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Launching in the US on August 1989, the Nintendo Game Boy has been around for 18 years. The original Game Boy set the standard to portable gaming. All the Nintendo DSes and Sony PSPs you see everyone playing today wouldn't be possible if it weren't for the overwhelming success of the Game Boy. It was the quality of the games that kept the Game Boy around for more than ten years until its successor, the Game Boy Advance, was launched. The games that sold well were repackaged with the "Player's Choice" label and sold at a budget price. Here are the top 5 best Player's Choice games for the Game Boy.

On September 30, 2006, I unveiled my pet project to the world: A list of the 100 best NES games ever. The list wasn't perfect - lists never are - but the reception was generally warm. At the very least, it was warm enough to warrant a sequel. So now here we are, fourteen months later. It has now been three full years since the launch of SydLexia.com, and I figured there's no better way to celebrate than with a list of 100 best SNES games ever. Real fucking creative, I know. I had wanted to do a list of the best Game Boy titles ever, but the preliminary meetings didn't go well. There was this whole huge argument about whether or not the list should be just original Game Boy games or if Game Boy Color games counted as well. Then one guy kept saying we should include Game Boy Advance games because he was born in 1991 and he had no idea what this "Super Mario Land" thing that everyone kept bringing up was. Then someone pointed out to him that he could have looked it up on Wikipedia instead of whining that he didn't know what it was. Punches were thrown, blood was spilled, and everyone accused at least one other person of being gay. So then I did what any self-respecting American would do in my situation: I gave up on my dream and decided to attempting something significantly easier. Thus, the SNES list was born.

Some people say that the Game Boy is just like your old Aunt Ethel - it just refuses to go away and die (but these people should be pitied because the Game Boy is the coolest thing ever made!). Now that the Game Boy Color is in town, it's a good chance to go digging through the thousands of old games in your local software store, and we've given you a shopping list of the best ones you can still get (as well as some to put on your shopping list).

If you've played all the blockbuster games on the Game Boy already and need to dig into the lesser-known-but-equally-exciting games, this is the guide for you.   I know a lot of people have been waiting a while for this guide, but we wanted to take the time to find some real gems for you.  I've had many discussions with many experienced Game Boy fans in order to determine a list of all the best Gameboy  games that most people haven't played (or possibly even heard of). Much like previous entries in the Hidden Gems series, this guide is divided up by genre to help you find games that suit your tastes.

Looking to start or build up your classic Game Boy collection? This budget-friendly list should help you quickly find which games will start you off well without emptying your wallet.

Wonder Boy, Adventure Island, Wonder Boy, Adventure Island.   Whichever one you choose, you are in for a fantastic time.  Two games that are so strikingly similar it is scary.  What is the cause for this duality of gaming?  Why do skateboards come out of eggs?  And where is that guys shirt?  More, and the weather, at 5.

A couple of years ago I wrote up a piece called Closing Time which examined the last official releases for popular game consoles, and some no-so-popular ones too. Earlier this year I finally got around to adding a Game Boy Advance entry. Yeah it had been over a year since the last game was released but I just kept hoping one more title would sneak out. If another game had been released after July 31st 2008 then the Game Boy namesake would have made it 20 years. Now of course this wasn't one single system that lasted 20 years, three distinct systems were tagged "Game Boy" over this span. Most of the longevity can be credited to the original B&W model which had a shelf life of just over a decade. I bet that little guy had the longest lifespan of any game system... well, did it?

We've got a special feature here for all of you folks here at MyGamer!  In honor of the twentieth anniversary of the Nintendo Game Boy, we're running a special feature, where the MyGamer staff has picked out the top twenty games in Game Boy history.

Ten years after his death, Gunpei Yokoi has been reduced to legend: condensed, marginalized and re-packaged as a Nintendo creation myth instead of a man. You'd think there'd be entire encyclopedias profiling this Japanese Doc Brown, the prolific inventor who engineered the D-Pad, Game and Watch, R.O.B., Game Boy, Virtual Boy, a dozen or so children's toys and the Super Mario Land, Fire Emblem, Kid Icarus and Metroid franchises. Not so. Instead, most official Nintendo histories gloss over Yokoi's contributions, and many books and websites - if they're even translated into English - echo the same rudimentary, unsubstantiated stories. Even Yokoi's own obituaries wander off topic. The man was so vague and ghostly, he may not have even existed at all.

The first real arcade quality handheld video game was the Nintendo Game Boy which was not released in North America until the 1990s. The Game Boy was the first to have an actual working ( although primitive ) monitor for game graphics to be reproduced on. The fact that no actual miniature monitor existed in the 1980s did not stop toy companies from claiming they were releasing hand held video games.

In celebration to the 20th Anniversary of the release of Famico (known as NES in North America) in Japan, Nintendo released a line of Famico games emulated on the Game Boy Advance. Less than half of the titles managed to travel overseas for a domestic U.S. release. They were known as the Classic NES titles. Keep in mind the NES was the console where many of the most recognizable video game franchises started. It is the virtual who-who's of the gaming industry. Here are the top five Classic NES titles for the Gameboy Advance.

Oh, man… Looking back, 1999 was such an awesome year. The Sega Dreamcast came out on 9/9/99, the threat of Y2K was just around the corner, and Neo Geo released their first and only handheld system, the Neo Geo Pocket. Sure, it may not be as well known as the Game Boy or Game Gear, and it may not have had crazy hardware specs like the Atari Lynx, but it had some damn fine games.

The Atari Lynx came out in 1989, mere months after the Game Boy. It was originally designed by Epyx in 1987, when it was known as the Handy. Epyx did not have the money to launch the system, and Atari wanted to venture into the handheld market. So, Atari agreed to slap their name on the product, distribute it, and advertise it. Both Epyx and Atari developed games for the system after its release.

You sit alone in your living room, pounding on a 13 button controller, yelling into a microphone at a 12 year old boy who is up way past his bedtime. You curse, you swear... the surround sound is turned on full volume as the warm HD glow of the t.v. fills the room. Suddenly, the door opens and your girlfriend walks in. You are embarrassed, you are shamed. You are clearly in love with your video games.

Homebrew games for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance.

After the Sega Game Gear and before Sony's PSP, there was one other portable system that held its own against the might of Nintendo's Game Boy. Or, well, it could have if it lived longer than a year.

I invite you all to raise your glasses in celebration of a momentous occasion in gaming history. In the month of April exactly 20 years ago, our lives were suddenly illuminated by the birth of a friend both loyal and dear; A friend whose illustrious career has set the precedent for portable interactive entertainment. I'm speaking of course about DMG-01, whom you might know better as the Nintendo Game Boy.

When you add a console or handheld to your collection, the first thing you want to do is get a handful of games to keep you busy with your new toy. However, most of us can't spend afford to spend fat pile of cash for a few games. This budget-friendly list should help you quickly find which games will start you off well without emptying your wallet.

Here is the list of the top ten greatest handheld fighting titles of all time as well as the best and superb fighting title to ever hit handheld history.

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