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Game Boy classics

Order by the North American release year. You place all 42 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How the Game Boy classics timeline game works

These cards cover Nintendo's handheld family: the original grey brick, the Game Boy Color and the Game Boy Advance. Under each title you'll see which system it ran on, and the goal is to order the games by their North American release year. A single card is laid down first with its year face up. Place every card that follows into a gap on the line. If you call it right the year flips over; if not, the game slides into its true spot and you drop one of your three lives.

The system line helps most, since each model had its own era, though the eras overlap more than you might expect. Pocket monsters show up across all three machines, and their North American dates can trail Japan by a long way. Remakes and ports of older games are easy to misjudge, because the original may be far older than the handheld version. Long gaps and crowded years sit side by side here.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 42 cards you might be dealt, with 14 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Tetris Game Boy
  • Super Mario Land Game Boy
  • Dr. Mario Game Boy
  • The Final Fantasy Legend Game Boy
  • Kirby's Dream Land Game Boy
  • Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Game Boy
  • Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 Game Boy
  • Kirby's Dream Land 2 Game Boy
  • Pokémon Red and Blue Game Boy
  • Pokémon Yellow Game Boy
  • Pokémon Pinball Game Boy Color
  • Dragon Warrior Monsters Game Boy Color
  • Wario Land 3 Game Boy Color
  • Metal Gear Solid Game Boy Color
  • The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages Game Boy Color
  • Shantae Game Boy Color
  • Mario Kart: Super Circuit Game Boy Advance
  • Advance Wars Game Boy Advance
  • Sonic Advance Game Boy Advance
  • Metroid Fusion Game Boy Advance
  • Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow Game Boy Advance
  • WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames! Game Boy Advance
  • Fire Emblem Game Boy Advance
  • Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga Game Boy Advance
  • Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Game Boy Advance
  • Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories Game Boy Advance
  • Pokémon Emerald Game Boy Advance
  • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team Game Boy Advance

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