Game Boy Horse Games

Games for the original Game Boy handheld console, first released in 1989 by Nintendo. Successor was the Game Boy Color. Outside Japan (see below), no "real" horse games seem to have been released for this console, but horses can be found in platformer Lucky Luke and farming sim Harvest Moon. (And Pokémon Red and Blue introduced horse-like, fire-maned Pokémon "Ponyta" and "Rapidash").

In Japan, a lot of games related to horse racing were released in the 1990s for the Game Boy. None were released in other regions and there's not much to find out about them without speaking Japanese. Most of them seem to concentrate on the betting aspect and do not allow for much interaction with horses. Some exceptions are the Family Jockey series, and the cartoony (anime-y?) Midori no Makibao, that allow the player to actually compete in races.

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List of probable Japanese horse games for the Game Boy: The Game titles are taken from Wikipedia's list of GB games, other sites may use differing transliterations.