Beat Donkey King Land 2. Pretty cool that they could pull this off on gameboy. I don't have the patience to go for 100% in this one. I've already done 100% on all 3 snes games and the first DK Land. I got stuck in a few spots in this one.

Finished a few this month that haven't been marked off:
2/12 - Mega Man IV
2/17 - Darkwing Duck, DuckTales 2, Mortal Kombat II

Wow, great job guys! Sorry about Kid Dracula, thanks for mentioning it. I better make sure I didn't miss any others.
 
That's great, they have Mario and Yoshi in DKL2 graphic style. Never knew that.

Turns out I had some weird formatting in my spreadsheet that was rounding some of the leaderboard scores (and driving me crazy) so if anyone has noticed their scores fluctuating by a half point, they should all be correct now. Should.

WORD GAME WEEKEND

"Finished" Wordtris. There's no end to the game, so for the past couple of years it's been cleared by reaching level J, which never ends. So I did that, but you can actually opt to start from J at the main menu. So it seems like a shaky requirement, but what else could it be? Maybe spell a bonus word in level J?



Also "finished" Lingo. Odd game. It doesn't recognize a lot of valid words. A LOT. Maybe one out of three tries would be rejected, and these weren't crazy or modern words. There wasn't a very satisfying "ending" to the game, but I beat the CPU team and got to play the bonus round. It actually interrupted the CPU's turn to award me the bonus round. Maybe it's on a timer or something. Then there was a flat GAME OVER screen. Should I have done something better?? It's possible to get a whole lot of points in the bonus round, but it's largely based on luck, and if you get unlucky, you lose all of your points.

Aha, two games I know about!

Wordtris: I agree that any clear limit would be arbitrary. This is what I said about the SNES version in 2015:
 
If Level J can be cleared and looped in the Game Boy version, I'd say we have a choice between looping Level J, getting the bonus word, or both. If it just continues non-stop, I'd say getting the bonus word would be the key.

Lingo: that was my experience too -- just a flat ending after the No Lingo round. Here's my post from 2015:
 
For research purposes, maybe one of us could savestate our way through the bonus round, making every choice perfectly, and see if there's anything extra. I kind of hope there isn't, though.  

OK, I savestated my way through Lingo to check what happens with "perfect" play. If you keep playing No Lingo your bonus doubles with each win until you get above $64,000, whereupon you're forced directly into the screen to enter your name, and then get a GAME OVER as usual.

So nothing special at all for making the top of the high score table -- no ending sequence, no credits, no nothing.

Awesome bronze, thanks for doing that research!

I guess I'll try and play on Wordtris level J to see if it's clearable. If it doesn't seem to be, then I'll just get the bonus word and call it beaten. And I'll update the requirement.

I played a bunch of Boggle Plus today, but the CPU players kept destroying me. I was planning on finishing Boggle Plus, Super Scrabble, and Word Zap this weekend, but I'll have to annex Monday into my WORD GAME WEEKEND.

Mario's Picross


A perfect type of game for the Game Boy to play on the go, I've enjoyed it very much.

Ninja Taro beat. Good little Legen of Zelda clone kept from being great by getting way too convoluted at the end. Rad final boss though. 

Great job guys!

Operation C

twitch.tv/videos/393541545

Another one of those simple yet very enjoyable games.

The Amazing Spiderman is done! Good game, liked it... but some technicalities makes it frustrating sometimes. Glad to finally finish it. Been playing it on and off for a little while. 

Review of it here. 

Nice one! I agree that Amazing Spider-Man is a perfectly decent albeit frustrating little game.

Here's what I wrote about it back in 2016:

 

I know it's already been done, but I figured no harm in sharing - I beat Kirby's Dream Land for the first time since I was a kid! This game along with Final Fantasy Adventure and Final Fantasy Legend II kept me busy while I stayed in hospital when I was a wee lad. That specific trifecta of games will always bring a smile to my face.  

Wow, you beat it in two hours? Not too shabby! Seems like you figured out the controls quicker than most. That helps.
I personally found the last boss Venom a lot harder than Doc Ock, but when I got to him with a lot of lives I pushed through him. 

Stargate beat. Fun for a bit but damn does it get monotonous. Game gear manual scans online if you wanted to try it and were confused like me. Overall meh game. 

You beat Stargate??? Maaaaan I've put hours into that game and couldn't manage to ever beat it. I got close once, but they have that mechanic where winning a square also flips the squares around it, so if I couldn't wear the CPU down (the symbols just keep cycling over and over, when wil they stop???) in a later level, I'd lose tons of progress.

Props!

It was honestly horrible. I play during lunches at work and was just sitting over at a table cursing. I was actually about to post the entire ending onto instagram just so people could see it without ever having to play it. Such a waste of a great IP.

The trick that ended up winning it for me I learned in the Game Gear manual. If you stack the whole sequence in order in one big stack, you auto win the square. That ended up working out for me much more regularly than trying to win by overwhelming him.
 

Burai Fighter Deluxe is done. Beat it 3 times in one sitting. Once on albatross, ace, then ultimate which I unlocked. Unfortunately, the game is still a bit too easy on ultimate mode. Got the best ending. Fun game. I really want to track down the NES version now.

Lock 'n Chase is done, including the "Extra" mode:



There's something that irritates me about the AI in this game, though I can't put my finger on it.

Knocked out Wheel of Fortune as well, playing against the CPU rather than solo:







I guess writing an AI for a game show adaptation is a thankless job, but the AI in this one is still beyond pathetic.  

And now Felix the Cat:





I managed to 1LC the game, despite the fact that this was my first time ever playing it. (I have played the NES version, though.)

And now it's The Little Mermaid that's done:



Odd game -- almost difficult in places, but very easy overall.

Nice!! I'm almost done with WordZap. I've been trying to do it on a real Game Boy, but it gets to be too much to do it in one sitting. It's way easier to just keep it running on my computer and work on it here and there. I guess I'm a filthy casual. My word game weekend really fell apart lol