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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword re-imagined as a Link’s Awakening-style Game Boy release by Constantin Georges (click for larger images). Fantastic.
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Battlefield 3 for Game Boy. I picked this up earlier in the week and have been having a blast with the single-player mode. The servers have been fucked, though, and I haven’t been able to get online with this yet.
On the really real, I’m usually annoyed when people do this, like the recent trend of replacing art on classic NES cartridges with stickers of new games, but this actually looks authentic, like something you would’ve had back in the day with graphics or gameplay that looked absolutely nothing like the art on the tin.
Also, the artist probably used a Swedish Tetris cart (that’s what the code on the left indicates, at least), so it’s not as if there’s a shortage of those.
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tags / battlefield 3 / game boy / gaming / electronic arts / cartridge / ecCustom-painted Game Boy featuring Tetris blocks by French artist Oskunk (click for larger images).
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tags / oskunk / tetris / game boy / mods / gaming / ecHistory of Handheld Systems: Collectible Cards scanned (click for larger images). The Game Boy Light is missing from the series, but other than that, the only cards I didn’t include here are those for the Game Boy Pocket and DSi XL — due to Tumblr’s 10-image gallery limitation.
You can trade in 300 Points to get these and a neat pouch from Club Nintendo in North America:
“Take a trip down memory lane with this collection of cards detailing Nintendo’s 30-plus year handheld history — from the Game & Watch series in 1980 to the Nintendo 3DS system in 2011.”
Virtual Boy gets no love because it’s more of a portable (kind of) than a handheld. Also, it’s the Virtual Boy.
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Wall of Game Boy cartridges at an Akihabara shop, taken by Mhiguera (click for a larger image). I wish there was a site dedicated to cartridge art that I could browse though…
Import: Game Boy games
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tags / game boy / imports / akihabara / gaming / ecGero Gero: For the Frog the Bell Tolls commercial. It’s surprising how often frogs appear in Nintendo games — there’s even a frog suit in Super Mario Bros. 3. JC pointed out that this video actually looks a bit like Rhythm Heaven’s “Frog Hop” minigame.
And with all the frogs in Flipnote Studio/Hatena, I wonder why there aren’t any cameos from For the Frog the Bell Tolls in the animation app, like in Link’s Awakening.
Anyway, I must mention once again that an English patch for this Game Boy title released recently, and you should definitely play it if you’re interested at all in offbeat, import Nintendo games. There’s a guest appearance from Mother/Earthbound-creator Shigesato Itoi in it!
Import: Game Boy games
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Title screen from For the Frog the Bell Tolls, the recently fantranslated action RPG from Intelligent Systems. As covered earlier in the week, if you’ve an interest at all in Link’s Awakening or Game Boy imports, seek this out!
Select Button forumer L posted this image and described how For the Frog the Bell Tolls captivates you before this title screen even pops up:
“There is an opening crawl before the title screen. It begins with the words ‘Once upon a time, there lived two princes’, and ends with ‘This is the story of their adventure’. Simple storybook phrases, suggesting a humble tale, one untethered to a burdensome canon or greater library of fantasy concepts.
I am reminded of [Auntie Pixelante]’s observation that the Game Boy’s LCD display, encouraging a black-on-white graphical style, and a graphical style based solely on four shades of gray, gives its games an appearance reminiscent of storybook illustrations.
Moreover, it suggests an interpersonal story — one about two people and their relationship. The majority of single-player games are expected to be the tale of one person — either the player, or the player’s antagonist. It’s uncommon that a single-player game self-describes itself as being about two people. This game, then, has already won my interest before its title appears.”
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tags / intelligent systems / for the frog the bell tolls / homebrew / patch / translation / gaming / game boy / ecFirst nine minutes of For The Frog The Bell Tolls, the Game Boy title best remembered for its unique engine that mixed top-down and sidescrolling perspectives, and was later used for The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening.
Along with the perspective switching, you’ll notice a lot of other similarities between For the Frog the Bell Tolls and Link’s Awakening, like the sound effects, inventory management, and even Prince Richard. From what I hear, the story in For the Frog The Bell Tolls is aces, too.
Nearly 20 years after Nintendo released the game in Japan, an English translation is finally available thanks to Ryan Parnas and his team. Download the patch here!
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[Thanks, Justin P!]
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Red Arremer, or Firebrand as we know him in the States, in a pixelart piece by Shiros (click for larger image).
Featured in the Ghosts ‘n Goblins games and a bane to Arino, this demon received his own spin-off series that began with Gargoyle’s Quest (Makaimura Gaiden) on the Game Boy, which hit’s Japan’s eShop tomorrow!
Japan will also receive Golf on the portable Virtual Console tomorrow (and Pac-Man next week), bringing that region’s number of Game Boy releases up to 14. Meanwhile, North America has only six, and will likely receive only one game tomorrow.
If we’re lucky, our release is the same as Europe’s (Why aren’t we getting advance notice on eShop releases like other territories?), Kirby’s Dream Land. If we’re unlucky, we’ll get Double Dragon or King James Bible.
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“Are you proud of yourself?” I am in a huge Legend of Zelda mood this weekend, no surprise.
But it’s not this new copy of Ocarina of Time 3D that’s on my mind — right now, I’m struggling to stop myself from blowing crazy bucks at the eShop to procure Link’s Awakening DX, along with a half dozen other games like Donkey Kong ‘94 and Cave Story.
If only there was a way to run around the eShop a few times and walk out with all this loot for free.
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tags / links awakening / the legend of zelda / game boy / eshop / gaming / nintendo 3ds / 3ds / virtual consoleJapanese Super Game Boy commercial. Inside-Games pointed out that Tuesday was the 17th anniversary of the release of the Super Game Boy peripheral. That’s not an especially noteworthy anniversary or something, but it’s neat that we were playing Game Boy games in little windows on another Nintendo system on that day.
More commercials! Here’s a Dutch one with Donkey Kong climbing on Einstein Mario’s head:
Now, meet French Wario:
Too bad the 3DS Virtual Console release of Donkey Kong ‘94 today doesn’t include Super Game Boy support. :(
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“Pizza Time” pause screen from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers. As the wise Mare Odomo once said, “Girls come and go, but pizza is forever”.
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