Why yes, it's another GBW video: Dr. Mario (Patreon)

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2016-07-11 20:02:26

Imported:

2024-04

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Here's the second of those promised videos. Once again, it may be a couple of weeks before the next one is ready — I have to spend this coming weekend in San Francisco for 12 hours of Retronauts sessions, and that precludes doing much video work. I hope to have the epic Super Mario Bros. episode of Good Nintentions prepped in advance, but there are a lot of things going on in my personal life at the moment that are cutting into my video time. We'll see!

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Game Boy World #070: Dr. Mario [Nintendo, 1990]

The good-but-not-amazing Nintendo puzzler gets a curiously compromised Game Boy version, which established a world first: Namely, the first game to debut day-and-date on both a console and a handheld system. They're essentially identical, barring some unfortunate visual changes and the lack of title screen music and intermission graphics in the Game Boy release.