For some further texture on Microsoft/Xbox Game Studios' publishing history, because somebody's gonna try to get cute and say that anything pre-2019 doesn't count because "Xbox Game Studios didn't exist yet" or some weird take: While what I consider to be the first "Xbox" game on Game Boy came out in 2003, because of the consolidation of Microsoft Game Studios into Xbox Game Studios, even the oldest of Windows games like FreeCell are now released under the Xbox brand. Also, y'know, the GBC games came out after the Xbox was announced too. So. *Microsoft Games* existed as an internal group from the early 90s through the year 2000, when Microsoft spun that group into a proper division within the company - providing a bit more autonomy right as the company publicly announced the Xbox. It was renamed to *Microsoft Game Studios* the following year; although it was now a separate division, there was a continued back-and-forth for the following 15ish years, where MGS and Xbox were sometimes lumped under the Windows umbrella. Other times the Windows PC games "teams" were separated from Xbox, it was pretty messy. You can arguably trace a direct line from those sorts of decisions to the leadership groups at the time, and you can trace a direct line from the Xbox heads getting cute and leaning more and more heavily on third party releases, the Xbox TV/film production company, etc., to the mountain of acquisitions Xbox's made in recent years to catch back up with an exclusive library. Which brings us to: In 2019, after years of restructuring, Microsoft Studios became *Xbox Game Studios* - and everything under the PC gaming team was roped back in under the Xbox arm of the company. That's why even classic Windows PC games like Solitaire now have Phil Spencer listed in the credits - because Microsoft's games *are* all Xbox games now! And all of that also ignores that the Game Boy Color games were greenlit _after_ the Xbox started production, presumably as a way to ease into the market and get an idea of what they were even doing.

@Gamefreak924

10 ай бұрын

then why not just title the video like it really is: "Microsoft's Official Game Boy Games - The Golden Bolt" Seems a bit clickbaity, no?

@spongebobfan78

10 ай бұрын

"because Microsoft's games are all Xbox games now" Reminds me of the fact that Sega had acquired the Puyo series, which meant that Sega official owns a series that had an entry exclusively released on a rival platform at the time, which is the SNES, with Kirby's Avalanche.

@lpnp9477

10 ай бұрын

Yeah this is a lot of mental gymnastics to justify your title which didn't need to happen like, at all.

@GodfatherRobert

10 ай бұрын

Anything that said Microsoft and was a game should count on this list and anyone who disagrees is probably not worth the sub anyhow that'd be some serious hair splitting fr

@JeffreyPiatt

10 ай бұрын

Microsoft's oldest published game is Flight simulator as a actual game. If you're being crule Donkey. Bas included with PC-Dos 1 was there first game a tech demo in cga.

If anyone's wondering, the impossible FreeCell game is number 11982. The Windows version did apparently have a bug that made it beatable. I also love the Life Mega Drive joke.

Okay, you got me with that Genesis/Mega Drive joke.

@RadikAlice

10 ай бұрын

A good one for sure

Aka Rare’s loophole to still develop games for Nintendo.

@skibot9974

10 ай бұрын

Yet for some reason they stopped doing handled games after the Diddy Kong Racing remake in 2007 despite Microsoft never making a handheld

@GodfatherRobert

10 ай бұрын

​@@skibot9974hey they had the Microsoft Zune which could play some games and that was before 2008 for sure but I guess they never made any titles for it it just used PC emulators for card games but Wouldn't that still count as a handheld?

@bonnome2

10 ай бұрын

Not a loophole if it was in the contract

@STICKOMEDIA

9 ай бұрын

Hey Foga, haven't seen you in ages

@robw5741

9 ай бұрын

@@GodfatherRobert that's like saying windows phones were handhelds

I'm glad you like Grunty's Revenge! I remember trying to emulate it and stopping when I encountered a minigame that uses L & R to turn, and I didn't have a controller to plug in. I ended up actually buying a GBA SP and a copy of the game from a pawn shop(that or a local game store, can't remember which) and I think I 100%'d it in about 6 hours. It was a neat romp, and I wish I was able to keep the GBA SP, if not the copy of the game, instead of having to sell it for food.

@ThisIsCSDX

8 ай бұрын

@Tonysopranoyafinook HA! Good one. I have a job and still can't afford shit.

