Original Game Boy/GB Color Games That Still Hold Up Today

What are some of the best original Game Boy/GBC games that still hold-up to this day?

I was never a big handheld gamer back in the day since home console were so ahead of handheld devices back then. But now with the GBA-SP at my disposal as well as the Gameboy Player on Gamecube at home, it's become a lot more appealing to me. Both the GBA-SP and Gameboy Player make the games look 10x better than they ever did on the original Game Boy and even much better than they looked on the Gameboy Color. Plus I have a lot of time to kill at work lately so I need some good games.

My picks:

• Bionic Commando: Elite Force
• Dr. Mario
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
• The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
• The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
• Mega Man Xtreme
• Operation C
• Super Mario Bros. Deluxe
• Super Mario Land 1 & 2
• Tetris

What else is out there that is "great" that I missed?

Metroid II is a really fun original Game Boy game that I still play quite often.

Wario land 2 and 3 are still superb games :D

LOCK N CHASE!!!!

I hope this one comes to 3DS VC.

Seiken Densetsu or Final Fantasy Adventure as it is called here in the States stands up quite well imo.

my favourite gameboy/gameboy colour game:

Definitely Magi-Nation. Uninspiring card game. Awesome underrated videogame.

All Mario Land and Wario Land games, all Zelda games, Tetris (DX), Super Mario Bros. DX, all Kirby's Dream Land games, Dr. Mario, Metroid II, Conker's Pocket Tales, Pokemon, Metal Gear Solid, Dragon Warrior, ect.

Seiken Densetsu or Final Fantasy Adventure as it is called here in the States stands up quite well imo.

TheTrueMagusX1

The Zelda handheld games. They are still amazing.

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Seiken Densetsu or Final Fantasy Adventure as it is called here in the States stands up quite well imo.

TheTrueMagusX1

Sorry but you have no idea what your talking about. Donot correct me when I was right. You are wrong sir, and it is quite obvious your the one who should do research. Have a nice day! And just for your consideration, if you donot want to take my word for it, enjoy the link. Have a nice day!

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[QUOTE="El_Zo1212o"] Seiken Densetsu is the japanese name for the Mana series(Secret of Mana, Sword of Mana, Legend of Mana), not Final Fantasy.Samslayer

Sorry but you have no idea what your talking about. Donot correct me when I was right. You are wrong sir, and it is quite obvious your the one who should do research. Have a nice day! And just for your consideration, if you donot want to take my word for it, enjoy the link. Have a nice day!

reminds me of this

I'm surprised no one mentioned the Pokemon games. Gold/Silver/Crystal holds up really well :)

Idk if this would count as a game thats hold up today but its still pretty neat imo.

Idk if this would count as a game thats hold up today but its still pretty neat imo.

PersonNinja

Cool add-on, but I don't think it holds up I guess. The printer portion was cool at the time!

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Idk if this would count as a game thats hold up today but its still pretty neat imo.

Samslayer

Cool add-on, but I don't think it holds up I guess. The printer portion was cool at the time!

I remember seeing ads for this back in the day... and even then I still didn't get what was the point of it :P

Yeah it was sort of a too little too late it seemed like. I'm no expert though...

LOCK N CHASE!!!!

I hope this one comes to 3DS VC.

Heirren

I always wanted this game :(

Here's mine:

One of the most solid and best platformers that I've ever played

Without this game, we would have never had Castlevania SOTN :)

• Bionic Commando: Elite Force
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
• The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
• The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
• Mega Man Xtreme
• Operation C
• Super Mario Bros. Deluxe

Emerald_Warrior

I agree these for sure. I would add Bomberman Max, Metal Gear Solid, and Metroid 2.

My favorite GBC game is a port though, which is Crystalis.

My picks:

• Super Mario Land 1 & 2

Emerald_Warrior

Super Mario Land may be an adequate platformer for the Game Boy, but you've got to admit it looks seriously screwed up. Mario is huge compared to the blocks, enemies are tiny, the fireballs look nothing like in Super Mario Bros. but rather like soccer balls in shape, the animation is sparse and ugly, etc. Sure, they wanted to squeeze it all into a lower resolution, but the result is that everything looks seriously disproportionate. The game controls slightly worse than Super Mario Bros. too - not that I think that there was anything at all wrong with the controls in SMB. I see little reason to pick it over SMB, SML2, SMBDX or pretty much any other Super Mario game, but maybe it compares favourably to most of the other Game Boy platformers out there, I don't know.

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My picks:

• Super Mario Land 1 & 2

doubutsuteki

Super Mario Land may be an adequate platformer for the Game Boy, but you've got to admit it looks seriously screwed up. Mario is huge compared to the blocks, enemies are tiny, the fireballs look nothing like in Super Mario Bros. but rather like soccer balls in shape, the animation is sparse and ugly, etc. Sure, they wanted to squeeze it all into a lower resolution, but the result is that everything looks seriously disproportionate. The game controls slightly worse than Super Mario Bros. too - not that I think that there was anything at all wrong with the controls in SMB. I see little reason to pick it over SMB, SML2, SMBDX or pretty much any other Super Mario game, but maybe it compares favourably to most of the other Game Boy platformers out there, I don't know.

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My picks:

• Super Mario Land 1 & 2

Double_Wide

Super Mario Land may be an adequate platformer for the Game Boy, but you've got to admit it looks seriously screwed up. Mario is huge compared to the blocks, enemies are tiny, the fireballs look nothing like in Super Mario Bros. but rather like soccer balls in shape, the animation is sparse and ugly, etc. Sure, they wanted to squeeze it all into a lower resolution, but the result is that everything looks seriously disproportionate. The game controls slightly worse than Super Mario Bros. too - not that I think that there was anything at all wrong with the controls in SMB. I see little reason to pick it over SMB, SML2, SMBDX or pretty much any other Super Mario game, but maybe it compares favourably to most of the other Game Boy platformers out there, I don't know.

Still, it never felt as responsive as Super Mario Bros. to me. And yeah, they clearly didn't do much to distinguish Super Mario Land from SMB. Super Mario Land 2 was better in that regard - and then Wario Land came along.

Is it better to be uncritical not to criticise, by the way? (Not that I think that I am critical for the sake of criticism alone.)

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• Bionic Commando: Elite Force
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
• The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
• The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
• Mega Man Xtreme
• Operation C
• Super Mario Bros. Deluxe

Eikichi-Onizuka

I agree these for sure. I would add Bomberman Max, Metal Gear Solid, and Metroid 2.

My favorite GBC game is a port though, which is Crystalis.

Crystalis is one incredible game. It is seriously one of the best action-RPGs I have ever played, STILL to this day. SNK really did something special when they made that masterpiece. It's too bad they pretty much focused on fighting games only after that and completely abandoned RPGs entirely. I play it on the NES, though.

it was only black & green but Metroid II the Return of Samus is well worth the 25 cents it'll cost you if you can find it, still to this day one of the best handheld games ever made IMO.

I played through Pokemon Red around a year ago and it's held up very well, the only real problem is inventory management.

Shantae for the Gameboy Color its one of the games that pushed the system to its limits.

Gameboy Wars 3 still holds up extremely well.

Metroid II is a really fun original Game Boy game that I still play quite often.

Samslayer

While I had more Lynx and GG games then the my GB collection, I am surprised none of you have listed one of the greatest games on the freaking system.