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@ALinkttPresent Nintendo Typically has a showreel of third party and independent made games. I'll admit they can be quite short. For they're typically for smaller budget games.

@Rafke I was excited for YL when I heard about it. But it's not a great collectathon though...

This game is a little different, and makes it more inspired by DKC for the levels, and Conker's Pocket Tails for the overworld sections.

Personally, I would rather have a better 3D collectathon game, but I'm mildly optimistic of this game.

You know what would make this game better though, just as an added touch?

Klonoa style bending platforms!

As in, platforms that bend in and out to foreground and background. It would be way more interesting than just a linear plane that's seen in the trailer.

@ALinkttPresent Makes sense I guess, but surely Nintendo can promote this in the E3 direct. Right?

Looking at the trailer, the 2D sections look like a mix of DKC, Sonic, and Monster Land. It might work, but I'll admit that I want a better 3D collectionathon rather than a 2D platformer. But, I'm going to stay mildly optimistic of this game.

Here's the video trailer BTW. https://youtu.be/2OuHmGfihfw

I'm going to sound a little mean here, but...

...couldn't they have waited for E3 to announce this? :/

Yeah... This is weird. Not only this, but the NES/Famicom version of City Connection is coming to the NES service, which defeats the point of the arcade version on Arcade Archives, unless you REALLY need to double dip on the games. But I don't see a point...

Hopefully Hamster will release RType soon with their acquisition with Irem properties.

@docprof Yeah, I'm hoping that this is a, complete, version with no microtransactions. Similar to that of Timber Man Vs. and Fly O' Clock Vs. where both games originated on mobile phones that used ads and microtransactions; but the Switch version allows to unlock new skins and modes by working hard on the game, rather than paying transactions to unlock cosmetics. I really hope that the Switch version of Dandy Dungeon is a complete game for the $25 price tag!

@Crono1973 Seeing as the game is a parody of Tower of Druaga, it's purposely pixelated. https://www.retrogamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/todrand7big.png

@EmirParkreiner Oh, there's a physical version of Black Bird?

@Severian Hmm... Black Bird is more of a Fantasy Zone/Defender style shooter. They're not meant to be story epics, they're high-score based arcade games. I'll admit that Black Bird's price is a little high, but if you use gold points to get a discount, it's worth it for quick fire, high scoring fun.

Now Dandy Dungeon, I'll admit, is quite pricey for it's caliber; and I can't quite tell what it's meant to be. My biggest guess is that it's a parody of Tower of Druaga. But I hope that an independent game like this of that price tag is brimming in content. We'll just have to see.

I won't lie, I love the look of these!

The, laying down, dock is such a cool feature. But, you still need controls when it's docked, that's why I think the Switch Mini's dock needs the Joycon charge rails on it so that they be used when the system is docked, and charging when the system is out of the dock.

@EmirParkreiner I wouldn't mind getting a PC version, hoping that they do what Sega did with Yakuza Zero and Yakuza Kiwami1/2 where you can play those games in 144hz mode.

...not that you really need that in a Yakuza game, but it would be nice to play more shmups in that frequency. Silky-smooth 140+ frames per second with a really high response rate.

Very nice!

I loved RType Final on the PS2, and I would love to pick this sequel up for the Switch. Now I want an HD remaster of RType Final 1 for the Switch.

Now I hope that makes Konami want to make actual games again and make a Gradius VI!

I love the Raiden series, but the newer Raiden games drive me mad with all the silly story and plot points as everything is told to you in exposition with characters speaking to you. And it's not like Star Fox either, the characters constantly talk about how to save the world and how to defeat bosses.

If suffers too much from modern Radio call-ins.

I really want this to be a Donkey Kong style hammer!

Just run around and swing that hammer at your enemies as if you're playing Donkey Kong/Smash Bros!

The buttons have the wrong layout AGAIN!

Plus I bet the sticks are analogue again! shudder

It's just not worth it.

Very impressive! That SA1 chip really helps the game out, especially in the bubble stage!

