You know, I had an idea for a Game Boy Classic Edition, and I think this Gameboy Classic Edition should have these features: -Have the same saving features as the NES Classic Edition -Have a backlit screen while still having the games in black-&-white with green coloring that the console is known for -Have the model be shaped after the Gameboy Pocket with all different kinds of colors (or get a special original model Gameboy version which costs more, but is a great collectors item) -Have wireless connectivity to other Gameboys for multiplayer & digital TVs to play the games on it with added color like it's a Super Gameboy -Have a rechargeable battery that can charge through a USB cable and these would be the games: 1. Tetris 2. Dr. Mario 3. Super Mario Land 4. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins 5. Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 6. Pokemon Red/Blue (you will get one of these randomly) 7. Mario's Picross 8. Operation C 9. Kid Icarus of Myths and Monsters 10. Final Fantasy Adventure 11. Megaman V 12. Wave Race 13. Alleyway 14. Balloon Kid 15. Donkey Kong 94' 16. Donkey Kong Land 17. Baseball 18. Golf 19. Tennis 20. Blades of Steel 21. International Superstar Soccer 22. F-1 Race 23. the Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening 24. Metroid II: the Return of Samus 25. Kid Dracula 26. Gargoyle's Quest 27. Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge 28. Final Fantasy Legend II 29. Kirby's Dream Land 30. Kirby's Dream Land 2 31. Pinball: Revenge of the Gator 32. Street Fighter II 33. Double Dragon II 34. Ninja Gaiden Shadow 35. Harvest Moon GB 36. Mole Mania 37. Gradius: Interstellar Assault 38. Pacman 39. Kirby's Pinball Land 40. Kirby's Block Ball do you think that would be good?
The two wireless features probably wouldn't happen but they'd be great. Aside from that your list is solid and would probably sell really well. Having a screen would make it fairly pricey though.
It's been over a year now, and no new list. Someone might want to ask. And by someone, I mean me. Because I am the one asking and I shouldn't tell someone to do it because i want them to....
So I'm not sure about a lot of these but I do believe Donkey Kong was indeed a GBC game, so I'm not sure if they sorta mixed em in here or if that one is just the odd man (monkey?) out lol but yeah I'd love another one of these, even if it was just a top 10.
Link's Awakening is absolutely amazing! Still holds up to this day, and it deserves that number 1 spot. Also, was really looking forward to that Gameboy Color video mentioned at the beginning. Hope you guys get to that, even if it has been a while.
Six. Golden. Coins. The portable title I've played the most. Probably the game I've ever beaten the most times. My love for this game is endless. I so badly want another title like this, I'd even do a colour remake on the Switch e-shop. It's glorious.
Love the Game Boy. Because nobody asked, here's my Top 10 (order changes daily!). 10 - Samurai Spirits III 9 - Mega Man V 8 - Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge 7 - Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins 6 - Kid Dracula 5 - Kirby's Dream Land 2 4 - Donkey Kong '94 3 - Mole Mania 2 - Pokemon Blue/Red 1 - Tetris
My top 5 would probably be... 5 - Legend of Zelda Links Awakening 4 - Mega man IV 3 - Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge 2 - Super Mario Land 2 1 - Mega Man V I can only pick 5 because most of the Game boy games I've played are GBC games
Loving the Castlevania II love. Feel like it's overlooked all the time, but the music alone is enough for it to be high on the list. Never plated Mega Man IV on GB; will have to download it for 3DS (because I'm a Mega Man scrub who needs save states!).
FFL2 also has one of the best soundtracks of the era, with an incredibly inventive use of stereo panning to make only 3 sound channels sound nearly orchestral.
beaten it several times over the decades since first buying it in the 90s and decided that this year i was going to max out at least one of the human or mutant stats to all 99s. currently first time one character has 99 strength.
Link's Awakening was my first Game Boy game, I loved it so much! It also led me to buy Final Fantasy Legend 2, because the screenshots on the box made it look similar... I quickly learnt it wasn't very similar at all, but that led me to discover a love of JRPGs 😄 I would definitely have put Final Fantasy Legend 2 in this list, had I made it. I'm furious you didn't, so I'm now going to unsubscribe, and maybe send you a vaguely threatening email like "I'm going to break into your house while you're asleep, rub mayonnaise on all your kitchen cupboard handles, and then leave the fridge door open so you waste electricity".
Can't really argue with anything on this list, I guess. I fully agree that Link's Awakening is by far the best game on the console, and possibly the greatest Zelda game of all. I can't quite express what I love about it so much- the almost fairy-tale whimsy, the vast cast of quirky characters (especially the unforgettable Marin), the obviously-intentional dreamlike bizarreness, the brilliantly-designed dungeons and creative bosses, one of the greatest 8-bit soundtracks of all time, the brutal plot twist that turns the story on its head on the way to the gut-punch ending... it's a practically perfect game. But I'm surprised you didn't make room for one more game on this list to include one of the Final Fantasy Legend/Saga games.
davidevoid I mean Dreamland 1 is pretty good too but Dreamland 2 is way better and has much more content. Also it introduced my favourite Kirby villain, Dark Matter
And of course, Link's Awakening is number one. Of course it is. It's Links freaking Awakening. It's one of the best Zelda Games to date despite being on the FREAKING GAMEBOY.
