Dr. Mario (Game Boy, 1990)

Dr. Mario is a fantastic, simple puzzle game. It was one of the first three games I got with my first Game Boy - the others being Tetris and Super Mario Land. Most people are familiar with the game - it's a simple premise: Mario has somehow become a Doctor and must eradicate viruses with pills. There are three different types of viruses, each with a different colour. On the NES, the viruses were red/blue/yellow, but with a monochrome palette on the Game Boy, the colours are black, gray, and white (or, it's sort of yellow depending on the screen you're looking at). I consider myself a master at this game. I wish I remembered the highest level I've gotten to but I can get pretty far. The game gets progressively more difficult as you clear the stages. The number of viruses increase and their distribution on the screen makes matching the pills with the different viruses more difficult. There are also three speeds at which you can play, low, medium, and high; so depending on the speed it…