Super Return of the Jedi - Super GameBoy - Advent Countdown - Day 6
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 Super Return of the Jedi for GameBoy. Based on the 1994/95 SNES game. The SNES game was developed by LucasArts & Sculptured Software and was ported to GameBoy by Realtime Associates.
The game is a pretty impressive shrinking down of the SNES original with the multiple characters making the cut and the classy cut scene presentation making this a stand out. The Super Star Wars games have always been a little.....chaotic (for want of a better word) with lots of haphazard enemies and this is balanced out by frequent and generous health power ups. This continues in the GameBoy game. Definitely my favourite of the GameBoy Star Wars games though. The Super GameBoy has a custom border to frame the gameplay window depicting the cockpit of an X-Wing. Other than that though the SGB doesn't really add much.
This was also released on Game Gear. I have this and will make a video if there is interest.
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