In Just Two Years, Nintendo Fan Completes Game Boy Collection

Twitter user Shouta is now the proud owner of all 1,244 Game Boy titles. Congrats! Finishing the collection took less time than he thought it would, thanks to Twitter’s help.

In the US, there were 1,046 games released for the Game Boy, but in Japan, there were 1,244. (Note that these numbers are only games that were official releases and do not include unlicensed games or cancelled titles.)

Shouta began his collection in earnest in September 2019, and completed it in just two years, collecting all of the Japanese Game Boy games.

市販のゲームボーイソフト全1244タイトル(非売品・ハード扱いを除く)をコンプリートしました！

2019年9月から本格的な収集を開始し、丸2年。本当に多くの人に支えられ、無事に集めきることができました。ツイッターがなければ後5年はかかっていたでしょう。

本当にありがとうございました！！ pic.twitter.com/xjeTScUkj3

— ショウタ (@marumi_1985) September 8, 2021

“I’ve always liked the Game Boy, and I had a number of games I bought to play,” Shouta told Kotaku, “and along the way, that turned into deciding to complete the full set.”

As he collected, Shouta tweeted out his progression, with followers helping him track down missing games. “It there wasn’t Twitter, this would’ve taken five years,” he told us. All the games are playable—Shouta made sure of that when acquiring them.

The collection is now housed in do-it-yourself display shelves.

Putting something together like this is not cheap, but Shouta isn’t exactly sure how much he’s poured into his collection. “I haven’t added up how much I spent, so I don’t know,” he said. The rarest title is Jaguar Sewing Machine Embroidery-Only Software: Mario Family, which was used with Jaguar’s JN-100 sewing machine by connecting the Nintendo portable. The sewing machine could then copy any of the 32 Nintendo themed patterns from the Game Boy Color game.

Source: Kotaku