I wholeheartedly agree! The graphics modes are fun to program for too. You can start with a simple mode 4 that is a bunch of pixels, and eventually advance to

I wholeheartedly agree! The graphics modes are fun to program for too. You can start with a simple mode 4 that is a bunch of pixels, and eventually advance to "mode 7" with pseudo 3d made with tricks in hblank, and a custom vram tile allocator to support larger-than-vram scenes.