are genius, they really put the games and consoles back into their context
My favorite game library of all time. What my collection is primarily made up of.
I had Tetris, Super Mario Land & Mario Baseball at the time this system released. My fav game out of those was Super Mario Land. Then later on I got F1 Race that came with the 4 player multi adapter. I used to play 2 of my other friends as a kid with the link cables. It was very revolutionary at the time to play your game with everyone having their own screen. Now we take that for granted as we can play online. I used to play the Tetris head to head like that to with link cables attached to both Gameboys.
Robocop, Lock & Chase, & Turtles Fall of the Foot Clan. These were the 7 games I had for the system when I was a kid. Now kids are spoiled. They get a video game system with probably 50+ games to it & still complaining if they don't have a best version of a console.
"Back in my day" If you had that Gameboy system, they weren't buying you a Game Gear which I found a lot better at the time than a Gameboy. That's how it was back then. Very limited console & games & you were just very happy to have the little games that you had.
The late 80's and early 90's were the best time to be a kid, the music, movies, cartoons, video games, in literally every way. I may be bias, but I'm also right! I remember my cousin getting his Game Boy and it was amazing. I recently bought the OG Game Boy along with Tetris and Super Mario Land. I forgot how addicting Tetris is.
Balloon kid and duck tales kept me quite as a kid
I got a Game Boy with Tetris and Tennis for my 10th birthday in October 1990, then a couple of months later I got SuperMarioLand for Christmas. I'm still very fond of these three games.
One thing to remember about SML is that it was a lot of people's first Mario game, many more people played the Game Boy than the NES, especially outside of the US. To us it's the other Mario games that seem weird! Also, at that time there was no set Mario formula, even on the NES. SMB1, 2 and 3 are very different games.
I wasn't around for the original Game Boy, but a few years ago, my friend gave me one in great condition as a Christmas present because he knows how much I love retro stuff. I still take it with me on rare occasions with Tetris in it. It's a fantastic conversation starter.
I didn't know much about games back then and didn't a Gameboy back then, but eventually got on to it when the Pocket came out. Tetris was an amazing pack-in for sure. Super Mario Land was also iconic. Loved playing both games from the other kids who brought in their Gameboys and let others play.
I got my Gameboy for Christmas 1990 and it came with tennis, super Mario land and Tetris. I loved it and still do.
The Holland reference was very touching. You're a good dad
Wow this video took me back. I remember getting the game boy for Christmas in 89 I'm playing at non-stop. I got all the games that you went through in super Mario Land was my favorite.
Castlevania Adventure was awesome when it came out. I have very vivid memories of playing that on car rides with the giant magnifying glass screen attachment and light for those back home at night portions of the car ride. Of course it's nuked from orbit by Belmont's Revenge, but that came later. Having a Castlevania game on the go was incredible.
Tetris was my favorite on the Gameboy. Later on Ducktales for the Gameboy. The Moon Theme is a masterpiece.
I was 8 when the Gameboy came out and my favorite release games were Tetris, Castlevania the adventure,Super Mario Land😎👍
Also i still have and play all the launch games to this day
One cool feature of the Gameboy was that you could use a cable to connect two Gameboys together and play two-player. Tennis was great for this, and my friend and I would play before class in high school. Big fun.
Never played any of these in 1989, as I didn't know anyone who had a Gameboy back then. But when one of my friends did get one a year or so later, I do remember playing a lot of Super Mario Land, Tetris, Baseball and TMNT: Fall of The Foot Clan. those were the four games he had, and they all blew me away. So naturally, I wanted my folks to get me one as well, Unfortunately, they never did.....
I was 5 years old when this came out. I remember borrowing it from my friend with games like Tetris, Mario Land, Snow Bros, Dr. Mario, Boxxle, and Metroid 2. It was amazing to have a portable system back then, I loved it.
I still have all my launch games CIB! My mom bought the system and every available game for me on launch from Fred Meyer's. It was amazing!
I’m loving this miniseries keep it going for all the consoles year by year John Riggs a true visionary
I remember my best friend had a Game Boy, and for some reason she sold it to me for peanuts. It was a steal because it included a carrying case, the bulky yet convenient rechargeable travel battery, Mario Land, Tetris, and the unfortunate NFL Football. I still count it a win.
Funnily, however, I still have the Game Boy but not the best friend.
This is a tough one. It’s between Tetris, Mario, and Castlevania. I think I’ll have to go with Tetris!
John; finally the system that started it all for me. Was the second kid in my school to own one, but the first to buy it myself.
Super Mario Land has to be my favorite on release. I did play Tetris at school linked to the rich kid who's parents bought his.
