Warlocked, Alice in Wonderland, Duke Nukem, Commander Keen (yes, there's Commander Keen on the GBC), Daikatana, and the Shadowgate and Deja Vu ports, as well as the Dragon Warrior I, II and III ports, Project S-11, and also Quest RPG: Brian's Journey (which is downgraded Quest 64)
Man gotta tell ya something: your videos are my go to sleep videos. Not because you are boring or because your content is boring. The nostalgia makes me feel like a toddler watching a good old TV show. I love it but I fell sleep because it's so comfy.
same here. Game sack, AVGN, Caddicarus, scott the woz, etc are my sleep channels for the same reason as yours. They are definitely not boring, but it has a calming, nostalgic effect.
Game Sack and Patman QC are my "fall to sleep" channels. I told Patman in his comments and he understood I wasn't insulting his work 😅 He just has a calming voice and his content is relaxing.
1:55 Super Mario Bros. Deluxe 3:03 Conker's Pocket Tales 4:20 Return of the Ninja 5:44 Mario Tennis 6:52 Mario Golf 8:00 Chase HQ Secret Police 9:06 Motocross Maniacs 2 10:37 Elevator Action EX 12:11 The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Oracle of Seasons 14:00 Street Fighter Alpha 15:29 Power Quest 16:59 Duke Nukem 18:30 Daikatana 19:39 Bionic Commando Elite Forces 21:19 Wendy: Every Witch Way 23:45 Metal Gear Solid 25:33 Hunter X Hunter 27:06 Megaman Xtreme 28:04 Megaman Xtreme 2 29:06 Cruis'n Exotica 30:07 Bomberman Max Blue Champion 30:46 Bomberman Max Red Challenger 31:17 Bomberman Max Ain Version 31:53 Bomberman Quest 33:06 Mickey's Racing Adventure 34:49 Mickey's Speedway USA 35:58 Shantae
You know I was actually afraid of a negative reaction? Like people would think I was discouraging from watching the whole episode. But like you said, it's nice to have when you go back to rewatch. Have a great weekend.@@sppspharmdude
Indeed. I still take mine out once in a while just to marvel at its beauty. Pretty funny that the screen lacking light never bugged me that much back then but today it’s a deal breaker. Interesting how things can change with time and perspective.
The part where you're speaking seriously about the Zelda game and then in the background gameplay everyone happily agrees to name the baby Turd was a nice touch
Yeah, I'm not even sure how you can know about the extra RAM and not know the CPU speed. Sloppy, but otherwise, good to see the system get a long examination for once. Most ignore third party releases.
GBC has exactly 2x faster CPU (Sharp LR35902 running at 8.38 MHz) and exactly 3x more RAM. 2x faster CPU is like going from Ryzen 1700X (March 2017) to Ryzen 7700X (September 2022). 3x RAM is like going from 8GB to 24GB - more than PS5 or XSX have.
@@juststatedtheobvious9633there’s nothing sloppy about this video. Gamesack focuses on the games, not the specs of the console. Go to another channel if that’s what you’re looking for. Not everyone just cares about graphics & performance like you.
Your videos are wonderful and I love the cool pixel transitions and angled gameplay bit where the gameboy game changed into colour. I hope more people binge on gamesack, it's a good sunday.
Awesome video! 1:21 small correction: the Game Boy Color did not end up selling close to 120 million units. That number (around 118.7 million) is the combined worldwide sales of Game Boy + Game Boy Color devices.
I spend too much time watching stuff about video games.. I tickled immediately when Joe mentioned 120 MILLIONS devices for the Game Boy Color alone ..like something immediately seemed off
I only just realized now that Elevator Action was released as Dexter's Laboratory in the US. Seeing the original version here really triggered some memories!
I think I read they added the extra stuff only for GBA for Wendy and Shantae because the games were so late in the life of the GBC that they had to give an incentive for GBA owners to buy them as well and get decent sales numbers
Shantae didn't even sell well in the original run, Bozon said it didn't have a clear fit for a market at the time. For example, boys would consider the game too "girly". So it never gained a lot of appreciation until many years later.
Nintendo wanted to be sure that if they eventually released a handheld system with color, that it has the same battery life as the original Game Boy. Funny how Sega, Atari, & NEC didn't realize how important the issue of battery life is. Great ep nevertheless.
I don't think it actually was. I think price was. The others with a decent DC adapter would have been fine and more successful if they weren't 2-3x the price of the GB/GBC. Hell the Game Gear even did ok for how smeary the screen was, but nothing like the cheap and replaceable GB Edit: plus iirc it took Sharp coming to them with a new TFT color display and access to the Zilog-like chip to finally do it. Battery life was another thing since they could have easily justified going back to 3-4 batteries etc to consumers if it had 5hrs instead of 10hrs, or sell inexpensive battery extensions. That price is the end all and difference between selling 10mil and 120mil
@@SataniaMcDowel It's also incredibly hard to play indoors without an external light source. I've got a good chunk of the GB revisions, and the GBC is the worst. But, I do give Nintendo credit as at least you were able to get a good external light that plugged into the GB directly. My personal favorite would be the GB Light as it has what appears to be the same technology that Timex introduced with their Indiglo watch dials. A nice consistent bluish-greenish light across the entire display that can be disabled if you have enough light leaving you with just the OG GB dispay.
Amazing after all this time the episodes have been going then you realise the systems that haven’t had the Game Sack treatment yet and immediately makes it must watch 😁
Well done mate. I don't know how you're able to produce such high quality vids each week! I love that all your gameplay has some kind of filter on it to mimic the GBC screen. Looks great!
Small correction, the CPU runs at twice the speed when running GBC games. I'm impressed with the run animation and general visuals of bionic commando. Some big sprites there.
Can I just say, the way you display the rotating Gameboy screens at the start, with the game slowly coming into view as the light reflects off it, looks absolutely amazing. It really makes me appreciate the beauty of these old systems. Nothing can hold a candle to the original way to play these games imo. Oh and the rest of the video is cool too. :)
I’ve only been watching gamesack regularly for a couple of years now but there’s something special about this channel that makes it feel like I’ve been watching them since childhood. Thank you for this channel!
