This Month in Retro April 2023
Hello all and welcome to This Month in Retro! The year is 1992 and we are faced with April, a... surprisingly uneventful month when it comes to company happenings. Usually I start an article like this with the start-ups, mergers, and defuncts, but nope, nothing like that happened during April. Which would make for a pretty short introduction... but there was at least something that happened. This month, our favourite pink puffball was born! Or at least, in Japan. Kirby's Dream Land released this month and was the first in a beloved ongoing franchise that still very occasionally sees multiple games per year. Although we won't be covering this game today due to the western release being later in the same year, it goes without saying that Kirby is a very important franchise to Nintendo that is often in the spotlight, and for good reason as it is a high-quality franchise that consistently pumps out hit after hit. It's a franchise I too love a lot, marking this as an important month to me.
And Kirby wasn't the only important game that released this month--although to find out what I mean by that, feel free to continue on reading. This month has seen a plethora of games, so as usual, I will be covering the games that released for the first time in the West, as well as games released that have never left Japan to this day. If applicable, I'll also cover the reviews and sales numbers, but do keep in mind early 90s documentation can be relatively poor and not too accurate. Regardless, the most important aspect is covering the games themselves and their achievement sets, so let's get on with it!
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 Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge (Game Boy Advance)
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| Release dates | JP: August 8, 2003 |
| NA: March 2, 2004 | |
| PAL: March 19, 2004 | |
| Sales | 160.000 |
| Average score | 54% (Critics), 87% (Users) |
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No games released this month have achievement sets other than the above mentioned.
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 Fullmetal Alchemist: Stray Rondo (Game Boy Advance)
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| Release dates | JP: March 25, 2004 |
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