There have been a lot of consoles throughout the years, some bad and some good, but every single one of those consoles has both good and bad games. Trying to find the good through the bad is a lot easier these days with the use of the internet, but back in the day it would take more effort. Sometimes, the only way to find out if a game was any good or not was to dig deep into your pockets and buy the game🥀! This has lead to a lot of people having to play some pretty bad games, so we thought we would honor some of those bad games.
In this list we're going to tell everyone which Game Boy Color games were really bad, giving people a chance to feel reaꦍlly cathartic about some of the tim𒈔e they had to waste on them back in the day. Then, we're going to talk about some of the Game Boy Color games that we genuinely believe are worth a second look, even all of these years later.
So, are people ready to see both the good and the bad of the Game Boy Color era? Want to 💫know which of these games may have past you by back in the day?! Well then, we better get started!
30 💧 Not Worth It: Titus The Fox: To Mar🤪rakech And Back
There was a time in video games where mascots ruled all, with every game developer out there trying to come up with their own popular mascot in the hope of gaining 🌠a devoted following.
Sadly, Titus The Fox didn't end up making waves in the way that the developers were hoping, partly down to the fact that the games were never any good! This version removed most of the gameplay options th🔴at were found in other versions, which made many people ponder as why they bothered to por🅷t it to the GBC at all.
29 🍸 ✤ Second Look: R-Type DX
Whꦚere Galaga couldn't properly capitalize on the nostalgia that it had after being so successful during the golden age of video games, R-Type DX managed to bring an old-school genre to a new format.
Again, it's a perfect fit for the Game Boy Color, as the hardware is able to properly replicate the gameplay that was found at the arcade and on home consoles at the time. The graphics weren't as nice as on other versions, but it offered people a chance to play this type of game on🔯 the move.
28 🐎 Not Worth It: ECW Hardcore Revolution
Wrestling has been a popular form of entertainment for years now, so it's no ꦰsurprise that people have been making video games about it for a long time. However, not all wrestling games are created equal. These days, we have major games that are able to accurately put the player in the place of their favorite wrestler, but back in the day this is what the fans had to contend with...
Not onlꦗy were the graphics difficult to look at, t🐻he game itself was played with glitches. Even when it worked how it was supposed to, players complained about sluggish controls that certainly didn't make them feel like their favorite wrestler!
27 Second Look: Bubble Boཧbble
There's no denying that Bubble Bobble is a great game, one that many of us have had a good time with at some point in our lives,ꦡ which is exactly why we think it was o༺verlooked when it was ported to the Game Boy Color.
The problem was that players could already have a go on sup꧑erior versions of the game when they were at home, meaning they weren't too bothered about this ꦗport.
However, we don't think 𝐆that this chance to play the game on the go was ever allowed to properly flourish. It was well worth a look then and we think it's worth a look now.
26 Not Worth It: 💃Galaga: Destination Ear🥂th
Galaga is a game that inspires nostalgia in a lot of older games, being as it was an arcade classic from the 🎀golden age of video games, but that doesn't mean every installment has been 𝓰worth going back to.
It would make sense that a game like this that demands a relatively small amount fro﷽m hardware would be a perfect fit for a handheld like the Game Boy Color, but it didn't turn out so well. Even for the time, the graphics were difficult to look at, and the scrolling screen didn't make it easy to play either.
25 Second Look: Mario T🎃ennis 💜
When Super Mario was first developed, we don't think that the people working on it thought that it would ever end up leading to a bunch of spin-off games in which Mario and his friends play various sports together. In this game, players are tasked with picking a character before rising through the ranks, getting better and ཧbetter at tenni𒈔s before having to take on Mario, the greatest tennis player of all time. Who knew that a plumber that lives almost entirely off pizza and pasta would be any good at tennis?
24 🍃 Not Worth It: Buffy The Vampire Slayer 🌸
Buffy was a major cultural icon at one point in time, so it's really sad that none of the video games that bear her name🍷 were worth our time. This is especially true of the Game Boy Color game.
A lot of beat em ups managed to gain a lot of good reviews on handheld devices, but this was not one of them.
The graphics could not live up to the world of Buffy The Vampire Slayer that was put in place by thಌe television show and the gameplay left a lot to be desired, never really making th🐈e player feel like a proper vampire slayer.
23 Second Look: Rainbow Islands ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ
A port of an arcade game, this was another chance for the Game Boy Color to offer the player something they couldn't get anywhere else. With the success of Bubble Bobble, it's no surprise that developers decided to create a sequel, but they also wanted to make sure that it didn't completely follow what was left behind by the first 🤡game.
Following on from the true ending of Bubble Bobble, players were offered the chance to play as their favorite dragons, b🐼ut this time in their human forms. This slight change was enough to get critics and fans to buy it, and they were happy they did as well!
22 ꧒ Not Worth It: Pokémon Pinball
Look, we know that we're going to get a lot of people saying we're wrong for this one, but we have to say that Pokémon Pinball was a real let down for us. We were obsessed with Pokémon back in the day, so when this game came o𝓡ut, we we🌃re upset it wasn't another proper installment in the franchise. That being said, we did like the fact that players could put a battery in the cartridge and it would vibrate at different times throughout the game. It was an interesting hardware gimmick, but we wish it had been utilized by an actual Pokßmon game!
21 Seco𒊎nd Look: Bion🤪ic Commando: Elite Forces
While Bionic Commando proved to be a big hit for Nintendo when it first cameꦫ out, the developers of this sleeper hit decided to go in a di🐭fferent direction with it. They kept the universe but changed the gameplay. Sure, it kept some of the things that made the original great in the first place, but it also added its own spin on things, putting in various changes to gameplay and story.
One part of the gameplay that was praised was the option to use a sniper at various points throughout the game, adding in a whole other layer to what wꦚas on offer in the previous installment!