Nintendo Game Boy/Japan

Game Boy

Japan

Homebrew

"Enjoy it wherever you are."[1]

Japan-only games

This icon indicates a game is "SGB enchanced", meaning it will have visual improvements when played on a SNES with the Super Game Boy adapter.

Cover	Title	Genre	Description	Translation	Screenshot
	Another Bible	RPG / Strategy	The spirtual precursor to Devil Survivor and a spin off of the Majin Tensei series. Plays like a cross between SMT and Shining Force. This features typical Megaten stuff of recruiting monsters (and sometimes humans) to tear shit up alongside you. Much more cute and light-hearted than the aforementioned games, but still pretty tough. Kind of slow, so be sure you have some way of speeding it up.	Link
	Cave Noire	Roguelike/Puzzle	A simple to understand Roguelike puzzler, in which different dungeons with different goals to accomplish. However, the dungeons are randomly generated, and feature many monsters, tricks, and traps to get through. Thankfully, you can find some power-ups to even the score. A nice way to kill time and arguably the roguelike spiritual predecessor to short-burst RPG, Half-Minute Hero, available on PSP. Has a spiritual sequel in the Monster Gate series on GBA.	Link
	Chalvo 55 - Super Puzzle Action	Platform / Puzzle	A fun experience: You're a robot who can morph into a ball to reach high grounds. Pretty simple,but when it comes to exploration,it works very nice. Puzzles are kinda easy for a game with great potential.	Link
	Crayon Shin-chan 4	Platformer	The best of the GB Shin-chan games. The rest are mediocre platformers or mini-game fests that don't play as well as you'd hope, especially with the need to know Japanese in the minigames. This is a pretty good platformer with power-ups that work akin to Mario. This is short and easy, but pretty fun and has Super Game Boy support. Fun Fact: This was graphics hax'd into the pirate game "Super Mario Land 4" in those wacky 50-in-1 carts you might have seen at flea markets, pawn shops, etc.
	Daisenryaku	Strategy	For wargames lovers for GB,here is one fun and kinda addictive game. Some features in this one resembles much the Wars franchise on the Nintendo' consoles,but in future entries it has it's own gameplay and feeling.	Link
	Ganbare Goemon: Sarawareta Ebisumaru! (Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon)	Action-RPG	It's friggin' Goemon. This uses similar gameplay to the Famicom games, but many would say this is much better than those. There's a large variety of enemies and bosses, and you need to do little subquests for side characters before you can move to the next level. Sequels and spinoffs are on GB/GBC, though of varying quality. Included on Konami GB Collection Vol. 3 for GBC, fully translated and colorized.
	Ikari no Yousai 2	Run and Gun	Sequel to Fortified Zone. An overhead game that plays like a more action-y Metal Gear. You have weapons with different attributes and two characters to switch between, who also have different attributes. Much-improved sequel to Fortified Zone. Had a SNES sequel, Operation Logic Bomb, but it changed up some things, so beware if you play it after this.	Link
	Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls)	Action-Adventure	This classic combines overhead and platforming exploration to test your wits and magic items. This game's engine was modified to make Link's Awakening, so it should be no surprise! Fights are oddly automatic without your input (although you can use certain key items). This is meant for checking every nook and cranny for level-up items to get stronger.	Link
	Makaimura Gaiden: The Demon Darkness (Gargoyle's Quest 2)	Action RPG / Platformer	An "enhanced port" of Gargoyle's Quest 2 for NES but with 2 new levels and some differences here and there (like near identical graphics to the above and more limited hover).	Link
	Penta Dragon	Shoot em' Up / Run n' Gun	A strange shoot em' up,but it works! A human had a baby with a dragon ("wow"),and the child need one of her mother' eye to reach adulthood to defend a kingdom. Yeah,bizarre,but for the gameplay,is like you say "Link has a gun",because you move the character like the said Link,but shoot at waves of monsters and finds upgrades and items on the floor,which makes you want explore. The screen scrolling is kinda choppy,but has a good music and the visuals like FFAdventure.	Link
	X	3D shooter	The only 3D game on the system, this was basically Star Fox's predecessor. The ROM of the unreleased US version (retitled Lunar Chase) is out there. There's a sequel, X-Scape for the DS.	Link