Despite Shantae's initially poor sales the game eventually became a cult classic. The game was released late in the life of the Game Boy Color and featured several enhancements when played on the Game Boy Advance. Though only a half-genie, Shantae is nevertheless hired to be the official genie of Scuttle Town. Shantae is a action platformer developed by WayForward Technologies and published by Capcom for the Game Boy Color on June 2, 2002.
The graphics will be spruced up if you play it on Game Boy Advance, and in fact it outshines most other action games designed specifically for GBA. There are quite a few that are worth a pretty penny now. Shantae is an action/adventure game designed for Game Boy Color. Some of Nintendo's more iconic games, including Pokemon Red and Blue and Super Mario Land, started on the GameBoy, ass did a few lesser-known yet still popular games. RELATED: The 15 Worst Game Boy Color Games (And 15 Worth A Second Look) Bolo is an NPC for most games, but in Half. In The Pirate's Curse, he gets unwillingly involved in misadventures, but he saves the day by unintentionally sabotaging a piece of Ammo Baron's cannon. so if you have 3 games in your collection label them In Shantae, he helped Shantae once by opening the Dribble Fountain for her. Later, the GameBoy Advance was released to high demand. Bolo is a fighter and a life-long friend of Shantae's. The game follows the adventures of the eponymous half-genie Shantae, who must travel across Sequin Land, the setting of the series, to foil the domination plans of the. It is the first title in WayForward's Shantae series, and would later be followed by several sequels. The original GameBoy and its successor, the GameBoy Color, sold 118.69 million units worldwide, per Computing History. Shantae is a platform video game developed by WayForward Technologies and published by Capcom for the Game Boy Color in 2002. The first game was, unfortunately, released on the Game Boy Color right as it being replaced by the Game Boy Advance, and so Shantaes first adventure was largely forgotten about. Despite its simple controls (four buttons and a directional pad), the GameBoy saw huge success. Chances are, you might have heard about the Shantae games, as theyre a popular Metroidvania series. In 1989, Nintendo released the GameBoy, the company's second handheld device in history. Years before the handheld-to-television Switch device, and even more years before the dual-screen DS, Nintendo gamers got their fix through a small, single-screen, colorless brick known as the GameBoy. Handheld Nintendo consoles have certainly come a long way.