Still got my old purple Game Boy Color from 1999, still works too. I got a lot of great memories playing Pokemon Red and Silver, Wario Land 2, Links Awakening DX and all my older Game Boy games on it. The only thing was i never had the rechargeable battery pack for it so i was always looking for batteries to play the bloody thing lol. Great episode :)
Just wanted to point out that for Conker's Pocket Tales, it's compatible with both GB and GBC; but the two versions are completely different! The basic framework of the game is the same but the puzzles, levels, and even how you save the game is different- so much so that if you swap the game between a GBC and a GB, the save files don't even carry over!
@@GameSack it is, to my knowledge, the only game for GBC that comes with two entirely different roms on the same cartridge. It's really neat looking into it!
@@DailyCorvidit’s a little more complicated than that. The making of perfect dark was a tumultuous period and it wound up with the studio fracturing. The heads were done ( which is why they sold), half the devs went and started Free Rasical and made Timesplitters, and the remnant finished perfect dark and then went to MS. So they would have been a shell of their former glory even if they stayed with Nintendo.
@@QuestionBlockGamingSpace Invaders for Game Boy has the SNES Space Invaders when played on a Super Game Boy (Not the same thing, but somewhat related)
I couldn’t click on this episode fast enough, covering one of my favorite handhelds of all-time! You did a phenomenal job covering this handheld, with so many superb games highlighted. Now, it’s time to fire up some GBC games that I’m in the mood to play after watching this episode.
Gotta correct you Joe, the Gameboy Color did NOT sell close to 120 million units. If you look carefully that number includes all the Gameboys that can play original games of which the GB Color is the 4th and last version.
The GBC is the perfect kind of retro look and feel. There's also a rather active indie game scene releasing games to the system to this day, physical cartridges and all.
Am really glad they decided to greatly expand the included RAM, as you can really tell that this CPU had a lot of untapped potential that was held back by the lack of RAM on the original Gameboy. Theres quite a bit more performance being squeezed out of this chip w the extra RAM. The music is also more detailed now as a result 😊
Keep in mind that they did increase the CPU speed for the Game Boy Color. Joe was mistaken on that part of the specs. But your point is still valid as you can see a lot of improvement along with some interesting ideas from those later games. Add to that some really clever developers like Crawfish and Wayforward. The screen is worth mentioning as well. While the small resolution was a big limitation, the GBC's screen handled motion better than the originals and even the Pockets so that also let developers push things further. I never had a GBC, but I remember when it was new and I liked seeing developers do interesting things with it.
@@ravagingwolverine I'd say the GBA is an even more interesting case. Everyone compares it to the SNES but in actuality it was far more powerful than the SNES, and you could clearly see that in some of the 3D titles. There was some truly impressive games for that little ARM chip. Was just a matter of time before ARM CPU's took over the mobile market.
@@skins4thewin Yeah, the GBA is also interesting in a similar way. I really loved seeing the attempts at 3D games and demakes of console games. I remember Max Payne being really interesting. GBA had a Tomb Raider game that I remember enjoying. And Tekken Advance was surprisingly good, so I heard. When the GBA was current, it was my favorite platform over the consoles of the time. Not only was it more powerful than the SNES, but the games were larger, which helped. But it did lose some of that power advantage, in terms of what was on screen, from having to run the audio in software.
@@ravagingwolverine Totally agree, I spent copious amounts of time playing my GBA, specially once the SP came out & FINALLY got that backlit screen it so desperately needed! The main thing that made it great was not only the power it had for 2D games, but just the game library in general. It had a TON of truly amazing games for it! The GBA still to this day probably has the best overall game library of any portable!
One of my favorites from this system was DeJa Vu I and II. Namely because for the longest time it was the best way to get the two most interesting Macventure games.
The subtle, straightman delivery of the humor in this channel is becoming one of my favorite parts. I just stumbled on this channel a week or two ago, and I like it, the guy is informative, friendly, easy to listen to and pleasantly humorous without trying too hard.
The Game Boy Color is one of my favorite game ststems ever, there's so much hidden on that platform, especially if you look into imports, unreleased prototypes and even the bootleg scene is amazing.
Thanks for highlighting the must play GBC games, i was all about PS1 when this came out so I missed out on the Game Boy Color, I did come back for the GBA though and every Nintendo handheld that came after it
Anyone who doesn't think the Game Boy Color is it's own system only need to look at the 145 games that only work on the GBC. That's a longer list that many other systems have that people don't argue about whether they're their own system or not.
I didn't know anyone actually denied that it was it's own system. Like the GBC library isn't great (probably one of Nintendo's weakest libraries), in fact I would say that it is very lacklustre. It also had a short lifespan, like not even 2.5 years, but it was definitely it's own thing.
GBC had a weird lifecycle - the og GB had been out forever, GBC comes out in late '98, then bam GBA comes out in early 2001. Weirdest part is Nintendo lumps GBC sales with og GB sales, shrouding how well the product actually did, or didn't.
The “check points” in Mega Man Xtreme are what made the game possible on the original Game Boy. It was basically away to page out the level data and load new level data since the original Game Boy didn’t have enough RAM otherwise to replicate Mega Man X levels. It’s a technical limitation hidden as a gameplay element.
You should have mentioned the GBC version of Donkey Kong Country. When the original trilogy hit the SNES the portable GameBoy got adapted games (the DK Land ones) that were way inferior to the SNES games. When they released the GBC port of Donkey Kong Country I was very impressed because it was fairly close to the SNES games, all the stages, nice music conversion, way better gameplay than DK Land and very good graphics all things considered. Coming from the DK Land that were "as good as portable DK gets", it was amazing.
Happy to see some love for Return of the Ninja and Motocross Maniacs 2. Legend of the River King 2 is probably one of my favorite game on the console. Otherwise these titles worth to be played: The Mummy, Woody Woodpecker Racing, Driver, Action Man : Search for Base X, Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue.