A link to the past is #1, then both n64 ones in no particular order. Everything else can pack sand ... Links Awakening and the Oracle ones might as well have been re-skin ports of a link to the past for an inferior system than the snes.
Agree with you, Link's Awakening is one of the best, not just for gameboy but of all nintendo's consoles games. In the DX version there is a secret color dungeon as well. Great game overall
Wario Land probably the first game where I got 100% treasures without walkthrough.. good times! and now there's a mod to make it more colorful like a GBC game
Donkey Kong Land III was the best Donkey Kong Land game. The first DKL had unique level themes , but it was glitchy and hard to play due to the dark character sprites on the dark backgrounds. DKL2 felt like a watered down version of DKC2, but DKL3-despite borrowing the same level themes from its SNES counterpart-had the best level design by far.
Love your '20-something Best...' videos. Awesome job as always. Also, would have been cool if you'd shown how good some of these games look with color palettes
Perfect Cell. Technically not ‘free’ of course but seeing as most of us will pay the online subscription to play online these should be ‘free’ from a figurative sense. 👍🏻
I'd be fine with them being paid, I just want them on the Switch! If they were 5 bucks a piece I'd buy almost every game on this list. Except the racing game.
My list 😊 20. Balloon Kid 19. Solar Striker 18. R Type II 17. Donkey Kong Land 16. Wario Blast 15. Wave Race 14. Tiny Toon's Bab's Big Break. 13. World Heroes 2 Jet 12. Kid Dracula 11. Kirby's Dreamland 2 10. Wario Land 09. Gargoyle's Quest 08. Tetris 07. Mega Man V 06. Metroid II 05. Castlevania II 04. Donkey Kong 03. Super Mario Land 2 02. Pokemon Red & Blue 01. Zelda: Link's Awakening
Great list! I spent so much time on Metroid 2 and Donky Kong, I also had Bart Vs The Juggernauts which was a love hate relationship. When you hook up gameboy to a proper sound system, you really see how good the music is 👌. Gameboy was a massive upgrade from the static lcd games.
Tecmo Bowl, Skate or Die Tour de Thrash, World Cup, Blades of Steel, Qix, Klax, Mario Picross, Tennis, Alfred Chicken, tons of great games...even loved Missle Command on it and all the atari ports...And this version of Tetris is still the best but so hard not being able to "hold" a piece
Ahhh! Somebody else who appreciates Babs' Big Break :D This was one of the first video games I ever played, and probably the first one I ever beat. So many memories!
Final Fantasy Legend was a big one for me. Amazing music, story, very hard and buggy, loved the box art. Definitely played Pokemon till my eyes turned to goo, but FF Legend was still a big one.
I was ranting about how links awakening was probably one of the best games ever made especially for its time to my wife as she casually ignored me. You placing it at #1 gave me a renewed respect for your channel. Thank you!
The first Secret of Mana game, needs on this list... It was known as Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden in Japan, Final Fantasy Adventure in North America, and Mystic Quest in Europe. That was a game I played on way too many car trips.
Good list, with some great classics. My GB/GBC collection : Super Mario Land 1 Wario Land Ms. Pacman Space Invaders Garfield Soccer Pokemon Red + Gold Superman Super Hunchback starring Quasimodo Mystical Ninja starring Goemon Top Gear Rally I also played some of the games you listed in their SNES version (the 3 chapters of Donkey Kong, a different version of Contra called Super Probotectors Alien Rebels , Super Metroid, Duck Tales). Hours of entertaining...and now when nostalgia calls, sometimes I use emulators. 🙂
Some Bad Batter A.) Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters was a sequel B.) Dr. Mario may have come out on NES and Game Boy, but it wasn't a port. Ports are when you take an existing game, change a few lines of code, and the same game appears on mutliple consoles, like PS4 to Xbox One. Both versions of Dr. Mario are entirely separate entities, they may share the same game play, but both had to be developed individually, making it not a port.
Will someone PLEASE tell me which game that song is from that’s playing from 13:37-13:44?? It has been stuck in my head for the past couple days and I can’t remember which game that was from 🤦🏾♀️😖
There is one Game on the Game Boy i would easily put in the Top 5 of my List and that is Burai Fighter Deluxe. One of the most atmospheric games on the system for sure and a great experience even today - part of it is the great great Soundtrack.
After realizing the majority of my time on my Retroid Pocket 2 really was GameBoy games, I got a GameBoy Pocket off eBay and this is one of the games I own physically. I really have to start using the password system, as I've really just been going until I die.