I’m a simple man, I see gba i click . But fr i LOVE your humor and personality man. It’s like Scott the woz’s and lgr’s amazing love child. Literally everything i want from a game or tech Chanel. Definitely subscribing.

Since you asked in the Microsoft pinball section I just wanted to say I usually play Pokémon pinball on the gameboy color because… I dunno I like pinball! And plus I always thought it has a cute aesthetic and it’s one of the few GB/GBA games with a built in rumble

@microfighterz

10 ай бұрын

Especially since Devil's Crush is held up as the pinnacle of retro pinball games, it's fun to go to other pinball games that most retro gamers would consider to be "lesser", there's some absolute gems out there.

@Dong_Harvey

10 ай бұрын

Pokémon Pinball music was playing throughout that section in the video

Dunno if anyone already tried to explain this, but Finty Flush is supposed to be a sort of an homonym for a Russian word “fintiflyushka” that was used to describe any sort of a fidget toy or anything similar (tbh it is not really a word you’d find in a dictionary, but something exclusively colloquial)

@bluebloodyellowteeth

10 ай бұрын

Also, i’m sorry for being almost two weeks late to the party, kinda missed the vid in the sub feed

Now i want to play Metroid Prime Pinball again! xD

Kirby’s pinball land and Pokémon Pinball are amazing GB pinball games even in 2023

at first i thought bolt had already done this... but turns out i was just having a mandela moment

@TheGoldenBolt

10 ай бұрын

No, you're correct, you're one of the couple thousand folks that would've seen those videos it seems! I touched on some of this in a different capacity and in a different format 5ish years back. I finally sat down to start the DS games video and, like with R&C and a couple other videos before, I felt saying "watch these much worse half-decade old vids" wasn't really a fair ask, so I went back and redid everything from scratch, added what new research I could dig up, new context given how different Xbox is today than it was back then, the works. Originally the idea was to throw the DS games in here too and do a full "Xbox on Nintendo" thing, but I figured a 2-hour video might not be the right play, especially if it turns out there's still not much interest in the topic! So between that and moving, I decided to take it easy on myself and keep it simple, and finish up the DS video assuming that this one doesn't totally bomb.

@jameswright4539

10 ай бұрын

@@TheGoldenBolt I too thought I was going insane, lol. At first I thought it was a compilation video but quickly realized everything was different from what I remembered. Incredible job.

@Bagface-dn1ul

10 ай бұрын

@@TheGoldenBolt Were clips from the older video reprised for this one? I also had a mandela moment trying to find the original.

@TheGoldenBolt

10 ай бұрын

Most of the gameplay is fresh (also why a lot of it is early-game - I've played all these games before and the idea was for the first half/now first full video here to be a bit of lighter work while moving), but when I couldn't find/replicate specific bits, I did steal from myself here and there! Dave Hand for example, I don't have those PNGs anymore so I just up and stole that clip lol, I couldn't leave him behind

That life genesis thing is based on Conway's Game of Life which adds a lot of context to why it was included. The whole thing is probably an excuse to do the simulation mode which *is* game of life as far as I can tell. Turning it into a strategy game is an interesting twist though.

Dave Hand's game feels like a game in the same way that 52 Card Pickup is a game

Hi, I go bank to the Gameboy Color for pinball every once in a while. No replacement for modern digital pinball offerings but The Little Mermaid 2 Pinball Frenzy is a little bit of a guilty pleasure. Shame it has two tablrs and I only enjoy one of them though.

The entertainment packs included tetris for Windows 3.0 and acted as a basically the example game packs for Windows as a platform before directx using the win16 sdk Minesweeper started as a game for Microsoft os/2 a project they were working on with IBM. When they split they kept Minesweeper insuring windows victory.

Space cadet is the gigachad of pinball.

Was a missed opportunity to include Chips Challenge in the best of entertainment pack on GBC.

@JeffreyPiatt

10 ай бұрын

Microsoft licenced the game to port it to Windows 3. 0 they didn't own chips challenge another company ported it to DOS and The C64.

Nice video, a was waiting for a deep dive into Mr pants characters but still, very great video a title on DS would be great!

Oh! I had completely forgotten about Monster Truck Madness. You are right that trying to loop the horn was the best part of the game, I remember driving my mum insane doing that with the Vengaboys song one. You're also not wrong about charging up the meter being fairly useless, I'm fairly certain I didn't even know what it did. One thing you didn't show was the best 'truck' in the game, Nugget, the literal giant chicken you can unlock.