The GBC is sorely underrated and always seems to get lost between the original Gameboy and the GBA. Amazing what developers were able to pull off on such modest hardware. I had NO IDEA there were over 900 games for this thing.
Which is pretty crazy when you think about it, they had like what, 2 years between gbc and gba releases? They were practically pumping out games for this thing
My favorite Bomberman game on the Color is Pocket Bomberman. Another great ones Wario Land 3, Links Awakening Dx, Harvest Moon 3, Pokémon Puzzle Challenge and Ghosts and Goblins
oracle of ages/seasons are among the best gbc games glad they got mentioned. nothing the zelda series has done since has felt as interesting and compelling. their worlds are really cool and i wish they had been developed more almost as a spinoff series or something
Please tell me, how do you get footage with filters/grids to not look like complete ass once uploaded to youtube? Whenever I do it youtube compresses it and ruins my entire image, especially when there is a lot of quick motion. The GBC game look so much better with that effect.
Probably did it through a specific capture card, and then upscaled it on the GPU and uploaded it 4K but it's been upscaled there so all the lines are perfect :) Costs a fortune though, I didn't bother I just use a £60 capture card and put up with blurry lines. The Joe-Pro setup probably costs closer to £250-300 (or even £2500-3000 if you include the GPU). What are you running and what's your setup?
@@DailyCorvid He did respond to me on Twitter and told me, "I upload with a very high bitrate and resolution. So a 4K upload with a bitrate of about 69mbps." For me it all depends on what I'm recording. For PS1 Era and up I play through a Retrotink Upscaler (1080P) or direct HDMI and record with an Elgato HD 60 Pro. For older consoles I generally use Emulators through Retroarch played at 1080p then recorded in OBS. My GPU is an NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1080... Definitely beginning to show its age.
"I upload with a very high bitrate and resolution. So a 4K upload with a bitrate of about 69mbps." OMG that is mental!! :D Joe overkills like a Palestinian.... 69MB/s?!? My upload bit rate is 12MB/s and that's the highest it will go on my 8GB GPU lolol. Joe uploads at 7 times the rate I do! Elgato is what I have but it sucks I am replacing it! Also have a Loupedeck and a copy of OBS. You're doing better than I bud; I completed failed to record anything below 720p :( I'm a lvl 1 noob lol. @@StilesReviews
I've always thought the Gameboy was a cool system, having the power of the NES in your pocket and whatnot. Top-shelf quality video is always, and still looking forward to hearing the story about how you got that SNES ASCII pad in the intro
That game has two actual roms in the cartridge, one for GBC and one for GB. There is also an Asteroids game that does something similar, the game will have different graphics if played in a SNES through a Super Game Boy.
The very best Game Boy Color games IMO are : - Pokemon Red & Blue + Yellow - Pokemon Gold & Silver + Crystal - Wario Land II - Wario Land III - The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons - The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages - The Legend of Zelda: A Link's Awakening DX - Mario Tennis - Mario Golf - Snoopy Tennis - Shantae - Conker's Pocket Tales - Mickey's Racing Adventure - R-Type DX - Game & Watch Gallery 2 - Game & Watch Gallery 3 - Resident Evil Gaiden - Bomberman Quest - Bomberman Max: Blue Champion & Bomberman Max: Red Challenger - Bugs Bunny: Crazy Castle 3 - Bugs Bunny: Crazy Castle 4 - Spy vs. Spy - Konami GB Collection Vol.1 - Vol. 4 - Bugs Bunny & Lola Bunny: Operation Carrot Patch - Looney Tunes Racing
I was excited to find the Hunter x Hunter game, but I got stuck on the first boss... maybe I need to grind for more levels. Also speaking about Konami, too bad you didn't show their Goemon game, Seikuushi Dynamites Arawaru. It's one of the good ones, not nearly as frustrating as most Goemon games tend to be. Another semi-notable Color game is the Moomin game by Sunsoft
Quick correction: the GB had an effective CPU speed of about 1MHz. However, the GBC had a mode that allowed the speed to be doubled to about 2MHz. Therefore, there were games that needed twice the CPU power that could only run on the GBC.
@@guspaz I had always wondered why the Game Boy seemed so slow compared to the SNES or even NES, despite having a higher clock speed (yes, I know clock speed isn't everything, but the discrepancy was pretty extreme). So in a worst case scenario, it's similar to a 1 MHz CPU, but then, it could do better if it's running mostly instructions that take four cycles already?
@@3dmarth the best case is that it can execute around one million instructions per second (since it runs at 4.19 MHz), the worst case is less since there are instructions that take 8/12/etc cycles. I’m not super familiar with the NES architecture, I know that the NTSC one runs at 1.79 MHz and that the shortest instruction takes 2 cycles, and they’re not aligned by any multiple (there are instructions that take 2 cycles, 3 cycles, etc). The SNES is a whole other beast, being a 16-bit processor.
THE POWER QUEST MUSIC AT THE START??? fantastic choice, great taste in music! that music still kicks butt! glad im not the only one who played that game, definitely one of my favourite gbc games back in the day!
I remember getting my GBC back in Christmas ‘99. I got the Pokémon Yellow bundle for Christmas, and it came with the Pikachu GBC. I played the heck out of my GBC, and I still have it to this day!
By far the best GBC game without a doubt -- most and best overall game for your buck, best soundtrack (and imo one of the best sountracks of ANY 8-bit or 8-bit-adjacent system), best longeivity, best multiplayer features, probably even best graphics for all the unique and better-realized-than-before creatures -- is Pokemon Generation 2 (Gold, Silver and especially Crystal). Like it's no contest, it's leaps and bounds beyond anything any competitor was trying to do, it was crammed full of so much TLC and programming wizardry (seriously, look up stories about its development) and TO THIS DAY is widely considered the best generation of Poekmon of all time, the last generation that all the original creators worked on & the ONLY generation that crammed in the FULL previous generation (with some cuts and shrinks here and there to make it fit on a GBC cart, anyway) so that at the time it was by far the ULTIMATE pokemon game and IMO the forthcoming generations, for all the ways they pushed the series forward, kind of paled in comparison. It's too bad you dislike Pokemon so much that you won't even review it and surely wouldn't understand or appreciate these elements because it's the shining jewel of the system and did the most with its leap in hardware over the normal GB. But hey, you covered Shantae which is easily the silver medalist in all ways for the system lol. You probably don't care about these either but Pokemon Pinball and Pokemon TCG 1 and 2, released all around the same-ish time, are also really excellent games for the system.
