Astro Rabby is an action video game developed by Cyclone System and published by Information Global Service (IGS) for the original Game Boy exclusively in Japan on October 12, 1990. It is the first Game Boy title to be published by that company. The game puts you in control a of Rabby, a robotic bunny, who's goal is to recover stolen parts for his creator, Doc, that were taken by the Dortoise Troops. Doc's dream is to utilize the parts to allow Rabby to fly freely. The game is a top-down, vertically scrolling action game that can be considered a precursor to the Jumping Flash series. The player must jump along platforms in search of a heart, which will allow the player to upgrade Rabby and proceed on to the next level. A level will loop indefinitely until the heart is found.


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Happy year of the bunny! A short and simple top-down platformer that bravely asks the player to ascertain depth on a Game Boy screen with surprising results! Whether or not an exit will show up early in a level is mostly up to RNG, creating a deceptively tense but brief experience you can totally wrap up in under an hour.

Proto-Jumping Flash with some slightly cruel goal placement. Feels super weird to control at first but then somewhere about a third in it suddenly just kind of felt natural? A weighty platformer on the GB of all things doesn't have any right to feel this good, and the music is solid. +.5 star for the hilarious translations, I won't spoil the two lines it throws at you but they're cute.

I'll just mention here too, but the bonus game is a matching game, the blocks emit a tone and you have to try and match it to another block of the same tone; the timer on these is ruthless and I only successfully completed one with one use of rewind lol, in the end I don't think i really got anything for completing the bonus level.

Highly recommend as a quick pick-up-n-play game (est completion: 30-40 mins), or if you're exploring the GameBoy library any deeper than what Tumblr said was good a decade ago.