#1: Let There Be Gameboy(Chuchu Rocket!, Super Mario Advance, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure)

A little bit of housekeeping.

Game Boy Advance released originally March 21st, 2001 in Japan, June 11th in North America, and June 22nd in the PAL region.

We'll mainly be focusing on games that were released in North America.

Uh, that's our main focus of, of play.

But anything that wasn't released in North America but was released in PAL we'll obviously hit and play.

Those are probably gonna be in English.

Um, and then there are a couple that were released in Japan that, uh, then got fan translations, which we will cover as we get to Mother 3.

Finding a list for every Game Boy Advance game was also a fun part of the challenge of this.

There's not really a good list of these games that are correct.

Uh, there's a couple that I had to use.

Uh, we used Wikipedia, we used Nintendo Life, we used the Nintendo Wiki.

There are a couple other sites that I threw in there.

And eventually I just, I've ended up making my own on Notion, so we now have a spreadsheet, uh, consisting of the first couple dozen games just to get me started.

A lot of them, since it was released in Japan a little bit earlier, we did get a lot of games that were just translated and released that June 11th in North America.

So June 11th is a big release day.

We're gonna have a couple of episodes here that are just that June 11th release window.

Um, probably five of them that are just on that one date, and then we'll start moving along the timeline.

And if you wanna play along with me, which I kinda recommend for some of these games, I don't recommend you play all of them obviously, but there are some hits in here that you should definitely check out.

Uh, I'll be talking about the next four games we're gonna play at the end of every episode.

As well, what I'm using, uh, I'm using original hardware.

Obviously that beautiful Shrek Game Boy still kicking, still alive.

Um, and then for, uh, a little bit of emulation we are using mGBA as well as the Delta Emulator for iOS.

Which, the Delta Emulator's fine.

mGBA is the real star here with my, uh, play with controller.

The Delta Emulator's nice for being able to take it around, but, uh, yeah, original hardware's really where it's at.