Six obscure Game Boy games we'd love on the 3DS Virtual Console

One of the exciting features to come with the 3DS is the future implementation of virtual console – allowing people to relive the early days of handheld gaming with Game Boy and Game Boy Color downloads, at a price that should be relatively cheap.

While there are some obvious must haves (Super Mario Land, Zelda: Link’s Awakening), there was a lot of third party Game Boy games that have been all but lost to time. Below is a range of Game Boy games that we would just love to see revived on the Virtual Console.

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But how do they compare when it comes to the increasingly-important download battlefield? There’s all kinds of predictions out there that slowly but surely, digital downloads will become the dominant way for games to be made available. Having a robust and intuitive online portal will become more than a nice-to-have, it will be a necessity.

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