Legend of the River King

Featuring a baseball-capped kid who leaves his tiny village for the wilds beyond to catch valuable creatures, Victor Interactive's 1998 Game Boy classic Legend of the River King arrived in North America mere months before Pokémon Red and Blue, raising the question: What if River King, the world's first portable fishing RPG, had been the game to change culture forever?

You're invited to play along with writer and scholar Alexander B. Joy on a travelogue through the game's meadows, forests, la...