Good video. I would have added one of the fighters that actually turned out really good: Killer Instinct or Samurai Showdown. I still boot up my game boy and play those to this day 😀
davidevoid Me too, my friend. Me too. Currently going through Picross S at the moment, instead of all of the other Switch delights. I don’t feel guilty, and it all started with this GB game :)
Trip world was so advance for it's time. The "enemy" A.I was like nothing else. The music was top notch too. Sunsoft were delicious bastards back in the day.
I was really hoping to see Final Fantasy Adventures on here. I feel it's criminally overlooked. I would highly recommend for anyone that loves Zelda: Link's Awakening; Same feel for gameplay with more RPG elements like leveling up. I found it in 2019 and fell in love with it.
Trip World deserves a spot here so badly! It's an extremely delightful GameBoy game filled with very charming creatures in every single screen! Cannot recommend enough!
Great list. I appreciate the choice of Donkey Kong Land 2 (over the other entries in that series) and the inclusion of Mole Mania, which should have had a sequel on the (3)DS, because that would have been the perfect system for it. Great, unique and pretty tough puzzle-game. I'm somewhat surprised about the absence of Mystic Quest/Final Fantasy Adventure/Seiken Densetsu and one of the Final Fantasy Legend-/SaGa-Games (probably the second one) and the choice of Wario Land over the innovative, huge and original masterpiece that is Wario Land II. I personally would add The King of Fighters - Heat of Battle, an impressive port of KoF '96. And, yeah, well... Link's Awakening may be the best Zelda-game of all time.
My favorite gameboy game is Wario Land sml2 eveything from the powers to the secrets to the way the ending works based on how much treasure you have, its a masterpiece, all the old wario games are worth playing
5. Yep. Team Yokoi makes a good Mario game. 4. Won't question this one. 3. Whoever said Zelda was the game that invented strategy guides mispronounced Metroid. 2. Uh... There's a difference between influential and 1. Yes. Yes, it is number one. It's why Yoshiaki Koizumi is the face of the Switch. It invented a much-needed Jump Button. It gave Zelda games more drive in story beyond mere words. ...and, of course, it inspired Ocarina whether we liked that one or not.
Funny story. When me and my bro were kids, we’d write Christmas lists. As a TMNT junkie, I asked for fall of the foot clan. My bro asked for Batman. My parents made a mistake and put my name on Batman, his name on TMNT. when we opened the gifts, I was so mad. My parents obviously couldn’t admit the mistake so they asked us to sort it out. The only way my bro would give me my tmnt was if I traded him Batman, and a gi joe (captain gridiron). I made the trade, my bro’s an asshole lol.
Weird.. most folks never mention James Bond 007 as one if the top games.. yet nintendo power always had it near the top as most popular games on system
I loved Terminator 2 on Game Boy, but yeah, it's prob not in the top 26. Faceball 2000 definitely needs to be there (I'd replace F1 with it since it was 4-player too). SML > SML2 but both go in the top 5 without that series rule ;)
"Miyamoto itself"! Haha he wouldn't appreciate that! He probably won't notice. At any rate, solid list! I would add a couple japanese exclusives among them. -ZAS is the best shooting game on the game boy -Demon darkness is probably even better than gargoyle's quest. Playable in japanese without too much pain. -Cabe Noire is a miniature rogue like on game boy. Lots of fun, almost no japanese text. -Banishing Racer, just because it's a car platformer Also, Megaman IV is on par with V. Both are such great concentrates of what makes Megaman so cool.
being able to play every generation of gameboy games on my 3ds is a godsend -- despite not being played on the actual hardware, the experience is far improved. who in their right mind would play games on an original gameboy, gameboy color or gameboy advance with such tiny screens, lack of backlighting and severe ghosting? sure, if you want to diminish your eyesight, go right ahead, but otherwise, luma cfw on a new 3ds/2ds is the way to go.
Have you taken a look at the android app game 'Stranger Things'? They created it just a few years back in honor of the tv show. When I saw Pokemon Red & Blue on your video, it immediately reminded me of Stranger Things. This means the creators made it look retro and it's excellent! There is even an online article which is a complete guide on how to get from one level to the next. I never got the opportunity to play Game Boy but I'm looking into it now. These videos help, they show what is out there. The 1,049 games video is painstakingly long. But I'm chipping away at it little at a time building a list of what might be good.
Have you not tried Seiken Densetsu/Final Fantasy Adventure/Mystic Quest? (Yes, it had three different names, depending on which region you were playing it)
I’d really like to see more odd platformers like Wario nowadays, more characters with strange move sets totally different than Mario. We need a new Princess Peach side-scroller
Lost my original gray brick of a Game Boy from my childhood, as well as my games. Glad I got a Super Game Boy and picked up copies of some of my old games. Even my 9 year old likes Game Boy games now. She loves Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden coins. Can't wait to show her SML 3: Wario Land.
