The thing I like the most about this side-scrolling adventure is the ability to turn the WonderSwan console 90 degrees to help when climbing down ropes in vertical shafts. This is another game that is in high demand on the resale market, which instantly makes it 100% more mysterious and gives me an insatiable craving to buy a copy. Whatever you want to call it, these games are known for being rock-hard and insanely addictive. You might know Makaimura as ‘Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins’ if you grew up in the West. We’re a third of the way into our list of the best WonderSwan games, so I thought it might be time to turn the difficulty notch up to eleven. Leave candy crush in the app store where it belongs and give the first title on our best WonderSwan games list a try! 2. (Sosumu’s father is actually the guy from Dig Dug, so that kind of makes sense!) It feels a little like Tetris crossed with Dig Dug. The number of blocks corresponds to the size of the country (level) in which you choose to play in, and there are different playable characters that you can use throughout the game, all with special abilities that set them apart from one another. Mr Driller sees the player drilling through a humongous amount of blocks, collecting air capsules and trying not to get squished along the way. There you go kids if you like building and want to take things to the next level, then there’s no reason why you can’t go for gold and become a champion driller when you’re older! The original Mr Driller had ports for WonderSwan, GB Colour, PS1 and Dreamcast, and introduced everyone’s favourite champion driller, Susumu Hori. I’m kicking off with a personal favourite and one of the WonderSwan big guns. Unlike other Retro Dodo games lists, this one is in no particular order – they’re all special to us! 1. While conjecture may flap around, the cold hard facts of this awesome console still remain, so let’s check out the best WonderSwan games to have co-existed with us on our planet.
We might even have been plugging in the latest Swan Switch or FeatherBox One if things had gone differently. Just like the SEGA Dreamcast, the WonderSwan feels a little bit like a missed opportunity, a console that might well have performed better in an alternate universe where people walk around with Swan caps on instead of Mario hats. Perhaps this is why the WonderSwan, with its 16-bit central processing unit and long battery life, still remains a desired console by retro gamers all over the world. The WonderSwan enjoyed a short 4-year-reign between 1999-2003 and even managed to snap up 8% of the Japanese handheld market, but lost out to the might of Nintendo and the new GameBoy Advance.
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Why is that? Well, maybe it’s because Bandai’s portable player and it’s older siblings, the Wonderswan Colour and the SwanCrystal, never made it out of Japan.
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When it comes to chatting about some of the best retro handhelds and RetroPie handhelds for retro gaming and the classic games that you can play on them, there is always a lot of talk about the best GameBoy games and the best PSP games, but never about the best WonderSwan Games.