21st April 2024 marks the 35th anniversary of Nintendo's Game Boy. Over the next few days, we'll be publishing various features to celebrate three-and-a-half decades of the humble handheld. We kick things off with this reader-ranked list. Remember, this is based on each game's User Rating in our ..read more

Kudzu (Switch) A Delightful, Leafy Ode To Link's Awakening And The Game Boy Kudzu came to this reviewer during a significant birthday celebration. The day was filled with echoes of our past. There was the music on the radio – uncanny remixes of early-to-mid-90s techno songs that used to hype up pre-teen candyfloss-fuelled visits to funfairs. And there was Kudzu and its unsubtle similarity to all-time ..read more

Evolving With Pokémon: How The Games Helped Me Navigate A Confused Childhood The Game Boy turns 35 years old on 21st April 2024, and we'll be running several features over the next few days celebrating the system and its games. Today, Tim thinks back on how Pocket Monsters came to his aid in his formative years, and how the series that started on Nintendo's iconic portable would ..read more

30 Years Later, Super Metroid's Foreboding Atmosphere Is Still Unmatched Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've been chewing over. Today, to celebrate Super Metroid's 30th anniversary, Ollie sings the praises of the game's enduring foreboding atmosphere... The Metroid series is perhaps best known for its ..read more

F-Zero Maximum Velocity (GBA) - The First Portable F-Zero Still Holds Up This review originally went live in 2014, and we're updating and republishing it to celebrate the game's arrival in Switch's Game Boy Advance library via Nintendo Switch Online. Ah, F-Zero. The futuristic racing series that’s so fast that even Nintendo lost track of it for years. Since it released the Japanese exclusive ..read more

Mario Tennis (GBC) - Camelot's Ace Little Tennis RPG Is Hard To Fault This review originally went live in 2014, and we're updating and republishing it to celebrate the game's arrival in Switch's Game Boy (Color) library via Nintendo Switch Online. For whatever its name is worth, Mario Tennis doesn’t feature a lot of the red guy — at least at first. That may come as an initial disappointment to ..read more

"The Odds Seemed Just Astronomical" - Reviving Lost Media With Shantae Advance It's not often that a developer gets to revisit a chapter of their past and pick up where they left off on a project two decades prior, but the revival of Shantae Advance in the form of Risky Revolution has given WayForward creative director Matt Bozon just that opportunity ..read more

Best Star Wars Video Games, Ranked - Switch And Nintendo Systems Updated with the excellent Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster — feel free to add your own rating once you've played it and see where it ends up in the rankings. Remember, the ranked list below is governed by each game's User Rating in our database, meaning that the order is dynamic and subject to real-time ..read more

Meet Morphcat Games, The New-Gen NES Devs Pushing The 8-Bit Envelope Four decades after it became an international sales phenomenon and dominated a crowded games market, the Nintendo Entertainment System – the 8-bit box that gave birth to some of the medium’s biggest enduring franchises – today finds itself playing host to something else entirely: new ..read more

Best Nintendo Remakes & Remasters Of All Time, Ranked We've updated this list with Mario vs. Donkey Kong, and have also reworked it from 'remakes-only' to now feature Nintendo-published remasters, too. Happy now? Read on for more details... When it comes to remaking, remastering, and re-releasing a game, it's easy to assume every publisher out there is plundering its ..read more