I think Mortal Kombat 2 deserves some praise, it was fast and responsive and a great play. mk1 tried too hard and ran insanely slow but 2 dropped just the right amount of content during the port to get gameplay a+.
I only had a few gameboy games when I was a kid (lucky to even have that haha) so I didn't know about a lot of these! That batman looks lit, the kid dracula too! I just got an everdrive for my gameboy so I'm excited to try a lot of these for the first time! I only had Super Mario Land 1, 2, Pokemon (later on), Lemmings and Tetris. That's all the games I had for the entirety of the consoles lifespan haha loved it though
1:02 #26 Wario Land / Super Mario Land
1:42 #25 Kirby's Dream Land
2:12 #24 Donkey Kong Land 2
2:52 #23 Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge
3:24 #22 Bill & Ted's Excellent Gameboy Adventure
3:59 #21 Balloon Kid
4:31 #20 Donkey Kong
5:06 #19 Mole Mania
5:52 #18 Kid Dracula
6:26 #17 Tiny Toons Adventures: Babs' Big Break
6:57 #16 Operation C
7:37 #15 Gradius: Interstellar Assault
8:16 #14 DuckTales
8:53 #13 Double Dragon
9:26 #12 F-1 Race
10:03 #11 R-Type
10:40 #10 Mega Man V
11:24 #9 Batman
12:00 #8 Gargoyle's Quest
12:33 #7 Mario's Picross
12:58 #6 Battletoads
13:43 #5 Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
14:25 #4 Tetris
15:06 #3 Metroid II: Return of Samus
15:51 #2 Pokémon Red & Blue
16:43 #1 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
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The top Game Boy title for me is Wario Land. I completed it 100% probably 20 times. But Megaman IV and Tetris are also brilliant.
Yes. I so agree.
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I fell in love with the Zelda series after beating Link's Awakening. I still get the chills from the melody when you first pick up your sword!!
It was my first Zelda, at age 12, and immediately became a fan of the series, to this day!
Metroid, Zelda, Mario and Pokemon.
This is why Nintendo is GOD.
Kirby* I never played Metroid in my life
EarthBound kirby smash bros yaaaayyyyyy
Nintendo made some of the best games like mario zelda and..... EarthBound
Yeah, if you like kids game that is.
@@kyzertv8443 what do you like fortnite? Call of duty?
Still can't believe how good the soundtrack is on Metroid II. I used to load up the title screen just to hear it play.
Dragon Warrior 1 and 2 was my favorite! Loved that it moved a bit smoother and the rearrangement to the soundtrack was amazing
Everybody gangsta till he put pokemon red and blue at #2
You know, I had an idea for a Game Boy Classic Edition, and I think this Gameboy Classic Edition should have these features:
-Have the same saving features as the NES Classic Edition
-Have a backlit screen while still having the games in black-&-white with green coloring that the console is known for
-Have the model be shaped after the Gameboy Pocket with all different kinds of colors (or get a special original model Gameboy version which costs more, but is a great collectors item)
-Have wireless connectivity to other Gameboys for multiplayer & digital TVs to play the games on it with added color like it's a Super Gameboy
-Have a rechargeable battery that can charge through a USB cable
and these would be the games:
1. Tetris
2. Dr. Mario
3. Super Mario Land
4. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
5. Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3
6. Pokemon Red/Blue (you will get one of these randomly)
7. Mario's Picross
8. Operation C
9. Kid Icarus of Myths and Monsters
10. Final Fantasy Adventure
11. Megaman V
12. Wave Race
13. Alleyway
14. Balloon Kid
15. Donkey Kong 94'
16. Donkey Kong Land
17. Baseball
18. Golf
19. Tennis
20. Blades of Steel
21. International Superstar Soccer
22. F-1 Race
23. the Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
24. Metroid II: the Return of Samus
25. Kid Dracula
26. Gargoyle's Quest
27. Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge
28. Final Fantasy Legend II
29. Kirby's Dream Land
30. Kirby's Dream Land 2
31. Pinball: Revenge of the Gator
32. Street Fighter II
33. Double Dragon II
34. Ninja Gaiden Shadow
35. Harvest Moon GB
36. Mole Mania
37. Gradius: Interstellar Assault
38. Pacman
39. Kirby's Pinball Land
40. Kirby's Block Ball
do you think that would be good?
The two wireless features probably wouldn't happen but they'd be great. Aside from that your list is solid and would probably sell really well. Having a screen would make it fairly pricey though.
Damn that would be amazing
You basically described the Analogue Pocket 2 years before it came out lol
Game Boy Color list next please!
They are compatible with that
It's been over a year now, and no new list. Someone might want to ask. And by someone, I mean me. Because I am the one asking and I shouldn't tell someone to do it because i want them to....
He never made it....
So I'm not sure about a lot of these but I do believe Donkey Kong was indeed a GBC game, so I'm not sure if they sorta mixed em in here or if that one is just the odd man (monkey?) out lol but yeah I'd love another one of these, even if it was just a top 10.
