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The Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket and Game Boy Color were commercially successful, selling a combined 118.69 million units worldwide: 32.47 million in Japan, 44.06 million in the Americas, and 42.16 million in all other regions.
- 32 mm (1.3 in)
- 220 g (7.8 oz)
- 148 mm (5.8 in)
- 90 mm (3.5 in)
Apr 21, 2019 · It's April 21, 2019 and that means Nintendo's Game Boy is officially a thirtysomething. The chunky portable gaming system launched exactly 30 years ago, ushering in a new era of portable...
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Apr 21, 2019 · The Game Boy's April 21, 1989 launch date applies specifically to Japan; it didn't come to the U.S. for another few months. So this Japanese commercial (and another one that arrived alongside...
- Game Boy (21 April 1989) 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.
- Tetris (14 June 1989) 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.
- Super Game Boy (1994) 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.
- Pokémon Red & Green (27 February 1996) 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.
- 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.
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Apr 21, 2014 · The handheld would see numerous successors, peripherals, and notable games during its 15 years of dominance before the Nintendo DS would take over as the new brand for the Japanese gaming...
