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Aug 27, 2021 · It's been 13 years since the Game Boy Advance last saw a commercial release, but that comes to an end soon as Richard Nicol is bringing Goodboy Galaxy to the console – as well as other...
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Apr 7, 2022 · After over 30 years, developers are still building and producing Game Boy games. What drives developers to continue making games for retro consoles?
Jul 27, 2022 · The game is currently available for pre-order and will be released in the 'third quarter of 2022'. It is also worth noting that these cartridges will be limited to only 500 copies, so those...
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Mar 29, 2024 · The advertisements for the Gameboy throughout the late '80s and '90s were nothing short of audacious, straying far from the conventional and, by contemporary standards, hailing from a wildly different universe.
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Released in 1989, the original Nintendo Game Boy was an 8-bit portable console that could display four different shades of olive green on its 160 by 144 pixel display. Although less technologically advanced than the Sega Game Gear and Atari Lynx, the Nintendo Game Boy was cheaper and required less batteries.
A launch title for the Nintendo Game Boy in North America, Tetris(Bullet-Proof Software, 1989) was the first video game compatible with the Nintendo Game Link Cable.
The record for first portable cartridge adaptor is held by the Nintendo Super Game Boy (1994). The adapter allowed Nintendo Game Boy cartridges to play on a Super Nintendo Entertainment System home console.
Released almost seven years into the Game Boy’s lifecycle, Pokémon Red and Green (Game Freak, 1996) gave a new lease of life to the aging Nintendo portable. It was released as Pokémon Red and Blue (Game Freak, 1998) over two years later in North America, and has gone on to become the best-selling Game Boy videogame, shifting 31.37 million copies as...
A more compact version of the Nintendo Game Boy, the Nintendo Game Boy Pocket cut the battery requirements down from four AA batteries to just two AAA batteries. The Game Boy Pocket also significantly cut down the "ghosting" effect that plagued the original console.
Only released in Japan, the Nintendo Game Boy Light was the first Game Boy to have a back-lit screen for low light conditions. It had numerous variations including an Astro Boy model with clear plastic a Pokémon Centre model in yellow.
The Nintendo Game Boy Camera could capture black and white digital images at a resolution of 128 by 112 pixels. These images could then be printed on thermal paper with the Nintendo Game Boy Printer.
Released globally in 1998, the Nintendo Game Boy Color was the first backwards-compatible handheld console. The console was capable of showing up to 56 different colours simultaneously from a palette on 32,768.
The original Nintendo Super Game Boy ran games 2.4% faster than the Nintendo Game Boy. The Japan-only Nintendo Super Game Boy 2 corrected this irregularity with exact parity.
Unlike the Nintendo Super Game Boy, the Nintendo Transfer Pak was used for transferring data between Nintendo Game Boy games and Nintendo 64 games. This includes Pokémon Red and Blue (Game Freak, 1998) and Pokémon Stadium(Nintendo EAD, 1999).
The Game Boy is a handheld game console developed by Nintendo, launched in the Japanese home market on April 21, 1989, followed by North America later that year and other territories from 1990 onwards.
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This model, dubbed the Game Boy Micro, is similar in style to the original Game Boy Advance's horizontal orientation, but is much smaller and sleeker. The Game Boy Micro allows the user to switch between several colored faceplates to allow customization, a feature which Nintendo advertised heavily around the Game Boy Micro's launch.
