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"Pick up and play" portable games? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am an avid retro gaming fan. I mostly play JRPG games like Final Fantasy or Chrono Trigger but recently I've had very little time to enjoy big, complicated games. I am looking for recommendations for retro games that can be played over a longer peroid of time, but don't require a big time investment (re-) learning the systems or remembering the story. I play most of this stuff on emulators, so anything that can be emulated on my phone's Retroarch setup goes. Thanks in advance! :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There’s plenty of fun platformers, puzzlers, action games, and arcade ports on portable systems like the Game Boy and Nintendo DS etc. Nintendo has always been a master of “pick and up and play”-ability.

Some classics include the Super Mario Land and Wario Land series, Kirby, Donkey Kong GB (it’s the original arcade game plus a brilliant puzzle platformer), and the Zelda titles. There’s even some lighter weight RPGs like the Pokémon games etc.

There’s also Game Boy ports of the Game & Watch titles which are great short time wasters - Game Boy Gallery and Game & Watch Gallery series.