The Monkey: What the Movie Changed From the Stephen King Story

Stephen King’s 1980 short story “The Monkey” (which can be found these days in his outstanding 1985 collection, Skeleton Crew) tells the story of Hal Shelburn, a man who is obsessed with an old toy from his childhood, a wind-up monkey that seems to cause death whenever it claps its cymbals. The tale is in […]

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The Game Boy is still a widely beloved handheld for gamers who grew up in the ‘90s. Sure, it was woefully underpowered, a color version didn’t even come out until the handheld had been on the market for almost a decade, and even then it lacked any sort of backlight. But the games were just plain fun, and in terms of battery life and library, it was leagues better than any of its competitors.

At least that’s how we mostly remember it. But for every classic like Pokémon Red and Blue or The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, developers shoveled dozens of terrible games onto the Game Boy in the hopes of luring in unsuspecting buyers with a big license or impressive box art. These are the 15 worst Game Boy games ever made.

15. X-Men: Mutant Wars

X-Men: Mutant Wars is actually not a terrible looking game. The graphics might even be considered kind of good given the limitations of the Game Boy Color. At the very least, you can easily tell who the X-Men are supposed to be when you look at their sprites. The trouble starts when you actually play the game.

This is a generic beat ‘em up with stiff, unresponsive controls. That’s if you even bother fighting the bad guys. You can just jump over them in most cases if you want, but that just means you’ll get to the frustratingly lengthy boss battles even sooner. Even with those drawn out fights, the game only takes about an hour to beat, but that hour would be better spent doing literally anything else.