Ranked by user rating, best first. Data from the RAWG API, fetched 2026-09-16T22:11.
2 games (of 1,131 in 2002) platform: game-boy-color genre: platformer
Nintendo · 1998–2003 · 431 games all-time on RAWG
Game Boy Color is the second major portable video game console made by Nintendo. The console was a successor to the original Game Boy and shared many similarities with it. Game Boy Color was backward compatible with all original Game Boy titles. The main innovation in the system, compared to its predecessor was its color screen that could display up to 56 different colors. The control elements were the same as in original Game Boy: a D-pad, A, B, Select and Start buttons. The games developed specifically for Game Boy Color could not be played on Game Boy, while the Game Boy titles when played on Game Boy Color were colored using built-in color palettes. The player could choose from 12 different pallets. Additionally, certain Game Boy games had their specific pallets. The most successful exclusive games on the system were titles from Pokémon, The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario series with Pokémon Gold and Silver selling more than 23 million copies worldwide.
RAWG publishes an average score only once a game has collected
6 or more user votes. Below that it
returns 0.0 — while still returning the full vote
breakdown. So a game nobody has ever rated and a game with five
“exceptional” votes arrive looking identical.
Those suppressed scores are recomputed from the breakdown, which recovers 0 of the 2 games here that would otherwise read as unrated. The rest have no votes at all — mostly obscure, regional or unported titles. That is a real absence, not a gap in the fetch: there is nothing to retrieve.
Everything with a vote ranks in one table, because the order is weighted rather than a raw mean: a score is shrunk toward the all-years mean of 3.79 (too few ranked games here to take a local one) in proportion to how thin its evidence is, so a two-vote 5.0 settles near the middle instead of on top. Metacritic joins at half that weight where it exists.
Ordered by a weighted score, not the raw mean: each game's own average is shrunk toward the all-years mean of 3.79 in proportion to how few votes it rests on, and Metacritic is folded in at half that weight where it exists. A 6-vote 4.67 therefore ranks below a 2,100-vote 4.45 — the raw figure is shown under each score, and sorting by raw score ignores the weighting entirely.
Bars show how the votes split —
Exceptional, Recommended, Meh, Skip.
A ~ on the raw figure marks a score recomputed from a
breakdown RAWG suppresses.