If you’ve gone back at all to the vast catalog of Game Boy games, you might be surprised by how so much of it is really doesn’t hold up. The Game Boy was Nintendo’s first true portable system with swappable game carts, rather than a single-purpose LCD Game & Watch toy. It had to be able to run actual games, with actual computer processors. These processors were very out-of-date even when the Game Boy was new, with its Z80 CPU having powered many computers from the late 1970s. As the first of its kind, the grey brick was a heap of technical and financial compromises; but it could run the oddball Super Mario Land, and later Tetris, Pokémon, and even a Zelda game in Link’s Awakening. Trying to adapt overly ambitious home-console NES game for the meager capabilities of the machine lead to cases like Metroid II, Castlevania: The Adventure, and Mega Man: Dr. Wily’s Revenge. I have tried going back to these games on the 3DS Virtual Console, and they just aren’t fun.

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SEGA Ages devs researching NAOMI arcade board titles for Switch, eyeing one game in particular

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With SEGA Ages, while the classic games themselves are exciting to see on Switch, fans have also been very curious about what could lie ahead for the series in the future. We’ve already seen that the team is interested in possibly bringing over Dreamcast games. One thing that hasn’t been brought up, however, is the possibility of releasing titles from the SEGA NAOMI arcade board – until now.

In an interview with Game Watch, M2 president Naoki Horii revealed that the team is researching SEGA NAOMI’s titles for Switch. In fact, there’s one unnamed game in particular that they intend to release due to their own personal interest.

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Gensokyo Defenders Japanese trailer

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Unties published a new Japanese trailer for the shoot-em-up action and tactical tower defense hybrid game Gensokyo Defenders. Watch it below.

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Nintendo’s “The Download” video – October 2018

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Nintendo has put out a new video highlighting some of the games that were added to the eShop around October. Get a look at it below.

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Mercenaries Wings: The False Phoenix arrives November 8 in the west

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Mercenaries Wings: The False Phoenix has received a western release date. In North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, the game will arrive on November 8.

Here’s an overview: