I got this for free. My uncle was an over the road trucker and found it lying in a pile of snow at some remote truck stop in the middle of nowhere. He looked around but there were no cars with kids so he cleaned it up and brought it home for me, not sure if it worked. Played the HELL out of it!
I played this way too much back in its days, and recently too just of out nostalgia. I was surprised you didn't mention the game's high difficulty (for example, in triggering and completing bonus games); and its fidgety ball control (the less-than-perfect physics don't allow for consistent targeting with the ball, evident in that impossible left ramp on the middle board leading to the upper board.)
I picked this game up because of this video. I tend to play games with static backgrounds on my DMG because of the horrendous refresh rate. I play stuff like platformers on my color. This game is probably one of my favorites to play on my DMG.
The Japanese title translates to "The Great 66-Alligator Parade". I found an old Japanese webpage that tried counting all the gators in the game and, well, it seems to add up to 66. weva.style.coocan.jp/pcepage/G601.htm
It would seem as though this pinball game would later be used as the base for Pokemon Pinball. I get strong vibes from that game in this early GB pinball title, and HAL was responsible for both games.
The art in this is really fantastic, is there no mention in the manual about why the Gators are doing all this? maybe the artist just really liked drawing them..
Loved this game! My grade school buddy gave me this, Baseball, Super Mario Land, and Castlevania because he didn’t want them anymore. Too bad an ex “borrowed” this and the rest of my games years later! Gotta buy t this one again soon!
Slower map buffers than what the NES could perform, I believe. But even with that, they probably could have kept the other screen’s tile properties loaded, but the implementation, especially in assembly, would’ve been a pain.
HAL made Kirby's Pinball Land also and their pinball pedigree shows there too. Seems a bit odd that a Japanese developer would take such an interest in pinball. Pachinko being much more popular in Japan.
A HAL Laboratory original, huh? Though in my opinion, there's only so much you can do with pinball games. Still, wonder if this will ever get a Virtual Console release...
Like Solar Striker is for shooting genre, this is a very basic but effective video pinball game in the portable's early lifespan; there are better games that came later, but this was a solid starting point for the Game Boy.
![Game Boy Longplay [037] Pinball: Revenge of the Gator (US)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/neb0692tx2Q/mqdefault.jpg)
![Game Boy Longplay [037] Pinball: Revenge of the Gator (US)](/img/tr.png)
I got this for free. My uncle was an over the road trucker and found it lying in a pile of snow at some remote truck stop in the middle of nowhere. He looked around but there were no cars with kids so he cleaned it up and brought it home for me, not sure if it worked.
Played the HELL out of it!
those dancing gators are amazing
I played this way too much back in its days, and recently too just of out nostalgia. I was surprised you didn't mention the game's high difficulty (for example, in triggering and completing bonus games); and its fidgety ball control (the less-than-perfect physics don't allow for consistent targeting with the ball, evident in that impossible left ramp on the middle board leading to the upper board.)
I would love if you could go into talking about the two player modes of some of these games as well
That title screen is great.
A seriously underrated and overlooked gameboy game.
This game looks adorable.
I'm guessing this was maybe alligator-themed because alligators are green like the Game Boy's screen and Revenge of the Frog doesn't sound as good.
Just downloaded on the eshop after watching.
I picked this game up because of this video. I tend to play games with static backgrounds on my DMG because of the horrendous refresh rate. I play stuff like platformers on my color. This game is probably one of my favorites to play on my DMG.
The title screen music is so good 💃 🕺
Thank you for your massive efforts
The Japanese title translates to "The Great 66-Alligator Parade". I found an old Japanese webpage that tried counting all the gators in the game and, well, it seems to add up to 66.
weva.style.coocan.jp/pcepage/G601.htm
It would seem as though this pinball game would later be used as the base for Pokemon Pinball. I get strong vibes from that game in this early GB pinball title, and HAL was responsible for both games.
I don't know about this with Pokémon Pinball, but they definitely build Kirby's Pinball Land off this game's base.
HAL worked with Jupiter on Pokémon Pinball, so there’s likely some residual coding DNA in there somewhere.
The art in this is really fantastic, is there no mention in the manual about why the Gators are doing all this? maybe the artist just really liked drawing them..
Loved this game! My grade school buddy gave me this, Baseball, Super Mario Land, and Castlevania because he didn’t want them anymore. Too bad an ex “borrowed” this and the rest of my games years later! Gotta buy t this one again soon!
Now that's top-notch content!
Hey I played this. Had totally forgotten!
It's been so long since I put this on
I have surprisingly vivid memories of this game.
Aliem vs Devil Crush: Devil scrolls! Makes a difference..
Slower map buffers than what the NES could perform, I believe. But even with that, they probably could have kept the other screen’s tile properties loaded, but the implementation, especially in assembly, would’ve been a pain.
I think the breakout style minigames wound up being adapted to the boss battles in Kirby's Pinball Land as well, no?
HAL made Kirby's Pinball Land also and their pinball pedigree shows there too. Seems a bit odd that a Japanese developer would take such an interest in pinball. Pachinko being much more popular in Japan.
A HAL Laboratory original, huh? Though in my opinion, there's only so much you can do with pinball games. Still, wonder if this will ever get a Virtual Console release...
Should be in Smash.
I... agree?
Could be a really fun stage!
Like Solar Striker is for shooting genre, this is a very basic but effective video pinball game in the portable's early lifespan; there are better games that came later, but this was a solid starting point for the Game Boy.
Fun little game.
Revenge of the gator look good for me to play. 😀👍🎮
Seems HAL swapped the Mario cameo for a starman in this pinball.
I still prefer kirbys pinball land entirely but ty for the review!
I looked up this game for research purposes
This was my favorite gb title. Platformers kinda sucked on the gb but for this and some rpgs it was perfect