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Roadster

A pleasantly playable top-down racer that almost makes up for Monster Truck.

Maru’s Mission

An entry in the long-running Ninja Jajamaru-kun series that feels like it’s going to fly to pieces at any moment.

Extra Bases

Take your family to the stadium in this rebranded entry from Namco’s long-running Famista series. (It’s baseball.)

Ultraman Club: Teki Kaijuu o Hakken Seyo!

Ultraman’s debut on Game Boy bears a suspicious similarity to Gundam’s first portable outing. Except instead of taking the form of a brain-dead fighter, it’s more of a…

Heavyweight Championship Boxing

Game Boy’s first boxing title takes a lot of inspiration from Punch-Out!!… and then just keeps adding stuff and adding stuff, until it collapses into a heap of…

Bases Loaded for Game Boy

  Bases Loaded for Game Boy isn’t actually Bases Loaded, although it is for Game Boy. The popularity of the Bases Loaded name in the U.S. evidently prompted…

Master Karateka

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…

Malibu Beach Volleyball

Volleyball is one of the worst possible sports you can turn into a video game. That’s probably why there are so few of them; to the best of…

Hyper Lode Runner: The Labyrinth of Doom

How circular gaming has become. Over the past couple of decades, portable and PC gaming have essentially existed on opposite ends of the medium’s total spectrum; handheld systems…