Kid Dracula - Super GameBoy - advent Countdown - Day 8
1I hope you are all healthy and safe wherever you are in the World right now and whatever challenges you are facing.
I thought I'd do a countdown to Christmas 2022 with a GameBoy Cartridge themed advent calendar. I'd hoped to make the videos a little more slick but this is a rough and ready proof of concept really to see if anyone wants to countdown to Xmas with 24 different GameBoy games - one each day!
The footage is genuine cartridges running on a SNES via the Super GameBoy. As a Xmas gift feel free to use the footage in your own videos (just give credit or link to my channel)
This is Kid Dracula - the super cute platformer spun off from the famous Castlevania series. It's super fun & you gain a range of abilities as you play such as additional attacks, the ability to change into a Bat and much more besides. This is a top notch platformer on GameBoy & works brilliantly with detailed graphics that work well on the original monochrome screen. They look even better on a GBA.
I remember picking this up over 20 years ago for a few quid on a local market stall - mainly because I was a fan of the Castlevania series. Really fun game with responsive controls. It is pricy to get hold of these days so I got lucky. Apparently it also got an NES release (maybe only in America?) and a Famicom release too. Would love to get that cartridge.
I play a couple of levels and also demonstrate the mini games.
I miss the days when companies would do fun spin offs of their main properties like Parodius and Alex Kidd in Shinobi World etc I also miss the Konami of the 8-bit and particularly 16-bit era when they were literally firing on all cylinders.
I play it here through the Super GameBoy in order to show the game a little clearer. For some reason my capture card always seems to struggle with the SNES (and therefore the Super GameBoy) not sure why as everything else pretty much works fine through it.
I'm also thinking of doing a series of videos on specially enhanced Super GameBoy compatible games - including the very clever game and programming designed to maximise the use of colour while remaining compatible with the original monochrome handheld, multiplayer modes, enhanced sound and even a hidden game. Let me know if you'd like to see this sort of thing.
As always if you enjoy this video let me know. As always this is running on original hardware in this case a SNES & Super GameBoy peripheral (one day I'll get a GBA Consoliser!!!!) Also let me know if there are particular games or systems you'd like to see.
As always this is uploaded under the Fair Use Policy - no money is being made from this video.
Stay strong, stay safe and stay healthy - Grey Fox