Joe, I know you aren't even reading this but still thank you for such a cool presentation! No blocky mess, just a beautiful big-ass lcd matrix screen! Game boy never looked better and you're a real shader pro!
the best thing about Zelda Oracle of Ages/Seasons is that there's a bit of Crossplay tied to them, what seems like double dipping is more of an interesting idea to get around the limitations. in any case, the GBC was a decent upgrade from the OG, it was lighter, nicer to look like, and it came in a ton of different colors, allowing your handheld to stand out at school or public hangouts.
With the explosion of retro handhelds, it's crazy to remember some of us paid $30 for THAT version of Street Fighter Alpha 1, while nowadays, you can get the entire CPS2 AND Neo Geo libraries on the go for nearly the same price. That said, I enjoyed every minute of it (although I can't say I liked the GBC Dpad for fighters!) Edit: I'm glad you saved Shantae for last. The game looks like it was made on a completely separate, more powerful system. VERY impressive, and an aspect that might be lost if you didn't see the rest of the stuff on the GBC.
I love this episode! Please make more of this amazing console. Could you also make an episode about the rom hacks that add color and new features to the original gameboy games (Super Mario Land 1 & 2, Megaman 5, etc)?
Elevator Action EX did come out in the US... kinda. Its graphics were altered and it was released as Dexter's Laboratory: Robot Rampage for the American market.
Legend of the river king . Funny thing is I like it better on the super Gameboy even though it doesn’t say super Gameboy on the gbc pak it has default borders and what I think is better story book color vs on a gbc .
What's your favorite Game Boy Color game? TELL ME RIGHT NOW!!!
Alone in the Dark
Warlocked, Alice in Wonderland, Duke Nukem, Commander Keen (yes, there's Commander Keen on the GBC), Daikatana, and the Shadowgate and Deja Vu ports, as well as the Dragon Warrior I, II and III ports, Project S-11, and also Quest RPG: Brian's Journey (which is downgraded Quest 64)
Ooo color game you say.... Link's awakening DX
ShadowGate & Deja Vu
Pokemon Crystal.
Man gotta tell ya something: your videos are my go to sleep videos. Not because you are boring or because your content is boring. The nostalgia makes me feel like a toddler watching a good old TV show. I love it but I fell sleep because it's so comfy.
*fall asleep
@alvallac2171 Thanks for the correction. English is not my first language .
But I belive this was just my cellphone autocorrecting it for some reason.
same here. Game sack, AVGN, Caddicarus, scott the woz, etc are my sleep channels for the same reason as yours. They are definitely not boring, but it has a calming, nostalgic effect.
Game Sack and Patman QC are my "fall to sleep" channels.
I told Patman in his comments and he understood I wasn't insulting his work 😅 He just has a calming voice and his content is relaxing.
1:55 Super Mario Bros. Deluxe
3:03 Conker's Pocket Tales
4:20 Return of the Ninja
5:44 Mario Tennis
6:52 Mario Golf
8:00 Chase HQ Secret Police
9:06 Motocross Maniacs 2
10:37 Elevator Action EX
12:11 The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Oracle of Seasons
14:00 Street Fighter Alpha
15:29 Power Quest
16:59 Duke Nukem
18:30 Daikatana
19:39 Bionic Commando Elite Forces
21:19 Wendy: Every Witch Way
23:45 Metal Gear Solid
25:33 Hunter X Hunter
27:06 Megaman Xtreme
28:04 Megaman Xtreme 2
29:06 Cruis'n Exotica
30:07 Bomberman Max Blue Champion
30:46 Bomberman Max Red Challenger
31:17 Bomberman Max Ain Version
31:53 Bomberman Quest
33:06 Mickey's Racing Adventure
34:49 Mickey's Speedway USA
35:58 Shantae
You are a god send for this list.
Thank you! Wish this was done for every video, so helpful to revisit videos.
You know I was actually afraid of a negative reaction? Like people would think I was discouraging from watching the whole episode. But like you said, it's nice to have when you go back to rewatch. Have a great weekend.@@sppspharmdude
It's really nice to see what roms Im missing, thanks@@kynmasters8670
You missed the best games :)
Playing Links Awakening DX on the Game Boy Color was like playing an all new Zelda game when it came out. The coloring was just gorgeous.
nice try liar\ you never played links awakening
ROFL and you never will
troll
That translucent purple GBC is still one of the best looking consoles after all these years.
The transparent purple Anbernic RG353V looks amazing!
Still got one. So cool you can see it's insides!
Indeed. I still take mine out once in a while just to marvel at its beauty. Pretty funny that the screen lacking light never bugged me that much back then but today it’s a deal breaker. Interesting how things can change with time and perspective.
Yup. I agree. OG ps2 is a close second. The black on black (onix?) advanced SP is also up there..
It's never the one I choose but it is objectively the best one
The part where you're speaking seriously about the Zelda game and then in the background gameplay everyone happily agrees to name the baby Turd was a nice touch
Those extra RAMs allow for some very nice character animation. The GBC CPU is also almost twice as fast as regular Gameboy (4.19Mhz vs 8Mhz)
Yeah, I'm not even sure how you can know about the extra RAM and not know the CPU speed.
Sloppy, but otherwise, good to see the system get a long examination for once. Most ignore third party releases.
Hay bro. How many RAMs do you have in your unit?
@@Iliek I have 2 RAMS is that enough or do I need to download more?
GBC has exactly 2x faster CPU (Sharp LR35902 running at 8.38 MHz) and exactly 3x more RAM. 2x faster CPU is like going from Ryzen 1700X (March 2017) to Ryzen 7700X (September 2022). 3x RAM is like going from 8GB to 24GB - more than PS5 or XSX have.
