GAB GBC Games #6 - Balloon Kid, Dragon Slayer, Paperboy

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Last Topic's Ratings:

Game Boy Wars - AAA - 50% (3)
Koi Wa Kakehiki - BBA - 17% (3)
Play Action Football - BGB - 33% (3)
Solar Striker - GGGBGAA - 71% (7)
Sword of Hope - AGA - 67% (3)
Wheel of Fortune - ABBBB - 10% (5)

It's nice that every game this week got at least 3 ratings, especially considering there were 2 imports. In general, the imports have been getting a decent number of ratings, hopefully that continues.

Games for this topic:

Balloon Kid
Boomer's Adventure in Asmik World
Dragon Slayer
Flipull
Janken Man
Paperboy (GB)

We come across yet another of the nuances of the Gameboy library with this topic. A GBC release of Balloon Kid exists (called Balloon Fight GB), but it is virtually identical to Balloon Kid, just colourized and with minor UI changes, so we won't be rating it separately. That means if you have experience with that version, it's fine to rate here. This is not the case with Paperboy, however, where the GBC game of the same name is quite different and will be covered in a future topic. Hopefully you're not too confused yet because it's not going to get easier. Beyond this, I'm curious to try out Dragon Slayer, which is the granddaddy of the Legend of Heroes series.

GAB PS1 #203 - Kingsley's Adventure, Reel Fishing 2, Touge Max G

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Last Topic's Ratings:

Deadly Skies - GB - 50% (2)
Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado - AG - 75% (2)
King's Field 3 Pilot Style - GG - 100% (2)
Psybadek - BAB - 17% (3)
Tatsunoko Fight - GBG - 67% (3)
World Cup 98 - AGAG - 75% (4)

This week (including Gameboy) was all over the place in terms of rating, I'm shocked there were no squiggle bracket games.

Games for this topic:

Barbie: Gotta Have Games
Extreme Pinball
Kingsley's Adventure
Reel Fishing 2
Satomi no Nazo
Touge Max G

Kingsley's Adventure is a game I've wanted to cover for a long time, which probably doesn't bode well for it. I also feel like the Barbie game might actually be decent, the Barbie games from this era have had surprisingly high production values.

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.