I've never played or seen a real Game and Watch, only the Game and Watch compilation for Game Boy Color that's on Switch. I'm sure that game was only a novelty even on the actual GBC.
My sense is that a G&W was significantly better than a Tiger Electronics game, which I had plenty of unhappy experience with. But what do you think? I was dumping on the Game Boy on your previous post, but it's hard to appreciate the breakthrough the GB represented without remembering how bad the alternative was.
The thing about the Game Boy Color, to me, was that it came so late. Games during the early part of the Game Boy / Game Gear era really didn't seem too primitive compared to what we had at home, especially if we can excuse the Game Boy's monochrome. We were stacking them up against the NES and early 16-bit titles.
But by the time of the Game Boy Color launch, the PS1 was old, the N64 was even starting to age, and the Dreamcast was on the horizon followed shortly by the PS2 and GameCube. It was almost a joke: after all this time, you're updating this dinosaur of a handheld by just giving it color and roughly matching the capabilities of the NES? It was like adding color to an old-school LCD calculator, what would even be the point?
I've played one Game & Watch game when I was a kid, and it was shockingly better than my Sonic the Hedgehog and Street Fighter II Tiger games. The latter barely worked, I had no idea what I was supposed to do, but I could actually play the Game & Watch title.
The Game Boy Color was indeed a joke by the time it released, even more so with Pokemon Red & Blue dominating on the OG Game Boy. I'm not at all surprised Game Boy Advance replaced the GBC less than three years later.
Thanks, I've actually never seen anyone make the comparison to Tiger games.
I suddenly remembered that these things exist, and I VERY briefly got to play the Donkey Kong maybe a year or two before the Game Boy came out, at a family friend's house. It was already old by then.
I thought it was really cool (as evidenced by the fact that I even remember it), but I was too young to make any kind of educated assessment. I've also never seen one in the wild since then, and I never saw it in the store. They must have only been on the market briefly, while Tiger was still churning out its crap well into the 90s.
I remember those! Primarily from the original Gremlins, which featured the young evil Mogwais playing the Coleco Donkey Kong. Never actually played one, though.
There are a few good games locked to the Virtual Boy, including one of the Wario Land games. Would’ve been great to see Nintendo rerelease some of these games for the 3DS.
My experience with every Nintendo handheld is incomplete, but of the ones I played, I’d put GBA at the top, DS next, and the original/color (they’re interchangeable to me) a close third.
Good choices, GBA and DS are phenomenal, no question. I do have a soft spot for the original GB, but Game Boy Color just feels like a worthless stopgap between GB and GBA for me.
I've never played or seen a real Game and Watch, only the Game and Watch compilation for Game Boy Color that's on Switch. I'm sure that game was only a novelty even on the actual GBC.
My sense is that a G&W was significantly better than a Tiger Electronics game, which I had plenty of unhappy experience with. But what do you think? I was dumping on the Game Boy on your previous post, but it's hard to appreciate the breakthrough the GB represented without remembering how bad the alternative was.
The thing about the Game Boy Color, to me, was that it came so late. Games during the early part of the Game Boy / Game Gear era really didn't seem too primitive compared to what we had at home, especially if we can excuse the Game Boy's monochrome. We were stacking them up against the NES and early 16-bit titles.
But by the time of the Game Boy Color launch, the PS1 was old, the N64 was even starting to age, and the Dreamcast was on the horizon followed shortly by the PS2 and GameCube. It was almost a joke: after all this time, you're updating this dinosaur of a handheld by just giving it color and roughly matching the capabilities of the NES? It was like adding color to an old-school LCD calculator, what would even be the point?
I've played one Game & Watch game when I was a kid, and it was shockingly better than my Sonic the Hedgehog and Street Fighter II Tiger games. The latter barely worked, I had no idea what I was supposed to do, but I could actually play the Game & Watch title.
The Game Boy Color was indeed a joke by the time it released, even more so with Pokemon Red & Blue dominating on the OG Game Boy. I'm not at all surprised Game Boy Advance replaced the GBC less than three years later.
Thanks, I've actually never seen anyone make the comparison to Tiger games.
I suddenly remembered that these things exist, and I VERY briefly got to play the Donkey Kong maybe a year or two before the Game Boy came out, at a family friend's house. It was already old by then.
https://videogamecritic.com/extras/reviews/coleco_portables.htm
I thought it was really cool (as evidenced by the fact that I even remember it), but I was too young to make any kind of educated assessment. I've also never seen one in the wild since then, and I never saw it in the store. They must have only been on the market briefly, while Tiger was still churning out its crap well into the 90s.
I remember those! Primarily from the original Gremlins, which featured the young evil Mogwais playing the Coleco Donkey Kong. Never actually played one, though.
There are a few good games locked to the Virtual Boy, including one of the Wario Land games. Would’ve been great to see Nintendo rerelease some of these games for the 3DS.
I do wish Nintendo would have just dumped all of their Virtual Boy games onto the 3DS, for posterity's sake, if nothing else.
My experience with every Nintendo handheld is incomplete, but of the ones I played, I’d put GBA at the top, DS next, and the original/color (they’re interchangeable to me) a close third.
Good choices, GBA and DS are phenomenal, no question. I do have a soft spot for the original GB, but Game Boy Color just feels like a worthless stopgap between GB and GBA for me.
That’s a fair assessment.
I did like the Super Game Boy though.