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Super Mario Land, 1 and 2. Dr. Mario. Game Boy games tended to be limited due to space constraints.
by gwbas1c 2y ago
Super Mario Land, 1 and 2. Dr. Mario.
Game Boy games tended to be limited due to space constraints.
- xtracto 2y agoI has SML 1 and OperationC in the original game boy. Such great games. Also links awakening!!
- lxgr 2y agoThere are definitely limitations, but later games have a lot more depth than these. Link's Awakening feels like it shouldn't be possible in a single megabyte of mask ROM, for example. The fact that it was makes it almost more impressive by today's standards.
- djtango 2y agoGames back then were a bit of a dark art... I feel like I don't really encounter stories of heroics in making games work on their hardware anymore. Even at the end of PS1 with Final Fantasy their hand drawn backgrounds were too big to fit into VRAM iirc Or in the PS2 era Jak and Daxter using the principle of hot reloading from lisp to figure out open worlds without loading screens
- Narishma 2y agoThe limitations nowadays for game development are more on the budget side than the hardware.
- wing-_-nuts 2y agoThe fact that a single dev used to be able to complete an entire game really makes me wish I had come of age back in the day when that was possible. I feel like you can only approach something similar with pico-8 or another fantasy console these days.
- RetroSpark 2y ago> Link's Awakening feels like it shouldn't be possible in a single megabyte of mask ROM Half a megabyte, even! (For the original monochrome game - the later color version is a full megabyte.)
- lxgr 2y agoAh, right, I fortunately slept on it long enough to get the DX version right away! The photographer side plot was amazing, especially with a Game Boy Printer :)