You Can Play CONKER on GAME BOY COLOR?!?!?!

We all know that Conker's Bad Fur Day is one of the most popular games for the Nintendo 64. A lot of that has to do with how fun of a platformer it is, a lot has to do with the fact that we have a giant poop monster. But were you aware that there was another Conker game on Nintendo hardware? It's true, and it was on the Game Boy Color.

Conker's Pocket Tales was released in 1999 for the Nintendo Game Boy Color. Development began after the release of Donkey Kong Land III in 1997. Rare sought to make an action-adventure game in the vein of The Legend of Zelda, with a darker tone in the vein of gothic films. After seeing early versions of Conker’s Bad Fur Day, they decided to remove the gothic theme and replace it with a fantasy theme, with Conker as its main character. The entire score was composed by Robin Beanland, with Eveline Fischer programming it into the Game Boy. The game is the only game in the series to be intended for a family audience, as early versions of Conker’s Bad Fur Day at the time were still intended for a family audience.

Conker's Pocket Tales follows the story of Conker the Squirrel as he retrieves his birthday presents and rescues his girlfriend Berri after they were stolen and she was kidnaped by the Evil Acorn. The game is played from a top-down perspective, with Conker exploring large environments in an attempt to find all his stolen presents. By collecting a certain number of presents in each area and defeating a boss, players unlock access to the next one. In addition to standard running and jumping, Conker can perform a mid-air ground-pounding attack that can hit buttons to solve puzzles. Conker also has the ability to dig up patches of soft dirt, emerging at another predetermined patch to reach inaccessible areas, and uses a slingshot to defeat enemies or hit distant switches. Puzzles are also solved by pushing blocks into grooves in the floor.

The game can be played on both Game Boy and Game Boy Color. However, the layout and some events in the game are different depending on the console it is played on.The game can be paused and saved anywhere when played on a Game Boy Color or later model, but can only be saved at specific save points when played on a non-color Game Boy.

Did you know about this Game Boy variant of conquer? Have you ever owned it or played it? I have only recently added it to my collection so I have not had much of an opportunity to spend time with it yet. Let me know what you think of this title if you have played it down in the comments.

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