Amazing Game Boy "Remakes" of Modern Games

Aug. 27 7:22 PM by Lynxara

I've written before about how a lot of classic Game Boy games deserved better hardware (which is part of why Wario Land: Shake It! is so rad to me). That said, the Game Boy's hardware constraints forced some very distinctive visual choices and design limitations on developers at the time. What would happen if you forced these constraints on a modern developer... or, say, a modern game?

This Way of the Pixel Mock-Up Challenge is a year old, but I just found it today while doing my rounds at CrunchGear. It's too rad to be ignored. A bunch of fans got together and made screens of what the Game Boy versions of a lot of other famous games, including very modern ones, would look like if crammed onto a sad little Game Boy cart.

I'm sure you can recognize the title above, and I've thrown some of my favorites into a section behind the cut. Can you guess them all?

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Let's see...

1) Bioshock
2) FF XII
3) ?
4) RE 4
5) Sam and Max
6) Yoshi's Island (?)
7) Burnout
8) Okami
9) ?

Hillariously though, I could see Gameboy Bioshock semi-working as one of those simplistic platformers they'd release all the time back in the day.

 

#3 is Boktai, isn't it?

 

last one looks like gta and wow this is soooo cool

 

The last one is definitely not GTA!

 

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