Star Wars - Played on Super GameBoy - Advent Countdown - Day 4
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 Star Wars for GameBoy. Based on the 1991 NES game this was developed by NMS Software Ltd and released in 1992 and is an interesting take on the film. Essentially fairly open world elements - driving around in the landspeeder exploring caves to pick up extra shields (for later levels in the Millenium Falcon) as well as meeting Obi-Wan to gain your Lightsabre. Then fairly linear platform levels interspersed with space based levels.
Controls take a bit of getting used to and it is possible to make the game very difficult like I do here by ignoring the search for Obi-Wan Kenobi and heading straight to the Mos Eisley Cantina after the Jawas Sandcrawler.
The platform levels are linear but are large sprawling affairs that take a lot of exploring. Overall a decent take on the classic film series.
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!!!!) Although I do intend to make a video using my GBA TV de Advance and also the Game Studio for PS2 which were both solutions I used back in the day for playing GameBoy, GBC and GBA on my TV. 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