Dig Dug
This game to me was one of the Game Boy's last gems that got kinda buried in obscurity.
The plot is a simple one your a papa mole that has to save your wife and children. But I like that, sometimes that all I need to know to play a game and I like that it's not the cleche save the princess motif but saving a family.
The graphics are good, has a cartoon feel to them which suits the game well. But I just really like the designs of the levels, each of the worlds are different and each section presents a different chalange so things never get boring or repetitive. Music is decent, the tunes are a bit catchy.
The gameplay I think it's great. The game is sort of a mix between "The Legend of Zelda" and "The Adventures of Lolo". What makes this game unique are a few things. One thing is the ability to dig and move underground, I just think this is a great ability because it causes you to venture into one plain and then emerge in some other location in the other. This is very useful not just in getting around (or should I say underneath) locations on the surface unacessable but also to move things you need to open the door to the next section.
Each worlds and level is always a different puzzle with some different methods added in each time, like pipes to transport a ball or barrels to one end out the other. The puzzles are all fun, their not that hard but not that easy either, each of them vary in difficulty where some are easy but other can be tricky but not insoluable. So it's one of those games where you have to take your time and think for a while, it's a process of trial and error.
And the boss battles I think are fun though easy as well as daft since most are strangely random, from a sun, a plumber, a weight (not kidding). But what makes these boss battles stand out is their different from the cleche hit the bulleye a number of times, but their a puzzle as well where you have to utilize a certain methodology to defeat them. Like pushing pipes in the correct position on time for thrown wrenches to travel out. And others I don't want to give away but trust me their easy to figure out.
Overall I had a lot of fun with this game, this is a gem worth digging up.