Monday, November 10, 2025

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.

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