Multicart Madness - Old school GameBoy 32-in-1 where 32 = 6
1I hope you are all happy, safe & healthy whatever challenges you are facing right now.
TimeStamps:
Intro: 00.00
Aladdin - 00.16
Tarzan - 10.58
Castelian - 16.24
Bomb Jack - 17.51
Dr Mario - 21.13
World Bowling - 23.05
This is an old-school Multicart from back in the Day. There were tons of Multicarts (usually bootleg carts with many games on a single cartridge) on the original GameBoy, NES / Famicom and Sega Megadrive / Genesis but very few on the Super Nintendo / Super Famicom.
I've always been fascinated by multi-carts. The Labels often promise a lot more than the game delivers (claims of 99,999 games in 1 for example which is usually around 10-20 games endlessly repeated) and you never really know if they will even work. There is always the wonder about how they even got made etc.
This Multicart is one of many I own for the original GameBoy. This one claims to be a 32-in-1 and has a label with Aladdin, Disney's Tarzan, Bomberman and more.......
As is often the case there are actually 6 distinct games on the cartridge. It has some of the usual suspects like Bomb Jack, Castelian, World Bowling & Dr Mario but has some games that are less common to find on multicarts including Aladdin & a game based on Tarzan by Gametek (its definitely not the Disney game) The Tarzan game isn't bad - it has huge sprawling levels. I play it terribly as I'm playing through the viewfinder!. Overall it isn't a bad selection with a nice blend of puzzle, platform and action.
Obviously in these days of Everdrives and flashcarts it isn't that impressive but back in the day 6 games on a single cartridge was like sorcery!
I play it here on a GameBoy Advance AGS-101 for clarity which is also why it has various palettes implemented. I try to keep it centred and adjust the video a little in editing to keep the view as close up and centred as possible. Apologies for the slant - I was playing through the viewfinder so it was all a bit awkward.
It is hard to play through the camera and trying to keep the console as still as possible so this is more meant to show off the games included rather than some kind of elite level of play especially as the info on the camera viewfinder obscures some of the screen during gameplay :-)
If you would like to see any more gameplay of any of these titles then just let me know. Aladdin is "enhanced for Super GameBoy" and fans will know I love a bit of Super GameBoy so I may make a video but I seem to remember that other than a nice border it didn't implement anything too special.
Also if you like the content let me know as I have a stack of GameBoy Multicarts and I'm happy to make more videos. Equally if you'd prefer to see them on Super GameBoy (not all multicarts work on it unfortunately) then let me know and I'll do a video on there - I just like the colour palettes the GBA applies :-)
As always if you enjoy this video let me know. As always this is running on original hardware. 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