Originally posted by: 14u2ponder
Originally posted by: Gloves
You can find a better Lock n Chase? Name it. You can find a better Kid Icarus, Wario WAS the first appearance of him.
Since you are interested in Absolutes: name a another puzzle game better than tetris.
The point is, the game boy is generally considered to have the greatest puzzle games of any syteam before or after it (that's not subjective), not only the greatest in terms of quality, but in terms of sheer variety. You may not like puzzle games and that's cool, but you cannot name another system that has more to offer, or more quality.
As far as 2-d platforming is concerned, it could be subjective that Game boy was the best system for it. I personally think it has some of the more interesting ones on the system.
The first Secret of Mana, on the gameboy.
The first system with Link not in Hyrule, gameboy.
On of the few truly unqiue Mario Games, game boy.
Wasn't Castlevannia legends the first with a female protag in the series. Gameboy.
And while you may prefer other pokemon's, there is no denying that Pokemon for the gameboy made the gameboy the top selling portlable system of all time.
No, gameboy all the way.
Lol being the first to do something doesn't make it the greatest, so we can scrap all those arguments off the bat.
We seem to be defining things a little differently though - I am saying that "better" games exist on other consoles for each of the styles of game you're talking about. You seem to be saying "Game Boy has the best version of each of these specific game series". Of course this is purely subjective, in both cases.
Is there a better Ghostbusters game than the one on Game Boy? I dunno - in my experience there's no such thing as a good Ghostbusters game. The on on Game Boy looks boring and at times frustrating on account of the second-player AI.
A better Lock 'n' Chase? I mean, I'd say Pac Man is better and that could count by the terms you've set in place, seemingly going off "this did it first so it's better". The game doesn't look very challenging or anything and I've not played it myself so can't really speak to that. That style of game isn't my bag - I prefer the simplicity of straight-up Pac Man.
Any puzzle game would be better than Tetris IMO. But I hate Tetris. Boring boring boring. Sticking to Tetris though I'd MUCH rather play something like Tetris Attack on the SNES; it has more features, better graphics, more gameplay modes, multiplayer, the list goes on as you say.
Final Fantasy Adventure I've already spoken to - I love that game. Is it the best in the series though? Hell no.
It seems most of your arguments stem from "Game Boy did it first", and that by no means makes it the best. What does GB being the first system with Link outside of Hyrule have to do with anything at all? Of course it is, he'd only been in what, 2 games prior? It's a very early mainstream console, of COURSE it did things first.