Another year later and still nothing
Link's Awakening is absolutely amazing! Still holds up to this day, and it deserves that number 1 spot.
Also, was really looking forward to that Gameboy Color video mentioned at the beginning. Hope you guys get to that, even if it has been a while.
Six. Golden. Coins. The portable title I've played the most. Probably the game I've ever beaten the most times. My love for this game is endless. I so badly want another title like this, I'd even do a colour remake on the Switch e-shop. It's glorious.
Fretzlemania - Don’t know if you found out yet but there’s a color dx rom of it out there
@@knifedreamer yes and its cool
I have it on 3DS. + original Gameboy module. Best game ever made.
Love the Game Boy. Because nobody asked, here's my Top 10 (order changes daily!).
10 - Samurai Spirits III
9 - Mega Man V
8 - Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge
7 - Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
6 - Kid Dracula
5 - Kirby's Dream Land 2
4 - Donkey Kong '94
3 - Mole Mania
2 - Pokemon Blue/Red
1 - Tetris
My top 5 would probably be...
5 - Legend of Zelda Links Awakening
4 - Mega man IV
3 - Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge
2 - Super Mario Land 2
1 - Mega Man V
I can only pick 5 because most of the Game boy games I've played are GBC games
Loving the Castlevania II love. Feel like it's overlooked all the time, but the music alone is enough for it to be high on the list. Never plated Mega Man IV on GB; will have to download it for 3DS (because I'm a Mega Man scrub who needs save states!).
Castlevania II on GB is super underrated. Mega Man IV isn't quite as good as V but is still really good.
You forgot Zelda: Links Awakening
davidevoid is it okay to say I hate Tetris because I suck at it?
Final Fantasy Legend 2 and Final Fantasy Adventure deserve a place surely?
Legend is damn near unplayable with how hard it is. Back to the inn after every single battle ...
Agreed
FFL2 also has one of the best soundtracks of the era, with an incredibly inventive use of stereo panning to make only 3 sound channels sound nearly orchestral.
beaten it several times over the decades since first buying it in the 90s and decided that this year i was going to max out at least one of the human or mutant stats to all 99s. currently first time one character has 99 strength.
@@robm6510 One of my favorite games as a kid.
Link's Awakening was my first Game Boy game, I loved it so much! It also led me to buy Final Fantasy Legend 2, because the screenshots on the box made it look similar... I quickly learnt it wasn't very similar at all, but that led me to discover a love of JRPGs 😄 I would definitely have put Final Fantasy Legend 2 in this list, had I made it. I'm furious you didn't, so I'm now going to unsubscribe, and maybe send you a vaguely threatening email like "I'm going to break into your house while you're asleep, rub mayonnaise on all your kitchen cupboard handles, and then leave the fridge door open so you waste electricity".
I'm so glad you included the first Tiny Toons GB Game on this list.
I totally loved that Game in my Childhood.
The music is catchy af
Can't really argue with anything on this list, I guess. I fully agree that Link's Awakening is by far the best game on the console, and possibly the greatest Zelda game of all. I can't quite express what I love about it so much- the almost fairy-tale whimsy, the vast cast of quirky characters (especially the unforgettable Marin), the obviously-intentional dreamlike bizarreness, the brilliantly-designed dungeons and creative bosses, one of the greatest 8-bit soundtracks of all time, the brutal plot twist that turns the story on its head on the way to the gut-punch ending... it's a practically perfect game. But I'm surprised you didn't make room for one more game on this list to include one of the Final Fantasy Legend/Saga games.
So many games, so little time.
4 years later and still no Gameboy colour list :(
C'mon now, Dreamland 2 is waaaaaaaaay better than the first game.
davidevoid that's exactly what I thought
Right!? It's up there with the best of Kirby for sure.
davidevoid I mean Dreamland 1 is pretty good too but Dreamland 2 is way better and has much more content. Also it introduced my favourite Kirby villain, Dark Matter
Yeah, I was confused for sure. 2 was amazing.
Agreeeeed!
And of course, Link's Awakening is number one. Of course it is. It's Links freaking Awakening. It's one of the best Zelda Games to date despite being on the FREAKING GAMEBOY.
Lanky macCrazyhair no. No its not
Well, opinions are a thing. It's by no means the ABSOLUTE best game in the Zelda franchise, but I think it's pretty high up there.
In your opinions what’s the top 3?
A link to the past is #1, then both n64 ones in no particular order. Everything else can pack sand ...
Links Awakening and the Oracle ones might as well have been re-skin ports of a link to the past for an inferior system than the snes.
Agreed. Amazing game. Still in my top few LoZ games
Still not GBC list?
Agree with you, Link's Awakening is one of the best, not just for gameboy but of all nintendo's consoles games. In the DX version there is a secret color dungeon as well. Great game overall
Invader Bob 1 and 2 are in my top 5 best games ever.
