Man, Hyper Black Bass '95 on Game Boy is one of those weirdly satisfying fishing games that shouldn’t be as fun as it is. You pick your lure—honestly, half the time I just went with whatever looked shiniest—and then it’s just you, some chunky pixelated water, and the tension of waiting for a bite. When you finally hook one, the screen goes nuts with this frantic reeling minigame, and yeah, you’ll lose a few at first. But landing a big one? Weirdly triumphant.

The graphics are pure '90s Game Boy—blobby fish, jagged shorelines—but there’s something weirdly zen about it. No fancy mechanics, just casting, waiting, and occasionally yelling at the screen when the bass spits your hook. If you’ve got nostalgia for this era of handheld games, it’s a solid time-waster. Just don’t expect realism—this is fishing as imagined by someone who probably also made a game about RC cars.