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Silicon Valley is a misunderstood masterpiece on the N64, and one of the most original games of the last twelve months. This slim and sexy Game Boy version retains the same basic gameplay as its bigger brother, with the 3D worlds flattened into 2D platforms. You accomplish your missions by first killing and then hopping into the fresh corpses of various robotic animals (rocket-powered foxes, four-wheeled mice and so on) and exploiting their unique abilities to overcome whatever obstacles the game throws at you. Bizarrely, it's often harder to see the solution to a puzzle than it was in the original, so your farmyard antics in miniature should keep you busy for weeks.
The Game Boy's portability makes it the ideal host for fishing games - you can take it on a real fishing trip and catch 20-pound monsters from the comfort of a riverside pub, while your mates sit outside getting their lines tangled up in sunken shopping trolleys and totalled Ford Fiestas. But Black Bass Lure Fishing is even duller than the real thing. All you get to do is cast the line and reel it back in, over and over again, until a random fish takes a sniff at it. The Japanese get the handy Game Boy Fishing Sonar. We get lumbered with this.
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