Today we receive new Game Boy games for Switch Online, but Japan will receive one more and this one has history.
As my regular readers know, I’m an avid Game Boy game enthusiast. It’s one of my training systems as a player. He also taught me the principles of functional minimalist design. The latter is anything I’d depend on in my career in game development.
So when there are new Game Boy games on Switch Online, I tend to get too excited.
Anyway, the three games released today that are not unusual in most regions are Alleyway, Baseball, and Super Mario Land. The latter is my favorite Mario game and I’m still one of the most productive in terms of overall design in the entire series.
However, in Japan they had an additional game: The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls.
It’s a desirable RPG, especially since its progression is compatible with that of Link’s Awakening, as the two games share common elements.
For example, the character Richard and all of his satisfied frogs in Link’s Awakening also come from that game and were meant to be an obvious reference.
Obviously, enthusiasts translated the game a few years ago, but it never had a foreign language and that’s still completely confusing to me.
It’s now completely imaginable to relocalize ROMs from old games like those and then release them globally (I know, I’ve done it). So the fact that Nintendo hasn’t localized The Frog Who Tolls the Bell after all those years is strange.
The fact that The Frog For Whom the Bell Tolls has also been officially re-released may mean that Nintendo could make a localized English port at some point, or even a remake. However, there is still a curious game on the market. Game Boy library worth paying attention to.
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