I remember getting one and I also got Super Mario Land with it and I loved the console, it was a brilliant piece of kit. I remember coming home from school and my mum was playing Tetris on it. Which she switched over to SMB3 on the NES.
One of my favorite things about Super Mario Land is the music. That game has some of the best, catchiest songs in the entire series.
Could we get Gameboy Color version next?!
Yup, I had all these games (except baseball).
I was *so lucky,* I had 13 games, 2 gameboys, a carrying case, 4-way link cable, the light, the magnifying glass & the battery pack.
Most of which I got second hand from an ad in the newspaper. That's BEFORE Kijiji kids LOL
A lot of these early games were great, but what's amazing is just how much of a leap the next versions were - Super Mario Land 2 is more Super Mario World than an NES clone, and Castlevania II is much smoother and brought back sub-weapons. It's incredible how much they got out of that little system!
I was 10 when it came out but never played many of the games until I got my Powkiddy V90.
I was 15 and got my GB on Xmas of 89. That was a great year.
I got the powerpack that included Tetris and earbuds and F1 Race with the multitap when I turned 11. I was blown away that I could Nintendo on the go. In my eyes the games back then looked just as good (what can I say. I was a kid). Whent through batteries like no other. Tons of memories. My favorite games are Double Dragon and Kwirk
Special place. I can't find our old Gameboy, but the games got passed on to the SuperGameboy and later the Gameboy Color... still finding/buying a few carts to this day
I love and still play all of these games from time to time. 😃
Tetris, MarioLand and Castlevania blew my mind in 1989. I remember soon having Gargoyle’s Quest after that…great times. Nintendo could do no wrong in those days.
I got my Game Boy for xmas in '94 and absolutely loved it. I took it everywhere. Tetris was great. Mario Land was cool but it pissed me off a lot. I like it much better as an adult now tho. Some of my favorites were Mario Land 2, Kirby's Dream Land 2, Kirby's Star Stacker, Battle Arena Toshinden, and Asteroids & Missile Command. It wouldn't be until emulation that I would discover many more new favorites like Kirby's Block Ball, QIX, and Batman: Return of the Joker. I feel so fortunate to have been born in the age of portable gaming. My mom loved Tetris btw. I can't load up the rom without thinking of her.
I owned all of these except for Baseball and Alleyway. I must have speed run Mario Land a dozen time, long before I knew that was a thing people could do.
tetris, alleyway and mario land. I played the living daylights out of Tetris. never got to try the 2 player mode though.
At some point in the mid-1990s I owned a yellow Game Boy, but only ever had two games, Dr. Mario and Bubble Bobble. My Super Nintendo was the thing that really mattered to me.
Somehow nobody has ever shared Welcome To Holland with me. I really like the sentiment. I'm not sure the whole thing sits exactly right with me, but it's really lovely.
Tennis, one of my favoutite games of all time. Still playing it today.
I had at least half of these growing up, I need to get alleyway again, but my favorite is castlvania adventure that's where my love for castlvania started
Super Mario Land is such an interesting game. It puts Mario in these unique locations with stages based off of Ancient Egypt, the Bermuda Islands, Easter Island, and a Chinese style stage. Catchy music and fun stage variety (the shooter levels are fun) make Mario Land a pretty good time
It is nice to see a retro channel finally starting to hit on the game boy because that seems to be one of the least talked about systems and yet it's one of the most influential systems of all time because I guarantee you without a game boy and the success of it we would have missed out on a lot of other great Nintendo handhelds
In Sweden we got the Game Boy in 1990. Me and my second oldest sister got it along with Super Mario Land and Tetris, always perferred the former even til this day.
super mario land, super mario 2, sneaky snakes, kirby, Metroid, and tertris ( one of the rare puzzle games i enjoyed) , were my top games i played the most, i also played snoopy's magic show fairly often, it was technically a single screen puzzle game which again i normally didnt like, but this one was an action puzzle game, avoiding obstacles and projectiles coming at you.
Love the retrospectives you're doing here - had all of these on my original GB, but Mario Land saw the most action. Definitely a top-5 Mario title for me! And still playing the OG Tetris to this day...
I'd absolutely love to see you do ranking videos for Gameboy games!! Great video!
The GameBoy taught me to deal with people I don´t like (because I needed their copys of MegaMan2, Gargoyles Quest or Nintendo World Cup. )
I got a Gameboy for Hanukkah in 1989. I had Super Mario Land, Alleyway, and Castlevania Adventure eventually, and of the 1989 games, I’d have to say that Super Mario Land was my favorite, though I played the heck out of Tetris also.
