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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.
- 32 mm (1.3 in)
- 220 g (7.8 oz)
- 148 mm (5.8 in)
- 90 mm (3.5 in)
When the console’s creator, Gunpei Yokoi, designed the original Game Boy, he knew that the system needed to be small, light, inexpensive and durable to stand a chance of being successful.
- Original Gameboy – 1989. Gunpei and his team took great pride in their mission to create a portable games console. They needed to design the Gameboy to look like a toy, but feel like a computer.
- Gameboy Link Cable – 1991. The Gameboy also introduced a bit of kit that is widely known as the Link Cable, a cable that can connect you to other Gameboys in order to play games together, or as I personally remember most, trading Pokemon.
- Gameboy Pocket – 1996. Nintendo knew that it had created something incredible. The Gameboy changed the gaming industry for the better, and they wanted to keep it like that for as long as they could.
- Gameboy Light – 1998. Nintendo went on to carry Gunpei’s innovation throughout all of its future handhelds. In April 1998, Japan reinvented the Gameboy Pocket with the all new Gameboy Light, a Japanese exclusive that added an electroluminescent screen within the handheld.
Apr 21, 2019 · The Nintendo Game Boy hit stores across Tokyo on April 21st, 1989, as a portable electronic device following in the footsteps of the Game & Watch.
The original Game Boy - initially available only in grey casing - was given a fresh lick of paint with a set of new colours in the early 1990s. In 1997, Nintendo went one better, shrinking the...
- Custom 8-Bit CMOS, 2.2Mhz clock speed
- 90mm x 148mm x 32mm (Game Boy)
- 64-Kbit static RAM
Apr 17, 2019 · 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. Tetris (14 June 1989)
The Game Boy was Nintendo's second handheld system following the Game & Watch series introduced in 1980. It combined features from both the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game and Watch. It was also the first handheld game to use video game cartridges since Milton Bradley's Microvision handheld console.