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"You dangerously confident sausage" is my new catchphrase :D
"You dangerously confident sausage" Nice line, I might start using it!
@7:50, "expertly squozen onto a tiny handheld" awesome sentence!
Wario Land probably the first game where I got 100% treasures without walkthrough.. good times! and now there's a mod to make it more colorful like a GBC game
Donkey Kong Land III was the best Donkey Kong Land game. The first DKL had unique level themes , but it was glitchy and hard to play due to the dark character sprites on the dark backgrounds. DKL2 felt like a watered down version of DKC2, but DKL3-despite borrowing the same level themes from its SNES counterpart-had the best level design by far.
DLK2 was far superior IMO
Alex, we are still waiting in a gameboy colour one!!!
Love your '20-something Best...' videos. Awesome job as always.
Also, would have been cool if you'd shown how good some of these games look with color palettes
I really love the pikachu canvas on your wall. Can you tell me the name of the artist?
They should all be free with Switch online.
FireFly79 In a netflix style after paid subscription
RayMinishi. Exactly. 👍🏻
FireFly79 “free”
Perfect Cell. Technically not ‘free’ of course but seeing as most of us will pay the online subscription to play online these should be ‘free’ from a figurative sense. 👍🏻
I'd be fine with them being paid, I just want them on the Switch! If they were 5 bucks a piece I'd buy almost every game on this list. Except the racing game.
Everyone always forgets the true gameboy gem of a game that was Alleyway!
My list 😊
20. Balloon Kid
19. Solar Striker
18. R Type II
17. Donkey Kong Land
16. Wario Blast
15. Wave Race
14. Tiny Toon's Bab's Big Break.
13. World Heroes 2 Jet
12. Kid Dracula
11. Kirby's Dreamland 2
10. Wario Land
09. Gargoyle's Quest
08. Tetris
07. Mega Man V
06. Metroid II
05. Castlevania II
04. Donkey Kong
03. Super Mario Land 2
02. Pokemon Red & Blue
01. Zelda: Link's Awakening
"Think again, you dangerously confident sausage." Hahaha I almost spit out my coffee!
Great list! I spent so much time on Metroid 2 and Donky Kong, I also had Bart Vs The Juggernauts which was a love hate relationship. When you hook up gameboy to a proper sound system, you really see how good the music is 👌. Gameboy was a massive upgrade from the static lcd games.
Tecmo Bowl, Skate or Die Tour de Thrash, World Cup, Blades of Steel, Qix, Klax, Mario Picross, Tennis, Alfred Chicken, tons of great games...even loved Missle Command on it and all the atari ports...And this version of Tetris is still the best but so hard not being able to "hold" a piece
Ahhh! Somebody else who appreciates Babs' Big Break :D This was one of the first video games I ever played, and probably the first one I ever beat. So many memories!
Game & Watch Gallery and Kirby's Pinball Land are two of my favorites
Final Fantasy Legend was a big one for me. Amazing music, story, very hard and buggy, loved the box art. Definitely played Pokemon till my eyes turned to goo, but FF Legend was still a big one.
In my opinion there are way too many games to narrow down to just 26 games. But I think the games you included are good nonetheless.
Marioland games are unique because they were made by r&d 1. Miyamoto's division is r&d 4.
I was ranting about how links awakening was probably one of the best games ever made especially for its time to my wife as she casually ignored me. You placing it at #1 gave me a renewed respect for your channel. Thank you!
What memories, i remember playing R type, Operation C , Zelda and Metroid on my old gameboy.
No Kirby's Dreamland 2 ? Hm
He said one game per franchise and they had Kirbys Dreamland 1
My first fighting game for the Game Boy was Battle Arena Toshiden.That game was awwsome.
I once met Miyamoto itself. It's really humble considering everything it's achieved.
(I haven't actually met Miyamoto)
Lol I noticed that too
What?
The first Secret of Mana game, needs on this list... It was known as Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden in Japan, Final Fantasy Adventure in North America, and Mystic Quest in Europe. That was a game I played on way too many car trips.
Yes I really enjoyed Mystic Quest.
Kirby’s dream land 2 is far superior to the first. Many hours of joy
Good list, with some great classics.
My GB/GBC collection :
Super Mario Land 1
Wario Land
Ms. Pacman
Space Invaders
Garfield
Soccer
Pokemon Red + Gold
Superman
Super Hunchback starring Quasimodo
Mystical Ninja starring Goemon
Top Gear Rally
I also played some of the games you listed in their SNES version (the 3 chapters of Donkey Kong, a different version of Contra called Super Probotectors Alien Rebels , Super Metroid, Duck Tales).
Hours of entertaining...and now when nostalgia calls, sometimes I use emulators. 🙂
No Dr. Mario OR Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters? What madness is this?
King Koleyolis III tbf, those where ports
Some Bad Batter A.) Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters was a sequel B.) Dr. Mario may have come out on NES and Game Boy, but it wasn't a port. Ports are when you take an existing game, change a few lines of code, and the same game appears on mutliple consoles, like PS4 to Xbox One. Both versions of Dr. Mario are entirely separate entities, they may share the same game play, but both had to be developed individually, making it not a port.
