Handheld Wars Week 19 - Star Trek Generations

I'm nostalgic about the GameBoy because even when the GameBoy Color was out I still had the classic black and white one.

So anything for the original GameBoy is an immediate win even if I haven't played it, and I would go as far as to say that the black and white is what wins me over.

There is something special and surreal about having a game in black and white after color was invented for half of a century, specially after color games were the norm pretty much from the start.

Add to that the handheld factor which is supposed to be a more advanced gimmick, yet it is still black and white, gives it an inconsistency and incongruence that actually makes the games cool, unique, important, and irreplaceable.

I would say they become instant classics even if they are a extremely downgraded port like the Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter games.

All those games on the original GameBoy even if they came out after the N64 was already out, feel more classic than the Atari and NES games to me, like the surreal missing era from a different time that somehow overlapped dimensions to be the modern thing in future setting and getting the appreciation after the fact, even if that past was not even there.