Flappy Cheep Cheep

This is an abandoned incomplete demo of that is very playable. In this side-scroller you controls a bird attempting to fly between columns of green pipes without colliding with them. Later rounds have moving pipes to make the challenge more intense, as well as other neat game play tricks.

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Mario Kart Virtual Cup

Another abandoned but playable demo for the Virtual Boy. The gameplay is very similar to Super Mario Kart, but without any other AI racers. There are 3 modes but only Time Trial mode is properly implemented. Play as either Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Toad, Wario, Peach, Yoshi, or Donkey Kong on any of the following tracks: Mario Circuit, Ghost Valley and Rainbow Road - which isn't very "rainbowy" since it is only red on a black background!

Based on the popular mecha anime franchise, SD Gundam Dimension War is a turn-based strategy game where you are place in command of a small task force as you travel across the galaxy aiming to wipe out the opposing units you encounter. Gameplay is split in to two parts - a map screen where you maneuver your troops and a close up view for battles.

Both sides mainly consist of the Mobile-Suit fighters but also feature a couple of ships too. You start in the lower half of the battlefield and your opponent starts in the top half. As the “SD” in the game title suggests, the characters are drawn in the 'Super Deformed' style, giving the powerful war machines an amusingly cute and squat design. Though they're well designed your troops look very similar even though you gain new types as you progress; luckily the enemy forces are more varied bunch.

You don't have to destroy every enemy unit to win a battle. To start off with you can win by taking out their battle cruisers, but starting with the third level there is also a heavily armoured foe that you are required to defeat in order to proceed.

The controls are straightforward; you simply click on one of your units and then choose one of the available options. You have two options relating to movement: ‘Ambush' makes the troop/ship stay where it is whilst picking ‘Move' allows you to plot a course. You can only move a few spaces at a time in any of the four expected directions as well as adjusting your altitude up and down which can come in handy for working your way around obstacles.

When you are in range of enemies your two combat options become available. ‘Indirect' allows you to fire on your opponent from safe distance and ‘Attack' allows you to get in close to cause more damage – but also face a beating yourself.

Mobile Suit combat is comprised of two parts. To begin with you and your opponent fly towards each other in a cool animated sequence which makes good use of the Virtual Boy's 3D display. You can fire at your approaching foe essentially beginning the battle.

The action is viewed side on with the left d-pad controlling movement and the right used for attacks: there are three projectile attacks (of varying speed and power) and a sword attack for when you get in close. Taking place on three plains (switched between by using L and R) you both swoop further away and closer to the screen firing away at each other while looking for an opportunity to use your sword.

Mobile suits can also attack enemy cruisers, or for a more fair fight, dispatch a crusier of your own against theirs.

Playing the game can be time-consuming as you plan on where to send your troops but thankfully there are three save files on the cartridge so you can come back to a game later to try and complete all eight levels.

Soviet Union

Get in the ship, comrade!

Some scientists from Vladivostok have invented a time machine and used it to go to back to the 1960s, the time of the Space Race between the USSR and USA.

It worked, but on return to 2010, a malfunction sent them to a parallel universe where the Cold War is still going on. You're one of the members of the Red Army. Save the scientists!

Space Squash

Space Squash plays - is it any wonder - in the future. Your mission is basically to destroy other robots. You do this by playing "Space Squash" against them!

You see the game action from a 3rd person perspective. You steer your little robot with the left joypad cross; with the right one, you let him hit the ball back. Since this is a futuristic form of squash played with a steel ball, you can naturally also use the walls for help, in order to give the ball some nice drifts. You can also "bend" the ball, of course. If you miss the ball, the opponent gets a point and vice versa. It is always played to "best of five." If you get hit by the ball, because you swung too late to hit it back, you will loose one of three heart pieces, your energy. You can also use specials, like an electromagnetic wall that prevents the ball from slipping through to you. You get these specials when you skillfully smash the various boxes in the stage and pick up the bonuses that then appear. There are also speed power-ups, with which you become faster, and health power-ups, where each one gives you back a heart of energy.

The stages themselves are wildly styled. There is, for example, a group of smileys floating around in the middle, and these want to hinder your shots; it's then a matter of skillfully overturning these. With an increasing degree of difficulty, the game also gets faster and faster and more interesting!

The game contains 108 stages, plus every 5th stage contains a Boss battle followed by a memory bonus round.

Tron

Tron on the Virtual Boy is a light cycle game mimicking the level from the arcade coin-op. From a bird's eye prespective you see a squre playfield, on which several futuristic bikes build up walls behind them while driving around. These can change their direction only by right angles. The player has to avoid any walls and try to encapsulte his enemies in walls. Or simple survive longer than the others.

At the beginning, there's only one enemy, later they become three of four. Higher levels introduce more and more obstacles in form of little blocks in the middle of the playfield.