Dr Mario? Really. That's the most mediocre game on the planet
Madness?
This.
Is.
NINTENDO!
(Had to be done)
@@somebadbatter Of Myths and Monsters is a sequel not a port.
Great list bro I really enjoyed the video 🙏🏿👍🏿❤️
Would be great if Nintendo made that Game Boy Classic Edition. I tweeted them a list of games a while back.
Will someone PLEASE tell me which game that song is from that’s playing from 13:37-13:44?? It has been stuck in my head for the past couple days and I can’t remember which game that was from 🤦🏾♀️😖
th-cam.com/video/Gb33Qnbw520/w-d-xo.html
Hope its what you were searching for
Yo forgot the Secret Of Mana games. The Final Fantasy Adventures or what ever they called them. Deserved to be on the list way more than... picross...
Now I want a Analogue Pocket...
The gameboy version of Bionic Commando not being on this list is a crime.
There is one Game on the Game Boy i would easily put in the Top 5 of my List and that is Burai Fighter Deluxe. One of the most atmospheric games on the system for sure and a great experience even today - part of it is the great great Soundtrack.
After realizing the majority of my time on my Retroid Pocket 2 really was GameBoy games, I got a GameBoy Pocket off eBay and this is one of the games I own physically. I really have to start using the password system, as I've really just been going until I die.
Good video. I would have added one of the fighters that actually turned out really good: Killer Instinct or Samurai Showdown. I still boot up my game boy and play those to this day 😀
Mario’s Picross is in this list. I approve.
Yeeeeah! So freakin addictive; I dream about Picross DS and 3D from playing so much of the series.
davidevoid Me too, my friend. Me too. Currently going through Picross S at the moment, instead of all of the other Switch delights. I don’t feel guilty, and it all started with this GB game :)
Trip World deserves to be up there.
Oof, maybe, I could never get into it although it looks great. Ever played Noobow? Kinda similiar.
Yes! Lucky enough to have a Japanese cart of that one and I love it. Especially the catchy music! :)
Trip world was so advance for it's time. The "enemy" A.I was like nothing else.
The music was top notch too.
Sunsoft were delicious bastards back in the day.
That is some super cool Pikachu art you got back there
I was really hoping to see Final Fantasy Adventures on here. I feel it's criminally overlooked. I would highly recommend for anyone that loves Zelda: Link's Awakening; Same feel for gameplay with more RPG elements like leveling up. I found it in 2019 and fell in love with it.
Pretty good list, really weird placements for some games like M2 and WL1
Trip World deserves a spot here so badly! It's an extremely delightful GameBoy game filled with very charming creatures in every single screen! Cannot recommend enough!
Great list. I appreciate the choice of Donkey Kong Land 2 (over the other entries in that series) and the inclusion of Mole Mania, which should have had a sequel on the (3)DS, because that would have been the perfect system for it. Great, unique and pretty tough puzzle-game.
I'm somewhat surprised about the absence of Mystic Quest/Final Fantasy Adventure/Seiken Densetsu and one of the Final Fantasy Legend-/SaGa-Games (probably the second one) and the choice of Wario Land over the innovative, huge and original masterpiece that is Wario Land II.
I personally would add The King of Fighters - Heat of Battle, an impressive port of KoF '96.
And, yeah, well... Link's Awakening may be the best Zelda-game of all time.
My favorite gameboy game is Wario Land sml2 eveything from the powers to the secrets to the way the ending works based on how much treasure you have, its a masterpiece, all the old wario games are worth playing
NL, would you rather see gameboy or n64 classic first? N64 for me personally.
Couldn't agree more, although I would love both
5. Yep. Team Yokoi makes a good Mario game.
4. Won't question this one.
3. Whoever said Zelda was the game that invented strategy guides mispronounced Metroid.
2. Uh... There's a difference between influential and
1. Yes. Yes, it is number one. It's why Yoshiaki Koizumi is the face of the Switch. It invented a much-needed Jump Button. It gave Zelda games more drive in story beyond mere words. ...and, of course, it inspired Ocarina whether we liked that one or not.
Did you guys ever do a Gameboy Color video?
It’s funny that he makes the calculator joke bc I play these on my ti84
I feel it’s a huge disservice to the console that the Invader Bob saga wasn’t more represented on your list. What a hidden gem!
Link's Awakening is definitely number one to me. I loved it ever since getting a copy at a flea market and still do to this day.
@@mattr0fact949 Well, it's a place where people can sell their old things for a bit of money.
I need to track some of these games down on the 3DS eShop.
