Let me point out one factual error: you said that the Game Boy Color can show more colors on screen than the SNES. That is not correct. Both have the same pallette of 32000ish colors, but the SNES can show up to 256 on screen at the same time, but the GBC can only show 56. You might have been thinking of the Game Boy Advance, which could display the same amount of colors on screen, but could even be more at times depending on graphics effects that could be applied.

Wow, I'm blown away by the space invaders bit I never considered the game escaping the boundaries of it's intended system, this is so genius I wish more games would've made use of that

some GB games like the Bug’s Life tie-in actually use the snes’ sound chip when IN SGB mode, leading to higher sound quality. So, while they may not look better, the certainly sound better

Another isometric platformer on GB is "Otto Ottifanten: Baby's Bruno Nightmare". It had a late release (1998) but actually it's a remake of "The Adventures of Pinnochio", which was supposed to release in 1992-3 but was finally cancelled 😢 Both games were developed by the spanish studio Bit Managers and have an awesome soundtrack by Alberto Jose Gonzalez ✨️ (also known as "The Tim Follin of the GameBoy").

Skate or Die Bad N Rad for Game Boy is the pinnacle of skateboarding games because it's essentially Castlevania and Contra on a skateboard.

I love when games show 200 mph but display a speed a bit slower than me riding a bike. It's cute some how

Wow, that ratio between “this has to be clickbait” and how well it was pulled off is crazy! Excellent video, easy sub

Donkey Kong for GameBoy was amazing & is definitely underrated!!

I didn't expect such an in-depth video, but I highly appreciate that it is!

I'm pretty sure Space Invaders II or Deluxe is also a cellophane color game. Space invaders though is one of those games where you absolutely have to play on an arcade cabinet. There is no home system that can reproduce the space invaders look even today. The Space Invaders monitor was not shown in the cabinet. You cannot really see the monitor, at least with the original releases. There is a double mirror in the cabinet. This effect combines the background drawing of the moon and, more importantly, creates see-through invaders that look almost like ghosts. The effect is very good. The closes a modern machine can come to reproducing it, which it really cannot, is by showing a video screen where the invaders have that ghostly appearance. I think one of the handheld companies just released a handheld version of space invaders that uses this trick in its cabinet. I hear it reproduces the effect fairly well.

If you ever do a video on Game Boy Games That Don't Sound Like Game Boy Games, Spot should definitely have to be on the list :)

The Wario Land series needs more love

Love these technical videos!

The Super Game Boy was amazing and in a way extended the SNES' life in the west to even beyond what it was in Japan. My sister and I made pretty heavy use of it up until the Game Boy Player was released, but even after that it was occasionally still used for a few more years. I just wish that it would have had a lot more pre-selected palettes programmed into it for games that were released before it existed. I believe it's pretty much just 1st party games that got that treatment, such as Metroid 2 and Alleyway.

I have a Super Game Boy and a copy of Space Invaders but I never tried them together... I never would have known. I'll have to try that now. Donkey Kong is easily one of my top Game Boy games.

Whoa! I didn’t know Gameboy games could look so interesting and creative. Even my GBA collection is overwhelmingly “flat” (with V-Ralley, Iridion, and GBC Alone in the Dark among the exceptions). Makes sense to me that those 3D and isometric games came from developers with strong home computer roots. Odd ducks among all the cutesy tile-based top-down and side-on games that so often made console games of this early post-Atari school look so uninspiring, safe, and toyish to me compared to what was going on in computerland.

I still have my copy of Space Invaders for the game boy and it is still one of the most impressive and odd Game Boy cartridges, containing the Game Boy, Super Game Boy AND the Super Nintendo game in one cartridge. And the SNES version is my favorite of the three and it plays the best imho. And yes, god bless Argonaut. They helped Nintendo into the 3D era and their contribution can still be felt today.

9:31“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.” Also with X they needed to sacrifice 1 of the frames per second to guarentee full compatibility with all revisions of the Game Boy (minor ones of the original monocrome released unit).

Always good to see a new video from you sir.

Neat, didn't expect to be surprised, but didn't know about the Space Invaders port. That's neat. Too bad that's (together with extra hardware in cartridges) something we'll probably never see returning that way (if you ignore stuff like next-gen patches on newer consoles).

This reminds me of the GBC. In Japan they got Shiren The Wanderer, and I still cannot believe how good the intro looks. The game is a dungeon crawler with quite a lot of content and on top of that it looks really great. But thats GBC

You're awesome, very enjoyable content.😁

Yes! Donkey Kong ‘94!! One of my favorite games to this day. A really brilliant little puzzle-platformer that defied a lot of common Mario conventions. Such a pity people often mistake it for just a bland port. (Though, TBF, the game’s prologue pretending it’s a port before subverting the ending of Donkey Kong and revealing its true scope is brilliant.) I just replayed it recently, and the gameplay still holds up. It deserves way more attention than it gets, rather than always being forgotten in favor of Mario vs. Donkey Kong instead.

