The best Game Boy Color games of all time

In the early days, Nintendo was unchallenged in the handheld market. Just looking at the best Game Boy games will explain how this simple system managed to sell for so long, but eventually, it needed a little upgrade. We wouldn’t get a true next-gen handheld until the eventual Game Boy Advanced (make sure not to miss our list of the best GBA games), but we did receive a small improvement with the Game Boy Color.

Despite its short lifespan, the Game Boy Color managed to get several great games, including some of the best Pokémon games and the best Zelda games, most of which we still consider some of the best games of all time. In fact, some are even better than the best 3DS games or best Switch games, and they’re certainly still worth tracking down.

Pokémon Gold Version

86% Platforms Game Boy Color, Nintendo 3DS Genre Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure Developer Game Freak Publisher Nintendo, Gradiente Release November 21, 1999 One of the best Pokemon games of all time, Pokémon Gold and Silver refined the formula and helped prove the craze wasn’t going away. More Pokémon, including excellent starter and legendary monsters, a huge new region, the return of the original Kanto region, and continued trading and trainer battle integration made it feel like a complete game that players could enjoy for months or years at a time. It has received a remake with updated visuals, but the original Game Boy Color version has a certain charm that can’t be replicated. It’s no wonder that Pokémon fans continue returning to Gold and Silver two decades later. Poke Flashback — Original Pokemon Gold and Silver commercial!

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons

82% Platforms Game Boy Color, Nintendo 3DS Genre Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure Developer Capcom Production Studio 1 Publisher Nintendo, Gradiente Release February 27, 2001 Taking a page out of the Pokémon book for the Game Boy Color, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages are very