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Pirate Discussion => Game Boy => Topic started by: APM on April 25, 2025, 09:06:43 PM
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A while ago on the BGC Discord, Ankos shared a link to a livestream of, surprisingly, the very first Binary Monster game released by Gowin for the original Game Boy. Upon looking further into it myself, it turns out that this was part of a live playthrough series by a Japanese YouTube account that was started last year, which currently has five installments available as of writing. You can watch them here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuubamz8DhW-BRdveBOll5gG7bTGd0Cdm
Up until the link to one of the streams was shared by Ankos, there was essentially next to no information on the game itself besides Chinese-language pamphlets on the game from Gowin themselves (here (https://nesworld.com/gbx-gowingame.php)), so this is a pretty massive breakthrough in being able to learn what this game was actually about and see it in action. From what I have been able to deduce from these streams using visual observation and auto-translated captions, the first Binary Monster is a straight pet simulator with random events and an overarching story at the very least. Developer is still unknown, but I can confirm that whoever developed it made it for Gowin specifically (to avoid spoiling things too quickly, the last boss fight on part 5 of the livestream series should make it obvious that this is the case).