Dreamland 2 dx is a wonderful version of dreamland 2 that fixes the biggest problem of the animal buddy music drowning out the rest of the soundtrack and only occasionally makes a questionable color choice.

As for base dreamland 2 it’s pretty good. Later games in the dark matter trilogy take advantage of more powerful hardware to create a strong visual style and atmosphere. A gameboy game obviously can’t do that but the game does a good job at taking the more complex structure of adventure and bringing it back to the gameboy. The collectibles in world 4 and 6 are hitler though.

SNK displaying some top notch arcade action on nes. Every mistake that the micronix developed nes ports of Ikari Warriors is gone and what you're left with is a pretty tight top down run and gun with good power ups. Creative enemy placement and pretty good graphics for a 1989 nes game make this stand out in a crowded genre. Very generous unlimited continues also help.

Oh and you get to play as Che Guevara and Fidel Castro who murder loyalists of the Batista regime as well as the dictator himself so that's pretty cool (anyone else weirded out that che is player 1 instead of Fidel)