aka "Tegan won't shut the fuck up about buying Game Boy cartridges so we might as well contain it to one thread."
So I'm gradually amassing a quality Game Boy library, focusing on -but not limited to- the GBA. Just this morning I put in a pre-order for Limited Run Games' reprint of the original Shantae (GBC), and this afternoon I snagged a fairly nicely-preserved copy of Pokémon Trading Card Game (GBC) for just ten bucks down at one of my usual thrift store haunts. Last weekend I managed to find Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (GBA) at another thrift shop for fifteen, finally completing my set of all four Super Mario Advance games. I also got my eBay purchase of Polarium Advance (GBA) in the mail on Tuesday. It's been a very productive week for the collection!
Still, probably the coolest thing I've snagged recently was this eBay find: a complete-in-box copy of Hatena Satena (GBA), an obscure Japan-only puzzle game that plays like Picross + Minesweeper and looks like the most bonkers-ass Y2K-era Japanese pop art sensibilities you can imagine. It's fun as heck and I'm completely in love with the box art. I generally don't go for CIB at all, but this was (surprisingly) the cheapest option and actually looks so gorgeous that I might get a shadowbox for it and hang it on my wall.
So I'm gradually amassing a quality Game Boy library, focusing on -but not limited to- the GBA. Just this morning I put in a pre-order for Limited Run Games' reprint of the original Shantae (GBC), and this afternoon I snagged a fairly nicely-preserved copy of Pokémon Trading Card Game (GBC) for just ten bucks down at one of my usual thrift store haunts. Last weekend I managed to find Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (GBA) at another thrift shop for fifteen, finally completing my set of all four Super Mario Advance games. I also got my eBay purchase of Polarium Advance (GBA) in the mail on Tuesday. It's been a very productive week for the collection!
Still, probably the coolest thing I've snagged recently was this eBay find: a complete-in-box copy of Hatena Satena (GBA), an obscure Japan-only puzzle game that plays like Picross + Minesweeper and looks like the most bonkers-ass Y2K-era Japanese pop art sensibilities you can imagine. It's fun as heck and I'm completely in love with the box art. I generally don't go for CIB at all, but this was (surprisingly) the cheapest option and actually looks so gorgeous that I might get a shadowbox for it and hang it on my wall.
