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Bitmap Soft Releases Far After For Game Boy

Bitmap Soft Releases Far After For Game Boy

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A lot of retro consoles and computers have been given second lives thanks to the tireless efforts of indie developers. Despite their age, there are a lot of new games out there for 8 and 16-bit devices that are worth checking out. Far After, an action RPG released physically today for Game Boy and Game Boy Color, is just one of them. Story is light with this one: two friends wake up in an enchanted forest and set out on a journey to claim their magical birthright. You’ll journey through 2D sifescrolling environments, honing your skills and mastering spells to defeat the numerous monsters standing in your way. Experience a character-driven ARPG. Explore large magical forest environments. Fight your way through a variety of unique monsters. Master a selection of combat spells to eradicate your foes. Combine platforming and combative ARPG mechanics to excel through the game. Witness a story of two best friends at the beginning of their journey. Animated cutscenes to enhance storytelling. 3.5 hours of gameplay to

Glory Hunters Hits Funding Goal With 26 Days Remaining

Glory Hunters Hits Funding Goal With 26 Days Remaining

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Last week we reported on Glory Hunters, a brand-new game for the original Game Boy in development by 2Think Design Studio. The crowdfunding campaign had just begun at the time; we can now report it has reached its goal and there will definitely be physical carts. But what else? There ARE stretch goals in the works, but none of them have been publicly revealed yet. This is the kind of campaign where you can only find out what they are if the goals for them are met. There are vague mentions of extra chapters to the game, and possibly a Game Boy Color variant if the campaign does REALLY well. We’ll see what we get. Glory Hunters patterns itself after the original Legend of Zelda, but adds in a bunch of extra twists. The light plot involves a meteor heading for your world; your quest is to find and awaken one of the four gods that can stop it. From there, you have many choices to handle the situation. You

New For Game Boy: Glory Hunters

New For Game Boy: Glory Hunters

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Ever since GB Studio was first released, retro gaming enthusiasts have been crafting new and exciting titles for the obsolete system. One of the more interesting is Glory Hunters, a game that is currently funding its own physical release on Kickstarter. Glory Hunters patterns itself after the original Legend of Zelda, but adds in a bunch of extra twists. The light plot involves a meteor heading for your world; your quest is to find and awaken one of the four gods that can stop it. From there, you have many choices to handle the situation. You can play the pacifist way, gathering items and unlocking puzzles, or the aggressive way by slashing at monsters. The unique “achievements” mechanic awards you points for doing pretty much anything, and you trade in these points to open new areas, unlock minigames and other content. The only imperative is that you awaken a god; you can tackle it any way you want. Since there are many different ways to finish the game, it’s impossible

The Shapeshifter Shatters Kickstarter Goals

The Shapeshifter Shatters Kickstarter Goals

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Dana Puch, a game developer from Barcelona, has created several homebrew games for the Game Boy. He’s wrapping up work on his most ambitious project for the handheld yet, The Shapeshifter…in which you play as Elliot, just a normal dude out on a normal camping trip. What’s AB-normal is when an elf shows up, tells Elliot that he is the only one who can save elf-kind from an evil wizard, and grants him the magic power to turn into different animals. Elliot can’t just mess around with his new gift…it’s temporary and will only last through the night. He must embark on his journey and defeat the wizard before the sun rises! The Shapeshifter has performed so well that it made its most ambitious stretch goal weeks ago: a port of the game to the NES. However, the NES game is not part of the current package, as you can’t just recreate one system’s game on another system in a day. The Game Boy and the NES use different processors

Dragonborne Released Onto Steam

Dragonborne Released Onto Steam

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UK-based retro development studio Spacebot has just released their adventure RPG Dragonborne on Steam. Kurtis was once the world’s greatest dragon slayer…but now he’s gone missing. As Kris, Kurtis’s own son, no one wants to find out what happened more than you. Traversing a world of pixelated visuals reminiscent of Pokemon or Link’s Awakening, you’ll search for the truth through the land’s most perilous dungeons…and given the name, you can be assured there will be dragons. Dragonborne packs plenty of tasks into ten (average estimate) hours of gameplay..there are things to find and collect, upgrades for your weapons and armor, and even multiple endings to unlock. If Dragonborne looks a little GREEN to you, there’s a reason…the game was originally developed for Game Boy (just like The Shapeshifter will be). If you’re interested in THAT version, Spacebot still has physical copies in stock. You can find them here. Adventure RPG originally released on Game Boy. Travel through the region of Argon as Kris, in search of your missing father Kurtis,

Coming To Retro Systems: The Shapeshifter

Coming To Retro Systems: The Shapeshifter

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Dana Puch, a game developer from Barcelona, has created several homebrew games for the Game Boy. He’s wrapping up work on his most ambitious project for the handheld yet, The Shapeshifter…and you can get a physical copy through the crowdfunding campaign he’s recently launched. In The Shapeshifter you play as Elliot, just a normal dude out on a normal camping trip. What’s AB-normal is when an elf shows up, tells Elliot that he is the only one who can save elf-kind from an evil wizard, and grants him the magic power to turn into different animals. Elliot can’t just mess around with his new gift…it’s temporary and will only last through the night. He must embark on his journey and defeat the wizard before the sun rises! The Shapeshifter has performed so well that it smashed its most ambitious stretch goal last weekend: a port of the game to the NES. However, the NES game is not part of the current package, as you can’t just recreate one system’s game

