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4.3 / 5

3 votes

Platform
Game Boy Color
Genres
Music & Rhythm
Developers
Jester Interactive
Publishers
Rage Software
Release date
April 26, 2002
Languages
🇩🇪 German · 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 English · 🇪🇸 🇲🇽 Spanish · 🇫🇷 French · 🇮🇹 Italian

Summary

Pocket Music lets you turn a Game Boy Color into a pocket‑sized studio. By arranging over 150 high‑quality samples across a six‑channel grid, you can craft tracks up to five and a half minutes long, then play them back, save them to the cartridge, or swap them with a friend via the link cable. The built‑in Riff Editor lets you remix the samples themselves, tweaking note order and adding effects for truly custom sounds.

The interface comes in six skins, and a handful of pre‑programmed tracks—like a nod to Eminem’s “My Name Is”—show off what the sampler can do. Reviewers praised the game as a surprisingly deep yet approachable songwriting tool, calling it a "jaw‑dropping achievement" for handhelds.

Even years later the game’s code resurfaced in a 2022 leak, revealing an unreleased North American localisation build that fans still explore today.

Edited by Maya Carter

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Multiplayer

Game modes
Single