Page 18 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
Nintendo’s Japanese record for this 1995 Virtual Boy horror adventure gives its trapped detective a simple, merciless task: search each floor under a limit, find the Dagon Key, open the closed door, and move on.
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The 2002 Japanese Game Boy Advance original makes a fallen sky prince feel at home in the sea by treating every obstacle as an invitation to swim, spin, borrow a vehicle, or help a peculiar neighbour.
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The North American 1996 Virtual Boy original asks a familiar falling-block question inside a five-layer volume, then answers it three ways: clear a full plane, build symmetry around its centre, or recreate a displayed shape.
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Nemesis II makes its Game Boy flight feel personal: Vic Viper returns to space with three weapon families to shape, one deliberate limitation between Double and Laser, and just enough room on screen for a bad decision to become very memorable.
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Red Rescue Team begins with the wonderfully unnerving idea of waking up as a Pokémon, then turns a shifting dungeon, a faithful partner and even a failed expedition into reasons to look after somebody else.
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Mario Clash turns a handful of platforms, a shell, and the space between two sides of a tower into a wonderfully odd 1995 arcade puzzle.
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A marked prince, a broken kingdom and a sword named Wish make a fine fantasy premise. The unusual pleasure of KEMCO’s Game Boy RPG is that progress also depends on humbler acts: look closely, open carefully, and sometimes knock.
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Nintendo’s 2003 Japanese Game Boy Advance racer straps an anime-sized cast to a deceptively exacting machine: learn a pilot, learn a corner, learn a ghost line, then try not to explode before the next finish line.
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This 1995 Japanese Virtual Boy release keeps ordinary Tetris close at hand, then asks what happens when the playing field loops around and a line can continue past the edge.
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Twenty-four machines are only the beginning. The 2004 Japanese GBA original turns every button, boost, mission and homemade corner into another way to ask how fast is fast enough.
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Konami's Game Boy Color survival RPG turns a shipwreck into a chain of practical questions: find water, find food, combine what you have, and make the island reveal a route home.
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Nintendo’s 2001 Japanese Game Boy Advance action game turns a golden pyramid into a place of returns, bad reactions, treasure clocks, and repeatable routes.
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