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Orbit Duel is a new “duel shooter” game for the original Game Boy, which is available now as a free digital download.
Orbit Duel’s developer, TraumaTurtle, describes the game as follows: “an original Game Boy duel shooter with 120 stages, 15 boss fights, tactical debris cover, multiple rival ships, pickups, chiptune music, and real .gb hardware/emulator support. Orbit Duel is about timing rather than pure rapid fire. Your cannon has a cooldown, so every shot matters. Enemy fire, drifting debris, and changing rival patterns force you to read the arena and choose the right moment to strike. Survive all 120 stages, defeat the final boss, and become champion of the Scrapline Arena.”
Orbit Duel was released on Thursday (July 2, 2026), and you can download the Game Boy ROM of the game for free now, via itch.io.
Nintendo’s diminutive monochromatic Game Boy handheld is an ever-popular format for aftermarket homebrew developers, with recent titles released for the format including the Crazy Taxi demake Taxi boy, on which we reported previously. Indeed, Orbit Duel developer Trauma Turtle has previously developed and published an earlier homebrew title for Game Boy, which was a puzzle game titled Crazy Animal Safari, which is still available as free download, also via itch.io.
