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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 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.
Game Boy Pocket: 1996 1996 1996 Unknown Unknown [note 1] Game.com — 1997 1997 2000 >300,000 Game Boy Light: 1998 — — Unknown Unknown [note 1] Game Boy Color: 1998 1998 1998 2003 Unknown [note 1] Neo Geo Pocket: 1998 — — 1999 Unknown WonderSwan: 1999 — — 1999 1,550,000 Neo Geo Pocket Color: 1999 1999 1999 2001 Unknown ...
The component parts of the Pocket Sonar. The Game Boy Pocket Sonar is a peripheral for the Nintendo Game Boy made by Bandai that used sonar to locate fish up to 20 meters (65 feet) underwater for the sport of fishing and contained a fishing mini-game. [1] [2] It was released in Japan in 1998, but never released internationally. [3]
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 ...
The Game Boy Light was a Japan-only revision released on April 14, 1998. Like the Game Boy Pocket, the system was priced at ¥6,800 (equivalent to ¥6,892 in 2019). [56] The Game Boy Light is slightly bigger than the Game Boy Pocket and features an electroluminescent backlight allowing it to be
Lists of Game Boy games cover video games developed for Nintendo's original Game Boy and for other platforms in the Game Boy family. List of Game Boy games, for the original Game Boy; List of Game Boy Color games for games supporting the additional features of the Game Boy Color system; List of Game Boy Advance games
The Game Boy Color was a response to pressure from game developers for a new system, as they felt that the Game Boy, even in its latest incarnation, the Game Boy Pocket, was insufficient. The resulting product was backward compatible, a first for a handheld console system, and leveraged the large library of games and great installed base of the ...