I still randomly go back to the GameBoy for pinball, but just "Pokemon Pinball"

Holy cow I just watched a documentary on these gameboy games that's not all they actually had N64 and even SNES titles i believe. Gonna watch this video when im more awake looking forward to the topic great choice bro

at first I thought this was a framerater notification so I was surprised hearing your voice

What I learned from this video: all of these are worth checking out except Munch's Odyssey

@jeveritt8398

10 ай бұрын

I think it's worth checking out bad games sometimes like Munch's odyssey even for just a few minutes

I got a massive nostalgia burst from Sabrewulf, i loved that game as a kid. Definetly one of my favorite games on my gameboy

Love watching your vids mate. You're always super in depth, and you do your homework which is what I appreciate most about your channel's content output. Please keep up the good work, and as always, stay Golden!💛

@GodfatherRobert

10 ай бұрын

Love that stay Golden He should definitely make a T shirt that has a golden bolt and says Stay Golden On the back I love this comment he's my brother and I love his videos too he's a badass gamer if you ever get the chance to play something with him. He was able to get 40 plus more kills than any other player on halo reach multi teams I actually gave halo another chance because he was the best halo player of all time seriously not boosting he was by far the best reach player ever. The saddest day I can remember that didn't involve any death was when he told me he's done with Halo indefinitely. Understood why because of Armor Lock being changed. Also, I'm done with call of duty indefinitely unless they create a black ops One HD remake or a strictly Call of Duty Zombies title I will never play their repetitive nonsense again it's the same exact crap every title Vanguard was the last title I bought and it was garbage cold war I still play but never again will i get another title from them if I already own it yeah i love zombies and search hardcore so i'll play it but I'm not paying them a cent or trying their Battle royales. PUBG is more fun anyway I am also in love with Red Dead 2 and Elder Scrolls online but that's me just rambling at this point

@johneygd

9 ай бұрын

I would luv watching his videos except for those annoying & generic jokes as well as for being always talking sooo overanthousiast,i was never really impressed with microsoft games on nintendo’s almighty gameboy systems, except at that they were on it.

WOW, I totally forgot about Monster Truck Madness, I played that game so much as a kid/teen

At 13 minutes I believe they meant for that specific publisher maybe!? Well hey , your thoight process made for a hilarious skit (cutscene) all the same Thabks for the video!

At 27:41 Insert Sans' theme from Undertale. I wouldn't be surprised if the creator of Undertale was inspired by the monster truck horn for Sans' theme.

@BroskiPlays

4 ай бұрын

Wait sans theme isnt a original composition?

17:04 I got read like a book

Love every vid! Hope you’re doing well 🖤

Excuse me we ALWAYS boot up Pokemon Pinball on the GBC, shit's fun as hell and charming as can be.

I go back to the Game Boy Color for pinball more often than you'd think, Pokémon Pinball is an amazingly fun time

I mean, in fairness to people who might want to go to the Gameboy for pinball, Kirby's Pinball Land does exist.

Grunties revenge was not only my first banjo game but my first gba game. I remember really loving it but could never beat the last klungo battle

25:00 Not only that, but the fact that they came out as close to the launch of the Xbox as they did.

9:00 that"s a Qix you can't convince me otherwise

I remember having my mind blown when I saw the Mech Assault game for the DS, I didn't know about some of these games until recently, but it's awesome to get a comprehensive list like this! Gonna have to track down some of those GBC games someday.

Never understood why the single pyramid added up to 13 while the 3 pyramids where matching the next value up or down.

You could say that "tetris's bastard child" was actually a reworked version of what actually inspired Alexey to make Tetris

12:09 apparently Marie Antoinette played a proto pinball with her brother. When the inventor presented it to the Royal Court they apparently accused him of inventing another way to gamble, so if he didn't do well for a certain amount of time he'd be executed. He won and survived fortunately. This story was from a plane magazine so I don't know if it's true though. 😅

@youmukonpaku3168

10 ай бұрын

it turns out that the predecessor to pinball, a sort of weird narrow pool table, was invented during Louis XIV's reign, and by the time he kicked the bucket, the spring plunger mechanism had been added to the table in replacement of the cue stick. It seems unlikely that Antoinette would have presided over pinball as a "new way to gamble" then so much as the story just being her era's French nobility well earning their final haircuts. Also that pinball is several centuries older than you'd think and apparently billiards is centuries older than *that.*

The Six Flags Theme is actually a Vengaboys song XD

Jewel chase was AWESOME on PC, where it was first released.

