7 Best Game Boy Color Board and Card Games

Monopoly on the Game Boy Color is a version of the Monopoly game Sculptured Software made in 1991, and Majesco published it on the Game Boy. It plays very much like the board game, and the dice, the money and the property cards are all handled for you. You pick your piece from the eight classic tokens, from the hat and the wheelbarrow to the boot and the dog.

Players who have it keep putting it on their lists of good Game Boy Color games. It is a handy way to play a full game of Monopoly without anybody flipping the board.

Uno is a 1999 game made by HotGen and published by Mattel for the Game Boy Color. You start with seven cards and try to get rid of all of them by matching the number or symbol on the top of the pile. You can play against one to three opponents and pick how hard each one is. It also adds three special cards that are not in the card game: Boomerang, All Draw 2 and Swap Hands.

Eurogamer praised it as highly addictive and easier to play than the card game. With a Game Link Cable and a second copy, you can play a friend. Players still list it among the best games to get on the Game Boy Color.

The Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack started on Windows in 1994 as a collection of games from the four earlier Entertainment Packs. A Game Boy Color version came out in June 2001 in North America, made by Saffire. The cartridge has card games like FreeCell and TriPeaks next to puzzle games like Minesweeper and SkiFree.

These were the games people played on office computers between meetings, and the boxes even had slogans like "No more boring coffee breaks". On the Game Boy Color you could play them anywhere. Players still remember the Entertainment Pack fondly.

Dark Duel Stories is a Yu-Gi-Oh! card game made by Konami for the Game Boy Color. It came out in Japan on July 13, 2000, and in the United States on March 19, 2002. It was the first Yu-Gi-Oh! video game released outside Japan, and it came bundled with three real cards. You can trade and battle with other players over a link cable.

In Japan it is the fourth best selling Game Boy Color game, with 726,518 copies sold. It came back in 2025 in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection. Players still put it on their lists of favourite Game Boy Color games.

Legendary Super Warriors is a mix of a card game and a turn-based fighting game. Attacks, techniques and support items are all cards, and the story goes from the Saiyan saga to the end of the Buu saga. There are 30 battles in story mode. Each character can only be leveled up 4 times in total, and each one has its own stats, so building your team takes some thought.

Beat the game and any character can fight in any battle, so you can finally set up Frieza vs. Cell. Players call it a hidden gem and put it on their lists of favourite Game Boy Color games. It is a Dragon Ball game that rewards planning more than button mashing.

Magi Nation is a 2001 Game Boy Color game made by the American studio Interactive Imagination, and it is based on the collectible card game Magi-Nation Duel. You play Tony Jones, a shy teenager who enters a cave on a dare and wakes up in a strange world. Along the way you tame dream creatures and use them to fight. Each Magi can summon up to four of them at a time.

It came out in North America on March 2, 2001. The box promised you would find uses for jellybeans you never thought possible. Players call it underrated and keep recommending it to anyone who wants a Game Boy Color game few people have played.

Pokémon Trading Card Game is a digital version of the card game, made by Hudson Soft and Creatures and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Color. It came out in Japan in December 1998 and around the world in 2000. You pick one of three starter decks, then travel around challenging people to card battles. You have to beat eight Club Masters, each with a deck built on one card type, and then four Grand Masters.

There are 226 cards in the game, including cards from the first three sets of the real card game and some you could not get anywhere else. You can battle or trade with a friend using the link cable or the infrared port. Players recommend it more than any other Game Boy Color board or card game by a long way.