4 in 1 Funpak is a 1992 compilation for the Game Boy. The title states the proposition plainly - four separate games on one cartridge. The catalogue accordingly records the perspective as other, which is normal for collections, since each included title has its own presentation and a single field cannot cover them all.

Compilations of traditional board and card games made commercial sense on the original Game Boy. Cartridge capacity was tight, the rules of games that were decades old fitted several times over, and the monochrome display cost such games nothing at all - a chessboard or a hand of cards does not need colour.

By 1992 the Game Boy had been on sale for three years and had an audience far wider than action-game players. Titles with no story and no ending, the sort you can dip into for ten minutes in a waiting room, were ideal content for a handheld running on pencil batteries.

No developer or publisher is recorded, and the player count field is empty, so the data cannot tell us whether the cartridge supported linking two consoles by cable - which for this category of game would be a significant feature.

Collections like this also followed a clear pricing logic. Four games on one cartridge sold for roughly the price of a single title and worked as an inexpensive entry purchase, frequently as a gift. For the publisher it was low-cost production, since the rules of classic games needed neither inventing nor licensing.

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