@@juststatedtheobvious9633there’s nothing sloppy about this video. Gamesack focuses on the games, not the specs of the console. Go to another channel if that’s what you’re looking for. Not everyone just cares about graphics & performance like you.
Your videos are wonderful and I love the cool pixel transitions and angled gameplay bit where the gameboy game changed into colour. I hope more people binge on gamesack, it's a good sunday.
Awesome video!
1:21 small correction: the Game Boy Color did not end up selling close to 120 million units. That number (around 118.7 million) is the combined worldwide sales of Game Boy + Game Boy Color devices.
Many people would agree that 118.7 million is close to 120 million. It’s not that far off.
@@ImOnRandomThat's not what they were making a comment about. Re-read the comment you replied to.
@@sjftech thanks for pointing that out. My mistake.
@@ImOnRandomare you dumb?
I spend too much time watching stuff about video games.. I tickled immediately when Joe mentioned 120 MILLIONS devices for the Game Boy Color alone ..like something immediately seemed off
I only just realized now that Elevator Action was released as Dexter's Laboratory in the US. Seeing the original version here really triggered some memories!
I think I read they added the extra stuff only for GBA for Wendy and Shantae because the games were so late in the life of the GBC that they had to give an incentive for GBA owners to buy them as well and get decent sales numbers
yep, the Zelda Oracle games could also detect if you were using a GBA and had some bonus stuff
@@Nintenboy01which he showed in the video...
Shantae didn't even sell well in the original run, Bozon said it didn't have a clear fit for a market at the time. For example, boys would consider the game too "girly". So it never gained a lot of appreciation until many years later.
Nintendo wanted to be sure that if they eventually released a handheld system with color, that it has the same battery life as the original Game Boy. Funny how Sega, Atari, & NEC didn't realize how important the issue of battery life is.
Great ep nevertheless.
I don't think it actually was. I think price was. The others with a decent DC adapter would have been fine and more successful if they weren't 2-3x the price of the GB/GBC. Hell the Game Gear even did ok for how smeary the screen was, but nothing like the cheap and replaceable GB
Edit: plus iirc it took Sharp coming to them with a new TFT color display and access to the Zilog-like chip to finally do it. Battery life was another thing since they could have easily justified going back to 3-4 batteries etc to consumers if it had 5hrs instead of 10hrs, or sell inexpensive battery extensions. That price is the end all and difference between selling 10mil and 120mil
I have a Gameboy Color since the 7th grade. Battery life is less than the original gameboy
@@SataniaMcDowel It's also incredibly hard to play indoors without an external light source. I've got a good chunk of the GB revisions, and the GBC is the worst. But, I do give Nintendo credit as at least you were able to get a good external light that plugged into the GB directly. My personal favorite would be the GB Light as it has what appears to be the same technology that Timex introduced with their Indiglo watch dials. A nice consistent bluish-greenish light across the entire display that can be disabled if you have enough light leaving you with just the OG GB dispay.
Nintendo didn't realize how important is a battery life of Wonderswan
@@reptilez13 why would you want a portable console and use an ac adapter? that defeats the whole purpose...
Amazing after all this time the episodes have been going then you realise the systems that haven’t had the Game Sack treatment yet and immediately makes it must watch 😁
One of my favorite episodes of Game Sack for sure! Thank you so much for making this! :)
Two things I like about this channel.
1) The tasteful ad placement.
2) The CRT footage doing these old games wonders.
Something you forgot to mention in the hardware overview: There's an additional double CPU speed mode that color games can take advantage of.
Just when I think I've watched every video on RUclips, Game Sack drops a new one and I finally have good content to watch!
You watched ALL 190 million videos did you???
_I mean the good ones!_
You watched ALL 8 videos did you?? ;)
Thanks Joe for all your hard work.
Well done mate. I don't know how you're able to produce such high quality vids each week! I love that all your gameplay has some kind of filter on it to mimic the GBC screen. Looks great!
Small correction, the CPU runs at twice the speed when running GBC games.
I'm impressed with the run animation and general visuals of bionic commando. Some big sprites there.
Can I just say, the way you display the rotating Gameboy screens at the start, with the game slowly coming into view as the light reflects off it, looks absolutely amazing. It really makes me appreciate the beauty of these old systems. Nothing can hold a candle to the original way to play these games imo.
Oh and the rest of the video is cool too. :)
I’ve only been watching gamesack regularly for a couple of years now but there’s something special about this channel that makes it feel like I’ve been watching them since childhood. Thank you for this channel!
It has the dedication and love only a lifelong fan of video games can bring
Still got my old purple Game Boy Color from 1999, still works too. I got a lot of great memories playing Pokemon Red and Silver, Wario Land 2, Links Awakening DX and all my older Game Boy games on it. The only thing was i never had the rechargeable battery pack for it so i was always looking for batteries to play the bloody thing lol. Great episode :)
Just wanted to point out that for Conker's Pocket Tales, it's compatible with both GB and GBC; but the two versions are completely different! The basic framework of the game is the same but the puzzles, levels, and even how you save the game is different- so much so that if you swap the game between a GBC and a GB, the save files don't even carry over!
Rare used to be so awesome. Soon as they left Nintendo they downed. Same with Konami.
That's awesome, I didn't know that. Actually really damn cool.
@@GameSack it is, to my knowledge, the only game for GBC that comes with two entirely different roms on the same cartridge. It's really neat looking into it!
@@DailyCorvidit’s a little more complicated than that. The making of perfect dark was a tumultuous period and it wound up with the studio fracturing. The heads were done ( which is why they sold), half the devs went and started Free Rasical and made Timesplitters, and the remnant finished perfect dark and then went to MS. So they would have been a shell of their former glory even if they stayed with Nintendo.
