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The Game Boy features a D-pad (directional pad), four buttons labeled 'A', 'B', 'SELECT', 'START', and a sliding power switch with a cartridge lock to prevent accidental removal. The volume and contrast are adjusted by dials on either side of the device. [34] The original Game Boy was powered internally by four AA batteries. [35]
Other handheld consoles released during the fourth generation included the TurboExpress, a handheld version of the TurboGrafx-16 released by NEC in 1990, and the Game Boy Pocket, an improved model of the Game Boy released about two years before the debut of the Game Boy Color. While the TurboExpress was another early pioneer of color handheld ...
Alleyway [a] is a 1989 video game developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo as a global launch title for the Game Boy. It is a Breakout clone and one of the first four games developed and released for the system. The game was released first in Japan in 1989, in North America later that year, and in Europe in 1990.
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 .
The original model of the Game Boy The Game Boy portable system has a library of games, which were released in plastic ROM cartridges . The Game Boy first launched in Japan on April 21, 1989, with Super Mario Land , Alleyway , Baseball , and Yakuman .
Castlevania: The Adventure [a] is a 1989 action-platform game developed and released by Konami for the Game Boy.It is the first Castlevania title for the system. Castlevania: The Adventure was re-released in color as part of the Konami GB Collection compilations in Japan and Europe.
The original Game Boy. August 14 – The Mega Drive is released in North America as the Sega Genesis. August 29 – NEC's PC-Engine released in North America as the TurboGrafx-16. October 11 – Atari Corporation releases the Lynx handheld console with color and backlighting. Nintendo releases the Game Boy handheld console. [283]
The Game Boy Camera and Game Boy Printer (Pocket Camera and Pocket Printer in Japan) are accessories for the Game Boy handheld gaming system and were released in 1998. The camera can take basic, often grainy, black-and-white digital images using the four-color palette of the Game Boy system.