If you like Gundam and Digimon in particular, this may be the system for you. Being a Bandai handheld, Bandai is naturally the biggest supporter, and that means licensed games or games tied to multimedia projects. How did the system do in terms of support? There's around two hundred games for the system altogether, about a hundred each for the monochrome and colour versions. But games were free to use all of these buttons, which naturally can open up some gameplay possibilities. Kind of like the N64 controller, the button layout was designed to be used in different orientations, letting games be either vertical or horizontal. You've got two cross-shaped button arrangements to serve as D-pads, plus your A and B. On the positive side, though, one of the immediate things you may notice about the system is that it's got a ton of buttons compared to the Game Boy. As with the Game Boy iterations of the time, the Wonderswan does not have a screen light. Later versions of the Wonderswan soon followed that did allow for colour games while being backwards compatible with the black-and-white ones.
The original Wonderswan was monochrome since Nintendo themselves had proved that colour was not a necessity for handheld gaming. In terms of hardware, the Wonderswan probably perceived itself as competing against the Game Boy, which may explain some of its weak points. When I was looking up recommendations for games to get, I saw a comment from someone calling the Wonderswan "a dedicated Gunpey machine." The latest version is 2017's Gunpeyard Flower Carnival on iOS and Android. I haven't played it myself, but they seem to be pretty well received. In fact, the games weren't just named after him, Gunpey had been designed by Yokoi as the Wonderswan's answer to Tetris. Gunpei Yokoi tragically passed away before the system was released, but a direct tribute was made to his legacy through the puzzle game series Gunpey. But ultimately the Game Boy Advance led Bandai to throw in the towel. The Wonderswan initially followed the Game Boy Color and actually sold a few million despite not never leaving Asia not a bad job of fighting Nintendo's monstrous handheld presence. From there, he cooperated with Bandai to spearhead the Wonderswan, which had a similar design philosophy behind it. But after the disastrous failure of the Virtual Boy, he left and started his own company. You see, when he was at Nintendo, Gunpei Yokoi was the chief engineer behind the Game Boy.
Since I'm feeling the hype, I thought I'd post a thread to celebrate and inform.įor those who might not be aware, the Wonderswan was a handheld that isn't quite the successor to the Game Boy. After longing to get one for years and years, I finally gave in and ordered one.
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