5 graphically impressive original Gameboy games - minimme
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"If things were any other way, they would be different." - Bill Nye
@Super Nostalgia Thanks for sharing that. Could you please share the word with Josh Scorcher, since he thinks he's a Christian but keeps making content that normal Christians wouldn't do?
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>"so damn old"
Ouch. Way to make me feel elderly.
I'm just fulfilling my duty as an annoying millennial!
Millennials are mostly annoying indeed! But you are cool! Im nearly 40 btw.
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I'm so glad you made this video! All of these games were so impressive at the time on such slow hardware. The creators were programming wizards.
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The Skyrim port on it is pretty impressive
what?
The WHAT
This is also a hilarious because I'm sure that if anyone actually did this it would be isometric or something like that, but I am imagining a full 3d Skyrim game that runs at like one frame per hour and you literally can't read anything
it doesn't hold a candle to the Crysis port though
I love how everyone here can be easily r/woooosh for missing the joke but of well, i Guess i do My job
Dylan Cuthbert also married Shigeru Miyamoto's daughter! (not a joke)
weird flex but ok
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This is true
The Donkey Kong Land games on Game Boy are not only graphically impressive, they're sonically impressive. They mostly just reuse the SNES tunes which fortunately translate pretty well, and the first has a good amount of original tunes though I wouldn't call them hidden gems, this is a Game Boy after all.
I don't think they are Sonically impressive, I would say Donkey Kongally impressive!
Glad you put X on the list. Very neat game with a great soundtrack and insane graphics.
The reason they didn't release it outside of Japan is it's similarity to the Atari game en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_%281980_video_game%29 Had they released to the US for example, Atari would have sued - and likely won.
5 graphically impressive text adventure games
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I know one, it's not really a "text adventure" game, it's an RPG, but it is made with only text. It's called SanctuaryRPG. For the graphics they used ASCII art (drawing images with only text characters) and it looks amazing. The game itself is also excellent, for those who enjoy older, rogue-like RPG games.
Incredibly verbose
I really love your videos, their entertaining, informative, straightforward, interesting and sometimes funny. Keep up the good work and don't give up, mate.
Thanks dude I really appreciate that ;)
welcome back bro.
now sustain me with graphical videos for the rest of our lives.
Finally, another video, please post more frequently, your videos are so well made!
Thankyou :)
I'm trying to! I just gotta schedule and balance life properly at this point
Donkey Kong Land had to be here, great video
I played Faceball 2000 with its programmer at a CES show in Chicago before the game was released. I didn’t even know what to do. I remember asking, “What am I doing? What are the controls?” The programmer just kept saying, “Play”. That CES show was memorable because I also got to play the original Sonic The Hedgehog in a private room months before its release.
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Really like your series !
Great work dude !!!
It's the guy that has driver music in his videos! I forgot to subscribe last time I stumbled across your channel.
I want more best GBA games reviews, suscribed! And thanks for youre work
YAY for including Donkey Kong Land III! It is my favorite regular Game Boy game! DKL2 was nice, too, but the frame rate was horrible when falling, and sometimes you'd lose a life because the game thinks where you're falling rapidly is a pit. That happened a lot in the FIRST DKL as well.
Glad you're back brother man
F1 Race was definitely a lot of fun multiplayer. Thanks for including it in this list!
That thing you said about owning the average games for the system felt more authentic, that's exactly right. For pretty much every nintendo system I owned, I never had the system sellers early on and was stuck playing the mediocre third party games.
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A lot of times Nintendo systems had the system sellers packed in
Getting a movie game or a game with cool box art only to find out the game sucked = major pain in the 90s
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Cool video! I realise you already have a couple of racing games on here, and probably wanted to keep things varied, but Race Days' 4 Wheel Drive is another impressive racer that is worth considering.
That last point you make is actually quite true.
Many people remember the PS1 for crash bandicoot and other must haves, but many people, like my cousins, had such a variety of hit and miss playstation 1 games, it felt like lottery.
I had F-1 Racing, TMNT and Tetris for the original Gameboy, so your bit at the end about it being a closer experience to actually owning one at the time is spot on, not everything you played was a beloved classic.
