Topic: What Do You Say About This Article?

[Dark Nemesis]

Just read it, it has Castlevania Belmont's Revenge!!

http://www.omgnintendo.com/article/69973/seven-game-boy-games-that-deserved-better/

[crisis]

Yeahh.. those were the good 'ol days..

[Dark Nemesis]

Yeahh.. those were the good 'ol days..

Yeahh.... you can say that again and again!!

[Azmodan]

Belmont's Revenge is severely underrated.

It has one of the best soundtracks out there. Praying Hands, Passepied, Pyscho Warrior...it most CV fans have forgotten about that game.

[PFG9000]

The soundtrack to the first two GB CVs has been my favorite roadtripping CD for many years.  Unfortunately, I don't roadtrip too often anymore.  :/

In reply to the topic, I think the article wrongfully asserts that all those games suffer because of their platform.  That states the painfully obvious while missing the point of those games entirely.  Any game could be prettier or have higher sound quality or whatever, if it was on a more powerful system.  Duh.  But that doesn't mean the gameplay suffers.  Who cares if enemies aren't very detailed?  Compared to the SNES, sprites on the NES are underdetailed, and even moreso compared to the PSX, PS2, and PS3.  Duh.

The point of the Gameboy was to make portable gaming a realistic possibility, and it did that very well.  (Why it beat out the Lynx and Game Gear, which did this so much better, is another story...but it's an off-topic story.)  Kid Icarus on the GB was a worthy portable version of the NES original.  Same with Belmont's Revenge and Megaman V.  That was the point of those games, and they did what they were designed to do very well.

[Dark Nemesis]

In Reply To #5

I totally agree with you. I really enjoyed metroid II, kid icarus, castlevania and so many more games at GB and back then i found those graphics perfect!

[shelverton.]

Interesting article, but I don't agree with some of the things it says.

"It's hard to make gamers want to explore worlds that aren't beautiful or at least interesting, and the Game Boy can't really produce either."

Uhm. Did he/she even play Link's Awakening?

[DoctaMario]

In Reply To #5

Game Boy beat Lynx and Game Gear because it had a better library than the other two and didn't cost anywhere near as much. Now that I look back on it, it was a pretty rudimentary device, but I had a lot of fun with it.

[PFG9000]

In Reply To #8

All three got their start at the same time.  It wasn't until after the Gameboy had emerged as the leader that its library really started to build up.  Both Lynx and Game Gear have tons of great titles.

No, it was more Nintendo's marketing muscle that did the trick.  I actually had a Lynx back in the day, and literally every single friend who tried it out made one comment or another about how it was more fun (or cooler or had a stronger personality or was better in the sack) than the Gameboy.

[Dark Nemesis]

Zelda Link's Awakening was the pinnacle for GB. Also i like much better Fortress of Fear at GB that Nes and Metroid.

 The only think that i can agree with this article is that if they were going to make remakes of these games or some others, that would be great!

[Verboten]

I really hope that Metroid II remake pans out.

The games story and setting gave it a lot of potential, but it was definitely held back by the limitations of the GB.

[Successor The Cruel]

Zelda Link's Awakening was the pinnacle for GB. Also i like much better Fortress of Fear at GB that Nes and Metroid.

Megaman V was the height of the old handheld for me, though Link's Awakening comes very, very close. 

Actually, I take that back.  In my opinion, the best games for that platform are Pokemon Red and Blue.