Most Pinball tables since Asteroid Annie have built in turn taking multiplayer on a per ball basis. Not so for the majority of older electromagnet tables from the 30s to the 70s they werefull sets of 3-5 balls.

43:47 lmfao this lil joke with the crying guy is hilarious

Super Robot Pinball on GBC is actually really cool!

I'd really love it if you did the Game & Watch galleries sometime

That "LifeMega Drive in Europe" joke was slick

Seeing a minime "TOASTY" like appearance made me smile much more than I though :D

Grunty's Revenge really is a great, underrated game!

Hell yeah, I got the Starfield Ad on this video.

Mate no console/gaming platform is complete without Solitaire.

"Also known as LifeMegaDrive in Europe" ...I honestly thought you were being serious for a couple seconds until I realized the joke lol

Pre-watch comment to boost the algorithm. Super excited for this topic!!

anyone else 'curious' as to why this random cash back site shares it's name and logo with a japanese site that, best this one can tel, has nothing to do with cash back stuff?

...Huh. So you lose Lineup if the "conveyor" of pieces fills up? And this was a port of a PC game? Reminds me of the "Inlay" sub-genre of puzzle games - I wonder if this inspired games like my childhood favorite Fresco Wizard...?!

Well actually I would like to go back to the Game Boy Color for Pokemon Pinball. That's a very fun pinball game!

Why is there a undertale horn in that game when toby fox hasnt even released undertale back then?!!

27:42 Did I just hear a snippet of Megalovania??

I'm going back to GBA for Gameboy pinball games.

I was hoping to hear the first one was an obscure gameboy color version of Age of Empires.

14:40 you FOOL. I collect pinball games and I got Microsoft arcade earlier this year and I'm on the hunt for more pinball games on the GB systems. The ones I don't already have anyway

I go back to GBC for Pokémon pinball.

Just bought some pinball GameBoy Color games off eBay.

My first handheld is the GameBoy Advance.

Ooo excited 😊

Fenty Flush is when you dispose of your fentanyl in the toilet before the cops bust down your door.

Why's the finty flush music so dark? Geez, seemed like a funeral was happening.

I still don't know how minesweeper works 😢

Can't wait for the 5x 5x 5x 5x 5x tictactics update.

Ist this ski game a dos port? I reeally think i did play something like that with a monster that eats you.

48:22 green amongus 😳

I LOVED the DS Age of Empires. It played like a very casual Civilization which was perfect for my child monkey brain.

Microsoft did port to the original Game Boy the original Entertainment Pack including Minesweeper

Interesting to hear your take on Rare having trouble when they migrated to 3D, as I always thought the same, that that was the major problem on why Rare couldn't keep up with its fame when Microsoft bought it. From what we hear, Rare never had a stable process for creating games, they just kept iterating or reiterating until something stuck to the wall. For example, Banjo went from Project Dreams, to isometric, to finally its final form. Conker went through A LOT of changes as well. While that might be "easier" to do on 2D games and early 3D (specially with Nintendo helping guide them), that IS NOT feasible on how HD games are made, since the amount of time and resources that need to be dedicated to the game make it REALLY HARD to change direction mid game. If you do not have a clear vision from the start, there is a BIG chance the game fails. So what I believe happened is Microsoft gave them all the money they wanted, but maybe what they NEEDED was guidance and some people with vision to take on the reins. A shame... at least we have some new developers that seemed to take the reins on fulfilling the space Rare left, such as Retro Studios, Insomniac and Sucker Punch.

@jeveritt8398

10 ай бұрын

Rare replay has some good little documentaries about some of their development issues particularly with banjo and conker. Ofc they can't be all that candid and so don't expect anything explosive but they're neat nonetheless

@maquiavelmg

10 ай бұрын

@@jeveritt8398 yeah, I watched some on KZread!

