
I always thought the Game Boy was great and a huge step up from Tiger handhelds. Square did support it early on, and FF Adventure is a pretty stout game that predates Link's Awakening. Loved Kid Icarus as well. Being able to play Super Mario in the car was the equivalent of the moon landing, LOL.
It also seemed to me that developers kind of stepped up their sprite and detail games on the Game Boy to make up for the lack of color. A lot of Samus's appearance and abilities were codified in Metroid II rather than the original.