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A frustrating action puzzle game that crashes and burns due to its awful control interface.
A Chubby Cherub-esque platformer based on a short-lived Japanese animation by the creator of Doraemon.
A fantastic portable take on HAL’s cute Japan-only adaptation of the blockbuster film.
The ambitious charming sequel to NES classic Balloon Fight, before the Hello Kitty makeover.
An entry in the long-running Ninja Jajamaru-kun series that feels like it’s going to fly to pieces at any moment.
The European equivalent of Dig Dug comes to Game Boy with an appealing visual makeover.
A sort of precursor to Fire ProWrestling, by Human Entertainment themselves… but definitely not as good.
Long before the concept of coherent branding existed, Bomberman made a Game Boy appearance… under a different name.
A charming little puzzler that stands out from the system’s glut of puzzlers thanks to its fast-paced, addictive gameplay.
The inevitable arrival of the juggernaut Ninja Turtles franchise didn’t quite live up to Konami’s usual standards, with repetitive play and cheap enemies.
Based on a Japan-only movie, with gameplay adapted from a Japan-only MSX game, this clunky and primitive creation is tough to love.
Atari’s diagonal fling-em-up makes the leap from arcades to the Game Boy with rather less-than-impressive results.
A promising premise for a game — two players go head-to-head in a shooting match — crumbles beneath lousy programming. A throwback to an older time, in a bad…
The fast-paced NES shoot-em-up comes to Game Boy with most of its content and mechanics intact, almost day and date with its console sibling. Pretty impressive!
SNK makes its Game Boy debut with a game remarkably similar to partner developer ADK’s arcade classic Make Trax. Hmm!
Data East arrives on Game Boy by dipping back into its vast arcade archives. But this is no rehash—Lock ’N Chase plays more like a sequel than a…
At long last, Capcom makes its debut on Game Boy, and that game—an RPG-inspired Ghosts ’N Goblins spin-off—raises the bar for quality on the platform.
Designed by the creators of Deadly Towers, crafted in the image of Bokosuka Wars and King’s Knight, Mercenary Force should by all accounts have been awful. But no,…
Nintendo’s Popeye was a memorable but slightly subpar action game from the golden days of the arcade. Despite its deficiencies, it blew away this sad take on the license…
The first portable entry in Culture Brain’s long-running Chinese Land franchise, Ninja Boy is also the worst entry in the series. Don’t be fooled by those big, appealing…
The first Western-developed game for Game Boy… and the first Game Boy release never to reach Japan… and the first game of the ’90s! Fortress of Fear had…
Master Karateka The final Game Boy release for 1989 was also, fittingly, one of the final games released in the 1980s. In many ways, it makes for a neat summary…
The vexing thing about Boomer’s Adventure in Asmik World is that, while it’s a perfectly entertaining action puzzler in its own right, it’s best described in terms of a…