- cross-posted to:
- retrogaming@lemmy.world
- gaming@kbin.social
- cross-posted to:
- retrogaming@lemmy.world
- gaming@kbin.social
No, you’re not reading that headline incorrectly – fast food giant McDonald’s has just released a Game Boy Color game in the Year of Our Lord, 2023.
Played for a minute in RetroArch on my phone. Not bad, GBC goty for sure. Only complaint, the lore was too deep in the opening cinematic
Archive org link from article https://archive.org/download/grimaces-birthday/grimacebday.gb
MVP right here. Gonna toss this in the ol’ flash cart and check it out.
In addition to being an odd thing to happen and grimace’s walk animation looking well like this:
but overall its a weirdly good looking game for a gbc release.
What a time to be alive.
Two Minute Papers
I would love to see a resurgence of .gba games, I love how light weight they are. It could just be nostalgia.
Part of it is nostalgia, but with the Steam Deck I’ve been able to emulate GameBoy games that I wasn’t able to play before. Safe to say it’s renewed my interest in what other hidden gems the GBA had
There is a pretty big Game Boy modding community that is constantly pushing forward with mods. Also the ROM hack community. Game Boy is still alive… ish.
Hard mode is actually pretty hard lol
Man I definitely need to download this when I get home today!
Well that was fun for about ten minutes. I gave up when it got too hard.