Lost Keyboard Peripheral For Game Boy Uncovered

Lost Keyboard Peripheral For Game Boy Uncovered

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The Game Boy had a lot of weird attachments developed for it throughout its life, though not all of them made it on the shelf. Most of them were meant to deal with the handheld’s shortcomings…lights, magnifiers, sound speakers, etc. But one peculiar attachment promised to turn the Game Boy into some kind of early PDA….the WorkBoy, a mini keyboard that plugged into the Link Cable. The WorkBoy was developed by Source Research and Development, who saw dollar signs in the prospect of expanding the Game Boy’s usefulness. Typical handheld work devices in the early 90s cost a king’s ransom, but a Game Boy and a WorkBoy attachment would take far less out of the wallet while performing the same tasks. The product was shown off at CES that summer, was shown off in multiple gaming magazines including Nintendo Power, and was planned for launch around late 1992 to early 1993. But it never showed up. Liam Robertson, game historian and host of the YouTube series Game History Secrets (a

The Nintendo Game Boy Turns 30

The Nintendo Game Boy Turns 30

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On April 20, 1989, Nintendo’s Game Boy launched in Japan. it would grow to become the world’s most popular portable video game system and a staple of every 1990s rear car seat. Through Pocket, Color and Advance revisions, the handheld remained popular until finally being killed off by Nintendo themselves, replaced by the DS. It may be hard for anyone who grew up with a smartphone to comprehend, but back when the Game Boy was a new product, it was the most amazing machine in the world. A portable video game system?? That kind of thing just sounded impossible, and yet here it was. True, there was also the Game Gear and the Lynx, but those overpriced things were typically owned by posers with rich parents who thought they could buy their way into popularity. (No offense meant if you were a poser with rich parents.) It was simply about the games, and Tetris was infinitely better than “Columns.” We could write our own lengthy anniversary post, but it’s Easter

There’s An Unreleased Battletoads Game In Rare’s Archives

There’s An Unreleased Battletoads Game In Rare’s Archives

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Last month during E3 Microsoft revealed Rare is working on the return of Zitz, Pimple and Rash, the Battletoads of NES fame — the amphibians who came to define the words “Nintendo Hard.” The original game, despite its difficulty, was successful enough to spawn several sequels, but one of them never made it out — despite being completed. Paul Machacek, former developer at Rare, spoke about the missing game during an interview with the fansite RareFanDaBase. The released Battletoads games include Battletoads and Double Dragon for multiple systems, Battletoads in Battlemaniacs for the SNES, and three Game Boy games — but there was a fourth. The final Battletoad-branded product released by Rare was the arcade game in 1994. At the time, Machachek was working on a Game Boy port of said game. “It was 100% finished and signed off [on] by Test,” he said. “Then it got cancelled shortly after I moved onto Donkey Kong Land because the arcade game had underperformed in market and Tradewest pulled the plug on

Nintendo Files Mysterious “Game Boy” Trademark

Nintendo Files Mysterious “Game Boy” Trademark

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Nintendo has filed a trademark for a design suggesting a new product that looks awfully like an old product. The trademarked image, caught by ANN, is clearly that of the classic Game Boy. The registry mentions potential uses like “Programs for household video game machines” and “Household video games” as well as “Key chains,” “Bag charms,” “Cosmetic tools,” and “Clothing.” These are all extraneous descriptors that have appeared on other Nintendo trademarks, like the Classics line. Hint hint. It certainly looks like Nintendo is interested in pursuing a Game Boy Classic Edition. The NES and SNES Classics have both been referred to as “Mini” consoles, but we seriously doubt a Game Boy Classic would be any smaller than its original size. (They already made the Game Boy line as tiny as it could get with the Game Boy Micro, and that didn’t sell very well.) But now the speculation can begin: How many games would be included in a Game Boy Classic? How many Game Boy games can be considered

Check Out This Incredible Game Boy Code Trickery

Check Out This Incredible Game Boy Code Trickery

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One of the highlights of the past couple Games Done Quick marathons is the showcase of ACE tricks. ACE stands for “Arbitrary Code Execution” and it’s a method of using a glitch to allow the user to manipulate a video game’s data in real time, allowing for theoretically anything to happen. These are usually accomplished with the help of a TASBot (a program that automatically inputs pre-determined data into a game), because the act of entering the code is usually too complicated for a human. Here’s an ACE trick that will knock your socks off: it begins in Pokemon Yellow, but after the code is entered, where it stops is anybody’s guess. That’s the only hint you get; the video is best experienced spoiler-free. This is so impressive that you might wonder why its author didn’t save the public demonstration for a GDC marathon. It wouldn’t be allowed there because it runs off an emulator and GDC only uses real hardware (except in the case of arcade games). So while

Abandoned Akira Game Discovered

Abandoned Akira Game Discovered

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It’s true, apparently: in 1994 someone was developing a Western video game that used the Akira license. Anime was growing in popularity, to be sure, but it wasn’t nearly as popular in the mid-90’s as it was going to get in the following decade. Collector Patrick Scott Patterson somehow managed to get his mitts on FOUR protoypes for Game Boy Akira, the most complete of which has a written date of June 20, 1994. He plays this version in the video below (or at least gets as far as any human can). According to him, both a Game Boy and a Super NES version were in development at one point, but both were cancelled at around 40 percent completion. The reason is unknown, but Patterson mentions they failed to license the movie score. Whatever the GB title would have sounded like, it still would have been better than the repetitive placeholder music heard in this proto. There are the foundations of racing, sidescrolling, shmup and boss levels in the game,

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