Downloaded that Stunt FX demo and indeed I am impressed.
1:02 Take this, Sonic Drift 1 & 2!
Great vid! A small note regarding both Race Drivin' and X is that they both use the same engine, as they were both developed by Argonaut Software. In X's case it started out as an unrelated, original project, which then got the interest of Nintendo, who bought the rights and co-developed it. Another one on GB using the same engine is Days of Thunder, also developed by Argonaut, which even had Dylan Cuthbert's involvement as with X.
"I don't know how to start this video"..
Starts with Driver 1 soundtrack.
M8, you sure know how to start =)
I would add Links Awakening. Great work on the video!
Dear god its back
Now do 3 graphically impressive Nokia cell phone games
space impact and snake are the most graphically impressive
Call of duty
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Nice video, for me personally I would say Star Hawk for the gameboy had pretty impressive details.
I remember getting the F1 racer kit with the 4 player connector, my brother and I both got it for Xmas an it was one we played the hell out of.
seeing GB graphics in grayscale is wierd. i remember the green, non-backlit display that would leave blurry tracers in anything lower than room temp
Great video! I hope this means the 5 Graphically Impressive Games series will showcase Atari Lynx, Game Gear, and Game Boy Color, if you have the time and interest. Love the channel!
I played the DSi version of X! Really great game, and interesting to find there was a GB original. I'll have to try it out.
The prerendered sprites of donkey kong country added artificial depth to the snes to put the console on life support, and even managed to translate well to 2 bit color to put the gameboy on life support.
The early console eras always impressed me the most, especially as I have gotten older and know how the developers had to fight console limitations with efficient algorithms. It is a lost art in todays games where modern developers are spoiled with high level code and nearly limitless ram compared to earlier generations.
I was literally able to watch this video and see the math in my head of what the developers had to do to get these games to work! :)
Static background Sprites, horizonal alternating bars, and probably hardware taxing parabolia's to give the 3d effect. Awesome to watch.
best intro ever
Nice video ! And i discovered neat games thanks to you. Yet, you know there are also non-3D impressive games ?
Dragon's Lair, Dr Franken, have awesome sprites. Chikyuu Kaihou Gun ZAS uses the original screen latency to add a differential scrolling effect. Theses games deserve praise as well !
It maybe be old but it's make you wanna come back
What!? How did that first game even work!? Unless maybe it’s just using stretched sprites rather than polygons, but if it is then it certainly nailed the 3D look.
Good timing, I just got a backlit DMG. (Which is also older than me, but I'm excited to dive right in.)
good shit my dude
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Wolfenstein is just a trash ripoff of Faceball 2000
An original GameBoy game I found quite graphically impressive is Bill Elliot's NASCAR Fast Tracks. It is also pretty advanced from a game play standpoint too, with pre-race car tuning and things like drafting.
Dude, I had Race Drivin' on my GB Pocket. I played the heck out of that game!
Nice comment at the end of the video. So true. We had F1 race and the game boy was so full of games like that. pokemon was fab but released in the uk about 10 years later than most of these so a childhood apart
Race Driving on the Game Boy is a real surprise. I had no idea there was a version for the little Handheld as well. It looks like Hard Driving on the C64, regarding the slow framerate. And it's actually vector graphics, not polygons. Different technology :) The studio who ported this game to the Game Boy really had some balls. Gameplay wise really not great but one heck of a nice tech-demo. The Donkey Kong Land titles makes you wonder how they might have looked like if they had been ported to the NES too.
F-1 Race was my jam when I was 5 dude. Oh man.
Nice Driver music, got me thinking about that time we had to swap out memory cards to have a save file from someone who had actually beat that crazy hard garage tutorial. Great times.
Ah its muh big boi!
F1 Race was great! My dad once gave it to me in the Version that included the 4 Player Dialog-Cable hub. I never used it with anyone (lack of friends with Game Boy and 4 Player titles that we ALL were required to have) but hey, it's still nice to have some original Game Boy gear. :]
Great video. It's always interesting to me how the younger generation started to pronounce the NES and SNES "ness" and "sness". Us old farts (at least in the States) say "En ee ess" and "ess en ee ess" just like the letters in the acronym.