This made me realize that I didn't get enough games as a kid & now I'm compensating 😂 I only had Tetris, eventually I got Duck Tales for GameBoy. I didn't have many NES or SNES games either. Now I have hundreds of Switch games, Series X, PS4/VR, etc.
I loved my Super Mario land. Played this game to pieces and this was the game I played a lot of vacation trips.
Between handleds released in 1989 to the Early 1990's, Game Boy is the best. While it may have lacked color, the execution of the console was done very well. It just wasn't enough for the other handhelds released around that time to have color assuming that they can beat the Game Boy. Not even Bandai's WonderSwan could capitalize the success of Nintendo's Game Boy. Sure, Tetris was America's Launch Title and Europe too, but my favorite launch title for the Game Boy released in 1989 was Super Mario Land. It introduced Princess Daisy who was a very weird character in her her first appearance because most people were familiar with Princess Peach during that time Super Mario Land was released.
Tennis bgm still randomly pops in my head while driving.
The games I remember back then are Tetris, Super Mario Land and there was this Ninja Turtles game I enjoyed playing too, but can't remember its name. I also remember playing Metroid 2 during a whole summer to beat it and watching games like MK to run on it.
I did hate though when you had one in school and friends would pass by and say, "what does this button do?" and turn the thing off on purpose.
Super Mario Land, Tetris, and many games for the Nintendo Game Boy still holds well. I was like, "a personal NES in my pocket."
Looking at every game that came out the first year of Nintnedo 64 in 1996 - th-cam.com/video/tw1wmvvhXwk/w-d-xo.html
My dad and I had always had a heated Tetris rivalry, and that began with the GameBoy.
I got the Gameboy the Xmas of 90/91?
I only had Tetris, Mario Land, and Kirby but I loved that device.
(My parents use to borrow it for Tetris, like they'd borrow my older sisters Atari for Qbert)
Great video.
I still love my original Gameboy consoles more than PlayStation. Number one Gameboy series. Number 2 Xbox series. Number 3 Nintendo switch Led. And at the bottom PlayStation. Gameboy helps me with my metal health. Thank you for this video you have a great channel.
Castlevania Adventure was my jam. Mellow pace was a plus for me for after school chill out.
Dude I forgot I had this Castlevania game as a kid! I was so obsessed with Tetris, think I got the game boy when I was 10. My friend on the bus had a game gear which he would play mortal Kombat on and I was so jealous haha. Still loved my game boy though!
Yep , my grandma did play Tetris !!! We gave her my original gameboy and she played only tetris for many years .
Enjoyable video as always, I am SO glad to hear positive things about Castlevania the Adventure for a change, the game deserves much more love than it gets!
I loved my game boy so much, if you measure just joy I received out of a system that was my all time favorite system. Alleyway was my first exposure to a game like that and I loved it. So I would say that, however Tetris and Super Marioland got a lot of play time too.
Great video, man. Nice tips. I was searching for tips for my recently bought GBC. Never had one back in the days.
I get the reference, for the record Holland is awesome :) Beautiful place in a wonderful country.
Love the Welcome to Holland poem reference. My son is on the spectrum and I gave a framed copy to my wife for Xmas.
My first game system that was my own. Not "not family" was the game boy pocket.
I had F1 racer,mario game and watch galleries, Bart something.. and road rash
Love your videos as always Riggs!
From these Games Tetris is my absolute Favourite. Then Super Mario Land and Castlevania. I mean Tetris was realy the perfect Package-in Game. So addictive and still is.
hey! I have 2 children with autism. 1 without. i had super mario land and tetris. played it on the long drives to florida with my grandparents as a kid.
Cool video. Love the gameboy! Replayed Mario Land 2 recently. That last Wario boss is actually pretty challenging!
I was all on that Tetris. I got the Gameboy for Christmas in 91 I think I remember I got Super Mario Land 2 and Tetris. I played the mess out of those games.
I own Castlevania adventure as a kid and I could only get to like level three because like most Castlevania games it gets hard and because of the sluggish controls it feels like you're walking with a weight shackle to your foot the entire time you're playing the game but I still enjoyed it and it still had a lot of the things that made Castlevania fun
That timer on Castlevania was brutal!!
Great video! Its got to be Mario Land for me, such a great game. I only started playing it via emulation around 2 years back.
Gameboy was the first system that I bought with my own money. My dad was pretty frugal and I didn't get an NES till later than everyone else. Luckily my father's frugality meant we had rechargeable batteries for everything so I was set.
Loved me some Tetris, basically got the GB for this. Have since purchased it for every Nintendo handheld. Love it most on 3DSXL.
Ruined my fingers playing it, and have benefited from teh stacking habit from "The Tetris Effect".
Good times.