Without my wife picking up the Alfred Chicken Game Boy cart—because the sticker on it contained a funny chicken apparently being abducted by aliens—I wouldn’t be typing this. It turns out that Alfred Chicken has quite a history in Europe and was very popular on, among other platforms, the Amiga and the (S)NES. Yet the chicken hatched first on the Game Boy in 1993, in two different forms, according to Wikipedia: Two revisions exist; the monochrome original, and a Super Game Boy version w...
