Hi! I’m a Game Boy collector / enthusiast / reviewer. And this question has an easy answer in my opinion…

Catrap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfV4MnGfiA4&t=284

• It’s relaxing. It’s a turn based, pure puzzle game. Like, there’s literally no action. The enemies don’t even move!
• It’s big. 100 puzzles that slowly increase in difficulty. I was able to beat them all, over time.
• It’s non-punishing. No time limits. No lives.
• No stress. Catrap was the first(?) game to feature an undo button. Try something out. Didn’t work? Just hold B to undo. You can undo all the way back to the start of the stage, as many time as you want.
• It’s simple. Up, down, left, and right to move. B to undo. I think A is introduced later to swap between characters?
• IT’S FUN. It looks good, plays good, and just feels good to jump around the stage. And completing a stage is so satisfying.

I hope you like it! 🙂

higher prices

I’m heavily into Game Boy collecting. I just checked their online prices. They might be the cheapest I’ve seen, in general. For example Pokémon Blue is lower than the common price I’ve seen online (especially considering usual shipping and fees), but not low enough people will buy them up and re-sell them.

https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/retro-gaming?prefn1=platform&prefv1=Game Boy|Game Boy Advance|Game Boy Color

No promises it’ll stay that way, but they’re very competitive for now.

the difficult game of Fester’s Quest on NES

Fun fact, the European release is vastly easier due to the simple fact that you can shoot through walls!

All enemies and bosses take less hits for them to be killed. The projectiles fired from the gun can go through walls and obstacles.

https://tcrf.net/Fester's_Quest

It still makes me angry for what we got in the US! 😤😅

It looks great! 🙂

OMG I just came home with a Sanyo DS13320 from the side of the road and I am ECSTATIC!!! It couldn’t be more perfect for an NES, and it looks in great condition externally.

I haven’t plugged it in yet. It doesn’t appear to be wet anywhere outside or inside, so hopefully it was put outside after it rained this morning.

Should I do or check anything before plugging it in and trying to power it on?

Pokemon Blue

FYI the internal cartridge battery that’s used to save your game is probably either dead or nearly dead!

A multimeter should show the battery at 3.25v. Anything less and it could die any day. Changing the battery isn’t too difficult, but it requires soldering.

This is my favorite tool set used to take the one screw out to open the cartridge, to check the battery.

https://www.retromodding.com/collections/tools/products/repair-tools-set

What games do you want to play?

YESSS.

Favorite character is Midna from Twilight Princess. Her design is just so weird but it works. She antagonistic towards the player but I can’t help but love her. Your friendship grows throughout the game until that one incredible shot together. And the surprise ending is both fun and tragic.

EDIT: this shot.

https://www.deviantart.com/hayato-01/art/Link-And-Midna-screenshot-TWILIGHT-PRINCESS-517986893

Favorite relationship is Marin from Link’s Awakening. She’s wonderful on her own, but then she shares so much about her life on the island and her dreams and grows even deeper as a character. I feel a stronger bond between her and Link than any incarnation of Zelda.

Holy cow you put a TON of effort into this! I actually JUST finished playing through DKC3 for the first time. It’s amazing how many non-fun stages there are right at the end.

The stage that I have the least fond memories of was climbing up a cliff side waterfall by jumping on top of floating barrels? Ugh, it took me FOREVER. XD

Does RSC have end to end encryption? Is it on by default?

Ohhhhh the creator of TempleOS? I thought you were referring to someone who died recently. 😅

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis

I used to love reading about his technical work, especially on osnews.com.

The more I read about 2001 and the more I watch it the more I love it!

No problem, I actually have a copy of Zoop for the original Game Boy! 😄

Also pretty much the highest valued Game Boy Advance game at this time! 🤯

I got this game recently and could not put it down! I ended up accidentally beating it. 😆

And that soundtrack… 😩

That was actually one of the first games I ever got! I’ve been meaning to try it again as an adult. It’s so hard, but the music and graphics are outstanding.

I am interested in Rolan’s Curse 1 and 2. It’s too bad they’re so expensive!

It’s so strange… I’ve heard that Japan culture in general likes games of random chance (like gashapon vending machines…) but this just seems cruel. 😅

At least I can finally stop stressing about the timing of my button presses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6rFyPKXGaw

Moomin’s Tale is beautiful.

Radar Mission is the only US game I have a boxed copy of, it’s one of my favorite pieces in my collection. ❤️

And yes, the music gets stuck in my head every time I play it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMCTGMaS-oU