This trilogy of "GAME BOY ESSENTIALS" books collect articles from gameboyessentials.com
Ranging from seminal classics to forgotten titles; they offer in-depth analyses of the good and bad games you should play to understand the universal appeal of the #GameBoy.
...Mystic Quest in Europe. Sword of Mana was the fifth release in the series. 🏹
The gameplay of Sword of Mana is an expanded and modified version of the original gameplay with elements added from later games in the Mana series. ⚔️
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
The sound design and graphical arrangement is minimal, the (often randomly chosen) texts are written greatly – they are highly poetic, beautiful, fey ...In „A row of chairs abandoned on the beach“, humans do consequently become coast, night, and sky – but the world is turned into a living, equitable, and vivid instance in return.
@atomicpoet I feel compelled to tell you there a Devolver Digital #videogame sale going on right now. I haven't gotten any of them (besides the Hotline Miami games, out of their original sale) but I feel really compelled to grab a couple more.
...Konami of America senior vice presidents discomfort with the religious connotations of the title Akumajō Dracula, which he believed translated as "Dracula Satanic Castle". 🧛
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
Will start a little series here about me browsing this Club Nintendo issue from July 1995 (Nintendo Power in the US). 📖
I explicitly bought this one recently because I have so fond childhood memories. It must have been one of the few I owned and therefore read endless times. I still remember so much of the content and now I'm excited to refresh these memories.
The cover shows Asterix & Obelix, a PAL exclusive game series. 🐗
The magazine continues with an article about the Street Fighter II Game Boy port. 📖
Never played this game as a kid, not even on other platforms. The only fighting game I experienced back in the days was Tekken 3 on PS1. 🤼♂️
Club Nintendo magazines often came with guides about the presented games. So it is with Mickey Mouse V: Magic Wands! in the issue I have in front of me. 💫
Do you remember using one of these guides to successfully proceed in a game you were stuck before? 🔍
..beat 'em up game for the Sega Genesis, and is considered one of the greatest video games of all time. 🏆
Streets of Rage 2 was coded by the same programming team that did the first title of the series. To make it possible to add more features and additional memory cache, the programmers improved the Mega Drive cartridge specifications. 👨💻
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood