Have you heard? Nintendo finally added Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games to their Nintendo Switch Online subscription plans. We’ve already covered the GBA games and will be looking at the Color offerings tomorrow, which means today is all about the original, black and white Game Boy. Right now, Nintendo Switch Online subscribers can download five old school Game Boy titles, including Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Kirby’s Dream Land, Gargoyle’s Quest, Metroid II: Return of Samus and, of course, Tetris. That’s a solid line-up, but are any of these games actually worth playing? To answer that question, I decided to flip through the pages of Electronic Gaming Monthly, GamePro, Computer & Video Games and more classic magazines to see what the critics said about these games when they first came out. I think it’s fair to say that now you’re playing with power, because this is a Game Boy-filled episode of the Nintendo Switch Online Review Crew.
0:00 – Introduction 1:12 – Commercial: Game Boy (U.S.) 1:43 – Tetris 3:46 – Gargoyle’s Quest 5:48 – Commercial: Game Boy for Adults (U.S.) 6:21 – Kirby’s Dream Land 8:48 – Metroid II: Return of Samus 10:51 – Commercial: Metroid II (Japan) 11:24 – Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins 14:24 – Commercial: Super Mario Land 2 (U.S.) 14:56 – Question of the Day
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