@@QuestionBlockGamingSpace Invaders for Game Boy has the SNES Space Invaders when played on a Super Game Boy
(Not the same thing, but somewhat related)
I couldn’t click on this episode fast enough, covering one of my favorite handhelds of all-time! You did a phenomenal job covering this handheld, with so many superb games highlighted. Now, it’s time to fire up some GBC games that I’m in the mood to play after watching this episode.
Gotta correct you Joe, the Gameboy Color did NOT sell close to 120 million units. If you look carefully that number includes all the Gameboys that can play original games of which the GB Color is the 4th and last version.
Yeah I thought that sounded way too high
Yep Nintendo consider the Color a upgrade like DSi or New 3DS why counted with GameBoy
There's videos about the OG Gameboy that uses the same sale numbers. so yeah, Gameboy is a Gameboy is a Gameboy.
The GBC is the perfect kind of retro look and feel. There's also a rather active indie game scene releasing games to the system to this day, physical cartridges and all.
I was in the middle of a very interesting video and I interrupted everything to watch gamesack
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me too
Same. Yes potential world war 3 is very interesting but... There's a new gamesack video!
I stopped doing CPR on an orphan to watch this!
@@mrdeatheli priorities
Am really glad they decided to greatly expand the included RAM, as you can really tell that this CPU had a lot of untapped potential that was held back by the lack of RAM on the original Gameboy.
Theres quite a bit more performance being squeezed out of this chip w the extra RAM. The music is also more detailed now as a result 😊
Keep in mind that they did increase the CPU speed for the Game Boy Color. Joe was mistaken on that part of the specs. But your point is still valid as you can see a lot of improvement along with some interesting ideas from those later games. Add to that some really clever developers like Crawfish and Wayforward. The screen is worth mentioning as well. While the small resolution was a big limitation, the GBC's screen handled motion better than the originals and even the Pockets so that also let developers push things further. I never had a GBC, but I remember when it was new and I liked seeing developers do interesting things with it.
@@ravagingwolverine I'd say the GBA is an even more interesting case. Everyone compares it to the SNES but in actuality it was far more powerful than the SNES, and you could clearly see that in some of the 3D titles.
There was some truly impressive games for that little ARM chip. Was just a matter of time before ARM CPU's took over the mobile market.
@@skins4thewin Yeah, the GBA is also interesting in a similar way. I really loved seeing the attempts at 3D games and demakes of console games. I remember Max Payne being really interesting. GBA had a Tomb Raider game that I remember enjoying. And Tekken Advance was surprisingly good, so I heard. When the GBA was current, it was my favorite platform over the consoles of the time. Not only was it more powerful than the SNES, but the games were larger, which helped. But it did lose some of that power advantage, in terms of what was on screen, from having to run the audio in software.
@@ravagingwolverine Totally agree, I spent copious amounts of time playing my GBA, specially once the SP came out & FINALLY got that backlit screen it so desperately needed!
The main thing that made it great was not only the power it had for 2D games, but just the game library in general. It had a TON of truly amazing games for it! The GBA still to this day probably has the best overall game library of any portable!
That Gameboy Color Elevator Action game would be reskinned into a game called "Dexters Lab - Robot Rampage"
That's basically the North American version.
I thought it looked familiar. I played that one all the time but never knew it was a reskin.
I appreciate all the hardwork, editing, stop motion, and playing these games that went into making this video! Keep 'em coming
*hard work
Loved the Game Boy Color! It was my first gaming hardware ever, such fond memories! Great video as always! love the angled scan-line shots!
Thanks!
Thank you!
One of my favorites from this system was DeJa Vu I and II. Namely because for the longest time it was the best way to get the two most interesting Macventure games.
The subtle, straightman delivery of the humor in this channel is becoming one of my favorite parts. I just stumbled on this channel a week or two ago, and I like it, the guy is informative, friendly, easy to listen to and pleasantly humorous without trying too hard.
The Game Boy Color is one of my favorite game ststems ever, there's so much hidden on that platform, especially if you look into imports, unreleased prototypes and even the bootleg scene is amazing.
no its not you big liar
your favorite system is the Mattel Hyperscan you big noob
dont you ever lie to me again tough man
Fun Fact:
The letters that spell COLOR are colored as the original colors initially released.
C= Berry
O= Grape
L= Kiwi
O= Dandelion
R= Teal
That's how I display mine! 😎👍
fun fact
i dont care
bring it on tough man if you disagree
Still coming up with great themes after all this time. Thanks Joe!
Can't say this system was ahead of it's time, but boy did it have some incredible games.
*its time (possessive pronoun)
it's = contraction of "it is" or "it has"
All contractions have apostrophes, but possessive pronouns never do.
@@alvallac2171 I bet you pulled a lot of girls with that line
This is your best video in a while, so many cool games to check out. More videos like this please.
I believe the Game Boy Color CPU runs as twice the original Game Boy clock speed. Over 8 MHz, not 4 MHz.
Thanks for highlighting the must play GBC games, i was all about PS1 when this came out so I missed out on the Game Boy Color, I did come back for the GBA though and every Nintendo handheld that came after it
My favorite part of this video is the stop motion animation at 1:00
Kudos to Joe for slipping that 6 million dollar man reference into today's episode.
Anyone who doesn't think the Game Boy Color is it's own system only need to look at the 145 games that only work on the GBC. That's a longer list that many other systems have that people don't argue about whether they're their own system or not.
I didn't know anyone actually denied that it was it's own system. Like the GBC library isn't great (probably one of Nintendo's weakest libraries), in fact I would say that it is very lacklustre. It also had a short lifespan, like not even 2.5 years, but it was definitely it's own thing.
Love a good game sack episode great way to end a Saturday night
GBC had a weird lifecycle - the og GB had been out forever, GBC comes out in late '98, then bam GBA comes out in early 2001. Weirdest part is Nintendo lumps GBC sales with og GB sales, shrouding how well the product actually did, or didn't.
I just updated my Analogue Pocket with to run all kinds of cores and you upload this video. Absolute god tier timing.
A rare treat, a handheld-focused episode! Thanks, sack!
