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Release: Janu(Gold), Aug(New Wide Screen)Ĭathy’s High Score 848 (Classic) 1,081 (Modern)ĬLASSIC VERSION: Manhole is, for me, the definitive Game & Watch release. Today, I’m checking the games of Game & Watch Gallery 1. Genius! The series was successful enough (or cheap and easy enough to produce) to run four-games deep. The solution was self-evident: include both the classic games in all their animation-devoid glory, but also include updated versions of the games. I can’t find sales data on Game Boy Gallery, but I imagine it must have done well-enough to keep the concept alive. However, the gameplay is directly-lifted from the originals, with no “modern” minigame counterpart. This is basically the prototype for the Game & Watch Gallery series, as all five games have updated graphics that aren’t intended to look exactly like their LCD counterparts, but rather modern interpretations of them. Game Boy Gallery, released in 1995, tasked developer TOSE with recreating five of their vintage LCDs.

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Nintendo did a trial run with the concept in 1994-95 with a release that never happened outside of Europe and Australia. Meanwhile, the Game Boy was still going strong, and Nintendo had this massive collection of games that could be collected.

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Simple games that lent themselves to portable gameplay. Nintendo had this wonderful library of LCD handhelds that predated even the Famicom/NES. I’m experimenting with using my blog instead of Twitter.Ĭertainly an interesting concept for a 1997 game. If you know of an incredible NES homebrew/indie that you think should be included, let me know on Twitter and I’ll at least play it a bit and hot-take it on Twitter.

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A full review of that, and other NES indies, will be happening in February for #IGCvNES Homebrew Month. If you want to show your support to Matt for his achievement, you can buy his NES game Witch n’ Wiz for $9.99. DOWNLOAD HEREįrom Below is Chick-Approved and ranked on the Indie Gamer Chick Leaderboard “Gargantuan.” I so rarely have an opportunity to use it in a sentence.įree to Play on NES Emulators.

One tiny change can have gargantuan results. There’s a lesson to be learned here for developers of all stripes: you don’t need to make big, sweeping changes to classic games to create something profound and incredible. I love how seamlessly and intuitively it works with the long-established mechanics and rules. I’ve now played a bit of Tetris Effect, and actually, I like From Below more.

So, here it is: From Below is the best thing to happen to Tetris since Tetris 99. But, Matt Hughson has really done something very special here, and I think he deserves to hear it from at least one semi-big game critic. It’d be hard to market this as a full game, except to NES collectors. Keeping it real, this would basically just be an added mode for any Tetris release today, in 2022. Like real Tetris, you’ll scream yourself hoarse with “COME ON! GIVE ME A LINE!”