Page 16 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
In the 2004 Japanese Game Boy Advance original, a war for Renais becomes a wonderfully flexible campaign: Eirika and Ephraim split the road, the World Map opens breathing room, and an army grows according to its commander’s particular ideas.
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Iguana’s N64 original did not ask players to clear one corridor at a time. It sent them into a misty time fracture of dinosaurs, soldiers, keys, impossible ledges, and an ancient weapon broken into eight reasons to keep moving.
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A failing supercomputer throws daily life off rhythm, so Rockman answers with a chargeable Buster, a random-item courier, energy-limited Rush support and a pocket-sized arsenal that changes the shape of a room.
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The 2001 Japanese GBA fantasy RPG makes a storm-struck village, a field of physical puzzles, and a restless collection of elemental spirits all part of the same design: progress comes from rearranging possibility.
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Rare’s N64 sequel begins with a witch dug out from under a boulder, then turns that blunt joke into an immense adventure about routes, delayed solutions, and a bear-and-bird partnership that can deliberately come apart.
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Rockman World 2 gives Dr. Wily a time machine, then makes the machine inconveniently unable to travel to the past. His solution is wonderfully nasty: recruit a peaceful future version of Rockman, rebuild it for battle, and send it against the present hero. The result is a portable action game with a real science-fiction hook, a loyal robot dog, and a toolkit that keeps rewriting the route.
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Golden Sun: The Lost Age makes its sequel status feel deliciously unsettled: a 2002 GBA fantasy RPG where Psynergy turns scenery into questions, Djinn turn party-building into trouble, and yesterday’s heroes are no longer the only people worth following.
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In Japan it was Rockman World. Elsewhere it became Mega Man: Dr. Wily’s Revenge. The Game Boy cartridge compresses familiar enemies into a sharp new rhythm: four opening doors, a borrowed arsenal, passwords made of chips, and Enker waiting to make the portable debut feel unmistakably its own.
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Nintendo’s 2006 Japanese Game Boy Advance role-playing game changes viewpoint across its chapters, turns combat into a rhythmic exchange, and makes a small island’s altered habits as important as any single quest.
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Nintendo’s 2001 Japanese Game Boy Advance racer finds drama in the space between a machine’s limits, a course’s devices, and a five-lap result.
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Japan knew it as Super Donkey Kong GB. Overseas, Nintendo called it Donkey Kong Land. The name points back to a famous home-console adventure, but the Game Boy trip has a sharper little personality: two Kongs, four worlds, a map that sometimes needs dynamite, and a cartridge that arrived in banana yellow.
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Nintendo rebuilt Samus’s first mission with a faster map, smarter secrets, and one audacious surprise: defeating Mother Brain is only the point where the game changes its rules.
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