Gremlins 2 & Pocket Stadium retrospective: The Gizmo grinder | Game Boy Works 127
820Sunsoft returns to Game Boy with a soul-crushingly brutal take on a movie that's about as close to being a cult classic as a major blockbuster can be: Gremlins 2 - The New Batch. It really captures the experience of being a small, helpless little fuzzy guy with stubby arms making his way through a skyscraper filled with raving murder-monsters. Although you'd think with Gizmo's gigantic eyes, he'd have better vision than the original Game Boy screen provides.
On the import tip, there's Pocket Stadium from Atlus, a curious baseball simulator... and by "simulator" I really do mean that it's a simulator. No timing or dexterity required!
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Production notes:
• Game Boy footage captured from original carts on a Super Game Boy 2 and @analogueinc Super Nt.
• Live footage captured through same process, but with a Game Boy Camera.
• Footage output as RGB via @analogueinc DAC and upscaled via @retrotink339 5X (hence the visual glitching and artifacts that shows up in some footage).