The more rare, obscure, or just a guilty pleasure, the better. Maybe you grew up with it, maybe it’s just the nostalgia talking, any reason is fine.

I’m looking for a new game to play, but I’m running out of games to collect!

My favorite is games for original DMG, but you’re welcome to include Color it’ll advance games too!

  • doktorseven@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    Donkey Kong. I think people just think it’s a port of the arcade game because it has the same first few levels but it becomes something more afterward and is incredibly fun.

    • Waldemar_Firehammer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      This game was a giant part of my childhood. I fondly remember playing in the car on late night road trips as streetlights went by.

      I still have my DMG, and Donkey Kong is still in the slot. It’s hands down the most nostalgic piece of my past that I still have.

    • t3chskel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I was hoping to see this comment. I actually played through it last week. What a great game. Too bad the GBA sequel was trash.

  • rezz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    9 months ago

    Metal Gear Solid for GBC is never mentioned in all time lists for the series, but it’s my favorite, straight up.

    I can’t believe they managed to cram a true MGS experience onto a GAMEBOY Color cartridge.

    Pocket Bomberman is also legitimately great.

    • groucho@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      That’s the first game I bought for my GBC. I didn’t have enough money for a playstation and was jealous of all my friends playing MGS. It’s super well done. I just got an analog pocket and I think I’ll dig MGS out again after I finish my Castlevania games.

    • finkrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Emphasizing your statement about a true MGS experience. This is literally a full Metal Gear game styled like Metal Gear 2 (MSX) and they do not pull punches with the story, it is up there with the other games in the series. Music and pacing are impressive for the console.

  • mimic_kry@kbin.social
    15·
    1 year ago

    Weirdly enough, my favorite Zelda game of all time is The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. Weirder still, it’s the story that I really love, driven almost entirely by the fact that it’s the least Zelda Zelda game. No, I don’t know what’s wrong with me.

    I mean it’s probably entirely nostalgia, but I still hear the in-game ballad in my head from time to time.

        • CO_Chewie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I started Zelda so many times as a kid but never finished it. Was so happy to finally beat it thanks to the remake. It is solid and adds a few tweaks to help game play. Totally worth picking up!

      • hakase@lemm.eeEnglish
        86·
        1 year ago

        $60 for a 30 year old Game Boy game? I think I’ll have to disagree that it’s worth buying again.

          • hakase@lemm.eeEnglish
            21·
            1 year ago

            It’s a full remake of a Game Boy game from 1993, and it honestly kills my faith in humanity a little bit that 6 and a half million people were falling all over themselves to pay Daddy Nintendo that much for it.

    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Oracle of seasons was a masterpiece, oracle of ages and minish cap also were great, some novel ideas and beautiful execution, lots of hours of gameplay if you play casually and explore along the way

    • drcouzelis@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Not weird at all! It’s actually my favorite Zelda game too. 🙂 I think I’d actually say Majora’s Mask is even more not-Zelda. 😄

      …also Marin > Zelda 👀

      • mimic_kry@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        Hah, I actually agree with you now that you mention it: Majora’s Mask is indeed even more not-Zelda lol. That game was a hell of a time.

        Thank you for your bravery lmao. But I’m 100% with you, Marin a thousand times over Zelda. The fandom will likely beg to differ though hahaha

    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Funny enough it was Link’s Awakening that led all the games after that being more story oriented. It also started the trope of the long trading quest

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The trading part is what got me to buy that game. I was playing it at the store and got through a bunch of it and got hooked.

    • krdo@lmmy.netEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s not only my favorite Zelda game. It’s probably my favorite game for any system.

  • kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social
    15·
    1 year ago

    Donkey Kong (1994) - not really rare or obscure, but definitely not talked about enough.
    It starts out like regular donkey kong but then it goes somewhat differently.
    The colorization is only complete with SuperGameboy so it might be tricky to play that way but there is a colorization hack being worked on.

    • folkrav@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      I played the shit out of Donkey Kong Country 2 on my GBC as a kid. A lot of it with that crappy night light attachment that ate batteries and gave me motion sickness playing at night in the car.

      • rattboi@lemmy.oneEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I think he’s talking about the game that is the precursor to the Mario VS Donkey Kong series. Sorta a puzzle platformer.

  • Sanity_in_Moderation@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Final Fantasy Adventure. Zelda style top view. Absolutely loved it. Music scope and story… Played through at least a dozen times. A decently high quality remake came out for phones a few years back. I still love it.

  • Que@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    As a kid, I found Gargoyles Quest infuriatingly addictive. I wasn’t good enough to do well at it, it annoyed me, but I kept going back for more.

    • villainy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Gargoyle’s Quest has plenty of those weird old game difficulty spikes. Damned fine Game Boy game though. Good call!

  • 0x01@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Dragon quest monsters (dragon warrior monsters in America)

    This game was the bomb, I loved the monster breeding mechanics, you could breed monsters of different types to get entirely new ones.

    • drcouzelis@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      It looks really fun! I have a copy of the Japanese version. I was surprised to find out it was a Game Boy Color launch title!

    • stoex@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      This game is the bomb. There are translation patches for the JPN 3DS remakes, but I haven’t played them extensively…

  • the16bitgamer@programming.devEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets.

    Are they good games? No

    But they are well themed and have chiptune version of Jeremy Soule’s soundtrack. I like replaying the, from time to time.

  • thingsiplay@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    Pitman, also known as Catrap in US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catrap

    It’s not really something special or so, but I had it in my youth and used the level editor to build countless levels with my friend. It’s a side scrolling puzzle game, with the abiliy to go back in history with a nice backwards animation.

    • drcouzelis@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I have! I picked up a copy a couple of years ago. It took me a little while to realize, it’s not about clearing the screen, but about getting a high score. It’s very clever, and a little addicting!

    • Funkymatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yes! Got it as a present so it wasn’t on my radar but it was a pretty good puzzle game. I seem to recall playing this way more than I played Tetris.