Page 15 of 25 · Researched one game at a time
Long-form introductions built from official records, manuals, interviews and inspectable archives—with every displayed image credited to its Nintendo page.
The story library
Game story
The 2001 Japanese Game Boy Advance release does more than carry Super Mario USA into a backpack: it enlarges the dream, gives its cast a voice, hides new reasons to explore, and adds a miniature Mario Bros. party downstairs.
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A hot-blooded prince, a cool rival, a princess called Tiramisu and a country under attack: Nintendo’s Game Boy action RPG sounds ceremonial until it turns the hero into a frog, then asks him to make the most of it.
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Joanna Dark’s sci-fi conspiracy is only the visible layer of Perfect Dark. Under it sits a machine of shifting objectives, hostile cooperation, weapon tricks and local multiplayer systems so ambitious that Rare made the Expansion Pak part of the assignment.
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In Japan’s 2003 Game Boy Advance original, ファイアーエムブレム 烈火の剣 turns a newcomer’s first commands into a road trip with Lyn, Eliwood, and Hector—and makes every square of the map feel personal.
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A Namco name, a Nintendo team and an N64 controller made for a strange but persuasive late-generation racer: nine courses, a garage full of prizes and a drift system that turns every bend into an argument with momentum.
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Nintendo’s early Game Boy brick breaker looks almost austere today. Then the paddle shrinks, a wall begins to descend, and the little machine asks whether your hands have learned the ball’s future.
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In Nintendo’s 2002 Japanese Game Boy Advance strategy RPG, Roy’s war is fought one careful tile at a time: with weapon matchups, rescue chains, breakable walls, and an army whose future is never guaranteed.
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Rare’s N64 Donkey Kong adventure makes every new power a reason to return: five Kongs, a layered island, colour-coded finds and a mountain of side business turn a simple rescue into a glorious, occasionally exhausting argument for more.
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Rockman World 5 turns a Game Boy finale into a small cosmic emergency: alien invaders shrug off the familiar cannon, a detachable arm redraws the first move, and a robot cat makes assistance feel wonderfully unruly.
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In Japan’s 2004 Game Boy Advance original, a shattered magic mirror makes Kirby’s usual hop-and-inhale routine feel wonderfully unruly: four coloured Kirbys share one maze, a map, and a pocket communicator for calling help from somewhere else in the world.
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Joshua Fireseed enters Lost Land to stop the Primagen, but Iguana’s sequel is really a colossal machine of portals, objectives, keys, violent feedback, and technical appetite—an N64 shooter determined to make every new corridor feel like another world.
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Wily’s World Robot Expo attack breaks Beat apart, then sends Rockman across Game Boy stages for plates, P Chips, weapons and the practical help needed to reach the final stage.
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