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Took all my games out of their protective cases and dumped them out on the table. Sometimes it's just satisfying to rummage through a bunch of carts, hold them in your hands, and admire the label art. Does anyone else periodically do this with their physical games?
It's a marvel of the modern world that allows me to say that I played most of these, despite only ever seeing the physical cartridge of half of them.
Your collection looks great OP. Mole Mania GOTYAY
Mole Mania is fantastic 👍
I never heard anyone talking about that one back in the 90s, seems like more people know about it nowadays.
It's crazy that most (if not all) of these were written in assembly.
For context, this is the equivalent of turning sugar cane, milk and wheat into a cake as opposed to buying one at the store (i.e. python).
Sort of... Check this out.
Last year I made a (VERY tiny) Game Boy game written in Assembly language from scratch, because I wanted it do it like they did it back in the 80s and 90s.
https://github.com/drcouzelis/icecreamcastle-gb/
BUT, then I saw this interview with Mr. Sakurai about how he developed the game Kirby's Dream Land and, the way he describes it, he basically used the old-timey version of GB Studio! Like, draw the art, place characters on screen, and move them around! It blew my mind. XD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUY2AtBD6Sk
(REALLY cool interview)
Even so, you're still correct, Assembly language was used, but I was surprised to learn that game development wasn't exactly what I thought it was. :D
The pile:
Do you have Pokémon Crystal? I can see you have all from first generation, plus Gold and Silver. Also the cards one. I'm impressed TBH
I never grabbed Crystal. In hindsight - I should have, probably not something I'll buy for what it goes for now.
I see, which game is your favourite? :)
Pokémon? Probably Red, it was my first (bought when it came out) and I have the most nostalgia for that one.
Of all those carts? I don't think I could choose. Probably just plain old Tetris, but there are so many great games.
I just found two great rom hacks online you may be interested in if you haven’t already, Pokémon - Red Version++, and Pokémon - Blue Version Kaizo. While the former stays true to the original with added QoL improvements that make it more playable, the latter provides a challenging rearrangement of the classic that makes me feel like I’m playing Pokémon for the first time again.
Nice! I had seen a couple rom hacks for the originals that add the QoL changes, but I don't remember seeing the rearranged game. I'll have to look into it!
TIL that bible carts were developed for the Gameboy
The empty cases (and bins that I keep my games in):
Aww man, I had so many of those single cart cases too. Had some similar ones that held two as well. Eventually I got rid of them when I got these larger boxes that hold either Gameboy or Gameboy carts upright in rows. Three of them would hold up to 15, and I could fit some extras by fitting GBA ones loose on top of each other.
12 year old me believed that when he left his friends games they would return the cases, he was wrong :(. You did very well to keep all these in good condition
I have no friends! 🤣😭
Same here
This is an absolutely BEAUTIFUL collection!
Thank you!
I sometimes go through my gb cart collection for ideas on what to play next on my handheld emulator. Mario Picross though is such a good game to wind down with at the end of the day.
It's great to see Kirby Tilt n' Tumble, loved that game growing up! Unfortunately it's probably one I'll never get to experience again without the physical cart
I had to settle for a cart with some label damage to experience it on original hardware.
It's on the Nintendo Switch online service now though, that might be an option?
I want to know what the game genie cheat codes are for the game boy King James Bible.
Me too! Unfortunately, the cart won't fit into the Game Genie. It has a significant hump at the top that prevents it from going in backwards (like carts have to for the Game Genie).
And a good thing, too. If it could go in, you'd unlock God's cheat code for free energy— Which sounds like a good thing, until you realize that it means any old vandal can just create infinite energy in a finite space and collapse the universe into a singularity.
Rescue of Princess Blobette has a prank where if you use the root beer rocket (which is a key item in the first game), you just crash into the cage and get a game over. It does nothing else in this game.
Ohoo! Has so much fun when I was a kid with many of this! Thanks for the nostalgia
Agree
The lack of organization in this kills me.
They were alphabetized in the bins 😅
The Kind James Bible for GameBoy!?
It has a Bible matching game and a Bible version of hangman, and I've always liked hangman 👍