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It’s Saturday. You’ve survived the work week. Congratulations! Now, before you can kick back and relax for the weekend there are just a few simple things to accomplish on your to-do list.

1) Buy coffee filters
2) Call parents
3) File tax returns
4) Take the dog for a walk
5) Return overdue library book

Feeling ambitious? Perhaps you will suck it up and finally hit ’send’ on e-filing those tax returns. But wait, what’s this?! The date to e-file has past?! You’re going to need to print out your forms and mail it in old school – which means you now need to pick up stamps. No worries, you think. You can swing by the post office on your way to the store to pick up coffee filters. You decide to head out, but where did you leave your keys? You ask your roommate. “Where did you last have them?” Ughhh!!

Welcome to Adulting!

PS: You can also buy a physical!

Office Combat by Robert Doman is an older Game Boy Game, but non the less worth a mention.

Office Combat is a game about literally fighting a toxic work culture. Made in GB Studio, you play as a side scrolling worker who wants to leave work on time after finishing their tasks. On the way to the Boss’s office, many co-workers stand in your way, and they won’t let you go without a fight.

El Dueloroso by Adrián JG is a western-themed arcade game for the Nintendo Game Boy. It was submitted as a Game Boy Competition 2021 entry and made with GBDK-2020.

The game is built on 15 levels with 3 modes, made with 4 difficulty options. Shoot and kill your enemies, protect your land and save the inhabitants. Collect items from the shops and keep your score high for more chances to survive and keep your life bar filled.

Sushi Nights by Zalo is a platformer game made for the GBCompo21.

You play the game as Hitsuji-kun, who needs to save the starving inhabitants of a ravaged metropolis. You can jump and use your grappling mechanical hook to swing through buildings and alleys, locate the sushi, and deliver it to your targets. But careful! There are many enemies lurking outside, do not let them take you down.​

Dead Dungeon by Robert Doman is a homebrew game which was made for the Game Boy Competition 2021.

The game is about fighting through a dungeon to level up, improve your skills along the way, look for clues, search for hidden items, and then beat the final boss.

Tech and Blood by Roseum Team is a very short cyberpunk detective story.

The plot of the game is built on a visual novel style. Advance forward, make your choices, and complete the story.​

Dawn Will Come by eishiya is a survival horror game. It can be played on any emulator or a flashcart to play on a real Game Boy.

The game is all about having survival instincts to survive the dark night, full of crawling monsters. You assign a task to each person, each day (Rest, Guard, or Search). Once you’ve decided what everyone will do, select “do tasks” by the campfire to carry them out. As the developer says:

• Resting will recover some health, but unguarded sleepers may be attacked in the night.
• Guarding will protect your sleepers and supplies, but your guards may have to fight.
• Searching will potentially get you useful supplies and new friends, but searchers may take damage from prowling monsters.

Search and explore different locations, find more people to enlarge your group. The game is built with an auto-save function.​

Paint-It by Crunchworks is a MSX game which has been released back in 2020. Never the less it’s a nice little game, which gives a couple of minutes of entertainment. The task is, as usual at least simple sounding, to “paint” a 16×16 blocks wall in one color. Are you up for some late night action?

🛡️ Click to play — activates YouTube and transfers data to Google.

Fix My Heart by Filipe Bianchin is a neat homebrew Nintendo Game Boy (Color) game. As the author mentions on his own: “Explore this cave to find either life or death – and nothing else”. Sounds promising?

Shock Lobster by tbsp is an entry for the Game Boy Competition 2021. It’s designed to run on the original Game Boy handheld video game system using a flash cartridge.

You play as a lowly lobster imbued with magical powers. Use the pearls you collect on your way to unlock more skills, upgrades, and items to push your high score higher and higher. Several of the skills apply damage-over-time effects to the enemy, which are represented by bars on the bottom-left of the game screen. The speed of the game and loadout/items used are summarized in the game over panel.