"state something completely random time!"

[old man]

Do you already have Ninja Gaiden Shadow? You might also want to give Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues a chance, since from what I played, it is quite a bit like Contra/Metal Slug.

I got Ninja Gaiden Shadow new BITD! It's still in pristine condition too. I've seriously neglected the gameboy since my youth though. (a situation I intend to correct) There's tons of cool fast action games for this little system that you can get for a song on ebay. Stuff like Battle Unit Zeoth, Fortified Zone, and Cosmo Tank may not mean much in the greater scheme of things, but they're loads of fun with a lot of no brainer, pick up and play, replay value. The gameboy has loads of these and plenty of weirdness to boot like Catrap, Cyraid, and Nail N' Scale. It also has what I consider the most playable versions of Bionic Commando and Ghouls and Ghosts. And since many games have emulator glitches it's a great system to collect for.

[MrMatthews]

Here are some other oddities that I proudly have in my collection. You should check them all out, if possible.

GoGo Tank
Gremlins 2 - Actually a really good game, although quite short. The music on the last two levels is excellent.
Kung Fu Master - I don't know if this is a port or not, but it appears to be a bigger, better sequel to the game we know in the states as "Kung Fu."
Mario's Picross - Probably the best puzzle game on the GameBoy.
Mercenary Force - Terrible graphics and music, but strangely addictive gameplay.
Mole Mania - Awesome action/puzzler. Highly recommended.
Mystical Ninja - Yeah, it's on the GameBoy, too! And I have it! (never played it, though)
Nail 'N Scale - Hey, I got this one, too! (along with Battle Unit Zeoth, Cyraid and CosmoTank)
Ninja Boy - Don't know anything about this game other than the fact that I have it and the sequel is better.
Ninja Boy II - Don't know anything about this game other than the fact that I have it and it's better than the first one.
Snow Brothers - This one was hard to track down, and yet remains the least-elusive version of the game released in the US. Better than Bubble Bobble.
Spot: The Cool Adventure - Played McKids BITD? I did, and really liked it. For some reason, they turned the main character to Spot for the GameBoy version.
Stop That Roach - Another game I had to watch and watch and watch Ebay for. Plays nothing like Catrap, but I'd put it right there in the same league.
Tail Gator - Very cute and solid little platformer NOT made by Nintendo, which is oddly enough a rarity on the system.
TMNT: Fall of the Foot Clan - HAH! I love this game. The most-basic and best of the 3 TMNT GameBoy games.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - There's a Sunsoft version and a Capcom version. I have them both. The dude behind this game later went on to create some scary game on the Playstation for Capcom. "Evil" something...

[Tanegashima]

I always enjoyed Nemesis for the gameboy, many wasted hours on that one.

[MrMatthews]

I beat that one just recently, along with the sequel, Gradius: Interstellar Assault.

[QuickSciFi]

[eddiespruce]

^
That couch is awesome.

[sheath]

That couch cover and pillow cover set needs to be in every store, right now!

[QuickSciFi]

I agree. Even supermarkets.

[sheath]

Yes, everywhere we look we should see it. It should be on billboards, Walmart posters, comic book stores, next to the lawn furniture and in the party isle in grocery stores. They can clear out all of the pictures of Justin Bieber and sparky vampires, and their made for TV counterparts, this should free up enough space.

[Jesse813]

now thats an awesome couch

[Iron Lizard]

i just installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my the decrepit Frankensteined P4 that just replaced my nice lots of core AMD unit with a fried mother bored. The damn thing boots in about 15 seconds. Its freaking nuts. I would have thought it would taken much longer with such a degrade. I haven't had to fiddle around with any drivers this time, flash works , pdf works with no hassle and I haven't had to touch Firefox . I did have to switch back to the old style desktop but that top about 30 seconds of my time.

[sheath]

I've been working on an XP machine with a rootkit virus for a week. The virus is gone, but the system still won't boot. It's frustrating the crap out of me. If I use a boot CD I can select the partition and it blue screens. If I don't it just stays on a black screen with a ~ at the top of the screen right after the bios and POST.

[Iron Lizard]

I've been working on an XP machine with a rootkit virus for a week. The virus is gone, but the system still won't boot. It's frustrating the crap out of me. If I use a boot CD I can select the partition and it blue screens. If I don't it just stays on a black screen with a ~ at the top of the screen right after the bios and POST.

Damn computers. They make want to drink sometimes.

[MrMatthews]

You should. It's Friday, afterall.

Bonus: it's also 4.20

[The Jackal]

I've been working on an XP machine with a rootkit virus for a week. The virus is gone, but the system still won't boot. It's frustrating the crap out of me. If I use a boot CD I can select the partition and it blue screens. If I don't it just stays on a black screen with a ~ at the top of the screen right after the bios and POST.

I'm not really an expert (nowhere near), but have you tried installed a Dual Boot install with a linux distro? I can access my Xp partition from Ubuntu; maybe that could be of some use to you??