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Kirby’s Dream Land 2, Super Game Boy

The enhanced version of Kirby’s Dream Land 2 is a real treat on the Super Game Boy. While it only has one special border to choose from, it does have enhanced sound effects (like the sound of wind blowing on some levels), level-specific palettes, and even some special full-colour screens such as the title screen, menus and the ending.

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Kirby’s Dream Land 2, Game Boy

First released in 1995 for the original Game Boy, Kirby’s Dream Land 2 continues the adventures of Kirby – after Kirby’s Dream Land and Kirby’s Adventure – adding three new animal friends to help Kirby as he sets out on a quest to restore seven stolen rainbow bridges and defeat the evil force known as “Dark Matter“.

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Donkey Kong [X2016], Commodore 64

This homebrew version of Donkey Kong was created by “Oxyron” for the Commodore 64 and was released at the “X2016 C64 Party” in The Netherlands in 2016, and it’s really rather excellent. Arguably even better than the officially-licensed C64 conversion by Ocean that was released in 1986.

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Donkey Kong, Commodore 64

The 1986 Commodore 64 port of Nintendo‘s famous Donkey Kong was developed by Arcana Software Design and published by Ocean Software. And it is a decent port of the arcade game.

Arcana also made the superb Amstrad CPC Donkey Kong port for Ocean, so it’s no surprise that this one is good too.

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High School Graffiti Mikie, Arcade

High School Graffiti Mikie is a revised version of Konami‘s classroom chase game, Mikie, with gameplay that’s been toned down to make it less violent.

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Shinnyū Shain Tōru-kun, Arcade

Here’s a set of screenshots from the altered Japanese version of Konami‘s classic 1984 arcade game, Mikie. Known as “Shinnyū Shain Tōru-kun” (“Freshman Employee Toru“) in Japan.

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Mikie, Arcade

Konami‘s classic 1984 arcade game, Mikie, is a strange one. You play a schoolkid who must collect hearts across a series of five different stages and to ultimately deliver them to his girlfriend, Mandy, who is waiting for him outside school.

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Kirby’s Dream Course, Super Nintendo

The first Kirby game released for the Super Nintendo, Kirby’s Dream Course is a miniature golf game that was developed by HAL Laboratory and Nintendo EAD, and first published by Nintendo in 1994. The game began development as a standalone title called “Special Tee Shot“, with its own original characters and art assets, but was later turned into a Kirby game after the success of the Kirby series on the Game Boy.

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Kirby’s Pinball Land, Game Boy

Kirby’s Pinball Land was developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the original black and white Game Boy in 1993, and is – as the title implies – a digital pinball game starring Kirby, the ball-like protagonist of the Kirby series of video games.

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Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa-Opa, Sega Master System

Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa-Opa is the sequel to the classic 1986 Sega arcade game, Fantasy Zone. Rather unusually, it came out first on the Master System, before later being released as an arcade game. Usually the opposite occurs, but in this case the Master System version was released in 1987 and the arcade version came out in 1988.

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