GAB GBC #5 - Game Boy Wars, Play Action Football, Sword of Hope

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Last Topic's Ratings:

Aretha - AB - 25% (2)
Castlevania: The Adventure - ABABBBAB - 19% (8)
Kwirk - GGGAAG - 83% (6)
Penguin Land - GBAAB - 40% {5}
Tennis - ABABGGA - 50 {7}
Trump Boy - BAG - 50% {3}

Wow, this was a crazy topic. We have our first squiggle brackets for GBC here, which incidentally, indicates that a game had at least 20% of its total rating score from each of the 3 ratings (or, to put it another way, for every 5 ratings there's at least one of G, A, and B), but the crazy thing is that we have 3 of them in the same topic, which I don't think has ever happened before in the history of GAB. It's also very rare for a game with over 5 ratings to get a squiggle bracket, but Tennis manages it here.

Games for this topic:

Game Boy Wars
Koi Wa Kakehiki
Play Action Football
Solar Striker
Sword of Hope
Wheel of Fortune

There are actually surprisingly few Japanese exclusives from the first few years of Gameboy's life, you can tell the system was hot because they were localizing basically everything. Still, we have a couple of them here, including Game Boy Wars, one of the first titles in the series the US knows as Advance Wars. There's a translation available for it, if you're curious to see how the series started out.

GAB PS1 #202 - Deadly Skies, King's Field 3 Pilot Style, Tatsunoko Fight

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Last Topic's Ratings:

Andretti Racing - BABB - 13% (4)
Chaos Control - BBB - 0% (3)
Iron Man / XO Manowar in Heavy Metal - BABBAA - 25% (6)
Mawatte Mucho - BG - 50% (2)
Riven: The Sequel to Myst - GBBG - 50% (4)
Toys Dream - AG - 75% (2)

One of our lower-rated topics in a while. Even Gameboy didn't do too hot last week.

Games for this topic:

Deadly Skies
Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado
King's Field 3 Pilot Style
Psybadek
Tatsunoko Fight
World Cup 98

Deadly Skies is a fairly complex game, I actually recently put up a guide for it, so you can check that if you want to learn how to play it. King's Field 3 Pilot Style is not King's Field 3, it's a separate game which is maybe just a really intricate demo, but it has mechanical changes and takes place in its own area that isn't part of the full game. There's also a translation for it. Finally, Tatsunoko Fight was a game that I always wanted to try out because of Tatsunoko vs Capcom, though sadly still no Samurai Pizza Cats representation.

GAB GBC #4 - Aretha, Castlevania The Adventure, Kwirk

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Last Topic's Ratings:

Astro Rabby - AAAA - 50% (4)
Boxxle - GGBG - 75% (4)
Final Fantasy Legend - AAAG - 63% (4)
NBA All-Star Challenge - ABBAA - 30% (5)
Revenge of the Gator - GGGGGG - 100% (6)
Shanghai - AAAGG - 70% (5)

As a relatively obscure import, I was happy to see 4 ratings for Astro Rabby.

Games for this topic:

Aretha
Castlevania: The Adventure
Kwirk
Penguin Land
Tennis
Trump Boy

We have our first Japanese-only RPG here in Aretha, though I figure on GB these games are somewhat more simplistic to play than they might be on other systems. This game is also fairly well-known and there are a bunch of walkthroughs out there. Trump Boy might be a little bit harder, it seems like this is a conversion of a Japanese card game called Daifugo / Millionaire, if you want to look up the rules for it.

GAB PS1 #201 - Andretti Racing, Chaos Control, Riven

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Last Topic's Ratings:

007: Tomorrow Never Dies - BGAAAB - 42% (6)
Catan - AA - 50% (2)
Chris Kamara's Street Soccer - AB - 25% (2)
Soccer Kid - BB - 0% (2)
Team Losi RC Racer - BB - 0% (2)
Tozan RPG, The - GG - 100% (2)

It's interesting how close the two 007 games on this console have rated to each other. There's one more, I wonder how it will fare.

Games for this topic:

Andretti Racing
Chaos Control
Iron Man / XO Manowar in Heavy Metal
Mawatte Mucho
Riven: The Sequel to Myst
Toys Dream

A fair number of games here that we've previously seen on Saturn, but the specifics of the port can always matter. I'm also curious to look at Toys Dream, it seems interesting.