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Can you guess that "modern" game - as a Gameboy game?

slash000slash000 Registered User regular
edited August 2008 in Games and Technology
Hey everyone, so, wayofthepixel.net's forums had a contest -

To make the best old-brick, greenscreen Gameboy mockup of a modern game (or such a game that you wouldn't expect to see on GB hardware).

Most of the results are fantastic!

I had to make this thread because some of these are awesome.


Can you guess which games these are?

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If you can't ID a game, you can probably figure it out from the image filename.


Anyway, I thought this was great and wanted to share.


I'd be totally willing to do some mockups of my own just for fun.

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  • ZackSchillingZackSchilling Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    These are really great. The Yoshi's Island one makes me wish it existed.

    The last one reminds me of this and what could have been.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShC8zJgbTts

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  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    The first and nineteenth ones are real hard. I can't figure them out.

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  • plehpleh Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    That first image, the very very top one, has me fucking stumped.

    No it doesn't.

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  • AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero The new film by Quentin Koopantino Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I don't remember Gameboy games looking that good.

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  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Nice!

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  • KenninatorKenninator Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    oh, Cave Story.

    These are real great.

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  • Rear Admiral ChocoRear Admiral Choco I wanna be an owl, Jerry! Owl York CityRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I was just playing this one.

    It's a remake of the Goldeneye Dam level, but as a side scroller.

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    So far it's pretty cool, but a little difficult.

    I wish these were real. :(

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  • slash000slash000 Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I get a kick out of the GodHand one. :P

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  • SilvoculousSilvoculous Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    AbsoluteZero wrote: »
    I don't remember Gameboy games looking that good.

    The original Gameboy had some serious punch under the hood.

    Quite a few these could very well be possible, which rules all over the place.

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  • ZackSchillingZackSchilling Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Silvoculous wrote: »
    AbsoluteZero wrote: »
    I don't remember Gameboy games looking that good.

    The original Gameboy had some serious punch under the hood.

    Quite a few these could very well be possible, which rules all over the place.

    The Donkey Kong Land series looked pretty good. I'd say all of them are possible. None look 3D or anything silly.

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  • SilvoculousSilvoculous Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Hell.

    Mega Man V, Super Mario Land 2, Link's Awakening, the list is practically endless.

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  • ArcibiArcibi Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Wasn't there an actual version of Prince of Persia for the Game Boy

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  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Arcibi wrote: »
    Wasn't there an actual version of Prince of Persia for the Game Boy

    Yeah, now that you mention it, there was.

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  • slash000slash000 Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Arcibi wrote: »
    Wasn't there an actual version of Prince of Persia for the Game Boy

    Original Prince of Persia? Yes.

    Sands of Time Prince of Persia? No.

    But yes on GBA.

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    slash000 wrote: »
    Arcibi wrote: »
    Wasn't there an actual version of Prince of Persia for the Game Boy

    Original Prince of Persia? Yes.

    Sands of Time Prince of Persia? No.

    But yes on GBA.

    Oh man the GBA SoT game was so good! I totally forgot about that game! Such a fun puzzle/metroid style game.

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  • AntihippyAntihippy Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    The God Hand one is pretty glorious.

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  • SaddlerSaddler Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    These are pretty cool, but many of them are not modern.

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  • IceBurnerIceBurner It's cold and there are penguins.Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Dismayed by lack of portable Off-Road Raptor Safari.

    GB S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is pure awesome though.

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  • RichardTauberRichardTauber Kvlt Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Dreamweb for all that is holy! This is awesome!

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Wow, RE on the Gameboy Color. It looks like crap, but it's a very impressive technical achievement. Can't imagine a GBC cart could store data for an entire game like that, though.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Wow, these are really cool.

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  • TVs_FrankTVs_Frank Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Great find! The Bioshock and Dreamweb ones made me all "Fuck yeah".

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  • ZilartZilart Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    The Bioshock one looks great, it'd be cool to play something like that on the GB, ala. Star Wars.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    Wow, RE on the Gameboy Color. It looks like crap, but it's a very impressive technical achievement. Can't imagine a GBC cart could store data for an entire game like that, though.

    Well if you remember, a GB is on about the same power level as a NES, probably a bit more. The NES had several games that were nothing but pictures, including stuff like this:

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    But all of those had pretty much straight on viewpoints with lots of repeated data, so the biggest problem with RE on the GB is the "camera angles."

    I could see a game in the Maniac Mansion style working as RE, that game was scaaary sometimes.

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Those are incredibly fucking impressive.

    And I would play the shit out of Okami GameBoy.

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  • .Tripwire..Tripwire. Firman Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
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    ^Is this a dude looking at a bison and masturbating? I would like to play that game.

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  • InzignaInzigna Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Now I cannot un-see it. Fuck you and your naughty mind.
    I want to play it too.

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  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    it's Out of this World

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  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    PeregrineFalcon wrote: »
    Those are incredibly fucking impressive.

    And I would play the shit out of Okami GameBoy.

    I would play the shit out of Okami anything though.

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  • GyralGyral Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I'll admit, I found a little joy inside me for instantly recognizing a good number of these (like Odin Sphere and FFXII). Some are more obvious than others.

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Diarmuid wrote: »
    PeregrineFalcon wrote: »
    Those are incredibly fucking impressive.

    And I would play the shit out of Okami GameBoy.

    I would play the shit out of Okami anything though.

    Okami DS. The stylus. PERFECTION.

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  • InzignaInzigna Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Renzo wrote: »
    it's Out of this World
    That's not terribly modern is it? Unless I've got my facts wrong.

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  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Inzigna wrote: »
    Renzo wrote: »
    it's Out of this World
    That's not terribly modern is it? Unless I've got my facts wrong.

    you're right, it's been around a while.

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  • slash000slash000 Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    By "modern," I meant - exceeding that which you would expect to run on Gameboy Brick hardware. I guess it's technically a misnomer.

    But that doesn't affect just how cool some of these are.

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