Game Boy Advance · Available
The Playroom
A two-player game collection for the Game Boy Advance, made so a grandpa and his grandkids could sit on the couch and play together.
Original game
The Playroom is a two-player collection for the Game Boy Advance, made so a grandpa and his grandkids could sit on the couch and play together. It started with one comment: “It'd be fun to make a game for me and the grandkids.” The result is a real cartridge game you can play on one handheld passed back and forth, or on two systems connected by a link cable.
It is named after the room at the family house where the kids play. Pick it up, choose who you are, pick a game, and you are playing in under a minute.
15 games
- Hide and Seek, and Tag over a link cable
- Tic-Tac-Toe, Connect Four, Rock Paper Scissors, Quick Draw, Bank, Last Candy, Memory, and Dots and Boxes
- Checkers, Chess, Battleship, Mancala, and Backgammon
How it works
- Pass-and-play on one handheld, or link two systems
- A running scoreboard for the session
- How to Play pages before every game
- Quiet sound design so two handhelds side by side never echo
- Every character is drawn from a real family member, plus the two family cats
Editions
Game Boy Advance has all 15 games, plus Tag Practice. Game Boy Color has 13 games so far, with Hide and Seek and Tag still on the way. Download the ROM and play it on a flash cartridge or in an emulator.