I just wish I like Gradius 3. Sure, I respect the game, but Gradius 1, 2 and 5 are better Gradius games than 3 IMO. But it's very nice to see the game get a much needed upgrade to make it much smoother!

I never understood why they called it Champions in the West, when it's called PuyoPuyo eSports in Japan. The name eSports alone would've been the key indicator that this is a higher-end difficulty PuyoPuyo game. Not to mention that's designed for eSports events with built in tournament tools so you can run your own Tournaments with it. Not to mention that the game has been approved by the Japanese eSports Union to push the game really hard across Japan as an actual sport.

We should have our own eSports union!

I really hope that Virtua Fighter gets a SEGAAGES release, I love the Sega Model 1 days! Wing War was a fun game in the arcades! I'd love to see that make an appearance too!

Well, dang...

There was me hoping that Persona 5 was coming to the Switch, but we're getting ANOTHER Musou/Dynasty Warriors crossover... I personally never got into the Musou games, though currently I'm guessing Hyrule Warriors a chance as I got the WiiU game dirt cheap. But here's hoping that Shin Megami Tensei V might get gameplay trailer soon, and it'll be more like a classic JRPG.

@King_Johobo Try getting a mains PSU for that machine and see if it works. If it does, the battery contacts might be corroded and/or loose. I have got new battery contacts from https://www.deadpanrobot.co.uk/ before, but it looks like they're out of stock for the time being.

@Quarth I've noticed that Pokemon Yellow dropped it's number 3 position, and Super Mario Land 2 in now in it's place!

Noice!

@King_Johobo If it's an original DMG-01, including the Play it loud range, they're pretty easy to fix. I've repaired a few and installed back lights before.

...wait a minute...

TMNT2 had the 50th spot, now it's Dr. Mario...

Guys... The list the changing...

@Quarth My friend has a Mickey Mouse game on the GameBoy that plays like a Crazy Castle game. I'll need to look into that!

@shadow-wolf Yup, Gold and Silver are GBC games. Though technically they were in development before Nintendo was working on the new colour system.

@Protocol_Penguin I approve this comment!

@ReaderRagfish Try playing it on a Super GameBoy. You'll be surprised.

@Quarth Kwirk has better polish to it than other games. It changed the Sokoban gameplay with new mechanics such as rotating/turning walls and that you only needed to get to an end point rather than putting all the boxes in a new place, which could cause players to reset their game. Simply put, Kwirk/Puzzle Boy is a much better Sokoban/Boxxle. I just find it weird that in the western game, they changed Spud from Puzzle Boy 1 into a tomato in Kwirk. Gotta love weird localisation choices!

@NinChocolate Yeah, even Kirby's Pinball Land didn't manage to get in. No love for good pinball games huh?

@Quarth Yeah, I've watched almost all of Jeremy's GameBoy World videos.

As for CaTrap, I just don't find it enjoyable. Though I will admit that the game's rewind function is handy. It's just that I find the game to be pretty dull IMO. It falls into the same range of games as Boxxle, Daedalian Opus, Flipull, and Q-Billion; a range of games that people put on the GameBoy to bank on the fact that Tetris was selling well, even though CaTrap has more in common with Jump Man and Lode Runner than a falling block puzzle game. Still, there were a lot of developers in the late eighties and early nineties trying a little too hard to make the next Tetris.

@Quarth I know!

Thing is, CaTrap got in the list somehow, and Quarth is a better game than CaTrap!

...phew I did, I gave it an 8.

But it still deserves to be in the list somewhere!

...wait a minute...

Where the hell is Space Invaders!?

TRIGGERED

...speaking of being triggered, I better make sure I actually voted for it!

@daveh30 Yeah...

Link's Awakening gets far too much love. I mean sure, it's a great game. I personally think that Wario Land 1 is a better game. Not to mention that there are some right belters that only got into the 30s.

This list needed a few uncommon gems, even though CaTrap got in there, I could name a bunch of games better than it! Bubble Ghost, Hunt for Red October, Crystal Quest, Bill and Ted's Excellent GameBoy Adventure and Pipe Dream.

Wait, how did Picross 2 get in the list? I thought this top 50 list was Western releases, I didn't think that Picross 2 had a western release?

