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 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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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 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.
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
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!
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 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.
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
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 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.
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
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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
"Do you run when you're on the way to the grocery store?" No not usually, but I also don't have hordes of demons trying to eat me on the way to pick up a loaf of bread! LMAO!
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.
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.
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!
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.
Shout out to all the parents of kids with autism #Holland
Also check out the year N64 was released. th-cam.com/video/tw1wmvvhXwk/w-d-xo.html
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 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.
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.
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.
David Pumpkins is his own thing too!
I remember it well too, i was 2.
This fine channel is a treasure trove for us Digital Nomads (GenXers) and a time capsule for future generations. Glad I found ya bud.
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.
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.
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 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!
For the last 25 years I have had a gameboy with Tetris in my bathroom
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!
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.
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
Baseball and tennis are fantastic haha I still have them
Balloon kid and duck tales kept me quite as a kid
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.
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
I had a love hate relationship with Gargoyles Quest
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
I’m loving this miniseries keep it going for all the consoles year by year John Riggs a true visionary
I was 10 when it came out but never played many of the games until I got my Powkiddy V90.
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.
I got my Gameboy for Christmas 1990 and it came with tennis, super Mario land and Tetris. I loved it and still do.
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.
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
I'd absolutely love to see you do ranking videos for Gameboy games!! Great video!
I was 15 and got my GB on Xmas of 89. That was a great year.
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 love and still play all of these games from time to time. 😃
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
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 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!
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.
My dad and I had always had a heated Tetris rivalry, and that began with the GameBoy.
Great video, man. Nice tips. I was searching for tips for my recently bought GBC. Never had one back in the days.
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.
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...
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 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.
Super Mario Land, Tetris, and many games for the Nintendo Game Boy still holds well. I was like, "a personal NES in my pocket."
Tennis bgm still randomly pops in my head while driving.
This is a tough one. It’s between Tetris, Mario, and Castlevania. I think I’ll have to go with Tetris!
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.
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
I loved my Super Mario land. Played this game to pieces and this was the game I played a lot of vacation trips.
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!
Tennis, one of my favoutite games of all time. Still playing it today.
Tetris was my favorite on the Gameboy. Later on Ducktales for the Gameboy. The Moon Theme is a masterpiece.
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.....
Love the Welcome to Holland poem reference. My son is on the spectrum and I gave a framed copy to my wife for Xmas.
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.
Cool video. Love the gameboy! Replayed Mario Land 2 recently. That last Wario boss is actually pretty challenging!
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
That timer on Castlevania was brutal!!
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!
In Tennis you had a great cheese . When you are serving , miss the ball and let it land on your head - it will automatically give you that point.
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.
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.
Love your videos as always Riggs!
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
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.
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 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.
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
I received a Gameboy during the 1990 Christmas season, I loved the shooter "Quarth"
that's a great one. I found out years later they had it for Famicom as well.
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.
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. )
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.
Loving these videos dude!
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
Looking at every game that came out the first year of Nintnedo 64 in 1996 - th-cam.com/video/tw1wmvvhXwk/w-d-xo.html
"Do you run when you're on the way to the grocery store?" No not usually, but I also don't have hordes of demons trying to eat me on the way to pick up a loaf of bread! LMAO!
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.
Castlevania Adventure was my jam. Mellow pace was a plus for me for after school chill out.
Awesome, can't wait to see the 1990 games!
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.
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!
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.
Great new content that you started!
I may not have gotten in in 1989, but I recall getting my Gameboy and R-Type at the same time...
I STILL play Tennis on my original Game Boy to this day!
Another good idea for a video would be looking at the last round of games for a system that was on its way out!
Yep , my grandma did play Tetris !!! We gave her my original gameboy and she played only tetris for many years .
I get the reference, for the record Holland is awesome :) Beautiful place in a wonderful country.
I got the Gameboy in 1989 for Christmas with Mario Land, Baseball and Castlevania
Awesome video. I just love your videos.
Could we get Gameboy Color version next?!