It is the twenty fifth anniversary of the launch of the Recreation Boy Shade, so we’re republishing this record of the Prime 50 GBC video games ever — a number of of that are playable on Change. Take pleasure in!
It was 1996 in Japan and 1998 in North America (and a yr later in Europe) when the ageing Recreation Boy received an surprising shot within the arm because of a bit of recreation named Pokémon. Nintendo’s granddaddy of handheld gaming immediately had a brand new lease on life, however within the West the discharge of the sport was adopted simply weeks later by the arrival of a brand new console — the Recreation Boy Shade — and it was on that fantastic system that many people caught our very first Pocket Monster.
A color replace to the unique DMG-001 — which had beforehand been revised within the smaller type of Recreation Boy Pocket — was a very long time coming, however after 9 years Recreation Boy Shade lastly gave handheld Nintendo avid gamers the correct improve they’d been ready for.
GBC launched, appropriately, in a variety of eye-catching colors and was absolutely backwards appropriate with the prevailing Recreation Boy library. Many twin ‘black cart’ video games would additionally play completely effectively on the unique monochrome console, though the sexier Shade-exclusive video games got here on clear cartridges which allow you to glimpse the board inside. The GBC quickly constructed up its personal nice software program library earlier than the Recreation Boy Advance got here alongside in 2001. Three years is a comparatively quick life span, particularly in comparison with its predecessor, however we’re massive followers of this beautiful system and its spectacular, oft-forgotten library.
We have beforehand assembled Prime 50 rankings for each different Nintendo console, every one based mostly on Consumer Scores submitted by readers, and this record of the Greatest Recreation Boy Shade video games ever is the final to go dwell. Thanks all for contributing, to this record and all of the others.
Bear in mind, although, that identical to the others, this rating shouldn’t be set in stone. The record will proceed to evolve robotically based mostly on person scores submitted to the Nintendo Life recreation database. If you happen to missed out on ‘voting’, you’ll be able to nonetheless achieve this proper now by merely scrolling down and score them, or searching down a recreation that is lacking by way of the search bar under. Video games require a minimal of 10 scores to turn into eligible, however as soon as that threshold is reached (and if it scores extremely sufficient) it’ll seem under.
Prepared to have a look? Seize your self a recent pair of AAs, sit again, and calm down as we take you on a tour of the 50 greatest Recreation Boy Shade video games of all time…
Notice. To ensure that video games to turn into eligible, they want a minimal of 10 Consumer Scores in whole.