@Quarth It's just a shame that Quarth didn't appear on the list. I would've easily put it somewhere in the 40s.

Of course, Link's Awakening would be at the top. It's just a huge shame that Metroid 2, Motocross Maniacs and Bionic Commando only appeared in the 30s.They deserve more love than that!

Plus, it's a shame that CaTrap was the only uncommonly known title to appear in the list, when in my opinion, games like Crystal Quest, Hunt for Red October, and Bubble Ghost are much better titles than CaTrap.

@Quarth LJN was simply just a publisher that had access to intellectual properties, due to making a lot of toys based on movies and wrestlers, and they gave developers the right to make games based on those franchises. At the end of the day, LJN never coded anything and it was completely up to the developers to make the game. But Laser-Beam didn't always make great games, after all you have We're Back and Bamse as an example. They even developed the terrible Back to the Future NES game that the AVGN reviewed. But they also developed Power Punch 2, the unofficial sequel to Punch Out that was released in the US.

You can see the games they developed on their Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krome_Studios_Melbourne
To make yourself aware, they began as Melbourne House, then changed the name to (Laser) Beam, sometimes they didn't use the Laser in their name. Then they got owned by Infogrames.

@mjhopkins81 Yeah, these are all grey cart titles for the original range of GameBoy consoles. GameBoy, Super GameBoy, GameBoy Pocket and the Japanese GameBoy Light. Mind you the list only has western games in it.

@Quarth Yup, both Bill and Ted, and Hunt for Red October were developed by Laser-Beam; however they had different publishers. LJM published Bill and Ted, and High Tech Productions published The Hunt for Red October.

@Quarth The GameBoy does have stinkers though, and an awful lot of franchise based games compared to other formats. Dragon's Lair, Swamp Thing, and Zoids Densetsu are three of the worst games on the system. But you're right though, there's a lot of hidden gems on the system that some people barely talk about. It gets flooded by the talk of Pokemon and Link's Awakening!

@Quarth Yeah, Bamse is one of those crazy games to get if you want a complete western GB collection. I on the other hand, am not working on a complete GB collection. But I did once own We're Back when I was younger when I went on holiday to the US one year, and actually saw said film on the same vacation. I ended up selling the game way back to get Wetrix on the N64 shortly after that game came out. Personally, I don't want to get those games, but the history of those games, including Laser-Beam games is fascinating. Not to mention that Laser-Beam made better games, such as Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, and The Hunt for Red October; both are franchise games, but they're some of the best franchise games you'll see on any system around the time.

TBH, I wish there was a way to reference the names of games in this database from different regions. The names in this Database just use the American names.

For reference...

Nemesis 2 (EU) = Gradius: Interstellar Mission (US)
Mario & Yoshi (EU) = Yoshi (US)
Dyna Blaster (EU) = Atomic Punk (US)
Blaster Master Jr (EU) = Blaster Master Boy (US)
B.C. Kid (EU) = Bonk's Adventure (US)
Pang (EU) = Buster Brothers (US)
Probotector (EU) = Operation C (US)
Probotector 2 (EU) = Contra: The Alien Wars (US)
Pop Up (EU) = Cool Ball (US)
Hyperdunk (EU) = Double Dribble 5-on-5
Mystic Quest (EU) = Final Fantasy Adventure (US)
Prince Valiant (EU) = Kingdom Crusade (US)
Shadow Warriors: Ninja Gaiden (EU) = Ninja Gaiden Shadow (US)
Pac Panic (EU) = Pac Attack (US)
King of the Zoo (EU) = Penguin Wars (US)
Konami Golf (EU) = Ultra Golf (US)

@KingBowser86 Yoshi's Cookie was a much better game than (Mario &) Yoshi.

@strenny It looks like Nintendo Life is using American names for GameBoy games. Dynablaster in the States was called Atomic Punk, and that's in the list/database.

@SummerPlay Super Mario Land 1 great had music. But I'll admit that I prefer Wario Land over the Mario Land titles.

@SKTTR Motocross Maniacs need to be in there somewhere! ;P