The “check points” in Mega Man Xtreme are what made the game possible on the original Game Boy. It was basically away to page out the level data and load new level data since the original Game Boy didn’t have enough RAM otherwise to replicate Mega Man X levels. It’s a technical limitation hidden as a gameplay element.
You should have mentioned the GBC version of Donkey Kong Country. When the original trilogy hit the SNES the portable GameBoy got adapted games (the DK Land ones) that were way inferior to the SNES games. When they released the GBC port of Donkey Kong Country I was very impressed because it was fairly close to the SNES games, all the stages, nice music conversion, way better gameplay than DK Land and very good graphics all things considered. Coming from the DK Land that were "as good as portable DK gets", it was amazing.
Happy to see some love for Return of the Ninja and Motocross Maniacs 2. Legend of the River King 2 is probably one of my favorite game on the console. Otherwise these titles worth to be played: The Mummy, Woody Woodpecker Racing, Driver, Action Man : Search for Base X, Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue.
The GBC is sorely underrated and always seems to get lost between the original Gameboy and the GBA. Amazing what developers were able to pull off on such modest hardware. I had NO IDEA there were over 900 games for this thing.
Which is pretty crazy when you think about it, they had like what, 2 years between gbc and gba releases? They were practically pumping out games for this thing
My favorite Bomberman game on the Color is Pocket Bomberman. Another great ones Wario Land 3, Links Awakening Dx, Harvest Moon 3, Pokémon Puzzle Challenge and Ghosts and Goblins
oracle of ages/seasons are among the best gbc games glad they got mentioned. nothing the zelda series has done since has felt as interesting and compelling. their worlds are really cool and i wish they had been developed more almost as a spinoff series or something
“Does the ps5 have a printer?!…. Yeah, didn’t think so” was such a great line and gave me a good chuckle. Great video! :)
I've seen a fair amount of sacks in my time, but Joe definitely has the best one around! Sacktastic as always!
The stop motion animation made this an instant sub for me. Cant wait to see the rest of your videos!
Oh you'll be glad you did.
Please tell me, how do you get footage with filters/grids to not look like complete ass once uploaded to youtube? Whenever I do it youtube compresses it and ruins my entire image, especially when there is a lot of quick motion. The GBC game look so much better with that effect.
Probably did it through a specific capture card, and then upscaled it on the GPU and uploaded it 4K but it's been upscaled there so all the lines are perfect :)
Costs a fortune though, I didn't bother I just use a £60 capture card and put up with blurry lines. The Joe-Pro setup probably costs closer to £250-300 (or even £2500-3000 if you include the GPU).
What are you running and what's your setup?
@@DailyCorvid He did respond to me on Twitter and told me, "I upload with a very high bitrate and resolution. So a 4K upload with a bitrate of about 69mbps."
For me it all depends on what I'm recording. For PS1 Era and up I play through a Retrotink Upscaler (1080P) or direct HDMI and record with an Elgato HD 60 Pro. For older consoles I generally use Emulators through Retroarch played at 1080p then recorded in OBS.
My GPU is an NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1080... Definitely beginning to show its age.
"I upload with a very high bitrate and resolution. So a 4K upload with a bitrate of about 69mbps."
OMG that is mental!! :D Joe overkills like a Palestinian.... 69MB/s?!? My upload bit rate is 12MB/s and that's the highest it will go on my 8GB GPU lolol. Joe uploads at 7 times the rate I do!
Elgato is what I have but it sucks I am replacing it! Also have a Loupedeck and a copy of OBS. You're doing better than I bud; I completed failed to record anything below 720p :( I'm a lvl 1 noob lol.
@@StilesReviews
@@DailyCorvid I'm just always trying to improve things haha. What kind of capture card are you trying to get in place of an elgato out of curiosity?
Holy crap that new animation you guys are using looks so cool. Seriously I love that close-up angle it just looks immersive
I was at work and I quit my job because a new gamesack video came out and I couldn’t wait to watch. That is how devoted I am to this channel!
Instant classic episode! I hope you can revisit the console again in the future cause GBC games are so nostalgic.
I've always thought the Gameboy was a cool system, having the power of the NES in your pocket and whatnot. Top-shelf quality video is always, and still looking forward to hearing the story about how you got that SNES ASCII pad in the intro
The $6M man sound effect is art. Perfect.
Fun fact; if you play Conker's Pocket Tales on the original Game Boy, the level design itself becomes different.
so its one of the few GBC games that will work on the original Gameboy?
oh hey that WAS a fun fact! im gonna look up some comparison videos if those exist :)
That game has two actual roms in the cartridge, one for GBC and one for GB.
There is also an Asteroids game that does something similar, the game will have different graphics if played in a SNES through a Super Game Boy.
@@GeomancerHT that would be Space Invaders
The very best Game Boy Color games IMO are
:
- Pokemon Red & Blue + Yellow
- Pokemon Gold & Silver + Crystal
- Wario Land II
- Wario Land III
- The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
- The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link's Awakening DX
- Mario Tennis
- Mario Golf
- Snoopy Tennis
- Shantae
- Conker's Pocket Tales
- Mickey's Racing Adventure
- R-Type DX
- Game & Watch Gallery 2
- Game & Watch Gallery 3
- Resident Evil Gaiden
- Bomberman Quest
- Bomberman Max: Blue Champion & Bomberman Max: Red Challenger
- Bugs Bunny: Crazy Castle 3
- Bugs Bunny: Crazy Castle 4
- Spy vs. Spy
- Konami GB Collection Vol.1 - Vol. 4
- Bugs Bunny & Lola Bunny: Operation Carrot Patch
- Looney Tunes Racing
I was excited to find the Hunter x Hunter game, but I got stuck on the first boss... maybe I need to grind for more levels. Also speaking about Konami, too bad you didn't show their Goemon game, Seikuushi Dynamites Arawaru. It's one of the good ones, not nearly as frustrating as most Goemon games tend to be. Another semi-notable Color game is the Moomin game by Sunsoft
Love falling asleep to your videos 😊
Quick correction: the GB had an effective CPU speed of about 1MHz. However, the GBC had a mode that allowed the speed to be doubled to about 2MHz. Therefore, there were games that needed twice the CPU power that could only run on the GBC.
