I'm intereseted in collecting all the games on the NES games that got ported to the Gameboy is there a list out there somewhere?  I know there are quite a few

I don't remember many titles other than Tetris getting a port to the Gameboy. Most popular franchises like TMNT, Mario, Megaman, Castlevania, etc. got a whole new game.

Do you mean on the GBA? There were quite a few indeed. Gamefaqs would be able to help since they all start with the title Classic NES Series or Famicom Mini

Off the top of my head, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Cliffhanger, and WWF King of the Ring fit the bill. There are tons of others, especially toward the end of the NES lifespan.

Well, I know what my next list is

And 5 minutes later...here's the first draft.

Title	Category
Addams Family, The	Licensed
Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt, The	Licensed
Adventure Island	Licensed
Adventure Island II: Aliens in Paradise	Licensed
Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, The	Licensed
Aladdin, Disney's	Licensed
Alfred Chicken	Licensed
Alien 3	Licensed
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes	Licensed
Barbie Game Girl	Licensed
Baseball	Licensed
Bases Loaded	Licensed
Batman Forever	Licensed
Batman: Return of the Joker	Licensed
Batman: The Video Game	Licensed
Battleship: The Classic Naval Combat Game	Licensed
Battletoads	Licensed
Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team	Licensed
Beetlejuice	Licensed
Best of the Best: Championship Karate	Licensed
Bill & Ted's Excellent Game Boy Adventure	Licensed
Bill Elliot's Nascar Fast Tracks	Licensed
Bionic Commando	Licensed
Black Bass Lure Fishing	Licensed
Blades of Steel ["Contest Box"]	Licensed
Blues Brothers, The	Licensed
Bo Jackson's Hit and Run! Baseball and Football	Licensed
Bomberman GB	Licensed
Bonk's Adventure	Licensed
Bram Stoker's Dracula	Licensed
BreakThru!	Licensed
Bubble Bobble	Licensed
Bubble Bobble: Part 2	Licensed
Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle, The	Licensed
Burai Fighter Deluxe	Licensed
Burgertime Deluxe	Licensed
Caesar's Palace	Licensed
Captain America and the Avengers	Licensed
Castelian	Licensed
Centipede	Licensed
Championship Pool	Licensed
Chessmaster, The	Licensed
Cliffhanger	Licensed
Cool World	Licensed
Darkman	Licensed
Darkwing Duck	Licensed
Days of Thunder	Licensed
Dick Tracy	Licensed
Dig Dug	Licensed
Donkey Kong	Licensed
Double Dragon	Licensed
Double Dragon II	Licensed
Double Dragon III: The Arcade Game	Licensed
Dr. Mario	Licensed
Dragon's Lair: The Legend	Licensed
DuckTales	Licensed
DuckTales 2	Licensed
Elevator Action	Licensed
F-15 Strike Eagle	Licensed
Felix the Cat	Licensed
Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge	Licensed
Fist of the North Star	Licensed
Gauntlet II	Licensed
George Foreman's KO Boxing	Licensed
Ghostbusters II	Licensed
Goal!	Licensed
Godzilla	Licensed
Golf	Licensed
Gradius: The Interstellar Assault	Licensed
Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Licensed
Hatris	Licensed
Home Alone	Licensed
Home Alone II: Lost in New York	Licensed
Hook	Licensed
Hudson Hawk	Licensed
Hunt for Red October, The	Licensed
Incredible Crash Dummies, The	Licensed
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Licensed
Jeopardy!	Licensed
Jimmy Connors Tennis	Licensed
Joe & Mac	Licensed
Jungle Book, The	Licensed
Jurassic Park	Licensed
Klax	Licensed
Krusty's Funhouse	Licensed
Last Action Hero	Licensed
Lemmings	Licensed
Lethal Weapon	Licensed
Little Mermaid, The	Licensed
LoopZ	Licensed
Marble Madness	Licensed
Mega Man II	Licensed
Mega Man III	Licensed
Mega Man IV	Licensed
Mega Man V	Licensed
Micro Machines	Licensed
Milon's Secret Castle	Licensed
Monopoly	Licensed
Ms. Pac Man	Licensed
Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing	Licensed
Nintendo World Cup Soccer	Licensed
Nobunaga's Ambition	Licensed
Pac Man	Licensed
Paperboy	Licensed
Paperboy 2	Licensed
Pipe Dream	Licensed
Play Action Football	Licensed
Prince of Persia	Licensed
Punisher, The	Licensed
Q*Bert	Licensed
Qix	Licensed
Rampart	Licensed
Real Ghostbusters , The	Licensed
RoboCop	Licensed
RoboCop 2	Licensed
Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball	Licensed
Smurfs, The (Player's Choice)	Licensed
Snow Bros.	Licensed
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary	Licensed
Star Trek: The Next Generation	Licensed
Star Wars	Licensed
Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back, The	Licensed
Superman	Licensed
Swamp Thing	Licensed
T2: Terminator Judgment Day	Licensed
Tale Spin	Licensed
Tecmo Bowl	Licensed
Tennis	Licensed
Tetris	Licensed
Tetris 2	Licensed
Track & Field	Licensed
Vegas Stakes	Licensed
Wayne's World	Licensed
Wheel of Fortune	Licensed
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?	Licensed
Yoshi	Licensed
Yoshi's Cookie	Licensed
Zen: Intergalactic Ninja	Licensed
Exodus	Unlicensed
Joshua and the Battle of Jericho	Unlicensed
King James Bible	Unlicensed
Spiritual Warfare	Unlicensed

Wow very impressive list! I never knew half of these games were ported, I need to add Darkwing Duck to my list of games to get. Looks awesome!

