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SB Recommends Game Boy Color Games

A slightly upgraded version of the Game Boy that came out a good nine years after the mono's release. As the name implies, it can do color graphics, and has an easier-to-see screen. Much of the Color's library consists of ports and remakes of NES/SNES games. Most Color games will play on older Game Boy models in monochrome, but there were some later Color-only titles.

Elevator Action EX | Game Boy Color only
- Loki Laufeyson: Obviously not as good as the masterpiece that is Elevator Action Returns, it is, however, a lot better than the GBA's Elevator Action Old & New. The best part is that the final stage of each area has no documents/keys/bombs to find, and you get to just charge to the exit as fast as you can, murdering lots of terrorists/gangsters along the way. The worst part is the useless grenade weapon. If you get lumbered with it (power-ups are random), you're pretty much guaranteed to lose a life.

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX | Game Boy; Game Boy Color (also on: 3DS VC)
- gatotsu2501: Better than A Link to the Past.
- HarveyQ: LA is my favorite Zelda game and one of the finest adventures ever released for any platform. It has loads of nostalgia value for me (being my first GBC game), but beyond that it has a dreamy, beautiful atmosphere, excellent pacing and a fine progression of difficulty. plus a nice, silly sense of humor about things (“You got Marin! Is this your big chance…?”)

Lufia: The Legend Returns / Estpolis Denki: The Legend Returns (JP) | Game Boy Color only
- This Machine Kills Fascis: The dungeons are rogue-likes, but there's actually a traditional JRPG overworld with towns. So you actually get to keep all your loot. […] Oh, and the battle system is pretty original too. It's turn-based with a nine-person party, oriented in a grid. The layout of the grid determines some of your abilities and elemental orientation. All-in-all it's a pretty unique, fun, JRPG.

Mario Tennis
- gatotsu2501: An odd tennis game with RPG elements. After leveling your character up into a tennis demigod, you can use the N64 Transfer Pak to bring him into the console version of the game. Your friends can do the same. It's pretty fun.

Metal Gear Solid / Metal Gear: Ghost Babel (JP/Asia) | Game Boy Color only
- dessgeega: […] is a side-story to the playstation metal gear solid. it plays similarly to metal gear 2, but the splitting of the game into linear stages avoids all of the needless backtracking and funnels most of the cut-scenery toward the beginning or end of the stage. the bosses are wonderful, and fairly deranged — such as the woman who murders her girlfriends and uses the body-parts as pieces in her life-size marionettes! features a scene which prefigures the death of emma emmerich.
- dessgeega: better than metal gear solid.
- Quick Shot II Turbo: It's a trimmed and 2D-fied Metal Gear Solid game. It has some obnoxious segments, but all in all it's good fun. I like it.
- sam: as well as a pretty thoughtful take on stealth gameplay, GBC MGS actually has all of the original MGS's VR missions in handy 2D form!
- probably fine: I wouldn't describe the game as charming, but I'm charmed by what it ostensibly is: simple, but ambitious for its format. However, nothing about the actual gameplay nor atmosphere (nor plot) has got me hooked.

Motocross Maniacs 2 / Crazy Bikers (PAL)

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Super Mario Bros. Deluxe
- vamos: They kept things the same size but added the ability to look up, down and ahead. Although none of these are particularly needed, I didn't have any problems with leaps of faith. The challenge mode — finding hidden coins, getting a certain score etc — is really well done and excellent for playing in short bursts, i.e. perfect for a handheld. Plus there's the SMB2 / Lost Levels in there too. I had a great time with it.
- showka: They NES sprites seem cooler on the GBC screen, and it always felt like they made the colors more poppy. The extras were cool too.

Survival Kids / Stranded Kids | Game Boy; Game Boy Color
- dessgeega: survival kids, the predecessor to [the DS game] lost in blue, sets the player as a child marooned on a desert island. you have to drink, eat, build weapons and hunt food, start fires and cook. you can combine objects you find on the beach to create a wide variety of useful tools - a long stick and a vine become a fishing rod, for example. and while surviving you explore the island as best you can, seeking new tools and, ultimately, a way off. the sequel was released only in japan.
- monaco: The only adventure on the Gameboy as frustrating and compelling as an old Sierra/Lucasarts game! Survive on an island, do cool stuff with objects, and happily die of starvation! Dig the cool music.
- Quick Shot II Turbo: A very nice concept executed rather nicely. It will feel a bit repetitive at times, but that's survival for you! The game also has numerous endings.

Toki Tori | Game Boy Colour only
- Capitan Smexy: Toki Tori is fantastic—it's an action puzzler game in the vein of Lode Runner that also happens to look and sound really good.

Wario Land 3 | Game Boy Color only
- Sniper Honeyviper: A game magnificently designed around the idea of an invincible protagonist. Since Wario can't be killed (with one notable exception), enemies' offense is based around knocking him off platforms or turning him into a disadvantageous form. It's a novel solution to the annoyance of having to continuously exit and restart levels. Actions in one stage frequently affect the environment in others, and there's day/night cycles that some stages are completely altered by. One of the puzzles stumped me for literally two years.

Warlocked | Game Boy Colour only

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