Space Invaders (Super Game Boy) Gameplay

NOTE: There is an editing error in this video where some text comes up about four seconds later than it's supposed to. My bad. Sorry about that.
The most remarkable feat ever achieved on the Super Game Boy on the absolute most unassuming game.
So, this isn't like what I usually upload, but it's something I just had to preserve on this site. It's not properly showcased in most videos in its raw form, which I guess is a bit reasonable considering it is annoyingly convoluted and painful to set up in an emulator for little gain. So, what is this exactly?
Back during the Game Boy's heyday, you saw plenty of arcade conversions to offer an option for playing arcade classics on the go. These are usually nothing more than novelties these days considering there are tons of much better ways to play these games on the road and they probably wouldn't be your first choice anyway. There was also an accessory released for the Super Nintendo that allowed one to play Game Boy games on the TV, complete with selectable color palettes and a border. Some games took advantage of the features of this accessory by having special pre-programmed palettes that could even color specific areas of the screen differently from others, giving a better illusion of true color rather than just a gradient of one color over a monochrome image.
And then there's this game.
Okay, so it has enhancements as expected, including a custom border and several extra modes that only apply on an SGB that mimic different versions of the arcade cabinet -- you can pick true black and white, or mimic one of the two ways the original game achieved "color" by adding horizontal "masks" across the screen rows. It ALSO, however, has an SNES game buried underneath. As in, it actually completely hijacks the console and at that point it's treated like any other SNES game cartridge, leaving SGB mode behind.
As far as I am aware, this is the only game to ever do any such thing. The Super Game Boy was a weird accessory that had a ton of potential and this is arguably the coolest thing you could do with it, but unfortunately not only is this the only game to do it, it's a fairly unremarkable port of one of the earliest arcade games. The SNES side of the cart is definitely much more faithful to the original arcade game (in fact, a casual player probably won't even notice a difference), but at the end of the day it's still Space Invaders. There's only so much you can do with it.
For this video I showed off the Game Boy side of things, then I showed the SNES side. I tried to showcase every offered mode and played multiple games on each...I'll confess, I'm not very good at Space Invaders so apologies that I never got particularly far. Oh well, you're seeing what you need to see anyway.
That's about all I have to say. Enjoy!

[@CEO100able]

So the Super Game Boy peripheral was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. And then came the Game Boy Player for the Nintendo GameCube nearly a decade later in 2003. It's amazing what Nintendo video game consoles from the 1990s and 2000s could do.

[@huguesfardaoclarinettesolo7210]

My first "Super Game Boy Game Pak" game, and the reason why I have a SNES : only for the Super Game Boy adaptator. Not only Space Invaders on Game Boy is a superb and one of the best version of this classic game, but also the Super Game Boy compatibility is a great value for classic Arcade games on Game Boy.

[@Kingcrab0]

I was excited to see one of your videos again today. I haven't watched it yet because I'm working, but I know it'll be great.

[@RangoTheMercenary]

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Man that is cool as hell. The only one to have a 16-bit version unlocked via Super Game Boy.

[@AtreyuGilbert]

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[@LITTLE1994]

Dang, I need the Super Game Boy to play the TRUE arcade version?

[@SmokeandLights]

Does the Gameboy Color version of Space invaders give you the "Arcade" option, or is that just on the grey cartridge?

[@sonicrulez6916]

pretty sure it's just the grey cartridge. the GBC version is a different game from what I know

[@robbiewalker2831]

immediate Game Over. So, Futurama really got everything right about the original Space Invaders Arcade Game.

[@RetroStuff]

Awesome

[@goomba008]

I tip my hat to Taito. They must have put a lot of work into this, knowing few people would buy it or see it in action.

[@looe9195]

How the hell do you fit an entire SNES game on a *GAMEBOY* cartridge???

[@LeafRazorStorm]

It's Space Invaders. The Game Boy card is half a megabyte, and 50% of that is the SNES game.

[@denefindov]

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[@AtreyuGilbert]

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