Gargoyle’s Quest is deceptive. It likes to pretend it’s more than a hardcore, challenging platformer, and it’s largely been forgotten to history like many substandard Game Boy Games. The deception is that the game is really little more than a platformer, and it’s anything but substandard.
Invisible Gamer counts down the 11 best games of the year...1990.
Every Thursday Jye C. takes you on a journey into the past. This time: Gargoyle's Quest and how he learned to love it.
"Here I was, stuck for weeks on the first level. I thought maybe the game was bad. It wasn't unfathomable, HydLide for the NES still managed to get Nintendo's Seal of Approval after all."
It’s been a reasonably slow start to the 3DS’ Virtual Console. Since the console launched back in June, we’ve only seen 24 Game Boy or Game Boy Color games released (in Australia).
Of course the 3D Classics has remedied this somewhat, and this is a story of quality over quantity; many of those 24 games are well worth buying.
