Feature: 10 Game Boy Deep Cuts That Aren’t On Nintendo Switch Online

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The Game Boy turns 35 years old today, and we've been running features over the past couple of days celebrating the handheld and its games.

Today, Nile digs up 10 lesser-known gems in the system's remarkable library.

35 years ago, the Game Boy changed handheld gaming – not because it was powerful, but because it wasn’t. Premised on a philosophy of 'lateral thinking with withered technology,' the Game Boy eschewed the cutting-edge in a time long before smart devices were in our pockets, a gamble that paid off handsomely for Nintendo. We all know the story.

By now, too, we’ve surely all played Pokémon, Tetris, Link’s Awakening: the classics. Whether or not you grew up with the Game Boy, a fresh dive into the iconic monochrome machine’s deeper cuts can be both a way of discovering something new and appreciating what developers had managed to achieve within the humbling constraints of old.