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It's hard to believe that the Game Boy is 25 years old, but there it is. How time flies, right?
Luckily the best thing you can do to honor the handheld system's legacy is to replay some of the system's classics, revisiting childhood memories in the process.
But everyone remembers playing Link's Awakening, Super Mario Land and Pokémon Red. Didn't you have way more Game Boy games than that? Why is it we only recall a select few?
The main classics aren't the only Game Boy games worth remembering, so here are ten other Game Boy games you may have forgotten about that are still totally fire.
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Perfect Dark
Year: 2000
The companion game to the classic Perfect Dark on N64 couldn't match its unrivaled counterpart, but it did have some pretty incredible graphics for a Game Boy Color game.
If you were addicted to playing Perfect Dark multiplayer as a kid you probably begged your parents to buy the Game Boy version for you based on name recognition alone. Hopefully you weren't disappointed when you found out it wasn't quite as good—because there was still a lot to enjoy here.
Bo Jackson: Two Games in One
Year: 1991
Two-sport all star Bo Jackson is famous for one thing: being really damn good at both baseball and football. Naturally his licensed Game Boy game has both.
Ultimately the football and baseball games in Boy Jackson: Two Games in One have proved incredibly simplistic, but for 1991 they were impressive. And getting two games on one cartridge was dope as hell.
Star Wars Episode I: Racer
Year: 1999
Star Wars Episode I: Racer was definitely better on N64, but you couldn't resist a licensed Star Wars games back in the day. Even if it did look bad, especially when compared to some of the other games on this list.
But while the Game Boy version may not be the first you think of, its crushing difficulty ensures we'll never totally forget it.
Metal Gear Solid
Year: 2000
Metal Gear Solid on Game Boy is often forgotten in the grand scheme of the Hideo Kojima series, but it shouldn't be. It even had a more badass title in Japan: Metal Gear: Ghost Babel.
Maybe if they hadn't changed the name and made it sound like a stripped-down port of the original Metal Gear Solid—instead of the great standalone game it was—that wouldn't be the case.
Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble
Year: 2001
Playing motion-controlled games is second nature now, especially for the kids that are growing up with iPhones and iPads glued to their hands like frat dudes playing Edward Fortyhands. But when Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble arrived on Game Boy Color in 2001 that was definitely not the case.
To get around the Game Boy system's aging hardware, Nintendo actually built an accelerometer into the cartridge itself. That's one great reason to play the real thing instead of trying to emulate it.
Pokémon Puzzle Challenge
Year: 2000
Just because you bought anything Pokémon-related as a kid doesn't mean you played any old shit with big yellow and blue letters on the cover. Pokémon Puzzle Challenge was a legitimately great puzzler, and the tie-in to Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver was the icing on top.
Fun fact: Puzzle Challenge's gameplay was actually based off another game: Panel de Pon, or, by another name, Tetris Attack.
Kid Dracula
Year: 1993
Kid Dracula had a really interesting history. It was both a remake and a sequel to a similar NES game that was release only in Japan three years earlier.
Even more interesting is the fact that contrary to the game's title you don't actually play as a young Dracula—but instead as Dracula's son and Castlevania character Alucard.
Dexter's Laboratory: Robot Rampage
Year: 2000
Dexter's Lab: Robot Rampage is another licensed game that you may have played as a kid, even if you don't remember it right away. And it's another one that was better than most licensed games—mainly because it was more or less identical to another game, Elevator Action.
In fact, it actually was Elevator Action, but with Dexter's Lab sprites and a new color scheme. If you couldn't get enough of that scheming little mad scientist then that was probably fine with you.
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Year: 2001
Like many of the games on this list Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare was release when the Game Boy Color was peaking, and thus when a lot of great games got lost in the flood of similarly great games.
It was necessarily more simplistic than the other versions of the game, but this horror game sequel deserves to be remembered for pushing the Nintendo handheld's hardware to its absolute limits.
Batman: The Animated Series
Year: 1993
Don't dismiss the memory of this Batman game along with all the other licensed drivel. The Game Boy game based on the Dark Knight's best cartoon was a great superhero game with advanced platforming, some great gadgets, and beautiful pixel animation.
If you only play one Batman game on Game Boy—and that's probably a safe bet—make it this one.