Awesome channel!

I have the SNES Space Invaders on my Wii (virtual console). I never knew it had such a wild backstory.

You forgot to mention that you can even change the border in space invaders! :)

a lot of cool information! thank you so much

> SGB1 runs games at a better framerate Well, a faster framerate yes, but it won't lead to better performance in games. It's just running the entire system in lockstep, including the sound, 2.4% faster than the original Gameboy (4.295 MHz instead of 4.194 MHz) because it uses the SNES clock signal divided by 5. If you compare audio rips side by side you can hear that the songs are sped up and pitched up a bit! The SGB2 fixes this by having its own independent clock signal in the cartridge.

Another deep dive from Sharopolis? This is how you make Mondays good!

There's also a japanese version of the Space Invaders game as a Super Famicom cart. It has the same art as the splash screen for the arcade mode on the cover. I don't have it, but I've seen it, I think it's the same game, without the extra step of the Super Gameboy in between. Because I know the Super Gameboy version, works because there's just a full rom for it hiding on the gameboy cart.

If you ever do a future homebrew episode on gameboy color games. Look at Eternal Memory as that game pushes the GBC far beyond what was thought possible.

hey dawg, love your channel. can you make a video on Gamecube games that really pushed the hardware like you did with the PS2?

Hey, were you still going to make a second video about the Nintendo DS? :)

The first one already reminds me of that Austin Powers game, a weird little compilation games with different design styles. It also doesnt always feel like a gb game.

Now you're playing with POCKET POWER!!!

Whoops, I see you accidentally referred to the Super Game Boy as the "Game Boy Player" once...

That occlusion is really impressive

What about games that do not FEEL like Game Boy? One day I'm using my legitimately acquired backups and suddenly the controller is vibrating on an old monochrome GB game and assuming my controller is borked. Turns out this ancient game did had rumble support.

Is "cellophane mode" in _Space Invaders_ the first instance of a game trying to recreate the look of a retro platform and going overboard with it? Because there's no way the tinting on the original cabinet screen was _that_ visible in the black space.

Its a shame that other Arcade classic GB games didn't include this little easter egg like space invaders. Especially the pac-man games. "The ghosts are hiding in your SNES! Help Pac-man get rid of them."

7:40 The Lynx version is OK, so I hear. One of the few machines at the time suitable to the game.

Europeans REALLY loved their isometric platformer things. I remember playing Altered Space and thinking it played and looked almost exactly like Solstice and Equinox. Come to find out this was Europeans favorite genre. They also REALLY REALLY love Dizzy games for some reason.

Altered Space and Monster Max look quite astonishing for GB standards...

Donkey Kong Land series

Never seen Days of Thunder before. I‘m actually impressed.

Donkey kong country on the game boy was a huge use of the game boys power and no mistake

If I recall correctly, one of the GameBoy Madden football games actually supported two players on the Super GameBoy.

Impressive coding techniques, cheers for the video!

Hey what song did you use at 8:10 it's not in the description

OK, I'll have to dig out my Super Game Boy and my games... I'm going to love rediscovering my Game Boy games.

Donkey Kong on the Super GameBoy was the best!

HOW DOES THE RACE DRIVING GAME BOY PORT LOOK AND MOVE BETTER THAN THE SNES ONE I JJDNSND. WHAT

Nice work !!

To me donkeykong land 1 and 3 and supermarioland 2 an asterix and smurfs hardly looked like a gameboy since they do contain a chockful of details including flued animated sprites and asterix en battle toads even do show parallax scrolling or do show a multi scrolling background,it’s something very uncommon on the gameboy, About the supergameboy,it’s amezing what can be done on supergameboy but too bad a high colorpallet can only be shown on static screens while lower colorized levels can scroll, Also despite those old gameboy games were NEVER designed for the gameboycolor,but since the gameboycolor do have a costumized colorpallet for many old gameboy games including supermario land 1. 2,wario land and donkeykong land 1.2.3 etc,,, they do look more colorful,so good in fact that you will start to wonder if they were only originally ment for the old gray brick gameboy.

For Gameboy games, the Super Gameboy is really the best way to play them. Even the best gameboy screen cannot compete with a CRT TV. Anyone who was playing with a gameboy in the late eighties / early nineties is now old enough so that a 2.5" screen that is massively subject to motion blur is more trouble than its worth to play the games. The lack of a backlight really sucks too. I was 19 or 20 when the Gameboy came out and I hated the screen then.

Dude, like... Everythings on point.. But your way of voicing gives me pain. Reminds me of "dude where is my car", but on alkohol and lemmy vibes...