I remember seeing microsoft entertainment pack on gbc in the shop back in the day and being confused about why it exists. 11:07 for some reason a lot of the mediocre gbc games got really good music and sometimes really impressive graphics compared to the more popular games on the system .it was strange time they had a lot of skilled programmer that were forced to make shovelware. and i think back then the mindset was to have the best graphics possible even if they weren't very impressive compared to other systems or the competition. like back then i said this game looks good for game boy color .but my friends were like who cares playsation exists .but i think most devs didn't get enough feedback and assumed they need to have the best graphics. in the late 2000s games like runescape and minecraft showed that most gamers don't are about graphics. but they didn't know this back in 1999

I think that final horn is DOOM?

@scanlong

9 ай бұрын

Megalovania!

48:24 GREEN AMOGUS

life mega drive in europe.......well done sir😁

Life Mega Drive is a very good joke. Bravo.

Pokemon Pinball

Monster truck on the gba is pretty amezing and the 3D demo engine of banjo pilot is amzeing as well,since the gba was never ment for 3D, HOWEVER i really HATE how colors in most GBA games were just sooo overbrighted not only that but background did got different colors as well,all just to make things distinguishable from each other on the normal GBA,those donkeykong country games and banjo kazooi grunchy’s revenge etc,,, are prime examples of this,why they didn’t gave you an option for whether you use a gba or gba sp instead sothat everybody could change those settings to their satisfaction,take gba doom for example in wich you could chamge the brightness and contrast of the game to meet your satisfaction whether on the gba sp or the normal gba,it was something really forward thinking because the gba sp didn’t existed yet in 2001, It’s sad that the gba has just a bad rap for having such overbrighted colors in must games.

Most of us Americans only know the name Saberwulf for the Killer Instinct character 😂.

What are you talking about mixed genetics is ss tier

No Fringer, no buy. Nobody would've understood the genetics game on a handheld though, that was definitely a good call. That would've been so miserable.

Nice.

1:26

Ds one plz

What if and I'm just thinking this we try to get Mr beast to buy rare from Microsoft and give it to Nintendo

I was cackling from gamers…gaming… 😭 video

Pokemon pinball is the best

What is your obsession with there not being a link to Ratatouille? The movie didn't exist until long after the DS released.

48:22 amogus jumpscare

"Rareware Prepareware" RAREWARE PREPAREWARE

Ah yes, Portable Xbox games, if only...

"and the first xbox game to be released on the GBA was halo: combat devolved"

The all-time most impressive GBA game for me is Asterix & Obelix XXL. Seriously give it a look if you haven't.

@TheGoldenBolt

10 ай бұрын

That was actually the other one that came to mind for me! It's between that, Grunty's Revenge, and Driver GBA for most interesting tech showcase/translation imo

@sassyimps

10 ай бұрын

@@TheGoldenBolt Since learning about Banjo-Pilot Voxel (which is what the officially released ROM is nicknamed) I've had a small obsession with 3D rendering on underpowered hardware. Apparently GBA voxel rendering (primarily in the case of Banjo-Pilot) is primarily done via the use of heigh maps that are layered on a bitmap texture of the racetrack. The Black/White value of each pixel on the height map dictates the vertical position of the corresponding pixel on the texture map for the track. The floating pixel is a voxel. Voxels are so weird. I used to think they were just cubes, but after Banjo-Pilot, I learned they can kind of be anything. It's essentially building 3D geometry out of suspended particles rather than individual polygons. Asterix and Obelix is proper 3D polygons as far as I can tell. They've performed some sort of sorcery to pull off the necessary culling techniques and whatnot to get that game running as well as it does. I have no idea how.

Pausing the video to say Mr.Pants

Any puzzle game is better than Tetris. :P 3 years oh DS came out 2004 sure even though Dreamcast/GBA were 2007/2008 last games, system production inbetween gamers are weird. Let alone the bad art works, Banjo is good not the best of what's here it's overrated by everyone. Like Sega on PC was an interesting time for Rare Dev GBA games or Microsoft Windows games on Gameboy Color. No Xbox handheld but technically PDAs/Pocket PCs or Zune count & Windows Mobile/CE existed instead way before GPD Win devices I think & definitively Steam Deck. I know about their PC gaming stuff even if most people focus on Xbox or console too much even though Direct X and other PC IPs they had a hand in happened way earlier, they even point it out in their Xbox documentary.

Life megadrive, lol

Ratatouille didn’t come out until 2007 (And yes, i know this is a joke, go ahead and woosh me)