Tetris! Metroid 2! I don't remember the games as much as the experiences of discovering and playing. I remember finding cool games such as Castlevania at flea markets. I also remember trying to play it in the back of my parents car on the way home from going out to eat or visiting family. I'd have to hold it up whenever a car was behind us so that its headlights could light the screen and I could play.
I bought mine for the original GB Tetris. I eventually got Kirby's Dream Land but I was playing Tetris 99% of the time.
Had a number of games that I enjoyed playing on the old school Gameboy. Some of those that spring to mind were:
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan
- Castlevania
- Contra
- Final Fantasy Adventure
Eventually the school year ended, I and I ended on a strong note so I got it back. But because it had been stored with potpourri for a month and a half, it kept that smell for a while. And the box that the Game Boy came in absorbed some of that smell and I'd always catch a whiff of it for the next year or two.
I bought my GB later from a friend for $50 with Tetris. The system was in near-mint condition too since he didn't play it much.
I played Pole Position II on the Commodore 64. It was mind blowing at the time.
Such a romantic time in gaming for me. I still have my original GB and games, with the carying case.
So much time was spent with:
Faceball 2000 - a FPS with polygonal-looking smiley faces to shoot down
Sword fo Hope - My first real RPG. The save passwords were brutal in retrospect, but that game took me to another world. Fairly generic JRPG material.
Mario Land -- I would beat that game pretty much every other day, just out of boredom.
Tetris of course, was an addiction.
I'll put up a photo of some stuff later, either here or on gameunder.net along with some other games.
35 years. oh my.
Hell, that price point was helpful throughout college too, when I learned what being really broke was. But sometimes you'd find a bargain bin with a couple Game Boy games in it. I remember I picked up Harvest Moon GB Brand new for 10 bucks, and that got me through A very long winter break when I didn't have access to any other games.
Yup. I remember seeing GB games for $30 and under. DS games were at $35 too.
I probably would have gotten into the GB more if I hadn't already owned an Atari Lynx. I really got into the Lynx at that time; I had the official case and clip-on screen cover too. GB's screen was . . . yeah. GB was well worth having for Tetris, though.
EDIT: I just realized the Atari Lynx is going to be 35 years old too this year; this September. I may have to do something special for it.
I remember saving up for $29.99 Game Boy carts. Back then I was on minimum wage ($4.25 an hour).
Final Fantasy Legend 2. And Final Fantasy Adventure were probably my go-to games for the system. I couldn't even begin to tell you how many hours I put in between the two of them.