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Game Boy Game Pak is the brand name of the ROM cartridges used to store video game data for the Game Boy family of handheld video game consoles, part of Nintendo's line of Game Pak cartridges. Early Game Boy games were limited to 32 kilobytes (KB) of read-only memory (ROM) storage due to the system's 8-bit architecture .
Color enhanced Game Boy Game Pak (Black Case): These cartridges can use the full-color capabilities of the console (56 colors simultaneously out of a palette of 32,768) while remaining compatible with the original Game Boy where they are presented in four shades of gray. This compatibility comes at the expense of not being able to utilize the ...
The Super Game Boy is a plug-in cartridge for the Super NES that allows Game Boy and black cartridge Game Boy Color games to be played on a television screen. It was released in 1994. The black-and-white games can be colorized by mapping colors to each of the four shades of gray making up the Game Boy's color palette.
Game Boy First of the Game Boy line of handhelds. [1] Plays monochrome games from ROM cartridges. [1] Hardware revisions include the smaller Game Boy Pocket in 1996, and color screened Game Boy Color in 1998. [9] [1] 1,244 games released. [10] Was the best-selling handheld console until 2010 when it was surpassed by the Nintendo DS. [11] 1989 [1]
The standard gray cartridge for the original Game Boy games. More than 1,000 games were released for the Game Boy, excluding cancelled and unlicensed games. [57] Additionally, more than 300 games developed for the Game Boy Color were backward compatible with the monochrome Game Boy models. [58] [59]
The backs of the boxes for such games are labeled "Compatible with Game Boy" and the cartridges of these games are typically molded in black to distinguish them from original Game Boy cartridges. Many of them also have special borders and/or limited color support for the Super Game Boy peripheral for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
Game Pak is the brand name for ROM cartridges designed by Nintendo for some of their earlier video game systems. The "Game Pak" moniker was officially used only in North America, Europe, Oceania, and South Korea.
For the original Game Boy and its color successor there are numerous external copiers, such as GB Xchanger, which can back up an inserted Game Boy or Game Boy Color cartridge. The GB Xchanger plugs into a computer in order to copy the games, which can later transfer the game(s) back through the copier to a blank flash cartridge.