GameBoy and GameBoy Advanced

As I wrote yesterday I’m going to start a trip later today and I had the plan to bring my trusty old GameBoy Advanced with me. Originally I only had a handful of games, but in the last 16 years I kind of grabbed a few from GameStop (back when they still had used GBA games, but after they were sold new), or retro fairs, or eBay. I also have a few GB games left from people who lent them to me and never wanted them back (Really, I swear I offered to give them back, years later…)
Anyway, many of those I’ve only played for a few minutes or hours, so here’s a selection I might want to at least give a try (again) on this trip.

• GameBoy Advanced
  • Pokémon Ruby
    • bought not so long ago, started it, wasn’t so bad. My first Pokémon game.
  • Super Monkey Ball Jr.
    • it’s not bad, but doesn’t entertain me for long
  • Golden Sun
    • very good, guess I never finished it though
  • Columns Crown
    • well
  • Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
    • no clue why I bought it a second time.. started a few times, liked it, never got very far though
  • Final Fantasy IV
    • I faintly remember not liking it, must rety
  • Micro Machines
    • fun, but only in short bursts
  • Pitfall
    • bought recently, didn’t play much
  • Rayman Advance
    • hard!
  • Tomb Raider – The Prophecy
    • bought recently, didn’t play much
  • Crash & Spyro
    • bought recently, didn’t play much
• GameBoy Classic
  • Kwirk
    • ok, but never got very far
  • Bad’n’Rad
    • don’t remember
  • Fortress of Fear
    • don’t remember
  • Tetris
    • no comment
  • Bubble Bobble
    • fun!
  • Parodius
    • I liked it, but I always found it too hard
  • Super Mario Land
    • good, never finished it
  • Super Mario Land 2
    • good, never finished it
  • Dr. Mario
    • always liked this better than Tetris. This might be a friend’s exact same cartridge I already played in ~1990-92
  • Mario’s Picross
    • finished this twice or more, and many offshoots on PC
  • Xenon 2
    • Megablast! Best soundtrack ever!

Yeah, I hardly finished any of those and I wrote “hard” very often. I am in general not very competitive, or stubborn enough in regards to finishing games.