With DSi Virtual Console on its way at some point, it is time to reflect on the Gameboy Original and think about the great games it had and which ones we would like to see work its way way on to your DSi.

With that in mind, I will take this retrospective look at each genre and the games that were good and and worthy a download if they made it onto the system.

Part - 1:  ACTION 

Platform - Maze - Ball & Paddle - Combat - Action Adventure

Super Mario Land

Hyper Lode Runner

Quix

The Amazing Spiderman

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers

Batman: The Video Game

Disney's Duck Tales

Teenage Mutant  Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan

Double Dragon

Balloon Kid

The Castlevania Adventure

Ghostbusters II

Pac-Man

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Castlevania 2: Belmont's Revenge

Snow Bros

Mega Man II

Bill & Ted's Excellent Game Boy Adventure

Bart Simpson's Escape From Camp Deadly

Elevator Action

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Prince of Persia

Adventure Island

Batman: Return of the Joker

Kirby's Dream Land

Dig Dug

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

The Ren & Stimpy Show: Veeediots!

Adventure Island II: Aliens in Paradise

Battletoads in Ragnarok's World

Ms. Pac-Man

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue

Disney's Duck Tales 2

Spiderman/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge

The Lion King

Seaquest DSV

Donkey Kong

Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade

Disney's The Jungle Book

Bonk's Revenge

Wario Blast

Kirby Dream Land 2

Donkey Kong Land

Wario Land: Super Mario 3

Animaniacs

Disney's Aladdin

Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

Kirby's Block Ball

Disney's Toy Story

The Smurfs

Prehistorik Man

Superman

Disney's hercules

Donkey Kong Land 2

Donkey Kong Land 3

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Wario Land 3

Castlevania Legends

Mystical Ninja starring Goeman

Small Soldiers

Bomberman GB

Oh man, how the memories come flooding back  :-)

Quite a selection of good to great classic Game Boy action games.  Which ones do you remember playing and which ones do you want the most?

My best memories from the Action genre back in the day are of Bill & Ted and The Amazing Spiderman.  I played those a lot and they kept me busy on the long flight to Canada in the early 90's.  I still have them and dig them out every so often.  They are still fun.  I would love them on the DS though, it just makes it more convenient.

Thats an extremely impressive list! Cant wait for the Gameboy color entry.

Snow Bros and Gargoyles Quest should be mentioned.

Would love these one's:

Mystical Ninja, I have all the games except this one right now. Would love to play it finally
Batman was so good on Gameboy, so much fun. I liked the tons of little blocks you had to shoot and the cool weaponry you had. I remember the music being great.
Bart Simpson was a cute charming platformer, nice and chunky graphics
Super Mario Land
Megaman 1 and 2, for collection purposes more than anything
Castlevania Legends
Super Mario Land 2
Wario Land
Balloon Kid, loved it, too cute, would love to play it again, would be great to see on DSi Ware in colour too.
Kirby's Dreamland
Duck Tales was yet another quality Capcom -Disney game. Great use of black I recall, they created some cool lighting effects 

Hyper Lode Runner

Bomberman GB, always looking to add to my Bomberman collection, I have never played this version.

Bonk, love him, never played the GB game, I have all the VC games including all the Zonk's

I would say it's more of action platformer than shooter...

Snorks rings no bells at all LS.

Please... don't get my hopes up! Good list so far.

Operation C/Probotector, the Super Mario Land series, Link's Awakening, Donkey Kong '94 are essentials. I'm curious about Castlevania Legends and Elevator Action.

The PSP's batteries don't hold a charge as long as the GBA SP, it's a common thing with rechargable batteries like Ni-Mh batteries and Li-Ion batteries. The GBA SP holds it longer, I don't know how though.

What they NEED to do is have Gameboy Camera on there and have it take advantage of the DSi camera.  That would be awesome.

Whaaa, you added Aladdin? Have you played that game recently? Well, I have. It takes a whole second to jump and it only uses maybe 3 frames for the animation. Sure, I have fond memories of it as well (well, actually I don't -- it was horribly frustrating), but it really doesn't hold up well (unlike that Aladdin game by Capcom).

My favorite platformers at the time were Kirby's Dream Land (easiest game ever -- probably beat it a few dozen times), Adventure Island II and Donkey Kong, but I didn't own a whole lot else.

I'll wait for Pt. 2 Gameboy - RPG. I've been reluctant to buy a DS/DSi, but if the DSi VC goes live and they have Dragon Warrior Monsters up for grabs, that might get me to dish out the bones for this.

You going to do another one of these any time soon? I want to see Golden Sun on one of these lists!