If you love Nintendo’s breakthrough handheld console, you’ll got the staples- Tetris and Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow, but with over a thousand titles released, there are a bevy of gems. Here are a few of the best you may have never played.
Penguin Wars: It’s basically Dodgeball with animals, but it’s so much fun. The updated Switch version is a blast too, but this one os a retro joy to behold.
Play Action Football: It’s ugly now and was ugly before, but it’s still a damn good football game that is a great way to spend a train or bus ride.
Bugs Bunny in Crazy Castle 2: Sure this whole series is a reskin of other games, but it’s still a blast and a great handheld title. It may be the best Looney Toons game ever released.
Side Pocket: The NES and 16-Bit classic is just as much fun on the Game Boy.
Micro Machines: If you dig V3 on the PlayStation, this is a fun, trimmed-down pocket-sized version. It’s a blast.
Patrick Hickey, Jr., is the founder and editor-in-chief of ReviewFix.com and a lecturer of English and journalism at Kingsborough Community College, in Brooklyn, New York. Over the past decade, his video game coverage has been featured in national ad campaigns by top publishers the likes of Nintendo, Deep Silver, Disney and EA Sports. His book series, "The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult and Classic Game Developers," from McFarland and Company, has earned praise from Forbes, Huffington Post, The New York Daily News and MSG Networks. He is also a former editor at NBC and National Video Games Writer at the late-Examiner.com
Loved playing Side Pocket! One of my first Game Boy games was Lock n Chase. Basically just a Pac-Man clone, but I had a good time with it. I think my second game was Gargoyle’s Quest – incredibly challenging for a kid, but very rewarding when I finally beat it!