Not all of them were. Some of them are same title, different game (ie Batman). That list needs tweaking. But it's a good start.

Exactly.  The list above is just a title lookup of NES titles that appear on GB.  But many of them are not the same game at all... list needs to be developed by someone with a lot of GB playing experience.

Mega Mans, for example, are completely different.  NES uses conventional numbering (2, 3, etc.) and GB is Roman numerals for this exact reason.

There is the Japanese-only released "Namco Gallery" series. Volume One has direct ports of Famicom titles Battle City, Mappy, and Namco Classic Golf. Galaga is also included but I'm not sure if it is a true port or not, it is the same version as the American GB release.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namc...





There are two other volumes in the series. I do not own either of the others, though, so I am not sure if the games on those are direct ports or not.

Interesting initial draft, JosephLeo. I would omit Donkey Kong (94) as it's an entirely new game and is based off the original arcade property. Mega Man V is another game where it's distinctly different from the NES original, which is one reason there is such interest in the game. Bionic Commando is a game where it takes aspects from both NES and arcade games and thus isn't so much a port or conversion but a remake so on those grounds I'd omit it.

Missing is Battle for Olympus which is a Europe exclusive but as I can tell is very much in the vein of a conversion from the NES original.

Yea that's a good start for a list. I'm sure there are games that are almost the same as the NES, like Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt, it's just that some of the games only share a link to the NES games in name only. They are totally different games otherwise.

Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle is actually a sequel to the NES game.

Why is the King James Bible on there?

Are you sure?  I thought the first game was identical, but the second was a GB exclusive...I could be mistaken though, I haven't played either all that much (and the GB game I haven't fired up since I was a teenager, and have never personally owned it).

Duck Tales I believe was identical between platforms as well, but again, it's been a while since I played the Game Boy version so I can't be 100% sure there. 

Battletoads are two totally different games on NES and GB. I believe Ragnorak's World is basically the same as the NES version, though.

I just beat Felix the Cat on the gameboy this weekend out on my hammock, fun game but it was very short and easy. First try beat it in about 20 minutes. Is the NES version just as short and easy?

Mega Man V is a totally different game with original Robot Masters.

Double Dragon II is a totally different game, and in fact is actually just a re-skin of a Japanese Kunio game. Kunio is the series that brought us River City Ransom, but the Game Boy game was changed to Double Dragon in English

Bonk's Adventure is a totally different game

Cool World is a totally different game

Robin Hood Prince of Thieves should be on this list as I was able to follow an NES walkthrough of the game for the Game Boy version. They're the exact same, except that the A.I in the Game Boy version is even more stupid.

I'd also omit Tennis, since that's kind of an insult to the Game Boy version. It's kind of the same as the NES game, but a million times better.

Oh hey, I didn't know there was a Crazy Castle 1 for the Gameboy. It looks like a functional port of the NES game, so nevermind.

Pretty sure it's longer but still as easy.

No doubt that list is full of holes. All I did was literally take the list of GB games and delete everything that I didn't think had an NES counterpart. Part 2 of that list involves me playing those games.

Add Side Pocket to the list! I'm actually using this list as a base to go off of when minimizing my games list on the NES Classic.

Gremlins 2 is also a totally different game on Game Boy. So is The Incredible Crash Dummies.

Missing on the list is The Battle of Olympus.

BTW, tThere's The Lion King where the NES is actually a (crappy) port of the Game Boy version, although it misses half of the levels.

Battle of Olympus is PAL only, just a note.

This would be a fun video series. Who has lots of time and is okay with their work being underappreciated? Get on this!

If anyone still cares about this list, it should be noted that Breakthru! on Game Boy matches the Breakthru! on SNES, which is a puzzle game. Not to be confused with Breakthru (no exclamation) on NES, which is an action/adventure/shooting game.

Also Burgertime Deluxe on GB has different level layouts and different general feel to it than on NES. But it's still a Burgertime game. There are other GB games like this, but I'm not familiar enough with the NES counterparts to identify them right off.

NVM, deleted



 

I mentioned it in another thread but the only games I really remember being similar, or identical to their NES counterparts are Ducktales, Ducktales 2, Felix the Cat, Cliffhanger, Adventure Island, Adventure Island II, Alfred Chicken, Battletoads Double Dragon, Best of the Best, I THINK Bram Stokers Dracula, Burai Fighter, Castelian, Darkwing Duck, Hatris, Indiana Jones (UBISOFT), Jimmy Connors Tennis, I THINK Jungle Book, Lethal Weapon, Puglesys Scavenger Hunt, Qix, Snow Bros (Mostly, has extra levels), Waynes World.