Then again, when I was a kid in the late 80s and 90s, it was all just called "Nintendo."
"Wanna come over and play Nintendo?" could have meant NES or SNES.
Geek Therapy Radio When I look at stuff from the early '90s it's all nez and snez
Damn, I'm a millennial myself and I pronounce it as "An ee ess" and "ess en ee ess" too. I don't know, it kinda depends from how you first spelt it.
I know of no one, young or old, who pronounce it sness or ness. Just my anecdotal experience.
J G I pronounce it that way. It's shorter and I like to say lots so it's easier.
35 year old reporting in. Never heard them pronounced any way other than "Nez" and "Snez" before youtube came along.
Honestly, how many other acronyms that form a pronouncible word do you spell out every letter of? Come on. Do you type in a "Pee Eye En" to use your cashcard, or a "Pin"? Did older PCs run on "Dee Oh Ess" or "Doss", and boot through a "Bee Oh Eye Ess" or a "Baiyoss"?
Oh, and any kid who had a SNES would totally rub it in by saying "do you want to come play SUPER Nintendo?"... even in the UK, where hardly any of us realised that there had been a non-super one beforehand, and only had a couple of Sega consoles and a bunch of home computers to compare it to.
Where is The lawnmower man for Gameboy? The graphics were impresive. I used to own that game.
I had that F1 race game, was pretty damned awesome, but if I recall rightly, brutal in the harder difficulties
5:00 that guy on the right looks strangely a lot like Rick Astley! Anyone else see that and think that?
I feel unintentionally rick-rolled
You should,ve to mention supermarioland 3 because some stages do have some amezing transparancy or paralax scrolling effects such as the waterfall stage or those train level stages.
And also supermarioland 2 do have some impressive stages with graphics coming close to supermarioworld.
It’s amezing what nintendo achieved with such limited technology it’s absolutely mind blowing.
If you make a follow-up to this, make sure to include Chikyuu Kaihou Gun ZAS, a Gameboy game that managed to cheat its way into multi-layer parallax scrolling, and somewhat more impressively, it also effectively cheated its way into displaying *more than 4 shades of gray on the Gameboy*, intentionally or not (it may just have been a side effect of the way the parallax scrolling worked, but it may have been a deliberate part of the way they implemented that, so it's hard to say... either way it deserves a spot on one of these).
The Donkey Kong Land games are super impressive. Rareware was so good back in the day. The series just looked better than many SNES games.
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lol Faceball 2000 was my first FPS, and one of my all time favorite Gameboy games!
"Bad N Rad Skate or Die" was also an awesome visually stunning game for the game boy!
The Gameboy wasn’t capable of drawing pixels let alone making wireframe graphics. So with X, every angle of lines and overlapping ones came from a look up table matching the appropriate sprite or tile for that angle.
+General Sotheny A youtuber called 8 bit guy has a great video about creating games on the Commodore PET. Its an old computer from the late 70s. Anyway, the way that it works is by drawing "character" on the screen at a given x and y position, like a graph. He goes into much more detail in that video, but basically, the computer has access to several character libraries and by taking advantage of the different varieties of characters and drawing them to different positions with every screen refresh, you can create something that looks like a game. Here is the video: th-cam.com/video/eP9y_7it3ZM/w-d-xo.html
Essentially, this is similar to how a gameboy works. By placing dozens of black "dots" in various positions on the screen we can create an image that looks similar to a pixel or a sprite. What is really going on here is just dynamic character arrangements similar to the PET. Of course, this was a more advanced machine than the PET and developers could create their own characters and access to many other tools to make more complex images This is a vastly simplified explanation, and isn't technically even correct, but this is just a way to help you understand what he means by "drawing pixels". Explaining everything the most correct way would take far too long, I don't want to write an essay for you lol.
I hope this makes sense! Let me know if you have any more questions. You hard the right idea :)
Matt Heitmann that’s entirely incorrect. the GB doesn’t use a character display and it’s entirely bitmapped
It’s similar to characters because they have tiles that are fixed relative to one another but can scroll together as well as some sprites that can dynamically move independently from one another.
