When the Game Boy hit store shelves in 1989 it didn’t take long for a vast swathe of third-party publishers – many of which had grown fat on the profits generated by Nintendo’s astonishingly popular NES – to sign up to produce software for the device. Konami was one of the first to pledge ..

When Metroid was first released, it was a very unique game; with a ton of exploring to do across a giant map and with loads of hidden items and path, those willing to spend the time to find everything were well rewarded. There's no denying the original game has aged fairly poorly now though - the ..

With the success of their Adventure Island series on the NES console and their first release on the Game Boy platform, Hudson was obviously looking to continue that success with the release of their second Game Boy release. While the game is based on the third NES release, it actually eclipses it ..

When the original Kid Icarus title hit the NES, many gamers weren't sure exactly what to think of it. For starters the game's protagonist was a cute little winged angel (at least we thought so) who ran around shooting tiny arrows at mythological enemies. Of course it didn't help matters that the g..

There were initially some concerns that the gameplay experiences on the Game Boy system might end up being a bit too shallow. Fortunately, that notion was put to rest early on with some of the outstanding releases for the system. Of course no title would shatter that misconception like the release..

Back when the Mega Man franchise started with the release of the NES game, Capcom never thought it would do well - the first game was expected to bomb horribly, as almost nobody at Capcom thought people would like it. Fast forward to today, and Mega Man has become one of Capcom's biggest franchise..

Let's just get this out of the way now: if you like the NES games, you'll probably dig this entry. Operation C isn't an adaptation or a port (arguably); it is an old-school Contra game. It may lack in a few notable areas, but you'll largely enjoy it.Operation C does a pretty good job of sticking t..

Konami had already enjoyed some success creating a parody of their Gradius series of shooters with their Parodius releases, so they must have felt like they were on to something when they decided to do the same with their popular Castlevania series back in the early '90s. Kid Dracula basically tak..

Nintendo's little gray brick enjoyed one of the longest lives of any system to date, outlasting its rivals and finding its way into the hearts of gamers the world over. Following a very basic logic, a system with a long lifespan will typically have a large amount of titles worth your time. In fact..

While Nintendo kept things fairly standard with their first two Super Mario Land releases, they obviously decided to make some changes when they got ready to create this third release in the series for their Game Boy system. Instead of featuring Mario, they decided to give players a chance to be t..

In 1994, Nintendo had a great idea - why not make a true sequel to the original Donkey Kong arcade game? The result is Donkey Kong for the Game Boy, originally known as Donkey Kong '94 during development.When you first start up the game you might feel like you've possibly been ripped off - it star..

There were a good number of NES franchises that ended up making appearances on the Game Boy system, some better than others. Hudson had already enjoyed some popularity on the NES console with their Adventure Island series, so it was pretty much a no-brainer that they'd eventually bring the series ..

Picross has always been one of the weirder puzzle games that Mario has tried his hand at. It seems very boring to slowly create a picture using nothing but numbers, but once you get the hang of it the time simply flies by and you'll find yourself playing for hours on end.Mario's Picross was the fi..

Nintendo managed to squeeze quite a bit of the Super Mario experience into the original Super Mario Land, but many gamers felt like the game was a bit too scaled down to feel like a true Super Mario adventure. Nintendo obviously sensed this when they sat down to create Super Mario Land 2, as the g..

Back in the day, taking your console gaming experience with you on the go was a big deal. The prospect of getting your daily dose of video game wherever you may happen to be was definitely one of the many driving forces behind the Game Boy, and, with the popularity of the Donkey Kong Country trilo..

Saying that Tetris sold a few Game Boy systems would be like saying caffeine sold a few energy drinks. The game probably single-handedly shifted a few million Game Boy systems all by itself. Already an established favourite by the time Nintendo's handheld hit the market in 1989, Tetris proved to b..

Let it be known that I love, love, love Kirby’s Dream Land. As a wee laddie, I’d pop it in my Game Boy before school to kill time waiting for the bus. Over time, I’d get up increasingly early just to play more, and eventually early enough so that I could beat it in one go. I loved it back in..

Like many of the other NES and Super NES marquee titles of the era, a Final Fantasy appearance on the Game Boy was almost a foregone conclusion. The series began life in Japan under the title of SaGa, but thankfully Squaresoft was kind enough to bring the three Japanese Game Boy releases over to t..

Before we plough headlong into this review, a short history lesson is probably in order. As the title denotes, Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge isn’t the first instalment of Konami’s vampire-slaying franchise to reach the monochrome Game Boy. Castlevania: The Adventure – launched alongsid..

Given the popularity of the Super Mario Bros. series at the time of the Game Boy's release, it comes as no real surprise that Nintendo would release a Super Mario title for their brand new portable game system. And for an early Game Boy offering, it was a fairly solid effort. It captured much of t..