Jeremy Parish

Game Boy Works Color #005: Game & Watch Gallery 2 (Patreon)

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2019-08-08 01:00:01

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2024-04

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Man, Game Boy Color sure was front-loaded with some good stuff, huh? Here’s another Nintendo joint, with (yep) deep connections to GBC's precursor portables. It’s a remarkable treatment for some extraordinarily old and simple games—the kind of top-flight treatment we only see from M2 and Digital Eclipse these days.

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Game & Watch Gallery 2 retrospective: Coda chrome | Game Boy Works Color #005

Another incremental release for Game Boy Color; like Wario Land II, Game & Watch Gallery 2 began life as a monochrome release in one territory (but not the rest). Quirky history aside, it's a fine recreation and distillation of some formative portable history. While it doesn't offer 100% verisimilitude to the source material, this is a loving recreation packed with tons of extra features and some remarkably involved unlockable content. Not bad for a collection of primitive pocket calculators.