Funny story. When me and my bro were kids, we’d write Christmas lists. As a TMNT junkie, I asked for fall of the foot clan. My bro asked for Batman. My parents made a mistake and put my name on Batman, his name on TMNT. when we opened the gifts, I was so mad. My parents obviously couldn’t admit the mistake so they asked us to sort it out. The only way my bro would give me my tmnt was if I traded him Batman, and a gi joe (captain gridiron). I made the trade, my bro’s an asshole lol.
Oh dang you actually had Gradius The Interstellar Assault! Darn good game, but really obscure. Probably my favorite Gradius Game, TBH.
Lanky macCrazyhair hey Lanky have you ever played Gradius V on ps2 or psn!?
Quinn Reiswig I have not. I really want to but I don't have with re of those systems
Now playing F-1 Race. It’s one of the hardest games i ever played...But can’t stop 🤷🏻♂️
Weird.. most folks never mention James Bond 007 as one if the top games.. yet nintendo power always had it near the top as most popular games on system
Always bugs me hearing Brits say “Marry-oh” and “Warry-oh” lol
It's better than More-eeo
how would you say it then???
Same way as Charles Marinet. Its-a me, Mario!
It always bugs me when Americans don’t pronounce English words (that originated from Britain) properly, but there you go.
Mahr-eee-oh
This video was a trip down memory lane for me. The Game Boy was my first game device ever!!
I loved Terminator 2 on Game Boy, but yeah, it's prob not in the top 26. Faceball 2000 definitely needs to be there (I'd replace F1 with it since it was 4-player too). SML > SML2 but both go in the top 5 without that series rule ;)
Wave Race was a good port on the Game Boy
"Miyamoto itself"! Haha he wouldn't appreciate that! He probably won't notice.
At any rate, solid list!
I would add a couple japanese exclusives among them.
-ZAS is the best shooting game on the game boy
-Demon darkness is probably even better than gargoyle's quest. Playable in japanese without too much pain.
-Cabe Noire is a miniature rogue like on game boy. Lots of fun, almost no japanese text.
-Banishing Racer, just because it's a car platformer
Also, Megaman IV is on par with V. Both are such great concentrates of what makes Megaman so cool.
being able to play every generation of gameboy games on my 3ds is a godsend -- despite not being played on the actual hardware, the experience is far improved. who in their right mind would play games on an original gameboy, gameboy color or gameboy advance with such tiny screens, lack of backlighting and severe ghosting? sure, if you want to diminish your eyesight, go right ahead, but otherwise, luma cfw on a new 3ds/2ds is the way to go.
Have you taken a look at the android app game 'Stranger Things'? They created it just a few years back in honor of the tv show. When I saw Pokemon Red & Blue on your video, it immediately reminded me of Stranger Things. This means the creators made it look retro and it's excellent! There is even an online article which is a complete guide on how to get from one level to the next.
I never got the opportunity to play Game Boy but I'm looking into it now. These videos help, they show what is out there. The 1,049 games video is painstakingly long. But I'm chipping away at it little at a time building a list of what might be good.
"Think again, you dangerously confident sausage"
I've never in my life been called a "nosey sausage" and I honestly just don't know how to feel rn.
Have you not tried Seiken Densetsu/Final Fantasy Adventure/Mystic Quest? (Yes, it had three different names, depending on which region you were playing it)
I’d really like to see more odd platformers like Wario nowadays, more characters with strange move sets totally different than Mario. We need a new Princess Peach side-scroller
Links Awakening is the reason my GCSEs suffered badly!
Without original gameboy. I think i am not a gamer right now.
Lost my original gray brick of a Game Boy from my childhood, as well as my games.
Glad I got a Super Game Boy and picked up copies of some of my old games. Even my 9 year old likes Game Boy games now. She loves Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden coins.
Can't wait to show her SML 3: Wario Land.
I would say Pokemon Yellow and Zelda Links awakening are top of the top!
You can't find a better adventure on the Game Boy. It just can't be done. Which is why the actual number one game is SUPER MARIO BROTHERS 2!!
I hope that's a joke or a videogamedunkey reference...
Geschnitzte Kiste it's a Dunkey reference and a joke in one!
Ninja Gaiden, pokemon, Zelda, Mario Land 2
I think Mortal Kombat 2 deserves some praise, it was fast and responsive and a great play. mk1 tried too hard and ran insanely slow but 2 dropped just the right amount of content during the port to get gameplay a+.
I was going to write Gargoyles Quest in the comments, but then it was on the list.
Thank you,
Firebrand
4 years later: Ahhhhh I found this video What Good Memories.
Where is the background music from I feel like I've heard it somewhere, such nostalgia?
If Metroid II can get a remaster, they need to remaster Mario Land 2!
I only had a few gameboy games when I was a kid (lucky to even have that haha) so I didn't know about a lot of these! That batman looks lit, the kid dracula too! I just got an everdrive for my gameboy so I'm excited to try a lot of these for the first time!
I only had Super Mario Land 1, 2, Pokemon (later on), Lemmings and Tetris. That's all the games I had for the entirety of the consoles lifespan haha loved it though