Gaming

I have been playing Motocross Maniacs off and on for 30 years or so. Back when we had a magazine rack in the bathroom we eventually just left the Game Boy sitting in there.

I was given a copy of Azure Dreams for the Gameboy Color, this thing had no picture on the cartridge anymore and was a piece of paper with the word Azure Dreams written on it. I remember playing the absolute shit out of that game. I still have it, but haven’t played it in decades.

Golden Sun and its sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age. Easily my two GBA favourites.

The port of FF4 on the GBA was really good.

Original Gameboy, though, I played a LOT of the Tomogotchi game. I don't know why, but I loved that janky garbage pile of a game.

Wario Land 2 was a constant as well.

I loved kid Icarus. Played the shit out of the game when I was a kid. That a Kirby's Dreamland were my two favorites that I can recall right now.

Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets (GBC). I'm convinced it's what got me into JRPGs because of the similarities, despite being a western game. It was localized to my language (Swedish) which was not the case for most games (like pokemon), so young me could actually understand what was going on for once. I really like the art in it too.

If we're allowed GBA then Zelda Minish Cap or Lego Star Wars.

Fire Emblem 7 a.k.a The Blazing Sword

• Mole Mania
• Donkey Kong Land series isn't too bad
• James Bond 007
• Bionic Commando Elite Forces (GBC)
• Donkey Kong 94
• Some random puzzle games that nobody every played like Heiankyo Alien or Battle Bull

My favourites were always Metroid II and Zelda

The GBA castlevania games own

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. I prefer it to the sequels on the DS.

Goku Gekitouden

It was a never localized Dragonball game that is somewhat playable without translation.

The fighting system was pretty fun given the limited nature of gameboy. It was RPG/Action where you picked your moves before each 'bout', kindof like megaman battle network (except no deck to alter), and then once the bout started you "flew" through a 2D grid trying to get close to punch, or fire beams.

It's also one of the few Dragonball games where Beam spam is actually a thing, but also very strong. If the first move connects every other attack will land because they won't be able to block, but you have to fire a few blasts if you choose to chain so if you miss you lose a lot of energy and get stuck in place for a few moments.

Last fun bit was it had a reward for not overleveling, in that you only got to play the SSJ Goku bout against Freeza if you didn't overlevel.

I also cleared it's prequel, Goku Hishoutouden more times than I can count, just because the music in that one was banger.

Kirby night mare in dreamland 2 for the gba and kirby dream land 2 for the gameboy

If we are talking about the original Game Boy
Gargoyle's Quest and WarioLand

I really enjoyed a game called Mole Mania - https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Mole_Mania

I liked the Final Fantasy Legend games a lot, despite them being weird and feeling unfinished / poorly translated / buggy. Maybe the weirdness was part of what I liked about them. Oh and eating monster meat to turn into different monsters.

One game I never see get talked about it daedalian opus on the original game boy, I used to love that little puzzle game when I was young. I wonder if it would hold up haha.

That strange Lord of the Rings turn based strategy game.

Sonic Advance for Gameboy Advance...

Runner up is Super Momotaro Dentetsu II. A game that makes zero sense if you can't read Japanese, but it is very hilarious if you can and are familiar with the culture. In a nutshell, take the absurd length and buying property element of Monopoly, then the bullshit luck-based elements from Mario Party, mix together with a healthy dose of recreational drugs, and you get this game.

Trailer, Bit of Gameplay... Funny thing is they announced their 24th instalment in the series this year for the Nintendo Switch:

Kirby's block ball was a great Gameboy game. I remember one I liked a lot called lock n' chase, name could be wrong but I'm sure it's close

Mole Mania is pretty fun. And Gameboy donkey Kong is pretty fun, and it's way more than just an arcade port. It's has way more levels and the format is different. It also has a pretty fun move set.

shantae for gbc! its a really cute sort of metroidvania thing.

Metroid 2, because there's a reason there have been so many fanmade remakes of it...

But I also dug Ultima Runes of Virtue 2... If you ignore the canon. Superior to the SNES version IMO.

Mysterium was also nifty.

Been playing road rash (GBC) and its nice

Kirby games are nice too

The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age for GBA, I had so much fun playing hotseat with my friends.

Honourable mentions for: Tetris, Battlebots and The March of Penguins.

The Urbz: Sims in the City for the GBA (and also the DS).
This is such a hidden gem on the GBA and my favorite GBA game I had. Had great music as well!

My favourite GBA game was Metroid Fusion, I wish I still knew where it was

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Played a lot of that on my SP