The Game Boy Color is a timeless handheld that was personally my first videogame machine that was exclusively mine. Me and my brother shared an N64 when we were growing up, and that console along with Zelda: Ocarina of Time are the reason I became obsessed with gaming. However, The Game Boy Color, that I received in 1998 along with Pokemon Blue, took my obsession with gaming to another level.…
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Homebrew Review Roundup: Episode 2
There are so many small studios working on Game Boy games at the moment that it is easy to lose track of how these projects are progressing. Most of these developers do it out of love for the Game Boy and gaming more generally. These aren’t official releases, so there’s no big money involved, yet we are still having a very healthy ‘post-life’ for the Game Boy.…
Infinity Review
Infinity is another game that originally started development on the Game Boy many years ago and has recently been revived and released in the modern era. This is similar to titles like Kien, and Shantae: Risky Revolution. You may have heard of Infinity back in 2016, as the original team put together a demo of 2-3 hours of the game (until the Evil Tree Boss) and released it around this time.…
Everdrive GB X3 Vs Everdrive GB X5 Vs Everdrive GB X7 Which Should you buy?
The Game Boy and Game Boy Color hold special memories for many of us. As well as being dedicated handhelds that were getting new releases for a significant part of the 90’s, they were also home to some great Mario, Pokémon, and Zelda games. Furthermore, in 2026, there is a flourishing Game Boy homebrew scene. Because of all this, there are many, many games that you can load up your flash cart with.…
RunieStory Review (GBC)
RunieStory: A Fantasy Life is a recent indie Game Boy Color game developed by Spicyfuse and first released in 2023. The game can be played on original hardware via a flashcart, or on an emulator on anything from a PC to an Analogue Pocket. Of all the recent role playing games to hit the GBC such as Zephyr’s Pass, Infinity, and Dragonhym, RunieStory leans more into the life simulation/ farming simulation genre, and this difference leads to the game being slower paced.…
Goldeneye 007 NSO – Retro Review
Of all the N64 classics, Goldeneye 007 is the elusive game that managed to avoid re-release for over two decades. Created by the fabled UK development studio, Rare, and released in 1997, it was a game that set the standard for console first-person shooters. In the mid-1990s, Nintendo held the rights to the James Bond film GoldenEye, and they tasked their trusted partner, Rare (or Rareware), with developing a game based on the property.…
R36T – Emulation Handheld – Review
Twenty years ago, Nintendo held the keys to the handheld gaming market. Sega had challenged them with the Game Gear in the 90s, but the Game Boy Pocket, and then the Game Boy Color had comfortably outsold them. Then later, Sony came along and almost outsold the Nintendo DS (for a while) with the high-powered PSP.…
Hispeedido GBP Laminated Screen Kit Review
The Game Boy Pocket is known as probably the most difficult of the Game Boy systems to backlight. While it is true that most of the good kits for the Pocket require soldering, recently some ‘drop-in’ kits have become available from companies like Hispeedido. Drop-in kits are so much more convenient and basically mean that anyone can upgrade their Game Boy system.…
The Angry Video Game Nerd 8 – Bit Review (Nintendo Switch)
The Angry Video Game Nerd pioneered comedy game reviews on Youtube. James Rolfe, the man behind the nerd, has been making films since he was a child, and found success with the shortform gaming reviews that he engaged in while playing the character of The Angry Video Game Nerd. The early videos date from 2007-2009. Rolfe has gained so much popularity that he has already had videogames based on his character release.…
Retron SQ – Hardware Review
The Retron SQ is a great looking system. The system is a budget console that lets you play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games on a HD TV. This compatibility is its main appeal yet it isn’t compatible with much of the Game Boy Advance library. A few years ago, I heard that the Retron SQ was on the market, and from day one I heard that it had compatibility issues.…