Yes, but that's not character graphics. That's tile-based bitmapping. That's like saying the NES and SNES "aren't capable of displaying pixels" because they display graphics using the same method
That’s true, but the point that’s trying to be made is the NES and Gameboy only draw from stored sprites or tiles. It cannot paint individual pixels to make an image programmatically that isn’t stored on the cartridge.
I had no idea the GB was so... powerful. I'm genuinely impressed!
another impressive one is best of the best championship karate, it has realistic looking people with smooth animations
It's also worth mentioning that X is the first game for which Kazumi Totaka ever composed a soundtrack. Totaka is well known for hiding a small song of his into each game he works on, X being the first one he did it in.
Impressive GBA tech demos, you kinda promised it lol
Man I kinda did didn't I! I'll get onto it someday :)
Would really like to see it, with your commitment and love to GBA this will be awefreakingsome!
I can't believe you made no mention of Resident Evil for the GB.
Funny thing about faceball is that it runs at almost the same speed as the snes version
Interesting titles, especially on super gameboy when they get color or the sp.
Do "sonically" impressive games for these consoles! Audio is so underrated!
Good list.
How does manual transmission work on Race driving? is it mapped to up and down on the D-pad?
Yeah i was a Kid in the 80s and Teen in the 90s! You are absolute right that this was more like beeing a Kid back then! There was the Heavyweights like Super Mario or Zelda,but as a Kid with no real medium of to Research (like the internet) you sometimes ended up with a Bad or Average Game! (Bart vs the Juggernauts urrgghhh)
finally... i was specting this video for sooo loooong
Seems like you've done your homework. Nice selection of games to showcase the different technical capabilities of the Game Boy. Other games that impressed me:
Animaniacs, but that's for the reason it was so colorful on the Super Game Boy, moreso than any other game at that point, which I thought wasn't possible. Factor 5 hacks.
Donkey Kong GB, purely because of Mario's animations (as a fact Mario had more animations and more moves in DK than in any other Mario game before. Mario in DK was probably the most athletic video game character at the time it was released. Many of the moves Mario learned in DKGB appeared two years later in Super Mario 64).
Honourable mention: Space Invaders because the Game Boy cartridge contained a Game Boy and a Super Nintendo game which is an oddball for the system (and for me a technical marvel at the time).
Back when I was a kid this was awesome u kids now don't know how good u have it with games today we played game boy and we loved it we also had to walk 15 miles in the snow to a store to rent games lol
I only ever used the link cable for Pokémon. I did win a battle at recess.
You are right with your closing statement. Because of no internet, Kids didn’t know what games were good. So everyone had random games
I still have my F1 Race game with 4-player adapter
F-1 Race has nothing on V-Rally from our good friends at VD-dev. They also made 3 other impressive Game Boy Color racers, but V-Rally is on both GB and GBC and is the first of the bunch. There's a surprising amount of variety to the track design and different road physics and everything! Please please PLEASE check it out!
And in terms of Rare, we have the Battletoads games and rather impressive port of Killer Instinct that really push the hardware in a similar way to the DKL games.
This game still has a very good library of games
2:51 You should talk about the Japanese GBC port.
3:43, its called Etsukusu
Race Drivin looks very similar to Stunts(for DOS)
I think the Warrio game and Killer Instinct should be on here too
X's tunnel segments look like a direct clone of 3D Tunnel for MS-DOS, so it wouldn't surprise me if the same developers worked on both titles.
You may also like Jeeb Jamboree: Off Road Adventure.
Spent many hours on Donkey kong Land 3 on my gbc!
"putting it in perspective" ... I see what you did there.
Someone clearly showing his age. The fact that sprites were swapped out for other sprites to make them larger was what you had to do back then. Even arcade games did that. Scaling and rotation were not common for games of that era
Donkey Kong Land 3 has a colored version. It's really impressive.
I can’t believe that the Game Boy version of Race Drivin’ runs better than the Genesis version
haha i had FaceBall... you could put bots in and they had different abilities.. pretty wild game
If it's played some of these games at a kid, my mind would have exploded. They look better than most if not all of the games I had for my Gameboy.
Makes me appreciate having a phone in my pocket nowadays. Miss the buttons though lmao.
Yo, Minimmi, mind sharing the music you used in this episode?