So, where's the Gameboy?

[pocketmego]

With the Gameboy Advance all but a memory and Gamecubes giving ways to the Wii, the options for playing classic monochrome and Color Gameboy games is quickly vanishing.

Where is the Gameboy channel on Wii-shop? We know they have had the ability to emulate Gameboy games on larger consoles all the way back to the days of the Super Nintendo, so what's the bloody hold up?

A lot of younger gamers are missing out on some terrific lost gems and guys like me who might have lost some of their Monochrome goodies over the years want to play them again.

Plus, the Gameboy had some important "heritage titles" on it. Metroid 2 only ever came out on GB. There are 3 Mario Games and 3 Zelda Games. There are also 3 DK Land games on it.

Plus the GB has arguably the best version of the original Donkey Kong ever put on any system, with 96 extra levels added.

So, does anyone know if we'll be getting some Gameboy Love soon?

-Ray

[The shoemaker]

Yes I thought about that too, they might put it on since no one is selling NEW game boy games not used. If they do it'll probably be until nintendo runs out of games for the VC.

[Angelic Lapras King]

I d wait till Nintendo start to run low on their BIG titles. Then, they ll proberly start rolling out other consoles, like the GB. ^^

[Tull]

Im x'ing my fingers for GB in the future.

[kelvingreen]

Yeah, I know some people have issues with playing GB games on a TV screen, but I'm not one of them, and I'd love to see GB/GBC/GBA on Virtual Console, if for no other reason than to have one of the best games in the Zelda series made available once again.

[samaine]

Yeah, Game Boy is just one "Super Game Boy" emulator away... Like how Game Gear games would be possible with a Master System emulator.

[deggs]

yeah serious, i mean, in the past few years i've bought a bunch off of ebay (gargoyle's quest, double dragon 2 which is actually a sequel to river city ransom with different sprites and music, chessmaster - which rocks the snes chess master hands down, gradius interstellar assault and dragon warrior 3). having any of these for vc would be sweet.

[JordanR]

I havnt searched so I dont no if this has been posted anywhere on the forums but here is abit of news on this subject from last week:

You thought the Animal Crossing MMO was the only juicy Nintendo rumor that EDGE had this month. Well you would be quite wrong sir! They also seem to believe that Nintendo will be releasing official flash cards for the DS in preparation for a DS VC service. One that would bring downloads of Game Boy and Game Boy Color titles, as well as some new works. You would access this channel through communication with the Wii, most likely. If this rumor turns out to be true, then my end of day thought from long ago will have meant something!

http://gonintendo.com/?p=27942

[Oui_Oui]

I missed out on Zelda: Chronicles of Ages/Seasons or what ever, and they seem like awesome games.

I also had the gameboy yellow cartrage of DK! It was sooo awesome. I keep remembering trying to jam it into my gameboy, and blowing on it all the time to make it play!

But hey! It probably would happen! I would gladly pay up to 300-400 for Gameboy games, and around about 500 for advance games!

[ICEknight]

Erm... Nobody mentioned GB Advance games, just GB and GB Color.

[Shortay]

Originally Posted by ICEknight

Erm... Nobody mentioned GB Advance games, just GB and GB Color.

He can say what he'd pay for GBA games if they came to VC if he wants.

[morikaweb]

GB games on the VC would be awesome, but for one problem.

Allot of latter GBC games could not be fully completed without playing with another person via the link (think Pokémon or the latter Zelda games for example). In order to do these games justice Nintendo would need to enable multiplayer somehow.

[The shoemaker]

game boy had multiplayer? Didn't GBA start that.

[Angelic Lapras King]

Originally Posted by The shoemaker

game boy had multiplayer? Didn't GBA start that.

Nope. GB started that. The original Tetris had it, PKMN RBY had it, hell Wave Race GB even had 4 player!

[Pocketim]

Originally Posted by Oui_Oui

I missed out on Zelda: Chronicles of Ages/Seasons or what ever, and they seem like awesome games.

I also had the gameboy yellow cartrage of DK! It was sooo awesome. I keep remembering trying to jam it into my gameboy, and blowing on it all the time to make it play!

But hey! It probably would happen! I would gladly pay up to 300-400 for Gameboy games, and around about 500 for advance games!

Its Oracle of Ages/Seasons, I only have Ages but it is my favorite Zelda game of all time (that I have played)

And I have Donkey Kong Land 2 as well! My copy still works quite well and on the GBA the graphics sorta look like a sketch!

[Spore]

Why do you guys always bump up 2 month old threads? My verdict is they are saving gameboy game 'till the next handheld platform.

[The shoemaker]

I think gameboy games would coast like 800 points maybe more. But yes they might be saving game boy for the next system. When will that be 10 years?

[yamiiguy]

Originally Posted by The shoemaker

I think gameboy games would coast like 800 points maybe more. But yes they might be saving game boy for the next system. When will that be 10 years?

EDGE magazine has said that a Virtual Console is coming to the DS with GameBoy/GameBoy Color games along with memory that will go in the GBA slot

[Angelic Lapras King]

800 points would be a bit mad though. I mean, a GB title over say, a SNES or TGCD game?

500 is the max I d pay. Maybe 800 for GBA ones but certainly not GB or even GBA.

[The shoemaker]

I think gba would like be 1000 because they still sell them and there's a lot of good games on them, well yeah maybe 800. and actually a game boy game is just like a nes game so yeah 500.

[Pocketim]

Originally Posted by The shoemaker

I think gba would like be 1000 because they still sell them and there's a lot of good games on them, well yeah maybe 800. and actually a game boy game is just like a nes game so yeah 500.

There is some awesome games on N64 VC but they are still 1000 wii points

[ZueriHB]

I think GB games should be less than 500 Wii Points (the biggest are 1 Megabyte), GBC maby 100 or 200 more, and if GBA is coming, same amount of Points more than GBC are to GB.

The biggest cost would be to develop the needed framework (DS Flash cartridge, Shop-channel entry / Shop-channel for DS, Emulator) and the operations guide for each language supported by Wii and DS.