Basically all instructions took multiples of four cycles to complete.
@@guspaz I had always wondered why the Game Boy seemed so slow compared to the SNES or even NES, despite having a higher clock speed (yes, I know clock speed isn't everything, but the discrepancy was pretty extreme). So in a worst case scenario, it's similar to a 1 MHz CPU, but then, it could do better if it's running mostly instructions that take four cycles already?
@@3dmarth the best case is that it can execute around one million instructions per second (since it runs at 4.19 MHz), the worst case is less since there are instructions that take 8/12/etc cycles. I’m not super familiar with the NES architecture, I know that the NTSC one runs at 1.79 MHz and that the shortest instruction takes 2 cycles, and they’re not aligned by any multiple (there are instructions that take 2 cycles, 3 cycles, etc). The SNES is a whole other beast, being a 16-bit processor.
A great night tonight when there is a new episode of gamesack!
Ages>Season
I liked Seasons a bit more
Perfect timing on this episode, Joe! I just got an Anbernic RG35XX and needed some help focusing on the best GBC games to try out.
THE POWER QUEST MUSIC AT THE START??? fantastic choice, great taste in music! that music still kicks butt! glad im not the only one who played that game, definitely one of my favourite gbc games back in the day!
If Joe was around in the 30's I'm positive that he would get color TV's made faster than when they were actually released
I didn't even realize that Game Boy Color didn't have an episode yet. Thank you!
Metal gear solid is awesome on GBC. My friend and I actually played multiplayer via two Gameboy players on two TV's with a link cable 👍
I remember getting my GBC back in Christmas ‘99. I got the Pokémon Yellow bundle for Christmas, and it came with the Pikachu GBC. I played the heck out of my GBC, and I still have it to this day!
Loved hearing you bring up Power Quest, that game has been a hidden gem in the GBC library for near 2 and a half decades!
By far the best GBC game without a doubt -- most and best overall game for your buck, best soundtrack (and imo one of the best sountracks of ANY 8-bit or 8-bit-adjacent system), best longeivity, best multiplayer features, probably even best graphics for all the unique and better-realized-than-before creatures -- is Pokemon Generation 2 (Gold, Silver and especially Crystal). Like it's no contest, it's leaps and bounds beyond anything any competitor was trying to do, it was crammed full of so much TLC and programming wizardry (seriously, look up stories about its development) and TO THIS DAY is widely considered the best generation of Poekmon of all time, the last generation that all the original creators worked on & the ONLY generation that crammed in the FULL previous generation (with some cuts and shrinks here and there to make it fit on a GBC cart, anyway) so that at the time it was by far the ULTIMATE pokemon game and IMO the forthcoming generations, for all the ways they pushed the series forward, kind of paled in comparison. It's too bad you dislike Pokemon so much that you won't even review it and surely wouldn't understand or appreciate these elements because it's the shining jewel of the system and did the most with its leap in hardware over the normal GB. But hey, you covered Shantae which is easily the silver medalist in all ways for the system lol.
You probably don't care about these either but Pokemon Pinball and Pokemon TCG 1 and 2, released all around the same-ish time, are also really excellent games for the system.
Joe, I know you aren't even reading this but still thank you for such a cool presentation! No blocky mess, just a beautiful big-ass lcd matrix screen! Game boy never looked better and you're a real shader pro!
the best thing about Zelda Oracle of Ages/Seasons is that there's a bit of Crossplay tied to them, what seems like double dipping is more of an interesting idea to get around the limitations.
in any case, the GBC was a decent upgrade from the OG, it was lighter, nicer to look like, and it came in a ton of different colors, allowing your handheld to stand out at school or public hangouts.
Great video, not sure why this didn’t pop up in my RUclips feed 12 days ago. I’ve been waiting for the game boy color video forever!
The video didnt even start and it already made my day!Pure love for your sack!
What a nice surprise to start this new day out. Thank you sir, I was getting really freaking bored and couldn’t pick out a video game to play.
With the explosion of retro handhelds, it's crazy to remember some of us paid $30 for THAT version of Street Fighter Alpha 1, while nowadays, you can get the entire CPS2 AND Neo Geo libraries on the go for nearly the same price. That said, I enjoyed every minute of it (although I can't say I liked the GBC Dpad for fighters!)
Edit: I'm glad you saved Shantae for last. The game looks like it was made on a completely separate, more powerful system. VERY impressive, and an aspect that might be lost if you didn't see the rest of the stuff on the GBC.
14:45 "Ryu Feels empty, and very upset!"
Lol we have all been there Ryu, we have all been there.......
I love this episode! Please make more of this amazing console. Could you also make an episode about the rom hacks that add color and new features to the original gameboy games (Super Mario Land 1 & 2, Megaman 5, etc)?
I had no idea this console was so capable.
I love these console showcase videos. Always find something new to check out.
A great video, love your screen filter here. Hoping for a part two with some shmups.
I wish you made the game capture incredibly dim and hard to see just for that extra *_realism_* and *_authenticity._*
Thank God, what a wonderful day! I've been dying for this episode! Gonna watch this 50+ times
So glad you did this video. Gameboy color really maximized the capabilities of 8 bit gaming.
I still have my gameboy color and love to play it from time to time. It was such a good system
Crazy to think, it is still the best selling handheld console ever, beating the Switch about 30 times over.
Woah, that Power Quest music at the start was a surprise nostalgia hit. Loved that game.
Elevator Action EX did come out in the US... kinda. Its graphics were altered and it was released as Dexter's Laboratory: Robot Rampage for the American market.
I remember getting a 100 on a test and my dad and I walked to Toy R Us and I got the ice blue gameboy pocket with a few games.
Pokemon Yellow version is my all time favorite game on the Game Boy Color
Legend of the river king . Funny thing is I like it better on the super Gameboy even though it doesn’t say super Gameboy on the gbc pak it has default borders and what I think is better story book color vs on a gbc .
The stock screen, under sunlight, looks absolutely beautiful!