Dang, no Faceball 2000? That was an absolute marvel on the Gameboy. It even offered 4 player portable deathmatch

What's the space shooter at 0:06? And the one at 0:14?

Faceball 2000 should be here as well 🙂

Horrah! New vid :)

Thanks for the video ram views of monster max. I read about how much of a pain the game was to develop but never realized “No that’s completely against how a gameboy game is intended to be programmed.” I played a lot of ‘head over heels’ as a kid and this feels a lot like an expanded version of that. Someone described the Monster Max character on the cover as Knuckles slovenly middle aged dad who still knows how to rock.

I bought the Japanese Space Invaders for Game Boy and it's just a straight port. It does not feature the special Super Game Boy interface.

19:10 its not the only game that ran code on the snes. the super gameboy version of animaniacs has an enhanced soundtrack on the super gameboy

Is monster max made with a similar technique as the 3d sonic game for the genisis?

10:00 Not to mention, it's likely one of the few GB games where the smeary screen *helped* by smoothing over graphical flaws.

The aspect ratio for all the game footage is slightly stretched out too wide for some reason.

i have "race drivin'" on the game boy. i got it from a bargain bin in the mid to late 90s. it was a terribly unfun game. (fun story: i also got the japanese version of "Bonk's Adventure" in the same bargain bin, which i didn't know what it was called till about 20 years later because i couldn't read japanese. no idea what a japanese copy of bonk was doing being sold in switzerland in the mid to late 90's but there you have it.)

Shocked Shantae isn't on this list. Maybe it doesn't look out of a better console outright, but it looks a LOT more impressive than anything I expected out of a GBC, particularly compared to the majority of the library. EDIT: wait it's just original GB games, but including ones that run on GBC. My bad! :p

That first game is super impressive for a gameboy game the isometric style works really well, I honestly thought it was only possible to make 2d games on the system I think that style could have worked well for a platformer I would have loved to see a Mario platformer with that isometric style

When I first found out about the super Game boy I was kind of mad that the Game boy player doesn't let you do that. I mean sure you can have rumble in certain games but you can't have the awesome borders or anything even on Super Game boy games.

Donkey Kong 94 was absolutely phenomenal. I played the crap out of it back in the day.

I think it's cool that your voice sounds like Popeye the sailor man's

15:14 Kong Cake

Monster Max and Altered Space look incredible. Been playing Legends via NSO, and without the SGB enhancements, feels/looks like a GB game. DK 94 has always been amazing...can't wait for the M v DK remake in a few weeks.

nice to see some 3d graphics on old gb. i knew of X but not the others. thanx

Monster Max reminds me a lot of Mystic Towers on PC.

Monsert Max is just a copy of the Elephant and the mouse gameboy game ... or was it the other way around?

The big surprise here is that it's faster to render black and white bitmap graphics with aggressive use of dithering to recreate the two shades of gray than to just use actual gray pixels in huge solid blocks. Someday I'd like someone like Retro Game Mechnics Explained to dig into that one.

Don’t forget Mysterium ;)

Frisky Tom on SGB looks more like an Apple II game or a Spectrum port to CPC.

You should show the games with the original olive colors. They look like shot in black and white

10:51 😂😂😂

So like... Does the Space Invaders port suggest that developers could drop a data payload and literally run a SNES executable off a Game Boy from with the SGB as a bootloader? Was this a documented feature of the SNES/SGB SDK? Or did the Space Invaders developer essentially hack the device? LMFAO. How did this come to be? And why is there nothing else like it!?!?!?

Gameboy advance games that don't look like gameboy advance games

I think the colors still give it away, but your explanation on the tech that makes the game possible helps people like me appreciate what I'm seeing. While I'm here, do you or anyone know whether the Triforce logo in Link to the Past made of actual polygons or just clever animation?

Toy Story is an another one with SNES music while using the super game boy. Too bad it's a Tiertex game...

NeoGeo can't make some of the Games showed on this vid.

where in britain does this accent come from?

They looked like gameboy games to me lol some games just had more quality to them then others 🤷🏻‍♂️just like any console or handhelds.

whyyyy do youuu taaaalk like thiiiissss?

Lucle

Great video as always but I think you meant Tim not Geoff/Jeff Follin!

I dunno, the green screen kind of gives it away.

spoilers: it all looks like gameboy games

❤❤❤💖💖💖💖amazing 👍🍉🤣

nah they all looked like gameboy games.

I know this is of no use to the commenters or the creator for ananlytics; but my canadian algorithm REALLY likes your accent. A hefty portion of my suggested videos have your same accent.

Game boy games dont look good with white background. Bring on the green filter please....

Nah dude, they all look like gameboy games

You referred to it consistently as the Game Boy, rather than the Garbage Bag or the Grinning Bear or the Gamma Beam.